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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.
Some of the world's biggest companies started from humble beginnings, but Games Workshop's early days were less glamourous than most. "We ended up having to live in a van," says Sir Ian Livingstone.
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.
Owl and Weasel #11: Programme for the first Games Workshop Games Day in 1975. Games Day is a yearly run gaming convention sponsored by Games Workshop. It was started in 1975, after another games convention scheduled for August that year cancelled. Games Workshop decided to fill the resulting gap by running a gaming day of their own.
[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]
Less than a year later, in late 1978, Citadel Miniatures was started by Ansell/Games Workshop, as announced in White Dwarf issue 11: 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.
A former Citadel and Games Workshop employee John Stallard founded historical miniature manufacturer Warlord Games from his kitchen table at Ropewalk, Nottingham in 2007. By 2017 it was turning over millions of pounds each year and employed 91 staff. It is now based in Lenton and is probably the second largest wargames company in the UK.