This came up for auction recently. I assume the original for this sold for around $11K?

January - White Dwarf 97’s Culture Shock column documented the new ‘Warhammer 40,000 Chapter Approved Book of the Astronomican’ in production, which would be the first supplement for 40K Rogue Trader. (1/3) #Warhammer #Warhammer40K

This is Thursday's #RandomWhiteDwarfCover Issue 97. January 1988

So The Games Business note in the Jan 2026 report on GTA V is pretty staggering, considering the game came out in [checks notes] ...2013!!

Interesting - Baldur’s Gate 3 is bringing D&D to TV! www.tabletopgaming.co.uk/news/hbo-gre...

I hear it said and indeed have said myself, “We’re data led” - but is that a good thing and how should game development be led by #data? Unpacking a few thoughts about data in #gamedev exploringgamedevelopment.substack.com/p/when-data-... (Video - Art of data flow, House of the Futures, Berlin)

A History of #Warhammer 40,000 Rogue Trader in 5 Less Obvious Objects - Robots! - Space Vampires! - Chainswords! -Skeleton Horde! & the spaceship, C43 Trader (Rogue)! The full five parts is completed!! exploringwarhammer.substack.com/t/fivethings

Working on the next post for exploringwarhammer.substack.com - Here's a sneak preview of the subject - Command Squads! #Warhammer #Warhammer40K

Got a great gift yesterday, a friend who was clearing out an old box of stuff, gave me this! They also appear in White Dwarf 43, July of '83 where pics of five unpainted miniatures include 'Uthmog Elvenblade' whose pose, armour and helmet bore a strong resemblance to the iconic Harry the Hammer.

WD 95, a month after the release of #Warhammer 40K (pg.23) Judge Dredd Citi-Block Floor Plans, “The Citi-Block booklet also gives information and rules for using the JD Floor Plans in your WARHAMMER 40,000 games. The plans are perfect for represented [sic] large building complexes of Hive Worlds."

Chaos in RPGs and beyond with @tomasrawlings.bsky.social - GROGNARD files podcast coming soon …

January 1989 - As White Dwarf 109 hit newsstands it laid out the backgrounds for both Terminator Armour (showing 2 different designs) and the Imperial Guard. #Warhammer #Warhammer40K

Hopefully leading to the end of the age of oil.

#Skullsmaxxing As John Blanche remarked, "Skulls. Why put a skull on something when you can put 20?" (28Mag, issue 6, p.28) #Warhammer

A History of #Warhammer 40,000 Rogue Trader in 5 Less Obvious Objects Part Five - Robots, Robots, Robots! What could be more SF than robots & how they have evolved in 40K is a great example of the strength of the game from its Rogue Trader days to now exploringwarhammer.substack.com/p/a-history-...

I just backed this thing - www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/stop-refor...

Come to our @bristolgameshub.bsky.social free event! The Challenge of Marketing Games in 2026 - Getting seen in a busy market. Thursday, Feb 26 · 7:30 PM - Full info> www.meetup.com/bristolgames...

Such a classic bunch of lads. exploringwarhammer.substack.com/p/the-pre-40...

1990 was the year that would see the Realm of Chaos - The Lost and the Damned released. This was the second volume of the supplements that would share #Warhammer by the birth and melding of chaos into the setting, which started back in 1983.

The good folks over at @aurochdigital.bsky.social & @dotemu.bsky.social have a demo out for Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War! and it is very good fun! Check it out! store.steampowered.com/app/2321780/... #gamedev #StarshipTroopers

Age verification? The code for a game came printed in the pages of a magazine and you had to type it in to play the game. Plus as the Spectrum had no hard drive, when you switched the computer off, the game was gone.

Post a banger not in English. Epic of Gilgamesh, in Sumerarian

Space Vampires! How the vampire went to gothic horror to Warhammer 40,000 monster exploringwarhammer.substack.com/p/a-history-... #Warhammer #Warhammer40K

Soon…

Gets you right in the feels

Working on part 4 of my 'A History of Warhammer 40,000 Rogue Trader in 5 Less Obvious Objects' series. exploringwarhammer.substack.com/t/fivethings #Warhammer #Warhammer40K

White Dwarf 140 had a #Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay article which was probably the last RPG article in White Dwarf.

February 1989 and White Dwarf 110 expanded on Ogryns, one of the abhuman factions that were part of the Imperial Guard at the time. It also featured an advert for the Imperial Guard plastic boxed set, as available early 1989 with its Napoleonic cover by John Blanche. #warhammer

Some personal news - So with the recent changes at Sumo Digital, my time there is coming to an end. I will be forever grateful to Sumo as the acquisition of Auroch was a life-changing event for my family and I. (Photo by me, From a BD trip to Sony Studios in LA, 2025)

Thread starting with 🚨 TWO SHOCKING FACTS: Epstein was in direct contact with Putin, boasting of personal invites to St Petersburg. He co-owned Thiel’s Valar Ventures w/ Ehud Barak, backing Israeli surveillance firm Carbyne. 1/12 bylinetimes.com/2026/02/03/i...

ARC Raiders is great btw

August, White Dwarf issue 56 we see adverts for the first GW-produced paint sets: Citadel Colour Set 1, and Citadel Colour Set 2, the ad text proclaims, "Citadel Colour is another quality product manufactured by games Workshop Ltd." (as well as being in the second Citadel Compendium) #Warhammer

A History of #Warhammer 40,000 Rogue Trader in 5 Less Obvious Objects - Part Three - The Chainsword! exploringwarhammer.substack.com/p/a-history-... #Warhammer40K

1986 - We arrive at the year before the release of 40K Rogue Trader and there is a mix of key events and hints as to the shape of things to come. The Citadel Journal Spring 1986 covered the release of ‘Drastik Plastik’ Orcs....

I wrote about why the incentives of social media encourage this sort of thing exploringgamedevelopment.substack.com/p/apparently...

1991 would see the release of ‘Warhammer 40,000: Compilation’ which was a collection of articles from White Dwarf. The magazine had, as shown in this timeline, been continually adding both new content and refining existing areas since November 1987.

This is why other states spend so much on information operations aimed at stoking divisions

Morning! A History of #Warhammer 40,000 Rogue Trader in 5 Less Obvious Objects - Part Two - PBS1 Skeleton Horde! Why the horde given it is not SciFi and released before #warhammer40K? Read on! exploringwarhammer.substack.com/p/a-history-...

Have you long dreamed of Asking Me Anything? Well, you can do so on Friday at 2PM Central, on the @pelgranepress.bsky.social Discord! Connexion: discord.com/invite/q8vvf...

Issue 113 of White Dwarf had more #Warhammer #40K (Volksheim Brotherhood, The Pacification of Flotis III & the Sentinel Imperial Guard Walker) but of note is that it started to feature the second volume of The Realm of Chaos - The Lost and The Damned, looking at narrative campaigns.

Current listening. youtu.be/QUcTsFe1PVs?...

I wrote some stuff about this classic issue! exploringwarhammer.substack.com/p/another-ke...

WD 107 would see the release of the Eldar Harlequin Jetbike, a preview of the Realm of Chaos: The Lost and the Damned. There was also a #Warhammer Fantasy Battle article that was the first ever ‘Battle Report’, 24 Hours at Carik Mound. Also the Les Edwards cover was also used for a Conan book!

Inspired by @thegrognardfiles.bsky.social & @chaosium.bsky.social podcast, I've done a History of Warhammer 40,000 Rogue Trader in 5 Less Obvious Objects - Part One. exploringwarhammer.substack.com/p/a-history-... #Warhammer #Warhammer40K

January 1989 - As WD 109 hit newsstands it laid out the backgrounds for both Terminator Armour (showing 2 different designs) and the Imperial Guard. The Culture Shock news and events column notes plastic Imperial Guard and Squat boxed sets were on the way in early 1989.

Just posted a short newsletter about 'The Meme-ification of Gaming' aka an exploration of why short, sticky lumps of information have proliferated in gaming and why it will continue. exploringgamedevelopment.substack.com/p/the-meme-i... #GameDev #GameDevelopment #Gaming

HELLDIVERS™ 2 has now been inside the Steam top 100 for two full years. It has never dropped out since release.

Steam reaches 42 million concurrent users

Posted an update on the year at my Climate Copium newsletter. climatehopium.substack.com/p/a-january-... #climatechange #climate

In a hole in the ground… they found a body. As a halfling amateur sleuth — or perhaps as a dwarf, boggart or pooka — you investigate the village crimes the constable is too sleepy to solve. The playtest for Merryshire Detective Club is now open. pelgranepress.com/2026/01/07/c...