Paulson Games and Games Workshop have agreed on the range of products Paulson Games is permitted to sell without violating Games Workshop’s claimed rights in its Warhammer 40,000 characters and have agreed to terminate the litigation between them.
Games Workshop scores a critical hit as profits boom
It’s a tough economy out there. Just this morning this blogger read about another familiar high street name going into administration. Then it was time to find out about Games Workshop. The company’s trading statement said; “As a niche business, we, in general terms, neither benefit nor suffer from macroeconomic factors as our current results […]
Pathfinder tops summer RPG sales
ICv2’s quarterly chart of the best selling RPGs is out and, as expected, Pathfinder tops the chart. There’s a different publisher on each of the top five positions with old favourites and newer entries like Green Ronin’s Dragon Age making the cut. IVc2 reports that games had a great summer – with CCGs and especially […]
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine trailer
Got a video update for THQ’s Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine game. This is a 3rd persion shooter from Relic using Games Workshop’s popular franchise. We’ve got Orks, Chaos as the Space Marines. They all seem to have soft, Southern English accents – which seems odd to me! Disclaimer; this blogger is Scottish, geography dictates that […]
Curse down due to hardware; not Games Workshop
I don’t have a status update on the legal conflict between Curse and Games Workshop. Last year Games Workshop unleashed lawyers in response to Curse using the name Warhammer Alliance and making use of domain names like warhammeralliance.com. Curse and sites like mmo-champion.com, wowace.com and diablofans.com are currently down. This is not because of legal […]
E3: Warhammer 40,000 – Space Marine
Warhammer 40,000 will be a 3rd person shooter. It’s due out in August of this year, pushed by THQ and developed by Relic. If you’ve a PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 or a PC you’ll be able to join the battle at Orks and Chaos. You play Captain Titus of the Ultramarines, who becomes aware of […]
Space Marine: The Universe – Behind the Scenes
I’ve got to admit that Relic and THQ seem to have captured Games Workshop’s Warhammer 40,000 franchise. This behind the scenes trailer is full of developers saying they respect the “IP”. In order words, they respect the intellectual property owned by Games Workshop (a company famous for sending the IP lawyers in). You could argue […]
Games Workshop’s rollercoaster ride
At the start of the year Geek Native blogged Games Workshop’s £2.5m dip. This was a surprise because the company had seemed to turn their finances around. The news also took a somewhat bizarre twist when Mark Wells, Games Workshop CEO, seemed to suggest that problems over Christmas were due to rookie staff. In order […]
Games Workshop signs 6 year deal with Warner for Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit
Good news for battling British war games dealer Games Workshop. They’ve managed to secure an impressive six-year extension to their Lord of the Rings deal with Warner Bros. The result? Games Workshop can continue to make tabletop games based on “The Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings”. This is a global deal. Needless to […]
Games Workshop revenue down by £2.5m; selling less but squeezing more
We knew this was coming because Games Workshop did the publicly listed responsible thing of issuing a post-Christmas warning and today, with the figures out, we can see the £2.5m drop in revenue. Revenue for the last year stands at £60m, that’s down from about £62.5m the year before. As expected pre-tax profits are down […]
