According to distributors COMAG: Launched in 1977, White Dwarf is the official magazine of Games Workshop, the company that designs, manufactures and markets the massively popular hobby of collecting, modelling, painting and tabletop gaming with armies of model soldiers to fans all around the world.
Long since a popular pastime, fantasy and science fiction role-playing and board games became even more widespread after the Peter Jackson Lord of the Rings films. In addition to its existing Warhammer Fantasy Battle and Warhammer 40,000 systems, Games Workshop also produces the Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game for fans of the Tolkien saga.
An essential purchase for the Games Workshop hobbyist, every issue of White Dwarf showcases all aspects of the hobby and Games Workshop products, making it the number one title in the Leisure Interests – Games sub-sector, with an annual RSV of £468,500.
Packed with the latest releases, exciting articles and features in every edition, White Dwarf also provides readers with hobby tutorials, stage-by-stage modelling and painting guides, battle reports and tactical tips on how to get the most out of their armies on the battlefield.
Now in its 36th year, White Dwarf has been redesigned and relaunched to make it bigger, glossier and more higher quality, with 160-pages of fantastic in-depth hobby content.
Beginning with October and running for four issues, White Dwarf will be bagged and feature exclusive promotional content. Some of which will be about the December release of the highly-anticipated film The Hobbit, for which Games Workshop is an official licensee.
Not only is Games Workshop launching a range of miniatures from The Hobbit, but White Dwarf will also have exclusive news, coverage and posters from it, not available elsewhere!
From the October issue, the magazine also will increase in price from £4.50 to £5.50, which based on current sales will mean £104,000 more RSV through retailers’ tills every year!”
