A new cinematic trailer for Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War 4 has been released, introducing the Orks to the game in pretty much perfect fashion. Check it out:
That’s right, the Gork or Mork-ified space hulk that the Orks are cruising through space on has been kitted out with a big red button so that they can, to quote the Warboss that punches it, “crash faster” into the planet while in hot pursuit of the Blood Ravens Space Marines that they’re chasing after.
It’s the culmination of a wonderfully rendered cinematic trailer that sees the Orks attack an Imperial ship and board it to go toe-to-toe with the Space Marines, including Blood Ravens heroes Chief Librarian Jonus Orion and Captain Cyrus who are eventually forced to abandon ship of drop pods and Thunderhawks once Gorgutz arrives, with everyone heading down to the surface of Kronus.
Of course, you probably want to see the actual game in action at this point, and King Art Games have done that too in the last few weeks with the ‘Sons of Caliban’ gameplay trailer released in December.
This shows off the Dark Angels chapter in action, not long after their own cinematic trailer reveal. As formidable as a Space Marine Chapter is, the Blood Ravens are in dire need of help through Dawn of War 4, and the Dark Angels themselves are turning up to assist. You’ll get to play as both chapters, with Company Master Astoran and Chaplain Ezrael leading the Dark Angels into the fray. King Art have also teased that Dark Angels Primarch Lion El’Jonson could be playable at some point in the campaign, which would be a landmark moment for 40K in general, not just video games!
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War IV has been entrusted to Iron Harvest developer King Art Games and publisher Deep Silver. It’s a new leaf for the franchise, which was created by Relic Entertainment way back in 2004 and defined a new style of real time strategy with less focus on resource gathering and base building, and more on controlling the map and battlefield. Dawn of War enjoyed a good few expansions before Dawn of War 2 explored a more tactical approach in 2009, and Dawn of War 3 sought to blend them all together.
The interest in having King Art work on Dawn of War IV was organised by Games Workshop some time before Iron Harvest’s release in 2020. It’s not known if GW initially wanted to stick with Relic, but that time frame would have been around the time that Relic was focussed on Age of Empires IV and later Company of Heroes 3. Relic has since gone through the tumult of layoffs while under Sega’s ownership in 2023, and then independence with an investor buyout in 2024. They had plenty of things going on, in other words, but King Art had proven themselves with their steampunk RTS and could be great new stewards for this series. We look forward to seeing more in the run up to its 2026 release.
