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Founded: 1975; 50 years ... in Middle-Earth. In December 2012 Games Workshop released the first wave of models based on the movie The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey ...
Jackson, Livingstone and Peake began publishing the monthly games newsletter, Owl and Weasel (1975–1977), to provide support for their business. [1] Peake was not interested in the new role-playing game industry, and when he saw that Games Workshop was getting more involved with RPGs he left the company in 1976.
Livingstone co-founded Games Workshop in early 1975 with flatmates John Peake and Steve Jackson. [7] [8]: 43 They began publishing the monthly newsletter Owl and Weasel, and distributed copies of the first issue to fanzine Albion subscribers; Brian Blume received one of these copies, and sent them a copy of the new game Dungeons & Dragons in return.
[3]: 43 In late 1975, Jackson and Livingstone organized their first convention, the initial Games Day. [3]: 43 While selling game products directly from their flat, their landlord evicted them in summer 1976 after people kept going there looking for a physical store. [3]: 43 By 1978 the first Games Workshop store had opened, in London. [4]
Bryan Charles Ansell (11 October 1955 – 30 December 2023) [1] [2] was a British role-playing and wargame designer. [3] In 1985, he became managing director of Games Workshop, and eventually bought the company from Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone.
Games Workshop and Bryan Ansell have got together to keep-alive Citadel Miniatures, a new miniatures company that will be manufacturing several ranges of figures. Ral Partha are already in production, but Citadel will also be producing own ranges, including the Fiend Factory figures, Fantasy Adventurers and Fantasy Specials.
Jervis Johnson (born 12 June 1959) is an English tabletop game designer.He worked as a designer and manager for Games Workshop for over 38 years, and was the head of its Specialist Games studio.
Rick Priestley, with Bryan Ansell and Richard Halliwell, designed the fantasy miniature wargame Warhammer Fantasy Battle for Games Workshop. [3] The company released the game in 1983. Priestley also developed a science fiction counterpart for this wargame, which was released as Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader in October 1987.