Pray to your green skin gods, pray for forgiveness. All ye Ork players- the rumor goes Matt Ward to write the next Ork Codex. More after Le Break. Image Cred. 

Fresh info from Faeit 212.

The current thinking is the following
Space Marines
Tyranids
Imperial Guard
Orks

Now this is up on the Faeit 212 release order on the tabs at the top of the page, along with more information listed there.

This rumor puts them into next year, and above all else……the author

Please remember that this is a rumor

via an anonymous source (from the Faeit 212 inbox)
Matt Ward is the author for the upcoming ork codex.
Orks are next year.

Okay okay. Maybe it isn’t that bad, people have forgotten the Matt Ward hate right? In case you forgot, here is an excerpt from the hilariously written 1d4chan article on Ward.

Wargamers, especially in ones with particularly active communities like that of Warhammer 40K, are a rough crowd, and have a reputation as being unpleasable dickbags. This is, of course, not factual: Cursory examination of the likes of /tg/ shows that they can, actually, be very easy to please; just give them decent army updates that don’t ruin shit and you’ll generally have pleased fans, especially for veteran players. On the other hand, occasionally you have fluff and crunch writers who just don’t get it, or, more commonly, who never should have been given custody of a codex or gameplay update in the first place.

Many are these: Gav Thorpe will never live down the hatred of Chaos Space Marines players everywhere for removal of options and general tactical-blunting of the Chaos army list. Robin Cruddace is now synonymous with the cluster-fuck that is the current Tyranid codex, resulting in its current, dramatically-underpowered state. C.S. Goto will be forevermore remembered for Multilasers on every vehicle and Land Raiders that transform into Razorbacks in under a page and a half.

To be fair to all involved: Thorpe and Cruddace generally do extremely good work when not assigned to armies that they neither play nor are terribly interested in, and have written considerable awesome fluff and crunch. Goto may be the literary equivalent of shitting on a typewriter, but most of his shit can be easily ignored, because he’s not writing crunch and generally can be completely written off without consequence.

There is an exception to this, however, and his name is Matt Ward. No writer Games Workshop has ever, and quite possibly will ever truly be as maligned, distrusted, or flat-out hated by the community (especially /tg/) as Matt Ward. The reasons behind this furious dislike are manifold and to the observer, bizarre; many long-time fans of Warhammer 40,000 hate the man to the point of almost cartoonish charicturization, which by no means makes the true source of their malice easy to observe. In truth, the Ward-hate is a complicated issue, and one far more so than many are willing to admit.