Warhammer And The Future
DateTime:7/8/2009 5:21:12 PM

The Warhammer franchise appears to be eternal. Games Workshop are clearly willing to move with the times as demonstrated by the release of several computer games in the past decade.Warhammer Fantasy Battle was the first game to be set in Warhammers alternate middle earth realm. Since its release in 1983 Warhammer has inspired generations of table top gamers, introducing them to painting and collecting the miniature models that represent battlefield units.Warhammer 40k is Games Workshops futuristic version of the original game, set in the far future. 

The impending release of a Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (MMORPG) ? Warhammer: Age of Reckoning - based in the Warhammer fantasy world is adding to the reputation of this gaming giant. Nearly 600,000 people have signed up hoping to get a sneak preview of the game, providing solid evidence that Warhammer is now firmly in the mainstream.Games Workshop are the masterminds behind these epic franchises. As the largest tabletop battle games company in the world, Games Workshop are also responsible for the more recent games based on the Lord of the Rings trilogy.Post apocalyptic societies struggle to control the galaxy, finding strange alien races and evil around every corner.