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Group Workshop Games PLC (often abbreviated GW ) is a miniature British wargaming manufacturing company based in Nottingham, England. The Game Workshop is known as the developer and publisher of Warhammer Age of Sigmar tabletop wargames (formerly Warhammer Fantasy Battle), Warhammer 40,000, The Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game and The Hobbit Strategy Battle Game . It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituency of the FTSE 250 Index.

Video Games Workshop

History

Founded in 1975 at 15 Bolingbroke Road, London by John Peake, Ian Livingstone, and Steve Jackson (not to be confused with US game designer Steve Jackson), the Games Workshop was originally a manufacturer of wooden boards for games including backgammon, mancala, Nine Morris Men, and Go. It later became the importer of US role games. Dungeons & amp; Dragons , and then the publisher of wargames and role-playing games in its own right, evolved from the mail-order bedroom company in the process.

To promote business and post games, create game clubs, and provide an alternative source for gaming newsletters, the Owl and Weasel newsletter was established in February 1975. It was replaced in June 1977 by the White Dwarf >.

From the outset, there was a clear interest, stating in print about the "progressive game", including computer games, which led to the departure of traditionalist John Peake in early 1976 and the loss of a major source of corporate earnings. However, after successfully obtaining authorized distribution rights to Dungeons & amp; Dragons and other TSR products in the UK, and maintains a high profile by running game conventions, the business is growing rapidly. It opened its first retail store in April 1978.

In early 1979, Games Workshop provided funds to find Citadel Miniatures in Newark-on-Trent. Citadel will produce miniature metals used in role-playing games and tabletop wargames. The name "Citadel" becomes synonymous with Game Workshop Miniatures, and continues to be the trademark name used in association with them long after the Citadel company is absorbed into the Workshop Games. For a while Gary Gygax promoted the idea of ​​TSR, Inc. join the Games Workshop, until Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone step down.

The publishing arms of the company also released reprints of British RPG Americans such as Cthulhu Calls, Runequest, Travelers, and The Role of Middle-earth Playing , which is expensive to import (having previously done so for Dungeons & Dragons since 1977).

In 1984, Game Workshop stopped distributing its products in the US through a hobby game distributor and opened the office of the Olympic Workshop (USA). The Games Workshop (USA), and the Games Workshop in general, grew significantly in the late 1980s, with more than 250 employees on salaries in 1990.

After purchasing management by Bryan Ansell in December 1991, the Games Workshop refocused on their miniature warhammer Fantasy Battle (WFB) and Warhammer 40,000 (WH40k), their most profitable. The retail chain refocuses on a younger, more family-oriented market. The change of direction was a huge success and the company enjoyed a profit growth, but the company's commercial direction made it lose some of its old fan base. A breakaway group of two company employees issued Fantasy Warlord in competition with the Games Workshop, but the new company met with little success and closed in 1993. The Game Workshop expanded in Europe, the United States, Canada, and Australia, opening new branches and organizing events in every new commercial area. The company floated on the London Stock Exchange in October 1994. In October 1997 all US-based operations were transferred to the current headquarters in Lenton, Nottingham.

By the end of the decade the company is experiencing problems with declining profits, and the fault is placed on the growing popularity of card game collections like Magic: The Gathering and Poky Mon TCG.

The Games Workshop then tries to create a dual approach to attract older customers while still attracting a younger audience. Previously, most of the characters and their special vehicles were thrown in white metal or tin, but by the 2000s most of them were replaced by plastics. With this turn, the Game Workshop has been able to offer greater variation in troops offered with an introductory set of boxes (eg Marine Space in Warhammer 40,000 boxes of the second edition has two tactical teams of ten people, while the 5th Edition has a tactical squad, squad terminator , dreadnought, and captain). This change led to the creation of "initiatives" such as the "Fanatic" range, supporting more marginal lines with low cost trading models. The Games Workshop also contributed in designing and making games and puzzles for the popular television series The Crystal Maze.

The release of miniature "core" wargame from the third Games Workshop, The Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game (LoTR SBG) , in 2000 expanded the company's product range.

The company diversified by acquiring Sabretooth Games (card games), creating the Black Library (literature), and working with THQ (computer games).

At the end of 2009 the Games Workshop issued a series of stop and stop commands against various Internet sites allegedly infringing intellectual property that aroused the anger and disappointment of its fan community.

On May 16, 2011, Maelstrom Games announced that the Games Workshop has revised the terms and conditions of their trade agreement with independent stock in the UK. The new terms and conditions limit the sale of all Olympic Workshop products into the European Economic Area.

On June 16, 2013, WarGameStore, UK-based Game Workshop product retailer since 2003, announces further changes to the Games Workshop trade agreement with independent independent manufacturers based in the US.

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Operation

License

In addition to British publishing rights for some American role playing in the 1980s (including The Call of Cthulhu, Runequest and Middle-earth Role Playing,) Games Workshop also ensures the right to produce miniatures or games for some classical British science fiction properties such as Doctor Who and some characters from 2000 AD including Rogue Trooper and Judge Dredd. Along with the right to reprint the role of Middle-earth Iron Crown Enterprises, Citadel Miniatures has the right to produce 28mm miniature based on The Hobbit The Lord of the Rings and .

Along with the promotion of The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy in 2001, Games Workshop obtained the right to produce wargame and miniature scargish, using film production and publication art, and information provided by original novel by JRR Tolkien. The 25mm scale is used. The right to produce role-playing games using film art 'and both books and movie plots and characters sold to other companies, Decipher, Inc. The Games Workshop also produces the Game Battle of Five Armies based on an episode culminating in The Hobbit, using a 10 mm scale.

On February 10, 2011 Warner Bros. Consumer Products announces that it has extended its six-year agreement with Games Workshop, continuing its worldwide exclusive rights to produce table games based on "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings." The Games Workshop announces plans to expand the battlefield and warrior model offerings, and to continue to develop and improve its offerings based on J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy book.

Group Division

Games Workshop has developed into several divisions/companies that produce products related to Warhammer nature.

• Forge World creates miniature resin and specialist conversion kits as well as various Specialist Games. Forge World is also responsible for Warhammer's historical line of rules of historical wargames, including Warhammer Ancient Battles, all of which were previously published by as a component of the Black Library.
• BL Publishing is a fictional game, board game, and roleplaying game of the Games Workshop. They consist of several separate prints; Black Library, Black Flame, and Solaris Books. Warp Artifacts are used to produce merchandise based on intellectual property of Games Workshop; now they folded into BLP as BL Merchandise.

The company is seen to have a unique intellectual property that is difficult to reproduce, and a good export record. Sales slowed down around 1999-2000 due to supply chain issues, but quickly rebounded a few years later.

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Miniature game

The Games Workshop previously produced a miniature figure through an initially independent company, named Citadel Miniatures while the main company concentrated on retail. The difference between the two blurred after Games Games stores stopped selling retail products by other manufacturers, and Citadel effectively merged back into the Games Workshop.

Current core game

The following games are produced in 2017:

• Warhammer: Age of Sigmar (released 2015)
• Warhammer 40,000 (Issue 8, 2017)
• The Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game ( The Hobbit Strategy Battle Game )

All of these game systems have their own expansion and supplement rules, including the War Of The Ring and Battlehosts for the SBG Lord of the Rings and the City of Death , Apocalypse , Planetstrike and Planetary Empires for Warhammer 40,000.

Other games

The following games are produced in 2017:

• Blood Bowl - American style football games using fantasy creatures (released 2016).
• Necromunda - battle games installed in the nest world that collect human gangs against each other, using Warhammer 40,000 modified second edition rules, which are more detailed than newer editions and more suitable for games skirmish. Originally printed in 1995, it was revived at the end of 2017.
Warhammer Quest: Silver Tower (released 2016) and Warhammer Quest: Shadows over Hammerhal (released 2017) - dungeon-crawler game on Warhammer: Age of Sigmar universe. Despite sharing the Warhammer Quest brand, the rules are completely different from the original game.
• Shadow War: Armageddon - the latest version of Necromunda skirmish ruleset, using Warhammer 40,000 of the current faction as a Necromunda human gang (released 2017).

Out of print

Warhammer Fantasy was suspended in July 2015 to support the current Zaman Sigmar game system. The change was founded on a series of supplements released for the eighth edition of the WFB centered on "The End Times" that caused the almost total destruction of the Warhammer world and the death of most of the world's population. Moved the time line forward to the Sigmar Age with the return of the founder of the human empire who had long been worshiped as a god.

Warhammer Fantasy universe

• Advanced HeroQuest
• Kerrunch - a simple version of Blood Bowl.
• Man O 'War - a sea battle game in the fantasy world. Two expansions were also released, Sea of ​​Blood and Fleet Plague .
• Mighty Warriors - a simple version of Advanced HeroQuest. More of a light Skirmish game using mini AHQ set in the dungeon.
• Dragon Masters - board games are played like a simplified version of Mighty Empires, in which players take on the competitive role of the Elf princes in Ulthuan.
• Warhammer Quest - a dungeon exploration and search game, effectively the latest version of Advanced HeroQuest.
• Total War: Warhammer - PC strategy game with campaigns based on turn along with real-time battles.
• Total War: Warhammer II - Self-Release for the first game with larger campaign maps and new factions.

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• Adeptus Titanicus (The original game in the Epic series, which only handles battles between Titans.)
  • Codex Titanicus (Rules extended to the above, adding rules for Orcs and Elder Titans along with extended rules for Eldar, Orks, Imperial Guard infantry and vehicles.)
• The Advanced Crusade Room
• Assassinorum: Execution Force
• Bommerz over da Sulfur River (Board games using Epic miniatures.)
• Epic 40,000 (Epic Armageddon Precursor, though some people still use the term interchangeably, with Epic.)
• Gorkamorka (Skirmish game of vehicles installed in the desert world, spinning mainly around the Ork faction.)
  • Digganob (Expansion for Gorkamorka, adding gretchin rebels and wild human factions.)
• Lost Patrol
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• Space Hulk (Three editions published, expansion listed below.)
  • Deathwing (A set of expansion boxes adds new Terminator weapons and new campaigns.)
  • Genestealer (An extended set of boxes adds rules for the Genestealer hybrid and inner strength.)
  • Space Hulk Campaigns (An expansion book released in soft and hard-cover collections was reprinted four campaigns previously printed in White Dwarf.)
• Space Marine (original Epic Game of troops and infantry, first edition compatible with Adeptus Titanicus, 2nd with Titan Legions)
• Titan Legions (Adeptus Titanicus Update, effectively expanding the 2nd edition of Marine Space).
• Tyranid Attack (Preliminary game reusing the board from Advanced Space Crusade.)
• Ultra Marines (Preliminary game reusing boards from Space Hulk.)

Specialist Games

These games are intended for "veteran" players. This is a gamer who is more experienced in the core games produced by Games Workshop. This is because the rules and complexity of the tactics inherent in the system are often more profound than the core game. This also includes games that are not always more complicated, but have smaller, more specialized target audiences.

• Warhammer Fantasy universe
  • Dreadfleet - naval style combat board game (limited stock) released on October 1, 2011
  • Mighty Mighty - a hexagonal based campaign supplement
  • Mordheim - battle games. An expansion called Empire in Flames was also released
  • Warmaster - game for bigger battles with smaller miniatures (10 mm)
• Warhammer 40,000 universe
  • Battlefleet Gothic - a game depicting the battle between the space ship's fleet.
  • Epic - games for larger battles with smaller miniatures (6 mm) (known as Epic Armageddon in current editions).
  • Searchers - game suits/role games using a larger miniature (54 mm) and aimed at older players.
  • Space Hulk - a game of two players Space Marines versus Tyranids released in 1989.
• The Lord of the Rings universe
  • The Great Battle of the Middle Earth: The Battle of Five Soldiers - a game for bigger combat with smaller miniature (10 mm). The game is named (and initially centered on) Battle of Five Armies, one of the later scenes on J.R.R. Tolkien The Hobbit .
  • Strategy Battle Game expanded with new supplements. In 2009 the expansion for the game titled 'War of the Ring' was released, allowing players to create large-scale battles in Middle-Earth. In December 2012, Game Workshop released the first wave of models based on The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.
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• Aeronautica Imperialis - games based around the Epic fighter plane

Licensed game

This game is not created by Games Workshop but uses similar models, artwork, and concepts. The game is made by a major toy company and is available in toy stores and department stores.

• Battle Masters (published by Milton Bradley)
• HeroQuest (published by Milton Bradley)
  • Keep Kellar (Expansion for Hero Quest)
  • The Return of the Witch Lord (Extension to Heroes Quest)
  • Against Ogre Horde (Expansion for Heroes Quest)
  • Wizards of Morcar (Expansion for Hero Quest)
  • The Frozen Horror (Expansion for Hero Quest)
  • The Magic of the Mirror (Expansion for Hero Quest)
  • Dark Company (Expansion for Heroes Search)
  • HeroQuest Adventure Design Kit (Extension for Heroes Quest)
  • Booklet Design Adventure (Extension for Heroes Quest)
• Space Crusade (published by Milton Bradley)
  • Dreadnought Mission (Extension to Space War)
  • Eldar Attack (Expansion for Space Crusade)
Citadel Paints

Games Workshop produces acrylic paint lines (and related compounds) for miniature paintings. At the end of March 2012, the company announced a new range of over 145 colors made in the UK.

The Citadel Paints list includes:

• Citadel Base: matte base-coating acrylic paint in 12 ml pot.
• Citadel Layer: for use on Base or other paint. In pot 12 ml.
• Citadel Shade: paint that flows on top of other paint and goes into the overdraft. In pot 24 ml.
• Citadel Edge: similar to Citadel Layer Paints, but in lighter shades. In pot 12 ml.
• Citadel Dry: thicker than other paints, for fast drybrushing and highlights. In pot 12 ml.
• Citadel Glaze: to intensify the color, provides a translucent layer. In pot 12 ml.
• Citadel Texture: to specify the base. They contain a coarse mixture and fine sand produces a rough surface. In pot 12 ml.
• Citadel Air: airbrush paint that matches other Citadel paint. In 12 ml containers.
• Citadel Technical: nine specialist formulas for specific painting and modeling functions. In pot 12 ml.


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role-playing game

Some miniature games (eg Inquisitors) involve role-playing elements; However, the Games Workshop, in the past, has published game roles that are set in the Warhammer realm. was first published in 1986; the second edition appeared in 2005 published by Black Industries, part of GW BL Publishing fiction writing.

Warhammer 40,000: Dark Heresy , the first of three role-playing games filed in Warhammer 40,000 universe, was released in late January 2008 and sold out almost instantly. In September 2008, production was transferred to Fantasy Flight Games.

Fantasy Flight Games then publishes four other role-playing games; Rogue Trader , Deathwatch , Black Crusade , and Just War , is set in the same 40,000 Warhammer universe and uses a kind of mechanics. In 2009 Fantasy Flight also released a new edition of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay .

Out of print

• Golden Heroes - a superhero role play, published in 1984 after originally published amateurically.
• Judith Dredd: The Role-Playing Game - was published under license in 1985.
• Stormbringer - the third edition of the game, published together with Chaosium in 1987.
• RuneQuest - GW publishes the second and third edition rules in the UK.
• Cthulhu Call - GW publishes second and third edition rules in the UK

Out of print, republished

The following games are technically not printed in the original edition, but have a new version (in some cases highly revised and in some cases with additional game expansion) published by Fantasy Flight Games.

• Dark Heresy - a RPG based in the WH40k Universe where players control one member of the Inquisitor war band.
• Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay



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Box game

The Games Workshop has a strong history in the development of boardgames, in addition to miniature and RPG. Some may have roleplaying elements, or have miniatures that are included or produced.

The license for the undisclosed part of the game Board game re-catalog was transferred to Fantasy Flight Games as part of the same transaction which included the Black Game Playing Game Role. Fantasy Flight has published a revised edition of some of these games. At the time of the announcement, the Black Library had only one board game in print, 4th edition of "Talisman". Fantasy Flight then released a revised edition of Talisman and former Boardgames Games Workshop before. On September 9, 2016, Fantasy Flight Games announced the termination of a license agreement with Workshop Games.

The Games Workshop currently has some stand-alone board games in production. Being an independent game, they do not rely on the rules or components of the current core game system of Age of Sigmar or Warhammer 40,000. All of these include miniatures that require some assembly, and the miniature can be used with the core game system.

• Assassinorum: Execution Force
• Blood Bowl
• Deathwatch: Overkill
• Gorechosen
• Lost Patrol
• Stormcloud Attack
• The Horus Heresy: Betrayal at Calth
• The Horus Heresy: Burning Prospero
• Warhammer 40.000: Kill Team
• Quest Warhammer: Silver Tower

Out of print

• Apocalypse (not to be confused with Warhammer 40,000 Apocalypse expansion)
• Battlecars
• Battle for Armageddon
  • Chaos Attack (Expansion for Battle for Armageddon )
• Block Mania - Judd Dredd 2000AD Settings
  • Mega Mania (Expansion for Block Mania )
• Blood Royale (multiplayer games, battles and resources from medieval Europe)
• Disaster
• Chainsaw Warrior (solo main game)
• Cosmic Encounter (under license)
• Mummy's Curse of Mausoleum
• Dark Future (similar to Car War)
• Doctor Who: The Game of Time & amp; Space (1980)
• Doom of the Eldar
• Gobbo Banquet
• Hungry and Gobbos Trolls
• Judge Dredd (see 2000 AD characters Judge Dredd for background)
• Kings and Things (under license)
• Oi! Dat My Leg!
• Quirks (under license)
• Rail rivals (under license)
• Rogue Trooper (see 2000 Rogue Trooper characters for background)
• Squelch!
• Hulk Room
• Super Strength
• Troll in Pantry
• Valley of the Four Winds
• Warlock
• The Warlock of Firetop Mountain (based on the Fighting Fantasy game book)

Not printed, reissued

The following games are technically not printed in the original edition, but have a new version (in most cases highly revised and in some cases with additional game expansion) published by Fantasy Flight Games.

• Chaos rioters - Board game 'orcish mayhem'.
• Dungeon Request
• Dracula's Anger
• Horus Bidah
• Talisman
• Warrior Knights



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Video game

Workshop Games licensed or produced some ZX Spectrum games in the early years, nothing based on the usual Warhammer settings:

• Apocalypse (1983) based on original boardgame
• Argent Warrior (1984) The illustrated adventure
• Battlecars (1984) 2 player racing games written in BASIC
• Chaos (1985) multiplayer multiplayer game "board", written by Julian Gollop
• D-Day (1985) based on Normandy Landing
• HeroQuest (1991) based on the MB board game
• Final Trip (1985) text adventure
• Key Of Hope, The (1985) text adventure
• Ringworld (1984) text adventure
• Runestone (1986) text adventure
• Talisman (1985) a multiplayer-based "board" game
• Tower Of Despair (1985) text adventure, also released for Commodore 64.

Many video games have been produced by a third party based on the nature of Warhammer owned by the company. These include (miniature game they are based on included in brackets after game name):

• Space Crusade (Space Crusade) and 1 sequel to Amiga.
• Dark Omen (RTT Games based on Warhammer Fantasy Battles)
• Shadow of the Horned Rat (RTT Games based on Warhammer Fantasy Battles)
• Space Hulk (Space Hulk)
• Space Hulk: Vengeance of the Blood Angels (Space Hulk)
• Final Exemption (Epic 40,000 - Space, Castle Guard, Ork)
• Warrior (Warhammer 40.000 - Tau)
• Blood Bowl (1995), published by MicroLeague
• Dawn of War (Warhammer 40,000 - Space Marines, Orks, Eldar, Chaos Space Marines)
  • Winter Attack (Add-ons) (Army is same as Dawn of War, also: Imperial Guard)
  • Dark Crusade (Standing Alone) (Same as Winter Attack, also: Nekron and Tau)
  • Soulstorm (Same as Dark Crusade, also: Sisters of Battle and Dark Eldar)
• Chaos Gate (Warhammer 40,000 - Navy, Troop of Chaos)
• Rites of War (Warhammer 40,000 - Eldar, Space Marines, Tyranid)
• Mark of Chaos (Warhammer - The Empire, High Elves, Hordes of Chaos, Skaven, Orcs and Goblins, Dwarves)
  • Battle March (Add-on) (Armies is similar to Mark of Chaos, also: Dark Elf)
• Troop , a turn-based strategy game focusing on Ultramarines forces against Chaos Space Marines.
Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning, Warhammer MMORPG by Mythic Entertainment.
• Dawn of War II , the Dawn of War sequel focuses less on building bases and more on squad tactics. (Warhammer 40,000 - Space Marines, Orks, Eldar, Tyranids)
  • Chaos Rising (Standing Alone) (Army is same as Dawn of War II, also: Chaos Space Marines)
  • Levy (Same as Chaos Rising, also: Imperial Guard)
• Blood Bowl (2009) / Blood Bowl 2 (Blood Bowl)
• Space Marine , an Action/RPG game featuring the Marines of Ultramarine Space.
• Warhammer Online: Wrath of Heroes , Warhammer MOBA game developed by BioWare Mythic (canceled).
• Warhammer 40,000: Eternal Crusade , a massive multi-game online multi-person shooter game developed by Behavior Interactive.
• Total War: Warhammer , Real-time and Turn-based Strategy games, part of SEGA and Total War Series Creative Assembly (Warhammer Fantasy - Empire, Vampire Counts, Dwarf, Orc, and Chaos) )
• Total War: Warhammer II is a turn-based strategy and real-time video tactics developed by Creative Assembly and published by Sega. This is part of the Total War series and the sequel to Total War 2016: Warhammer. (Warhammer Fantasy - High Elf, Skaven, Dark Elf, Lizardmen can be played in core games All fractions of the first game and the second can be played in a free super-map combination if someone buys the first game and one of the DLC races and purchased content from one game was also added.
• Space Hulk: Deathwing , game First-Person Shooter, developed by Streum On Studio and published by Focus Home Interactive.
• Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War III (2017) real-time strategy video game with MOBA influences released by Relic Entertainment and Sega, in partnership with Games Workshop,



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Events

There is an annual Games Day event organized by the Games Workshop which includes a Golden Demon painting competition, newsstand, sales kiosk, and a table to play. In 2014 replaced by 'Warhammer Fest', similar but with extras like pods and demonstration seminars.



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Worldwide campaigns

The Games Workshop has run many Worldwide Campaigns for its three core game systems. In each campaign, players are invited to send the results of a game played within a certain period of time. This result collection provides results for campaign scenarios, and sometimes leads to in-game modifications.

Each Warhammer campaign has had a new codex published with rules for special characters or an "incomplete" list of soldiers. Below is the Campaign of Worldwide Campaign Workshop (with the campaign fictional universe setting in brackets):

• 1995 - Battle of Ichar IV (Warhammer 40,000)
• 2000 - Third War for Armageddon (Warhammer 40,000)
• 2001 - Dark Shadows (Warhammer)
• 2003 - Eye of Terror (Warhammer 40,000)
• 2004 - Storm of Chaos (Warhammer)
• 2005 - The War of the Rings (The Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game)
• 2006 - The fall of Medusa V (Warhammer 40,000)
• 2007 - The Nemesis Crown (Warhammer)
• 2011 - Scourge of the Storm (Warhammer)

The campaign is run to promote its miniature wargames, and attracts interest in hobbies, especially in game clubs, Hobby Centers, and independent stockists. Forums for communities are created for each campaign (other than those on the main site), as a place to "swap tactics, plan where to post your results, or just chat about how the campaign will run." In some cases a special miniature was released to coincide with the campaign; miniature "Gimli on Dead Uruk-hai" promotion, for example, only available through campaign roadshow or order online. Overall, these events have been successful; one, for example, is considered a "fantastic rollercoaster", with thousands of registered participants.



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Magazines

The Games Workshop has published White Dwarf magazine since 1977 and has more than 400 issues. The Games Workshop also publishes Fanatic Magazine to support their Specialist Games range. After the cancellation of Fanatik Magazine, the electronic version, known as "Fanatic Online" is published from Games Games's Games Games Games website.

For a brief period in the mid-1980s, GW took over the publication of Fighting Fantasy Warlock magazine from Puffin Books that had produced the first 5 editions. The magazine changed to a general introductory game magazine but was discontinued after the 13th edition.

There is also a two-week series called "Battle of the Game in the Middle of the Earth", which comes with one or several free MiniBand Lord of the Rings for free. Although the miniature was created by the Games Workshop, the magazine itself was written by SGS (part of the Workshop Games) and published by De Agostini.



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Quote the trademark Marine Space complaint

The Games Workshop issued a trademark complaint against Amazon retailers, specifically related to the Spots the Space Marine novel, claiming that it violated their European 'marine space' trademark. Commentators such as Cory Doctorow and the digital rights group Electronic Frontier Foundation, questioned the rights of the Games Workshop for the trademarks of the term. On February 8, 2013, Spots Space Space reappears in Amazon. The Games Workshop does not issue further legal action.




Other media

Games Workshop illustrator also publishes art books covering parts of the job assigned to the company. Among them, one can find Adrian Smith, Ian Miller and John Blanche.

Short fiction

From 1997 to 2005, the Black Library published INFERNO! , short story magazines, artwork, and other features set forth in various fictional worlds of the Olympic Workshop, and regularly featuring from Warhammer 40,000. Since 2010 Black Library has produced a monthly e-book called "Hammer and Bolter" with a focus on short stories set in various Universe Workshop Games.

Novel

Comics and graphic novels

Music

In the late 1980s the death metal band "Bolt Thrower" wrote lyrics dedicated to Warhammer 40,000 universes and used 40k artwork on the cover of their second album.

In the early 1990s, Games Workshop created its own record label, Warhammer Records. The only band under this label is D-Rok (who published one album, Oblivion , in 1991). A fragment of the D-Rok song "Get Out of My Way" is used in the computer game "Space Hulk", published by Electronic Arts in 1992.

In the early 2000s the German label Art of Persception produced 12 parts of the vinyl soundtrack series followed by three CD compilations. The task for the artists involved in this project is to do a theme for the species of Warhammer 40,000 universe.

In 2009 Death Metal Singapore band Deus Ex Machina released I, Human, which made numerous references to the Warhammer 40,000 universe, specifically the Adeptus Mechanicus faction.

Movies

Games Workshop announces that Exile Studios will produce CGI films based on graphic novel Bloodquest ; a trailer was released, but the project was discontinued and Exile Studios disbanded.

For the 25th Anniversary Games Day, the Games Workshop was released in 1996 (for limited sales) a short movie titled Inquisitor , using clips and recordings made as pitches for G.W. for a movie deal. There are also trailers for two other films, "Hive Infestation" and "Blood for the Blood God". "Hive Infestation" pitted the Werewater Room against the pagan cult of the nest world. "Blood for the Blood God" is the second trailer to be released, and describes the orks and Dark Angel marines who fought along with the inquisitors, many in the style of 40,000 epic video game scenes, but little information given on this short film apart from a shot the rampage of Khorne (available on YouTube but marked by Workshop Games, deleted the movie).

Another one is Damnatus, a German fan movie developed over four years. The Games Workshop announced in July 2007 that they would not give permission for the film to be released due to problems between Anglo-American copyright and Continental European Droit d'auteur.

In 2010, the Games Workshop with Codex Pictures released a 70-minute downloadable movie called Ultramarines . This scenario was written by the author of the Black Library Dan Abnett. Terence Stamp, Sean Pertwee and John Hurt lead the voice actors.




References






External links

• Official Game Workshop Website

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