Games Workshop's Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000 lines of tabletop wargames have spawned many video game adaptations, but few ever really reached "classic" status. That seems to have changed last year with Relic's Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War, and Black Hole Games is now looking to do the same for the Warhammer fantasy franchise with Warhammer: Mark of Chaos. I asked a few questions of Chris Wren, senior producer at publisher Namco, regarding Black Hole and Namco's plans for this upcoming title.

Chris Wren: Namco was in the process of acquiring the Warhammer license when we set out to find a developer capable of making the kind of wargame we were interested in. We met with Black Hole after playing quite a bit of their previous game: Armies of Exigo. We saw in that game some very powerful technology and beautiful art alongside a strong knowledge base surrounding realtime strategy. Black Hole was very excited to make a Warhammer game with us, they had several members of their staff who were die hard Warhammer fans and the idea of making a game faithful to the Warhammer universe was received really well.