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 […]
Games Workshop’s Blood Angels trailer
Games Workshop have a new video teaser for the Space Marine chapter the “Blood Angels”. New figures are due out in Feb 2011. The video shows the new Blood Angel models including the Furioso Dreadnought (which looks like it’ll take many months of pocket money to buy!) and the Stormraven. Some of the YouTube comments […]
Ian Livingstone cashes in again as RockYou buys Playdemic
RockYou, the social gaming company made famous and successful by Facebook, has bought the Manchester based Playdemic. The future looks good for Playdemic. They purchase means they’ll have heavy targets to meet and probably a change of working but this acts as one heck of a “save point” for the company. In addition, RockYou are […]
Games Workshop heading for trouble; turning around the turn around
Games Workshop has had a tough few years. However in recent months the news has been much better. The cost cutting had worked and the company had seemed to make the right bets. In July it was reported that revenue was up nearly a million to £126.5 million. The news today, however, is not so […]
The latest Ultramarines clip
HeyGuys has an exclusive clip from Martyn Pick’s Ultramarines animation. This is the first ever official Warhammer 40,000 movie. You can buy it now as a two-disc special edition from Ultramarines The Move but it is expected to have some sort of cinema release later next year. I’m in two mines about the movie. The […]
