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This trailer gets players ready for the June 26 release of Blood Bowl. the game that takes characters from the Warhammer franchise and pits them against each other in a frenzied, over-the-top blood sport version of football. In all, eight races will be featured in the game.

"An ultra-violent mix of Warhammer Fantasy and American football, Blood Bowl allows players to create the ultimate "fantasy" sports teams. Coaches can build bone-crushing teams of Orcs, Wood Elves, Humans, Dwarfs and many more fantastic creatures – then throw them into the stadium for the ultimate blood sport! Blood Bowl is strategic, action-packed and violent, requiring coaches to use their best tactics, team design – and a dose of pure ruthless bloodlust always helps too!"

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The week of Blood Bowl trailers finishes off with the biggest one yet. In it, the forces of the Warhammer universe collide in an all out football-inspired blood sport.

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This is the latest in the week of Blood Bowl trailers. The game will combine a blood sport version of football with creatures and factions from the Warhammer universe. Blood Bowl is expected to release later this year.

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Blood Bowl, the football game based in the Warhammer universe, pits fantasy characters in an all-out blood sport. This short video features the Chaos faction, ready to plow through the competition.

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This patch updates Warhammer: Battle March to version 2.14. The patch provides bug fixes, interface enhancements, and game balances.

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As fantasy MMO fans eagerly await the official launch of Warhammer Online later this month, Namco Bandai Games is trying to steal a little of Mythic's fame with the announcement today that Warhammer Mark of Chaos: Battle March has shipped for the PC. If you are going, "What? What is this game?" you are not alone.

This RTS game, set in the same universe as Warhammer Online, is basically a stand alone expansion pack to Warhammer Mark of Chaos, a game that was released way back in November 2006. Developed by Black Hole Games, this expansion pack has a new single player campaign, new units and the new multiplayer World Domination mode. However the fact that Namco Bandai has almost ignored this game before today's press release doesn't bode well for it. So considered yourself alerted.

Featured on Xbox360Fanboy, the trailer for Warhammer: Battle March is pretty self explanatory - factions fight to the death. Releasing in two flavors, as an expansion pack for Warhammer: Mark of Chaos on the PC and as a retail console release, Battle March continues the real-time strategy Warhammer storyline. Published by Bandai Namco the upcoming release will hopefully add some juice to the experience which at this point is as dry as the paint on our pewter miniatures.

MMORPG.com has posted part two of their interview with Mythic Entertainment's Mark Jacobs, VP and General Manager of the development studio. In the interview, Jacobs reveals that Mythic has partnered with Punkbuster to crack down on the cheaters expected to inhabit Warhammer Online's servers.

"We think this is a huge win for the players," Jacobs said in regards to the partnership. "We are an RvR-centric game and anything that gives a player an advantage over another player in an RvR-centric game is a very bad thing. We take this stuff incredibly seriously, our history shows that. We wanted, by doing this deal with Punkbuster, to show the players that we're willing to go an extra step for them."

Jacobs also confessed that Warhammer Online's reported six capital cities has been downsized to two in the interest of fun gameplay. "We decided to focus our energies on two capital cities; one for Order and one for Destruction, and make them fabulous, said Jacobs. "Not good, not great, but fabulous. We wanted to make our Capital Cities the best cities in any MMO. We think we're doing that, but it came at a price and that price is that the other cities aren't going in the game right now."

Visit MMORPG.com to read the full interview.

Did you know that EA Mythic's Warhammer Online has "a queue button on your UI that lets you cycle through available scenarios to play"? How about the distribution of loot, which works on an aggro basis: "basically, if you're doing the job of your class well (dps, tanking, healing), you'll be awarded the loot you deserve"?

At the Gamers Day event held in Baltimore this past weekend, those interesting tidbits, in addition to 48 others, were revealed by EA Mythic. The folks over at waaagh, a Warhammer Online blog, have taken the liberty of organizing all Warhammer facts for your reading pleasure. Head over there now, lest you enjoy remaining ignorant of the fact that "Marauders have debuffs they can throw on casters or melee that, when their skills are used, causes them to take damage."

The first trailer for developer Relic's Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II has arrived, available for viewing on publisher THQ's site. Depicting crumbling bridges, exploding pylons, massive mechs, and wanton orc abuse, the anticipated RTS sequel's release date has yet to be announced.

Big Download will offer an HD version of the trailer as soon as it becomes available. In the meantime, make sure to watch the trailer at THQ's site.