Skaven leader Queek Headtaker in Total War: Warhammer II.
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Total War: Warhammer II hands-on: The Skaven rats are dangerous vermin

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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In The Creative Assembly‘s new strategy game, we’ll find out if the rats will inherit the Earth. The Sega-owned developer has revealed the Skaven, a rat-like, fourth playable race in Total War: Warhammer II, which Sega will launch on Steam on the PC on September 28.

I attended a preview event where I was able to play the beginning of the Skaven single-player campaign in Warhammer II. By playing, I learned that the Skaven can put tremendous pressure on the other factions like the High Elves, the Dark Elves, and the Lizardmen. They breed fast in subterranean lairs and their foot soldiers are expendable.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.