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The release date for developer Relic's next major game, Warhammer 40,000 Space Marine, has been narrowed down a bit. The third person action game from publisher THQ was previously referred to as coming out sometime this summer but today the company said the title is now due out sometime in August.

As we reported on earlier this week, players will not only have to fight off an invasion of Orks on an alien planet in the game but they will also have to deal with another threat; the dreaded Chaos Space Marines in various and very deadly forms such as the Renegade Guard in the above screenshot.

[Via email press release]

This week PC gamers can expect to see the official launch of a long-in-development MMO along with the latest game in a long running RTS series and a game that's also supposed to be a teaching tool about global climate change.

Warhammer 40,000 Dawn of War II Retribution - Developer Relic Entertainment and publisher THQ brings us this latest entry in its RTS game series. This stand alone game has several playable factions including the Imperial Guard, each of which gets their own single player campaign. Expect to see new multiplayer content in this game as well along with Steamworks support.

Steam's holiday sale seem to pop up earlier every year. We are just sayin' ... not that we are complaining at all; just sayin':

• Steam has now finally added Return to Castle Wolfenstein to its library of titles.
• Steam has a new update for The Polynominal with Christmas-themed content.
• There's a new beta patch available on Steam for Company of Heroes and its two expansions Opposing Fronts and Tales of Valor.
• Action figure maker NECA will release figures based on Bulletstorm's lead character along with the Nanosuit warrior from Crysis 2.
• Speaking of Bulletstorm, check out this Christmas-themed trailer.
• People who plugged in the code to get the first episode of the Back to the Future game for free will still get that episode; you will just have to wait until February.
• There's a new web site for Lord of the Rings: War in the North.
• In the "sort of but not really related to games" department, there's a new CGI direct-to-DVD Warhammer 40,000 movie on sale called UltraMarines. It actually looks kind of cool

THQ has had the Warhammer 40,000 PC/Video game license from Games Workshop for several years now. They company has released a poorly received first person shooter (Fire Warrior)and a highly regarded RTS game series, (Dawn of War) based on the Warhammer 40K property with Dawn of War II and an upcoming MMO already announced.

However it looks like the publisher is planning to bring the franchise into yet another genre; the third person action shooter game. Leaked footage found its way to YouTube which displays about nine minutes of footage (taken from an Xbox 360 version) from what is titled Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine. The footage show some early but what looks like highly playable scenes from the game as the Space Marine of the title deals a lot of damage to its foes with some impressive looking graphics. No developer was revealed for the game and there's no indication when it might be released.

[Via Shacknews]