Eagle-Eyed Total War Fan Spots What Looks Like a Leak for Creative Assembly's Much-Rumored Total War: Warhammer 40,000, With The Game Awards Announcement Just Hours Away

Creative Assembly has confirmed it has a caller Total War video crippled acceptable to beryllium announced astatine The Game Awards, but what is it? Warhammer 40,000 fans deliberation they cognize — and 1 eagle-eyed spectator adjacent spotted what looks similar factual evidence.

The Sega-owned strategy specializer down Total War: Warhammer (the phantasy mentation of Games Workshop's much-loved tabletop setting) is rumored to beryllium moving connected a Warhammer 40,000 and a Star Wars instrumentality connected its long-running Total War series, and it looks similar the Warhammer 40,000 crippled volition yet get announced astatine The Game Awards tonight.

Redditor Knavbot took to the Total War subreddit to constituent to a blink-and-you’ll miss it notation to 40K successful Creative Assembly’s caller showcase livestream (the 1 wherever the developer announced Total War: Medieval 3). I truly bash mean blink-and-you'll miss it due to the fact that the files labeled 40k are incredibly hard to spot. I had to dilatory the video close down astatine the 32:42 people and freeze-frame to spot them, but yes, they are there:

40k record names successful Creative Assembly's showcase video. Image credit: Creative Assembly / YouTube.

Here are the applicable record names successful the video:

• 40k_outfield_sheet_01_base_colour
• 40k_outfield_sheet_01_material_map
• 40k_outfield_sheet_01_normal

This evident 40k leak appeared during the portion of the showcase wherever Creative Assembly talked astir its caller crippled engine, which volition assistance bring its games to consoles for the archetypal time. Assuming this is each starring to a Total War: Warhammer 40,000 announcement, we tin presume the crippled volition merchandise for PC arsenic good arsenic PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and S.

In truth, the announcement won’t travel arsenic overmuch of a astonishment for galore Warhammer 40,000 fans fixed the sheer measurement of rumors floating astir Creative Assembly and the Games Workshop assemblage successful caller months. But until the crippled is announced, we should constituent retired that the Total War uncover astatine The Game Awards could beryllium thing other entirely.

Warhammer 40,000 video crippled leaks person a past of coming from record names shown successful videos. The quality of Dark Angels Primarch Lion El'Jonson successful upcoming RTS Dawn of War 4 was leaked via record names successful a video. Developer King Art Games precocious admitted to IGN successful an interrogation that this was an accident. Perhaps Creative Assembly knew what it was doing here! Perhaps not.

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