BLOOD BOWL 3 Blood Bowl is to the Warhammer Fantasy world what Space Hulk is to the grimdark 40,000 universe: a brilliantly enclosed sideshow that doesn’t require you to read any books or lore to appreciate it. It’s just turn- based gridiron football, essentially, reimagined with orcs, elves, dwarves and rat-folk. Remarkably, developer Cyanide has been making Blood Bowl video games for 20 years (if you include 2004’s Chaos League, which got noticed by Games Workshop for all the wrong reasons before they became the right reasons), with each game following a familiar arc that begins with cries of anguish over release day jank and there being not enough teams, before fans come around and end up playing the game for years on end.
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COMPANY OF HEROES 3 Five years ago Relic
Entertainment released the third in its Dawn of War series and it’s fair to say that things didn’t end up well for that once beloved franchise. The problem was in trying to fuse elements of real-time strategy and online battle arena together, to the point that we ended up with two decent enough half-games, but not a great whole one. Since then, Relic has turned out Ages of Empires 4, a rather more by-the-numbers affair that without much fanfare helped put the RTS genre back on the map. On that basis we expect the third outing for Relic’s WWII strategy game to push ahead in the same manner. A solid and steady advance, no doubt.
GAMES GROWTH SUMMIT With a list of 27 speakers that include Ian McGregor of Green Man Gaming, Benn Weibe of Safe in Our World, Sarah Jones of Creative England, and the UK’s game industry’s Best Boss (see p. 58), the Games Growth Summit might well be – certainly in the current climate – the most essential one day event in the entire UK calendar. Do yourself a
favour and take yourself along to Barclays’ Canary Wharf HQ for some timely enlightenment in matters of finance and banking, PR and marketing, publishing and distribution, accounting and investment, law and tax, and of course, game development.
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