Introducing Games Workshop
Games Workshop Group PLC (often abbreviated to GW) is a UK Game production and retailing company. Games Workshop is one of the largest games companies in the world, and is the dominant company in the miniature fantasy wargaming hobby (owning appx 98% of the market)
Founded in 1975 by Ian Livingstone and Steve Jackson (also known for their Fighting Fantasy gamebooks), Games Workshop was originally a manufacturer of wooden boards for games such as backgammon and chess which later became an importer of the U.S. roleplaying game Dungeons & Dragons. Under the direction of Livingstone and Jackson, Games Workshop expanded from being a bedroom mail-order company to a successful gaming publisher and manufacturer. An early promotional magazine Owl and Weasel was superseded in June 1977, partially to advertise the opening of the first Games Workshop store, Livingstone and Jackson with the gaming magazine White Dwarf, which Livingstone also edited.
Their publishing arm also created UK reprints of famous, but then expensive to import, American RPGs such as Call of Cthulhu, Runequest, Traveller and Middle-Earth Role-Play. In 1979, Games Workshop provided the funding to help found Citadel Miniatures, in Newark, a company that would produce the metal miniatures that were used in role-playing and table-top wargames. The Citadel name has become synonymous with Games Workshop Miniatures and continues to be a trademarked brand name used in association with them long after the Citadel company was absorbed into Games Workshop.
There are yearly Games Day events held by Games Workshop which feature the Golden Demon painting competition and you can find the Official Games Workshop website through this link.
History
In 1984, Games Workshop ceased distributing its products in the USA through Hobby Games Distributors and opened its Games Workshop (US) office. Games Workshop (US), and Games Workshop in general, went through a large growth phase in the late 80s and early 90s. Issue 126 of the White Dwarf (June, 1990) stated the company had over 250 employees.Following a management buyout in December 1991 the company refocused on their most lucrative lines, namely their miniature wargame Warhammer Fantasy Battle (WFB) and Warhammer 40,000 (WH40K) lines. The retail chain refocused on a younger, more family-oriented market. The change of direction was a great success with a rising share price and growing profits, in spite of the fact that it lost the company much of its old, loyal fanbase. The complaints of these old customers led a breakaway group of GW employees to publish Fantasy Warlord in competition with GW, but this met with little success. Games Workshop expanded in Europe, the USA, Canada and Australia opening new branches and organising events. The company was floated on the London Stock Exchange in October 1994. In October 1997, all UK based operations were relocated to the current HQ in Lenton, Nottingham. This site now houses the corporate HQ, the White Dwarf offices, mail order, and the creative hub.
By the end of the decade, though, the company was having problems with falling profits being blamed on collectible card games such as Magic: The Gathering and Pokémon.
In recent years, Games Workshop has been attempting to create a dual approach that will appeal to both older, loyal customers while still attracting the younger audience. This has seen the creation of initiatives such as the "Fanatic" range that supports more marginal lines with a lower cost trading model (the Internet is used widely in this approach, to collect ideas and playtest reports). Games Workshop has also contributed to designing and making games and puzzles for the popular television series The Crystal Maze.
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Wargames Promoted by Games Workshop
The miniature wargames the company promotes are considered to be a welcome substitute to those young people mostly immersed in video gaming. Some view it as a learning experience that cultivates artistic talent as well as resource management skills, and that the hobby reminds people of more traditional mediums of entertainment, harking back to simple toy soldiers. The release of Games Workshop's third core miniature wargame, The Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game (LoTR SBG), in 2000 signalled their intention to capture the younger audience with a simple, yet effective and flexible, combat system.[citation needed]Other key innovations have been to harmonise their core products, and to branch out into new areas of growth. The acquisition of Sabretooth Games (card games), the creation of The Black Library (literature), and their work with THQ (computer games) have all enabled the company to diversify into new areas which have brought old gamers back into the fold; plus introduced the games to a whole new audience.
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Licensing information
Alongside the publishing rights to American role-playing games in the 1980s Games Workshop also secured the rights to produce miniatures and games for several classic British science fiction properties such as Doctor Who and several characters from 2000 AD including Rogue Trooper and Judge Dredd. They also secured the rights to produce 28mm miniatures based on Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit.In conjunction with the production of cinematic adaptation of The Lord of the Rings, Games Workshop acquired the rights to produce a skirmish wargame based on the films, and also on the novels by J.R.R. Tolkien. The rights to produce a roleplaying game version of the films were sold to another firm, Decipher, Inc.
Though they had the rights to produce a Battle of Five Armies game, the rights to the one-inch scale normally used by Games Workshop were already owned by another company. For this reason, the game was done in 10 mm scale for the normal warriors, and "heroic" scale for the named characters.
Games Workshop has not acquired the rights to produce works based on The Silmarillion, which is currently the exclusive property of the Tolkien Estate. However, they were somehow permitted to use Eorl the Young and Khamûl the Easterling (from Unfinished Tales) in their recently-released The Two Towers and A Shadow in the East Supplements.
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Core Games
Warhammer Fantasy Battle
Warhammer 40,000
The Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game
Specialist Games
Warhammer Fantasy universe
Blood Bowl - an American football style game using fantasy creatures
Mordheim - a skirmish game. An expansion (Empire in Flames) was also released
Warmaster - a game for fighting larger battles with smaller (10 mm) miniatures
Warhammer 40,000 universe
Battlefleet Gothic - a game based around spacecraft combat
Epic - a game for fighting larger battles with smaller (6 mm) miniatures.
Inquisitor - a skirmish game using larger (54 mm) more detailed miniatures
Necromunda - a skirmish game
The Lord Of The Rings Strategy Battle Game universe
The Battle of Five Armies: The Hobbit Strategy Battle Game - a game for fighting larger battles with smaller (10 mm) miniatures. The game was named after (and initially centred on) the Battle of Five Armies, one of the later scenes in JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit.
The Strategy Battle Game has now expanded and has recently added many new supplements to the list of its current games and scenarios.
Forge World
Forge World has recently released its first in-house game:
Aeronautica Imperialis - a game based around aircraft combat
Warhammer Historical;
Warhammer Ancient Battles
Warmaster Ancients
English Civil War
Legends of the Old West
Out of print;
Warhammer Fantasy universe
Advanced HeroQuest
Kerrunch - a simplified version of Blood Bowl.
Man O'War - a game of naval combat in a fantasy world. Two expansions were also released, Sea of Blood and Plague Fleet.
Mighty Empires
Mighty Warriors
Warhammer Quest - a game of dungeon exploration and questing, effectively an updated version of Advanced HeroQuest.
Warhammer 40,000 universe;
Adeptus Titanicus (original game in the Epic series)
Role playing games
Out of print
Judge Dredd: The Role-Playing Game - published under license in 1985.
Stormbringer - the third edition of the game, published jointly with Chaosium in 1987.
Board games
Out of print Boardgames;
Apocalypse
Battlecars
Battle for Armageddon
Chaos Attack (Expansion for Battle for Armageddon)
Chaos Marauders A boardgame of 'orcish mayhem'.
Block Mania - 2000AD Judge Dredd setting
Blood Royale (multiplayer, battle and resource game of medieval Europe)
Calamity
Chainsaw Warrior (solo play game)
Cosmic Encounter (under license)
Curse of the Mummy's Tomb
Dark Future (similar to Car Wars)
Doctor Who - The Game of Time and Space (1980)
Doom of the Eldar
Dungeonquest (and expansion pack)
Fury of Dracula (New edition available from Fantasy Flight Games)
Gobbo's Banquet
Horus Heresy
Hungry Troll and the Gobbos
Judge Dredd (see 2000 AD character Judge Dredd for background)
Kings and Things (under license)
Quirks
Railway Rivals
Rogue Trooper (another 2000 AD related game)
Super Power
Talisman (3 different editions)
Valley of the Four Winds
Warlock
The Warlock of Firetop Mountain (based on the Fighting Fantasy game book)
Warrior Knights
Computer games
Spectrum version of Tower of DespairApocalypse (1983) based on the original boardgame
Argent Warrior (1984) Illustrated adventure
Battlecars (1984) 2 player racing game written in BASIC
Chaos (1985) multiplayer turn based "board" game, written by Julian Gollop
D-Day (1985) based on the Normandy Landings
HeroQuest (1991) based on the MB board game
Journey's End (1985) text adventure
Key Of Hope, The (1985) text adventure
Ringworld (1984) text adventure
Runestone (1986) text adventure
Talisman (1985) multiplayer turn based "board" game
Tower Of Despair (1985) text adventure
Many computer games have been produced by third parties based on the Warhammer universes owned by the firm. These include: (Miniature game they are based on is included in parentheses after the game name)
Space Crusade (Space Crusade) and 1 sequel for the Amiga.
Dark Omen (RTT game based on Warhammer Fantasy Battles)
Shadow of the Horned Rat (RTT game based on Warhammer Fantasy Battles)
Space Hulk (Space Hulk)
Space Hulk - Vengeance of the Blood Angels (Space Hulk)
Final Liberation (Epic 40,000 - Space Marines, Imperial Guard, Orks)
Fire Warrior (First Person Shooter)(Warhammer 40,000 - Tau)
Dawn of War (Warhammer 40,000 - Space Marines (New Chapter: 'Blood Ravens'), Orks, Eldar, Forces of Chaos)
Winter Assault (PC Only/Add-on)(Warhammer 40,000: Armies same as Dawn of War, also: Imperial Guard (Cadian)
Dark Crusade (PC Only/Stand-Alone)(Warhammer 40,000: Same as Winter Assault, also: Necrons and Tau)
Chaos Gate (Warhammer 40,000 - Space Marines, Forces of Chaos)
Rites of War (Warhammer 40,000 - Eldar, Space Marines, Tyranid)
GorkaMorka (Warhammer 40K - Orks)
Warhammer: Mark of Chaos (Warhammer - Orcs, Goblins, Dwarfs, Vampires, The Empire, Chaos, Skaven, High Elves,)
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GAMES WORKSHOP BRINGS COUNTERFEITER TO JUSTICE
Games Workshop Group PLC, manufacturer of the famous Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000 wargames, has successfully brought a counterfeiter to justice.
Games Workshop dedicates considerable resources to protect its customers from deception and its business assets from infringement. Games Workshop recently concluded a lawsuit against Mr. Brian Beal, operating under the pseudonym "Mac Ace," from selling forged figures through an ebay account.
After preliminarily enjoining Mr. Beal, ordering sanctions against him, and then issuing a permanent injunction, the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri placed the finishing touch on this lawsuit by slapping Mr. Beal with an award of damages and attorneys fees. The award sends a strong message to those who, like Mr. Beal, believe duping consumers is an acceptable business practice.
"It is incredibly important to Games Workshop that the purity of the hobby and the quality of our products is preserved." Said Andy Jones, Games Workshop's Head of Legal. "When counterfeiters produce and sell fake miniatures, loyal hobbyists suffer. This decision vindicates our efforts to protect our intellectual property, preserve the hard-earned reputation of our product category-leading models, and safeguard the interests of our hobby and the fans who make it great."
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