Surely it has nothing to do with Starcraft

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Old-school shoulder pads for football were also based on 40k.

While this is very true 40k in itself borrows a lot for things that influenced video games as well like the Alien series,Dune, Mad Max etc. The Article just talks about Doom is seems like maybe the writer should take their own advice.

“In the same interview, Carmack revealed that the game’s producers saw it as a hybrid of James Cameron’s science fiction staple and Sam Raimi’s over-the-top cult horror classic—which sees characters accidentally summon and then brutally battle undead terrors. The design team even included chainsaws and shotguns, favourites of Evil Dead’s Ash, among the game’s weapons.”

Hack article

There’s a near-future timeline where Games Workshop sues over Samus Aran’s armor and gets turned inside-out by Nintendo’s flesh-eating lawyers.