White Dwarf reborn - big changes for WD starting with October edition

Big changes ahead. Supposed to be available in your local hobby store next week on the 22nd, and at Games Day on the 23rd. No doubt Chaos Marines will feature prominently.

See: http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/wnt/blog.jsp?pid=4200016

Here's the full release quoted from GW's web site - "In just over a week's time the pages of White Dwarf will change forever. Miniatures will be shown in a new light, battle reports will be reborn and new articles will be read for the first time. Even the classic logo that sat at the head of the magazine for the last 20 years will disappear into the Hall of Legends.

On September 22nd 2012, White Dwarf will be reborn; bigger, better and more exciting than ever before.

As news goes, that's pretty exciting stuff, I think you'll agree. For the last half-year a crack team of designers have been pulling White Dwarf apart at the seams, re-forging it into something incredibly exciting. Everything is new, nothing's the same. Even the paper is a higher quality, that's the degree to which the magazine has changed.

Of course a new magazine needs a new team to work on it and so, without further ado, here's the new White Dwarf team:



From left to right we have:

Dan Harden (that's me, just in case you didn't know) - Staff Writer
Erik Niemz - Photographer
Matthew Hutson - Lead Designer
Beth Beynon-Hughes - Digital Editor
Andrew Kenrick - Deputy Editor
Kris Shield - Designer
Glenn More - Photo Editor
Jes Bickham - Editor
Adam Troke - Senior Staff Writer

Some of these names you'll recognise. Matt, Kris and Andrew have been working on White Dwarf for several years now. In fact, Matt has been working on it almost as long as White Dwarf has been around (OK, so that's a slight exaggeration, but he has been around for quite some time). Adam and Glenn have moved into White Dwarf from games development and book production respectively, while Beth and Erik are both new to Games Workshop. And last, but certainly not least, we also have a new White Dwarf editor, and the latest scion of Grombrindal himself, Jes Bickham. While this is his first time working on White Dwarf, Jes has worked at Games Workshop before as the editor of Battle Games of Middle-earth, back when The Lord of the Rings first appeared in cinemas and hair was more plentiful.



The last member of the new White Dwarf team is me, Dan. You may have seen me in the occasional blog post over the years dressed as a pirate, chopping up a shrub with a chainsword or lying in the middle of the car park measuring how long 145 paints are compared to your average hatchback. For the last two years I've been looking after the Games Workshop blog, bringing you pictures of painted miniatures from around the world, showing off our latest releases, reporting on events such as Games Days and Tournaments and keeping you all up to date with what's going on in the world of Games Workshop.

Though I've now joined the White Dwarf team as a writer, I'm very pleased to announce that the blog - now White Dwarf Daily - will be coming with me, as will our resident scapegoat Servitor 13, the currently unseen but entirely real Servitor 14, Smiler the Servo Skull and all of the other detritus I have around my desk including my Paint Station full of models.

So what does this all mean for White Dwarf Daily?

Well, first off, we'll still be featuring plenty of pictures sent in by you, our readers. We love receiving emails from our fans, especially when they are accompanied by photos of beautifully painted Citadel miniatures. Some of these pictures we will feature on the blog, just like the fantastic model on the left painted by Mark Schuepstuhl. Some of the best might even make their way into the pages of White Dwarf magazine itself. I bet that caught your interest didn't it? To send us a submission simply click on the button on the right-hand side of this page with 'Send us your Photos' written on it and get emailing.

We'll also be featuring models from our Flickr pool on a regular basis too, just like Michael Boonk's Goblin Hero on the left. With over 43,000 pictures on Flickr now, it's virtually impossible not to find something inspiring in there and we'll continue to show your pictures in White Dwarf Daily. Incidentally, if you do upload something to Flickr then please make sure you email the pictures to us too - that way you'll definitely catch our attention.

We'll also continue to feature new products from Games Workshop, Forge World and the Black Library, report on events, show what our licensed partners are up to, let you know when new Hobby Centres open, tell you about the games we've been playing and, of course, talk about White Dwarf, including behind-the-scenes blog posts on what we've been up to in the White Dwarf bunker that month.

Next week I'll give you a few insights into what you can expect from the new-look White Dwarf, which will be relaunched on 22nd September (and in plentiful supply at Games Day UK on the 23rd). I'll also properly introduce you to the members of the new White Dwarf team and tell you a bit more about what they do. Suffice to say we're all very excited about our work on the magazine, and the select few people that we've revealed it to in the Studio were overjoyed. Yes, you read that right, most of the guys in the Studio haven't even seen it yet - we're keeping it very close to our chests. Jervis Johnson, one of the regular columnists in White Dwarf was allowed a quick glimpse of the first issue yesterday and almost shed a tear of hobby happiness.

So the moral of the story is: make sure you keep your eye on White Dwarf Daily next week to find out more about the magazine and be in a Hobby Centre on Saturday 22nd to see the new White Dwarf for the very first time.

Until then, check back tomorrow because we've got not one, but two videos to show you – one from the Black Library and one from Forge World and both are about the Horus Heresy."

Coming as no surprise, it'll also be more expensive from October's number, going from 3.50 LVL to 4.50 LVL in my country. But from the rumours, it sounds like very well the return of the good White Dwarf of old. Fingers crossed for Chapter Approved fluff articles!

I shant hold my breath, but I will say a revamp is probably what they needed, Whether or not it recaptures the Dwarf of old...eh, I'm not sure anything could, as the nostalgia now colors it too much. Still, a more hobby focused feel to it would be pretty awesome.

Wow, I didn't know you're basically a GW HQ member! That's pretty cool to have one of you as a very active memberbof our forums. Let's hope we can contribute to a better White Dwarf! (Which for me, sadly, has only been worth a quick scan read at my local bookshop. I hope the new format makes it better!)

Let's hope that Matt Huttson is swamped with WD duties and lays off the hack codicies for a while.

Kinnay wrote:

Wow, I didn't know you're basically a GW HQ member! That's pretty cool to have one of you as a very active memberbof our forums.

Nuh-uh, that's not me. I have no connection with GW at all.

I didn't put the press release in the usual quotation block with a grey background because that also shrinks the text and makes it harder to read. But by not doing that, the text does look more like it's my own, I will add something to clarify that.

Ah, too bad then. It really did look like it was written by you.

From mauzer on Dakka, no definitive word yet on the size of the new edition:

(please note - the new Chaos content is posted in the GDUK thread)