SEGA and Creative Assembly have given a release date for the number three Warhammer game in the Total War series, and the strategy players might not even have to buy it.

SEGA and Creative Assembly announced on the Total War website that Total War: Warhammer III will launch this winter on Steam, Epic Games Store, and Microsoft Store. Don’t expect a 2021 launch, but if you have an active Xbox Game Pass subscription, you can access the game from day one on PC! (Perhaps it’s a side effect of SEGA’s and Microsoft’s strategic partnership on the Japanese company’s next-gen Super Game cloud development environment?)

Here is an overview of the game via its store pages: “Far beyond the world and its petty wars there exists a dimension of pure, malevolent magic: The Realm of Chaos. It is a terrible place, incomprehensible to the mortal mind. It whispers promises of power, but to behold it is to be seduced by it. To relinquish your soul to it. To become it. The four Ruinous Powers rule over this place, ever seeking to slip their bonds and engulf the world in a tide of daemonic corruption. Nurgle, the plague god; Slaanesh, the lord of excess; Tzeentch, the changer of ways; and Khorne, the god of blood and slaughter.

On the border between the worlds, two mighty kingdoms stand sentinel: the stern warriors of Kislev and the vast empire of Grand Cathay. But each is beset by its trials, and now both have cause to cross the threshold and send their armies into the Realm of Chaos. The world stands on a precipice. A single push will plunge it into a cataclysm. And there is one who schemes to achieve just that, an ancient figure who desires nothing less than to wield supreme power. But to succeed, he will need a champion… The coming conflict will engulf all. Will you conquer your daemons? Or command them?” SEGA and Creative Assembly wrote.

And the release date (also on Xbox Game Pass) is February 17. The video features the ogres.

Source: Gematsu