14 DAY TRIAL // Video game publisher THQ has announced that it has no plans to launch the Warhammer 40,000: Dark Millenium Online MMO on March 13 of 2013, despite a number of reports that suggested that this was the date when the new MMO would be out.
Dark Millenium Online is being developed by a team at Vigil Games, which has created Darksiders and is now working on a sequel that will be launched during next year.
The Warhammer 40,000 MMO has been first announced in 2007 when THQ managed to get into an agreement with Games Workshop to develop the Warhammer universe for the video game space.
Since then the developers have been pretty quiet about it, only releasing a teaser image during 2010.
We know that the action will take place in the Sargos Sector, which has been long isolated by Warp Storms but is now more accessible and has drawn the attention of all the races of the Warhammer 40,000 universe, all trying to control it and to discover its deepest secrets.
Vigil Games is trying to deliver on the nature of the game universe, with massive battles that involve hundreds of players and a number of vehicles, and the game will rely on both long range firefights and on close quarter brawls to deliver action sequences.
Until now only the Imperium of Man and the Orks have been confirmed as playable races but the developers have plenty of time until 2013 to add at least the Eldar and the Chaos Marines as playable sides.
THQ has also said that the first of the inSane trilogy that will be created by developers at Volition with movie director Guillermo del Toro will be launched in 2013 and has set the same year date for the Homefront sequel that the people at Crytek are working on.