THQ has officially confirmed work on
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine, yet another game set against the backdrop of Games Workshop's gritty tabletop universe. Relic has again been handed developer duties on the title, though unlike
Dawn of War, the console-focused
Space Marine will be an action RPG that lets players control individual units through a "narrative-driven story campaign and in wide-scale online battles."
In development for both the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, it's unclear what ties, if any, the project has to the
leaked Space Marine footage that made the rounds late last year. However, judging from this
IGN-hosted trailer, the game certainly looks to keep more with
40K's combat-heavy fiction when it eventually decides to chainsword retail shelves.