For more than twenty years, gamers have been waging war against (or for) the forces of Chaos, courtesy of Games Workshop's popular Warhammer tabletop game and its futuristic counterpart, Warhammer 40,000. Now THQ and Games Workshop have teamed up to take the fight on the road with Warhammer 40,000: Squad Command for the PSP.

Warhammer 40,000: Squad Command marks the first time that the brutal, war-ravaged world of Games Workshop's Warhammer 40,000 universe will be playable on the PSP. The game features fast, action-packed combat through turn-based strategy and an engaging, authentic single-player storyline.

Gamers play as the elite Space Marines of the Ultramarines chapter and strive to combat the encroaching evil of the ruthless and daemonic influenced Chaos Space Marines through 13 cinematically-tied missions. With a robust multiplayer mode featuring 9 unique missions, gamers will team up and go head-to-head with other gamers worldwide as either the Imperium of Man or Chaos Space Marines, ensuring hours of unique replayability.

Features in Warhammer 40,000: Squad Command include:

• Compelling single player game consisting of 13 unique missions

• 9 unique multiplayer maps for Local or Global games, with small, medium and large map variants to cater for games from 2 to 8 players

• Fully destructible, real time 3D battlefields mean that no two games will be the same

• Pick from two Space Marine chapters or two Chaos Space Marine Legions to play as in Multiplayer games, in battles between Imperium vs. Imperium, Forces of Chaos vs. Forces of Chaos, or Imperium vs. Forces of Chaos

• Over 20 ranged and close combat weapons taken directly from the Warhammer 40,000 universe, including the Bolter, Plasma Gun, Chainsword and Power Fist

Warhammer 40,000: Squad Command is due out onto store shelves Fall of this year.