Total War: Warhammer III's tagline asks players to "conquer your daemons," but it'll also offer a chance to join them and lead them into battle. Today's Warhammer Skulls showcase featured a first look at the upcoming strategy game's Daemons of Khorne, and at their first leader: the Exiled One, the daemon lord Skarbrand.
The new trailer is about as metal as any of these reveals has ever been. It begins with a daemonic voice reading off a list of Skarbrand's titles: the Lord of Rage, savagery incarnate, the epitome of brutality - you get the picture. Skarbrand is not a friendly fellow, and in the Warhammer lore he's piled mountains' worth of skulls for Khorne's infamous Skull Throne.
"Enact the wrath of the Blood God," the voice beckons monstrously, as daemonic bloodletters, flesh hounds, and Chaos warriors rush across the blasted landscape. They're backed by massive skull cannons, which grind up hapless foes as they press across the battlefield, igniting their skulls with Khorne's own rage and firing them forward into the ranks of the enemy.
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If you're a fan of digital adaptations of Warhammer, you've got an exciting week ahead of you. The Skulls for the Skull Throne event returns with a shorter name on June 3, and the event begins with a stream promising news from some of the biggest publishers with access to the Warhammer license - including the studios behind Total War: Warhammer 3 and Darktide.
The Skulls Showcase will broadcast on Thursday, June 3 at 10am PDT / 1pm EDT / 6pm BST on Twitch, and it will feature "world premieres, exclusive first looks, details of special offers and free-to-keep video games, and new video game announcements". A tweet about the event includes logos for Fatshark, Sega, and Creative Assembly, so updates for some of the most hotly-anticipated Warhammer games out there are very likely.
There's also a logo for Frontier Foundry, a publishing venture from the studio behind Planet Coaster and Elite Dangerous. Frontier told investors last year that it had picked up the rights to the Warhammer license for an Age of Sigmar RTS, though it sounded like that project would be developed internally - if it's a Foundry game, that means they'll be working with an external studio on it.
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