White Dwarf Changes and Warhammer Visions

 It seems the rumoured White Dwarf change is upon us.

White Dwarf dying (apparently; I'm no astronomer!)

While White Dwarf Magazine isn't dead it has changed to a weekly format. Here's the official word.

 From GW:

"White Dwarf magazine goes weekly!



Saturday 1 February sees the birth of the new, weekly, White Dwarf magazine.

Saturday 1 February sees the birth of the new, monthly, Warhammer: Visions magazine.

Yes, that’s right. We’ll be launching two new magazines on the same day, Saturday 1 February.

White Dwarf, now weekly.

From Saturday 1 February, White Dwarf will be available each and every Saturday exclusively in your local Games Workshop store, Independent Stockist and at games-workshop.com
White Dwarf will contain everything that’s new and exciting in the hobby that week, from news and information on all the week’s other new releases, to new columnists, interviews, painting, modelling, game rules and much more. And the price? The same as a pot of your favourite Citadel paint.

Warhammer: Visions, now monthly.

Warhammer: Visions will be available on the first Saturday every month in your local Games Workshop store, Independent Stockist, games-workshop.com and local newsstands in the UK, Europe and Australia.

Warhammer: Visions is a completely new monthly magazine, also from the White Dwarf team. It’s unlike anything we’ve ever done before and this super high-quality visual feast weighs in at a whopping 236 pages, each and every month.

Just 17 days to go and counting.

After months of planning and hard work, we’re really excited to be able to share this news with you. We were overwhelmed by all the support and feedback you gave us last time we relaunched White Dwarf back in September 2012 (and by your emails and photos that you send us every day – please keep them coming), and we’re even more excited by what we’ve got coming up for you in 2014.

If you can’t wait for Saturday 1 February and want to know more, then your local Games Workshop store manager has more info…"





 And from Faeit 212:

"The new release schedule will break up the model and codex release for each month with the codex being in the second week.

week 1 Model,
week 2 codex+cards,
week 3 model,
week 4 model and black library"






I love the sound of the White Dwarf changes, particularly Warhammer Visions. White Dwarf weekly still just sounds like a catalog, but we will hopefully see more rules released/updated through it.

The changes to releases I have mixed feelings on. If it means there will be a greater amount of models released then I am all for it, but it seems likely that this will not be the case. I expect that it will have changed so that we cannot look at the codex to see how effective any new miniatures are at release, and to spread the cost over a few weeks so we end up buying more. I am happy to be wrong of course. We'll find out in a few weeks.