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Games Workshop Group (often abbreviated as GW) is a British manufacturer of miniature wargames, based in Nottingham, England. Its best-known products are Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000 . Founded in 1975 by John Peake , Ian Livingstone and Steve Jackson , Games Workshop was originally a manufacturer of wooden boards for games including ...
Games Workshop was brought to Nottingham by Bryan Ansell in the early 1980s. Ansell had previously founded Citadel Miniatures at Newark, Nottinghamshire in 1979. Many former Games Workshop staff have gone on to found other manufacturers in the area and the 8—10 companies in the lead belt account for 90% of the British wargames miniature market.
Games Workshop re-won the Lord of the Rings licence, allowing them to make The Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game miniatures to tie-in with the trilogy of films released by New Line Cinema, and have extended the range to include characters based on the actual writings of J. R. R. Tolkien. [citation needed]
Games Workshop, which makes Warhammer, has agreed a deal with Amazon to make films and TV programmes based on the fantasy games. The UK firm said on Friday morning that it has “reached an ...
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]
Mantic Entertainment Ltd (trading as Mantic Games) is a British manufacturer of miniature wargames, based in Nottingham, England.It was founded in 2008 by former Games Workshop Managing Director Ronnie Renton and two other investors, with a range of fantasy miniatures that were compatible with other popular wargames, including Warhammer Fantasy Battles.
This is a list of companies that have produced miniature models for tabletop games. Alternative Armies - Scottish company; Archive Miniatures & Game Systems - Early producer of miniatures for role-playing games [1] Asgard Miniatures - Early British company based in Nottingham [2]
Richard Fretson Halliwell (29 March 1959 – 1 May 2021) [1] [2] was a British game designer who worked at Games Workshop (GW) during their seminal period in the 1980s, creating many of the games that would become central to GW's success.