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The Warhammer 40,000 franchise has been made into many pC and console games before but none have been quite like what developer Relic and publisher THQ are trying to with the upcoming Warhammer 40,000 Space Marine.

The first video developers diary for the third person action game has been released and shows off a lot of very bloody gameplay as the Space Marine that you will get to control pretty much shoots, kicks, and slices his way through a sea of different kinds of Orks. Team members from Relic also talk about the game's storyline, the different types of Orks the player will encounter and much more. The game itself is due for release this August.

Download the Warhammer 40,000 Space Marine "Be a Space Marine" dev diary video at Big Download

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]

There hasn't been a whole lot of info about Warhammer 40,000 Space Marine beyond the basics; the third person action game has you as a Space Marine basically shooting and cutting his way through an Ork planetary invasion. Now Destructoid is reporting that the game will also feature Chaos Space Marines as foes to fight in the Relic Entertainment-developed game.

The article also has a quick chat game director Raphael van Lierop who stated that there will be a number of different Chaos Space Marines to kill. Those enemies will be "equipped with a variety of heavy weapon" and "some can pull out melee weapons and engage you in close quarters." Hopefully we will learn more about Space Marine before publisher THQ sends it out the door sometime this summer.

On Sunday we began our multi-part feature on Big Download's most anticipated PC games due (at least at the moment) for release in 2011 with the first person shooter genre. Today we continue our series with all of the action games we are excited to get our hands on the next year that don't have the first person perspective as its main viewpoint.

This next 12 months will see quite a few pure action games on the horizon including a reboot of one of the biggest game series of all time, a return appearance by a certain Dark Knight detective and a game where all of the action is happening inside your comatose mind. Really. Here's our action game list for 2011, in order of the games' expected release.

World of Warcraft players get to check out Cataclysm in a few hours here in the US. In the meantime here are some news nuggets to past the time while you are waiting in the queue:

• Steam has several automatic updates for games today including Poker Night at the Inventory, Arcadia, Rush, Doc Clock The Roasted Sandwich of Time, Divinity II; The Dragon Knight Saga, and Super Meat Boy,
• IGN is reporting that Warhammer 40,000 Space Marine is now set for release sometime in the summer of 2011.
• Here is a Minecraft music video. It's pretty nice.
• The development team behind the recently released puzzle game Rush is showing percentages of the game's Steam sales.
• The second closed beta event for Rift will be held the weekend of December 17.
• Telltale is shipping the collector DVD for Sam and Max The Devil's Playground.

The quarterly financial results from game publishers continued today with THQ's announcement of its own numbers for the quarter that ended on September 30. The company reported non-GAAP revenues of $70.4 million for the quarter, compared with $100.4 million for the same period a year ago. THQ had a non-GAAP loss of $40.6 million for the quarter compared to a lost of $25.2 million for the same period a year ago.

Even with the higher losses, THQ said the numbers were within the company's own expectations. It expects things to be better in 2011 with the release of games like Homefront, Red Faction Armaggeddon, Warhammer 40,000 Space Marine. and others.

Halloween is a time for people to indulge their inner dark side and play the role of the villain instead of the hero. In celebration of this year, we take a special look at the real power behind the masterminds looking to gain global dominance. No leader is complete without an army of minions to boss around, but which ones are best suited to planetary conquest? We take a careful look at video gaming's most popular fodder to help determine what forces work best for a plot to take over the world. Continue reading after the jump to find out which minions will do your bidding best!

With Warhammer 40,000 Space Marine now confirmed as coming to the PC, the folks at the upcoming action game's publisher THQ and Warhammer owners Games Workshop have set up a reward system for the game's fan based. Fans can join the game's "Honor Guard" that will give them access to "the latest news, exclusive access to first look assets and receive reward points for viral activity" surrounding the Relic Entertainment-developed game.

This week at Gamescom in Germany, THQ will give attendees an Ultramarine cloth patch that will have info on how to download an exclusive "For the Emperor" ring tone. That same patch will be given out this Saturday during Games Workshop's Games Day event in Baltimore. The patch is the first of five items that can be collected at various events over the next few months.

Developer Relic Entertainment only recently confirmed that its upcoming third person action game Warhammer 40,000 Space Marine would be coming to the PC. Now comes word via Shacknews that the title is the latest game that will use Valve's Steamworks platform for things like auto-updates, achievements and more.

Even though the game was just recently revealed as coming to the PC platform, PC Gamer reports that the PC will actually be the lead platform for Space Marine. And according to Relic's Andy Lang Valve's Steam service has made PC gaming more of a viable platform for games in general. He states, "Steam has changed things. It's made it easy just to buy and download games. It just works." The game is currently scheduled for release sometime in 2011.

Yet another publicly traded publisher has revealed its financial results for the last quarter. THQ reported today that for the three month period that ended on June 30 it brought in $149.4 million in revenue. This is much lower than the $243.5 million that THQ brought in for the same period a year ago. Overall, the company recorded a loss of $30.1 million for the quarter compared to a profit of $6.4 million for the same period a year ago. THQ said these numbers were in line with its previous predictions.

THQ has a number of PC game projects due out in the coming months including Company of Heroes Online, Homefront, the PC port of Darksiders, Red Faction Armageddon, Warhammer 40,000 Space Marine and the long-in-development MMO Warhammer 40,000 Dark Millennium.