Games Workshop Announces Plans to Build a New Warhammer World in the U.S.

Games Workshop has announced plans to physique a caller Warhammer World successful the United States with a precocious 2027 people for opening its doors.

Warhammer World, successful Nottingham, England, is the focal constituent for Games Workshop’s assorted tabletop games and a societal hub for the hobby. It includes an accumulation centre with dramatic, large-scale dioramas featuring everything from celebrated battles successful the grimdark sci-fi mounting Warhammer 40,000 to the phantasy satellite of Age of Sigmar.

For competitors, a sizeable castle-themed gaming hallway lets fans play matches, often successful scheduled tournaments. There’s a themed barroom and restaurant, areas to overgarment miniatures, and an in-house store with exclusive products.

In a station connected Warhammer Community, Games Workshop confirmed its plans to commencement enactment connected the caller Warhammer World, to beryllium built conscionable extracurricular Washington DC.

“This caller Warhammer World volition beryllium a flagship venue that celebrates Warhammer successful each its forms: gaming, painting, modelling, storytelling, events, and community,” Games Workshop said.

“The archetypal Warhammer World successful Nottingham, UK sets a precise precocious bar. We’re not going to replicate it brick-for-brick, but alternatively physique thing arsenic uncompromising connected prime and experience, thing worthy of Warhammer’s affluent settings and of people the rubric ‘Warhammer World.’ And of course, astatine the bosom of each this is creating thing bonzer for each of you — the Warhammer fans!

“Now, there’s a batch to bash – but with a just wind, and the mightiness of the Emperor and his inexhaustible armies, we anticipation to unfastened the doors precocious successful 2027.”

With this caller Warhammer World, Games Workshop is intelligibly hoping to reenforce its explosive occurrence and the ever-increasing popularity of Warhammer 40,000 successful particular, which successful caller years has grown acold beyond the confines of a tabletop game. Its loyal fandom fusses implicit lore, analyzes caller novels for caller penetration into the setting, and speculates astir aboriginal development. The smash deed video crippled Space Marine 2 boosted involvement successful each things Warhammer 40,000 — truthful overmuch truthful that playable quality Titus is present the poster lad of the tabletop crippled and is adjacent astatine the bosom of its adjacent communicative expansion. And erstwhile Superman histrion Henry Cavill’s upcoming Warhammer 40,000 Cinematic Universe for Amazon volition undoubtedly instrumentality it to caller heights. It makes a batch of consciousness to person a Warhammer World successful spot to capitalize connected the service of newcomers Cavill’s Prime Video enactment volition surely rally together. (Cavill erstwhile visited Warhammer World successful the UK and posted a video of his circuit connected Instagram.)

In the shorter term, Warhammer 40,000 fans are bracing themselves for an announcement and merchandise of the 11th Edition of the game, accompanying lore developments, and caller exemplary releases. And we’re arguably successful the aureate property of Warhammer 40,000 video games, with Space Marine 2 inactive receiving updates, Space Marine 3 successful the works, and Dawn of War 4 and Total War: Warhammer 40,000 waiting successful the wings.

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