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Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine Serves Up Multiplayer Marines 1.8 Billion Ways

Mike Fahey — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 16:20:00 EDT

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If the text flashing by in this trailer are to be believed, Relic Entertainment has managed to cram 1.8 billion different ways to customize Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine's six multiplayer classes, a number at least 1,000 times larger than the amount of people likely to care. More »

Vampires Head To The Blood Bowl

Mike Fahey — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 17:30:00 EDT

How did a game called Blood Bowl take this long to introduce an all-vampire team, and why aren't they turning to dust during day games? More »

There Are Zombies On Blood Bowl's Lawn

Mike Fahey — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 16:20:00 EDT

While one of the enemies in Plants Vs. Zombies used to play football, the undead abominations of the newly-revealed Necromantic team actively play, or at least they will once the Blood Bowl Legendary Edition hits PC. More »

Blood Bowl Goes Legendary With Twelve New Teams

Mike Fahey — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 11:40:34 EDT

In case your favorite fantasy football team didn't make it into the initial PC release of Cyanide Studio's adaptation of the Games Workshop board game, chances are they'll be showing up in Blood Bowl: Legendary Edition later this year. More »

Free Dark Elves In Every Blood Bowl

Mike Fahey — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:40:00 EDT

The PC adaptation of the Games Workshop board game that put the fantasy in fantasy football is getting a free dose of hot Dark Elf action next month. More »

Blood Bowl Launch Trailer, With Color Commentary

Mike Fahey — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 11:20:00 EDT

The PC version of Cyanide Studios' adaptation of classic Games Workshop board game Blood Bowl is less than a week away, and all eight fantasy football teams are raring to go. More »

Blood Bowl Gets A Website, Beta Signups Begin

Mike Fahey — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 12:40:00 EDT

Cyanide Studios' video game version of the classic tabletop fantasy football game Blood Bowl has a brand new website chock full of game information, along with a sign-up page for the multiplayer PC beta test. More »

The Blood Bowl Trailer Is Epic

Mike Fahey — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 10:40:00 EST

Enough with the teasing! Cyanide and Games Workshop are done showing off individual teams and ready to show off Blood Bowl in all its fury and splendor in this official trailer. More »

Blood Bowl: Skaven Versus Lizardmen

Mike Fahey — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 13:40:00 EST

The Blood Bowl battle continues, as Cyanide brings us yet another video for the fantasy football board game adaptation, this time featuring the reptillian Lizardmen and the ratty Skaven. More »

Blood Bowl: Chaos Versus Humanity

Mike Fahey — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 17:00:00 EST

Following up yesterday's clip of the Goblin team in action, today we get to see the forces of humanity square off against the legions of Chaos in Cyanide's Blood Bowl. More »

Blood Bowl: The Goblin Team

Mike Fahey — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 11:40:00 EST

The second video game adaptation of Game's Workshop classic fantasy football board game Blood Bowl is coming soon, and developer Cyanide slowly introduces us to the game's teams, starting with the Goblins. More »

More Warhammer Online Fiction On The Way

Mike Fahey — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:20:00 EST

Having seen success with the first novel based on the Warhammer Online MMORPG, Empire In Chaos, Mythic Entertainment and Games Workshop publishing division The Black Library have gone ahead and announced a new novel in the Warhammer Online series, Dark Storm Gathering. Treachery blooms behind Imperial lines and only a hearty band of adventurers - an Archmage, White Lion, Witch Hunter, and Knight of the Blazing Sun - can uncover the corruption before it's too late. More »

First Proper Details On Warhammer 40K MMO

Luke Plunkett — Tue, 13 May 2008 04:00:00 EDT

We know a Warhammer 40K MMO is coming, we know it's "years away", and we know I'm terribly excited about the whole thing. Aside from that, though, we don't really know squat. Do now! Last month's PC Gamer ran a big feature on the game (of which we've already posted some scraps), which finally got us some answers to some of the more burning questions surrounding the game. Like what kind of game it was, exactly. Vigil's David Adams: More »

Teardown's Space Hulk Torn Down

Mike Fahey — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 10:40:08 EST

Back on Tuesday we posted about an excellent free-to-play update to the video game of the board game Space Hulk, crafted loving by a team calling themselves Teardown with "the blessing of both EA and the Games Workshop." Since then they've had nothing but trouble, first with bandwidth issues after gamers flocked to the site to download 327 gigs worth of data, and then with Games Workshop, who kindly asked them to pull the game from the downloads section. Apparently the whole blessings thing was a bit of a reach. From the latest Teardown news post:

We still havn't had any contact with Games Workshop. We called them but they told us that someone would get back as soon as they could. Perhaps the fact that they do not chase us around 24 hours a day is a good sign? We'll soon find out. once more thank you for all conerns and support. Time will tell if it is worth something.

I don't expect this to end well. Those of you who downloaded the game enjoy it, because I've a feeling we won't be seeing it again. More »

Space Hulk Gets A Touch-Up

Luke Plunkett — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 05:30:00 EST

You've either played Space Hulk (the "accessible" board game) or Space Hulk (the old PC/Amiga/3D0 game) by now. I'm just going to assume that. This, then, is truly a pleasant surprise: A group of guys going by the name Teardown have, with the blessing of both EA and the Games Workshop, released a free-to-play update of the old classic. It lacks the first-person mode of the old computerised version, but anyone aching for another go-round of the board game will find this does the job quite nicely. More »

The Characters of Talisman

Mike Fahey — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 10:20:55 EDT

Talisman is a classic board game from Games Workshop that completely dominated my life for a good year and a half. It's basically an RPG where you are tasked with getting to the center of the board and obtaining the Crown of Command. Players picked a character with different stats that included classic fantasy archetypes and monsters, and once you added the Expansion Set, Talisman the Adventure, Talisman Dungeon, Talisman Timescape, Talisman City, and Talisman Dragons...you had pretty much spent all the money in the secret college bank account your parents thought you couldn't withdraw from without their signature. Whoops. I just discovered that a 4th edition of the board game was released this month by Games Workshop publishing arm Black Industries, who are also working on the video game version for Xbox Live, the PlayStation Network, and PC being released by Capcom this winter, and thus was money I don't technically have spent. While I wait for my board game to arrive, enjoy these screenshots showing a small selection of characters available in the video game version. More »

R.I.P. Chaos League. Long Live Blood Bowl!

brownlee — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 09:40:13 EDT

Many dawns were witnessed by my bloodshot eyes after a night of playing Cyanide's Mutant League Football for the Genesis with my best friend. I didn't know it at the time, but it was a game almost entirely ripped-off from the Games Workshop property Blood Bowl. Over the past few years, I've often wondered why Cyanide never deigned to release a sequel to Mutant League Football. I suppose the definition of intellectual theft can only be legalistically stretched so thin. More »