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  2. Games Workshop - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. John Peake (game designer) - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Ian Livingstone - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Black Library - Wikipedia

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    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 ]

  6. White Dwarf (magazine) - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Alan and Michael Perry - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. Steve Jackson (British game designer) - Wikipedia

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    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]

  9. Bryan Ansell - Wikipedia

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    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.