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Founded in 1975 by John Peake, Ian Livingstone and Steve Jackson, Games Workshop was originally a manufacturer of wooden boards for games including backgammon, mancala, nine men's morris and Go. It later became an importer of the U.S. role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons , and then a publisher of wargames and role-playing games in its own right ...
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.
A series of Warhammer 40,000 comics were first created for the Games Workshop magazine, Warhammer Monthly as short background filler. In 1999, the first miniature and game tie-in was released as a joint project of Warhammer Monthly and its publisher, the Black Library . [ 7 ]
During the early 1980s the magazine focused mainly on the "big three" role-playing games of the time: Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, RuneQuest and Traveller. In addition to this a generation of writers passed through its offices and onto other RPG projects in the next decade, such as Phil Masters and Marcus L. Rowland.
They worked for Games Workshop from 1978 until 2014, and during that time worked on most of the company's miniature ranges. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In addition, they were former sculptors for Wargames Foundry , [ 3 ] helped found Warhammer Historical Wargames [ 4 ] and now run the relatively new company "Perry miniatures", for which they produce historical ...
Jackson and Livingstone sold their Games Workshop stake in 1991. [3]: 50 In the mid-1990s Jackson spent 2.5 years as a games journalist with the London Daily Telegraph. [1] He then set up computer games developer Lionhead Studios with Peter Molyneux. [1] Jackson left Lionhead in 2006 when Microsoft bought the company. [7]
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.