Throughout my 30 minute interview with Saber Interactive growth chief Tim Willits at gamescom 2025, he wouldn’t say a lot in any respect about Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 3, regardless of my repeated efforts. I’m not shocked, actually. With Games Workshop and writer Focus Leisure watching his each phrase like the Inquisition on the hunt for heresy, Willits should be cautious to maintain his playing cards near his chest or else threat being declared a heretic.
But I used to be capable of get one thing out of him on the hotly anticipated sequel, specifically that Games Workshop is throwing all kinds of concepts at Saber proper now, and a few of them are apparently “superb.”
I started my foray into Space Marine 3 territory by asking Willits why the recreation was introduced comparatively quickly after the launch of Space Marine 2. Willits dodged the query, saying: “It is simply how we work with Focus… Once more, it was massively profitable for us, Space Marine 2, and Focus.”
That it was certainly. Space Marine 2 might be the most profitable Warhammer 40,000 online game ever made. It offered over 7 million copies lower than a 12 months after occurring sale, and, by Willits’ personal admission, modified all the things for Saber Interactive. Even Games Workshop itself has talked about the cash it’s constructed from the recreation.
Space Marine 3 was inevitable, then, but questions stay. The place will Lieutenant Titus and co head subsequent? Will we see new factions? Will Saber increase co-op past the three-player restrict? Will there be precise significant PvP?
Alas, Willits wasn’t able to reply most of these questions, but did tease concepts are coming from Games Workshop itself — and Saber is happy by them.
“We’re working with Games Workshop, they’re the finest ever,” he stated. “And there’s such a wealthy universe that we’re pulling stuff [from]. They usually’ve given us some concepts which are superb. They’ve given us some actually cool concepts. Their brains are similar to… wow. So plenty of tremendous nice concepts from Games Workshop.”
With out spoiling the Space Marine 2 marketing campaign, it strongly suggests a continuation of the story, and IGN has reported on the enemy faction we’ll in all probability see in Space Marine 3.
Some Space Marine 2 followers had been involved about the timing of Space Marine 3’s announcement, but Games Workshop has said Space Marine 3 “is probably going years away from launch,” and Saber has promised to proceed to assist Space Marine 2 for a while to return.
Willits pointed to the assist Saber’s World Warfare Z has loved as the mannequin it’s following for Space Marine 2. A second 12 months of Space Marine 2 content material, which Focus has mentioned, is already on the method. But will Space Marine 2 get story DLC?
“We have now some plans,” Willits teased, “but we now have to work with Focus to get the proper announcement. But nothing is off the desk.”
In the shorter time period, Space Marine 2 is about for Patch 10 in September to have a good time the recreation’s first anniversary. Try all the particulars right here.
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