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EDITORIAL·WHITE DWARF 330

Happy Birthday Grombrindal: Thirty Years of White Dwarf

June 2007·pp. 60–65

THE SHORT VERSION

Guy Haley follows White Dwarf from a small role-playing magazine into an international publication centred on Citadel miniatures. A timeline uses landmark issues to trace new games, plastic kits, army books, battle reports and changes in editors and production. The feature also explains the period of differing national editions and the recent return to shared Studio content, making the magazine’s changing format part of the wider history of Games Workshop.

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