After job advertisements and some exquisite leaked footage prematurely lifted the lid on the game last year, THQ have just officially announced Space Marine, a Warhammer 40K “Action RPG”.Also, while the original title was clearly an action game, this one has really upped the number of on-screen enemies (as you can see in the clip below), in line with its apparent shift in genre from brawler to action-RPG.

A few things to note: while the original material suggested that “THQ Australia” were working on the game, the official announcement says that Dawn of War and Company of Heroes developers Relic are behind it. Strange. If you’d like to know anything else about the game, tough: as with IGN’s other pre-E3 “exclusives”, the announcement consists of an announcement then a whole bunch of “this developer isn’t disclosing this information at this time”, so we’ll have to wait until next week to learn more/anything.