Games Workshop’s other big science-fiction game, The Horus Heresy, is getting a new edition, and the rumours surrounding the game have been rather interesting.  The Horus Heresy is a version of the Warhammer 40,000 game set 10,000 years in the past. It’s a grittier setting, using a different set of rules and models that call back to earlier iterations of world’s most popular SF wargame, Warhammer 40,000.

Rumours about the new Horus Heresy game began when details of the new edition were soft-launched via the official Warhammer YouTube Channel. A short skit about new Warhammer games featured a well-timed pun, and directed fans to the website The Horus Hearsay, a website produced by Games Workshop that gently parodied the traditional rumour mill that surrounds product launches like this.

The site clearly intended to slowly reveal the new product in order to build hype. Mixed in were some silly jokes and ‘clearly false’ leaked image, further poking fun at the ecosystem of speculative news that surrounds Warhammer. It seemed likely that a full reveal would appear sometime toward the end of May, with more news likely to tie in with the Dallas Open, a major Warhammer event.

But then we had a surprise twist; the actual game seems to have been leaked. A picture of the The Horus Heresy box set was leaked online, with the images looking grainy but extremely plausible. According to the images available online, the new edition will be subtitled Saturnine. The pictures include images of the keenly anticipated ‘Saturnine Terminators’ and a similarly themed dreadnought.

 In a move that embraces the community, The Horus Hearsay website has leaned into this leak, poking fun at the poor quality of the images and continuing as planned. Though it is very likely this was not an official leak, this has been further applauded by Warhammer fans across the globe, for taking the leak with very good humour.