From the press release:
Hammerfall Publishing in association with Games Workshop has announced "Warhammer®40,000®: Chess – Regicide" coming to multiple gaming platforms in 2014. Set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe, the game brings the iconic Games Workshop IP together with one of the most popular board games of all time.
"The game has gone beyond the standard boundaries of chess to revolutionize the way it is seen" said Cathrin Machin, the Project Lead at Hammerfall Publishing. "In creating the ground-breaking new Codex chess engine, the campaign mode represents a world first in strategy gaming".
Players can choose from single and multiplayer classic chess modes, as well as an enthralling Blood Angels story driven campaign based on a totally new concept of chess. The narrative was written by Games Workshop published author Ross Watson.