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'''Games Workshop''' is a British Game production and retailing company. Games Workshop is one of the largest games companies in the world, and is the dominant company in the miniature wargaming war gaming hobby.
==Overview==
Games Workshop was originally an importer of American board games and RPGs. When they became publishers of the UK based roleplaying role-playing magazine [[White Dwarf]], Games Workshop created a national chain of gaming stores in the 1980s. Their publishing arm also created UK reprints of famous but expensive-to-import American RPGs.
During the 90s, following a management buyout in December 1991, the company refocussed on their most lucrative lines, namely their miniature wargame war game lines. The retail chain refocussed on a younger, more family-oriented market. The change of direction was a great success with a rising share price and growing profits, in spite of the fact that it lost the company much of its old, loyal fanbase. Games Workshop expanded in Europe and the USA, opening new branches and organizing events. In October 1997, all UK based operations were relocated to the current HQ in Lenton, Nottingham.
By the end of the decade, though, the company was having problems with falling profits being blamed on collectible card games.
The following are older, out of print spin-offs of Warhammer 40,000:
* Adeptus Titanicus: predacessor predecessor to Epic
** Space Marine: an expansion to Adeptus Titanicus introducing troops
* Advanced Space Crusade
* [[Gorkamorka]]: Ork vehicle warfare game
** Digganob:an expansion for Gorkamorka)
* Space Fleet: predacessor predecessor to Battlefleet Gothic
* Space Hulk
** Deathwing: expansion boxed set
* Space Crusade
** Operation DreadnaughtDreadnought: an expansion for Space Crusade
** Eldar Attack: an expansion for Space Crusade
==Magazines==
Games Workshop's best known magazine is [[White Dwarf]], which in the UK has now passed 307 issues. Seven different international editions of White Dwarf are currently published, with different material, in five languages. Originally a more general roleplaying role playing magazine, since around issue 100 White Dwarf has been devoted exclusively to the support of Games Workshop properties.
Games Workshop also published [[Fanatic_Magazine]] in support of their Specialist Games range, but it was discontinued after issue 10, though it lives on in electronic form. Fanatic was preceded by a number of newsletters, devoted to the particular games.
* [http://www.gamesworkshop.com Official Games Workshop website] produce the tabletop wargames, Citadel miniatures and the Specialist Games range.
* [[Sabertooth Games]] produce the [[Card Games|Horus Heresy]] and [[Card Games|Dark MilleniumMillennium]].
* [[BL Publishing]] is the publishing arm of Games Workshop.
* [http://www.warpartefacts.com Warp Artefacts] produce merchandise based on Games Workshop's intellectual property.
