Games Workshop Give First Glimpse Of White Dwarf #1
January 20, 2014 by brennon
Games Workshop just put up a blog post about the impending change to White Dwarf Magazine. Over on their What's New Today section of the website we got our first glimpse of the 'new' White Dwarf #1
As you can see it seems to have the same cover lay out as the White Dwarf we've seen before and offers a titular teaser towards what's inside. 'Monstrous Invasion' would be my guess with what I'd assume is some kind of runic standard on the over. I might be hoping a little too much though.
They also put up information about Warhammer Visions and showed off how thick it is actually looking as a tome of imagery. They also offer up some answers to those of you thinking about your subscriptions and the like.
Will you be getting Issue #1...err, again?
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I’m surprised they didn’t call it White Dwarf NOW! 😉
white dwarf: new 52
Dont give them ideas >:(
White Dwarf NOW for GW very own financial apocalypse…..
Does this mean dwarfs of colour will be excluded? Is this some sort of dwarf skinhead propaganda? Will there be a litigation section in the back i.e. a monthly rundown of upstart companies they’ve crushed?
Don’t get me started on racism and the GW universes… 🙁
Cant be any worse than star wars…
In fairness sci-fi and fantasy game genres tend to fail on that front. D&D does an ok job in some settings. Even Lord of the Rings can be analysed as being incredibly racist. If that is intended its hard to say without knowing the mind of the authors involved. I think some times companies steer away from it as they risk being horribly stereo typical or accused of drawing unfavorable parallels (Again intent is always hard to fairly judge unless it is truly horrendous). Infinity seems to do a nice job of drawing on cultural aspects but balancing that with… Read more »
Guys, he said don’t get him started. 🙁
Ummm, I was being facetious… I don’t have a lot of time for GW or their corporate manifesto. Still on a self-imposed boycott of their products, and could never get into their puerile rules fest system anyway. As stated previously, I like some of their stuff, but am certainly not a fanboy, and it’s easy to find better and cheaper out there.
Cheaper prices always attract the most attention…
No I will not be buying the new White Dwarf. Paying $10 a month for the magazine was expensive enough. But now its $5 for a weekly magazine. With this move they have effectively doubled the prise of the magazine.
There will be more catalouge pages now, or at least a higher percentage of catalouge pages in comparison.
And how will this effect WD subscribers? Do they get the monthly one or the weekly one?
Monthly
First month you get the first weekly as well which is a nice touch, if you subscribe
Good grief. Now we’re paying for their catalogues?
Now?
I was going to compute how much money I saved myself over the past 8? 9? years not buying White Dwarf but it all adds up. And I have no plans to subscribe to this either.
I remember the dim, distant glory days, the 1980’s and 1990’s…
Could save even more money if you didn’t play war games at all lol
I notice that ‘The Hobbit’ is missing from the cover blurb…
GW have been listening to people’s options about WD and I honestly think this is an attempt to improve it. Whether they succeed or not, only time will tell.
This is the conclusion I’ve come to as well. It will all hang on the actual content of the weekly one. I think we can all guess what the monthly one is likely to contain, as we’ve been buying it under the name ‘white dwarf’ for the last year and a bit! But I see the weekly magazine as a real opportunity to improve level of actual hobby content and, if it’s pitched right, actually appear to be working as a part of the gaming community rather than in opposition to it. It is entirely possible that I have set… Read more »
I agree, and despite the article riling me may still have a glance. On a purile level though 1 and 2 need to be great for content. There is no way in the internet age you want White Dwarf No 2 to be anything other than good 😛 otherwise the comments will write themselves
I was going to pick up both to see how they are. That article though has really put me off – given its written by one of the White Dwarf team – “Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock for the last few weeks, you’ll know that the new White Dwarf magazine will be published every Saturday starting on 1st February,…” So those last few weeks since it was announced 3 days ago……, when you have complete up their own a*&e c*%ks likes that for writers with total disconnection from the reader base why bother. Weekly looks like it will… Read more »
Better things to do with my money like go out and get drunk. End effect is the same as its p*ssing money down the drain either way.
I duno, at least with a magazine you can read it, then use it for roach paper, burn it to keep warm, swat fly’s/kids, magazines are pretty versatile when you think about it. Best your gona get from piss is a water balloon…
I can do all that with the local free paper without having to pay the dark overlord for a monthly sales magazine with weekly codex corrections on the side. 😉
I am curious to see what they are like. I love gawking at the paint jobs in White Dwarf magazines. They make me go oooooo and aaaaaaaa.
Is this the one that is only available in game stores? If that’s the case, it’ s a pass…
Won’t buy the weekly, but will have a peek at the monthly. Doubtful I will buy many.