At least some of the rumours about the new White Dwarf have come to fruition. Here is a copy of the Games Workshop email that appeared in my inbox recently:***
Introducing two new magazines from the White Dwarf team!
White Dwarf, now weekly.
Available exclusively through Games Workshop stores, independent retailers, and games-workshop.com. White Dwarf is an exciting and essential weekly hobby magazine that contains something for every hobbyist, every week - guaranteed!
- 36 pages of everything that is exciting and new in the hobby this week.
- Detailed information on all the week’s other new releases, and the latest hobby news.
- New features, new modelling and painting techniques, new rules, new columnists and much more.
- All this every week for the same price as a single Citadel pot of paint!
Issue No.1 launches Saturday 1st February and subsequent issues follow every Saturday.
Available exclusively through Games Workshop stores, independent retailers, and games-workshop.com. White Dwarf is an exciting and essential weekly hobby magazine that contains something for every hobbyist, every week - guaranteed!
- 36 pages of everything that is exciting and new in the hobby this week.
- Detailed information on all the week’s other new releases, and the latest hobby news.
- New features, new modelling and painting techniques, new rules, new columnists and much more.
- All this every week for the same price as a single Citadel pot of paint!
Issue No.1 launches Saturday 1st February and subsequent issues follow every Saturday.
Warhammer: Visions, now monthly.
Experience a visual feast of super high-quality Citadel Miniatures. In more than 230 pages you’ll find a completely new take on the worlds of Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000 in a stunning new extended pictorial style.
- Contains all your favourite sections from Army of the Month and Blanchitsu, to Kit Bash and Paint Splatter.
- Over 70 more pages than the previous monthly White Dwarf with more Golden Demon and Armies on Parade photos and more fantastic photographs of Citadel miniatures than ever before.
And it’s wrapped up in a fabulous new format that you will want to keep and collect! Issue No.1 out Saturday 1st February.
Experience a visual feast of super high-quality Citadel Miniatures. In more than 230 pages you’ll find a completely new take on the worlds of Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000 in a stunning new extended pictorial style.
- Contains all your favourite sections from Army of the Month and Blanchitsu, to Kit Bash and Paint Splatter.
- Over 70 more pages than the previous monthly White Dwarf with more Golden Demon and Armies on Parade photos and more fantastic photographs of Citadel miniatures than ever before.
And it’s wrapped up in a fabulous new format that you will want to keep and collect! Issue No.1 out Saturday 1st February.
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To me, it feels like they've split the (recent) traditional White Dwarf in to a trade magazine and a "cool, look at this" kind of Citadel painting and conversion magazine. I'm not sure what to make of this move to be honest. My opinion is that it is either its a really really great one, or a really really poor one. I'm just not sure which! I might just purchase both in February and see what I think. If nothing else, I suspect that the February releases might become collectors items at some level (much in the same way the very early White Dwarfs are).
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