Creative Assembly shared a little more footage of Total War: Warhammer 40,000 with parts of the team talking about the game’s development. They’re not yet ready to discuss release dates, but you can sign up to the closed beta here, which will take place later this year.

As was recently teased, Armageddon is an early focal point for the game, the planet that is repeatedly the nexus of the war between Orks and the Imperium – And yes, Yarrick and Ghazghkull Thraka will be able to face off. It’s not clear if that’s the latest war for Armageddon, or if the team are choosing one of the earlier wars as a starting point to grow from.

One of the key areas that Creative Assembly is working to capture is the vast scale of the built up planets. Hive worlds, mining worlds and other parts of the Imperium’s galactic industrial complex will be represented, and then beyond that you have different planetary biomes. Heading down to the planet for battle, and vast hive cities can tower over the battlefield.

For the first time, CA is having to represent not just a continent or two, not even just a single planet or world, but entire solar systems and sectors for the first time. Solar systems can have multiple planets that you will fight across for supremacy. Naturally, with such a broad canvas, they’re able to claim that every playthrough will pan out differently.

Four factions will be playable to start with – Space Marines, Orks, Eldar and the Astra Militarum (AKA the Imperial Guard) – and you’ll have the ability to customise your troops, choosing colours, emblazening uniforms and armour with particular iconography and also affecting their gameplay style. Change a combat philogophy, arm them with tactical abilities, signature traits and arcane wargear.

Total War: Warhammer 40,000 is in development for PC, and coming to PS5 and Xbox for the first time in the series’ history.

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Indie developer Bellring Games announced a release date for Mistfall Hunter, their PvPvE extraction RPG set in a dark fantasy world.

Mistfall Hunter is set to release across Windows PC (Steam), Xbox Series X|S, and PlayStation 5 on July 29th. An open beta is launching on June 14th, too.

Here’s a rundown on the new details, plus a trailer:

Mistfall Hunter drops players into the Gyldenmist as Gyldhunters: class-based warriors hunting the corroded horrors that stalk the fog. Squad up in three-player teams or push in solo, choose your class, and extract before something out there extracts you.

Meet the Withered Knight

Once they were Rose Knights of the Kingdom of Gaenaria: sworn, ceremonial, gilded. Now they are exiles, cast to the North and branded “Withered Knights.” Their armor is worn. Their honor is shattered. Their faith is not.

In Mistfall Hunter, the Withered Knight strides into the Gyldenmist with a two-handed greatsword and a chivalric code that won’t quit. The weapon’s reach is unusually long, rewarding patient spacing and clean reads. But the class is built around something more interesting than raw damage. At its heart is a sigil-and-detonation loop that turns every encounter into a setup for a payoff.

Core kit:

• Withering Sigils + Reckoning: Mark enemies in combat. Detonate the sigils at the right moment for layered damage and battlefield control.
• Parry: A precise, timing-based defensive tool. Mistime it and eat the hit. Land it and flip the exchange.
• Thorn Guide: A grappling skill that drags enemies into position, pulling targets out of formation for teammates to clean up.
• Withering Talent: The class’s defining mechanic. Suppress and grind down with Sigils, or break enemy lines at the decisive moment. Your build, your call.

The Withered Knight joins an existing roster that includes the Mercenary, Sorcerer, Blackarrow, Shadowstrix, and Seer. It slots cleanly into three-player team compositions as a tempo-setter and crowd-control specialist.

Open Beta: June 14

Mistfall Hunter opens its doors to the full community with a public open beta on Saturday, June 14 at 6:00 PM PT to June 22nd at 3am PT across Steam, Xbox, and PlayStation. The open beta is the first chance for players to experience the full three-player co-op loop ahead of launch.

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