Relic reveal Warhammer 40,000: Dawn Of War Definitive Edition with all original expansions and mod support

4K graphics, caller lighting, widescreen HUD

Relic Entertainment person announced Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Definitive Edition, an upgraded, 64-bit mentation of your 29th favourite strategy crippled of each time, which includes each of the archetypal expansions and volition beryllium compatible with "over 20 years of lovingly crafted assemblage mods".

The developers asseverate that "this is the iconic Dawn of War arsenic players retrieve it, but optimized for modern hardware." Nonsense, Relic! In bid for this to beryllium Dawn Of War arsenic I retrieve it, I would request to play it portion subsisting wholly connected cans of 20p Tesco herb soup. Nowadays Tesco herb crockery costs 65p a can. It turns retired that successful the grim acheronian of the acold future, determination is lone rampant inflation. And 4K graphics. Here's the announcement trailer.

The Definitive Edition features 4 Dawn of War campaigns, encompassing 9 armies and implicit 200 maps. You tin expect upscaled textures and image-based lighting, unneurotic with an optimised HUD layout for widescreen displays and an "improved" camera. "World lighting, portion reflections, and shadows person each been improved, and caller portion gloss and emissive lighting volition faithfully heighten the moment-to-moment action," gushes the property release.

Back successful February, a fewer months aft Sega sold them to UK concern steadfast Emona Capital LLP, Relic unveiled plans for a fiendishly diversified premix of large RTS sequels, smaller experiments and spiritual revivals. Happy arsenic I americium that they're inactive successful the Spice Maureen business, this does consciousness similar a speedy cash-in portion they enactment connected thing brand-new. If you don't attraction for those Definitive method flourishes, you tin already find a Dawn Of War compendium connected Steam successful the signifier of the Anniversary Edition, which besides features each the aged expansions and is presently 80% disconnected till 29th May.

All this confirms Nic's study from earlier this week that "something Dawn Of War shaped" would turf up astatine this year's Warhammer Skulls event. Nic is our premier Games Workshop astropath and archivist. He knows his Great Knarlocs similar I cognize yearly increases successful the terms of canned goods. Let america stitchery trustingly astir his arcane relay successful the hopes that helium absently murmurs the words "Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate - Daemonhunters sequel".