Games Workshop  Games Workshop Group PLC (often abbreviated as GW) is a British manufacturer of miniature wargames, based in Nottingham, England. Its best-known products are "Warhammer Age of Sigmar" and "Warhammer 40,000". It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. Founded in 1975 at 15 Bolingbroke Road, London by John Peake, Ian Livingstone, and Steve Jackson (not to be confused with U.S. game designer Steve Jackson), Games Workshop was originally a manufacturer of wooden boards for games including backgammon, mancala, nine men's morris, and Go. It later became an importer of the U.S. role-playing game "Dungeons & Dragons", and then a publisher of wargames and role-playing games in its own right, expanding from a bedroom mail-order company in the process. In order to promote their business and postal games, create a games club, and provide an alternative source for games news, the newsletter "Owl and Weasel" was founded in February 1975. This was superseded in June 1977 by "White Dwarf". From the outset, there was a clear, stated interest in print regarding "progressive games", including computer gaming, which led to the departure of John Peake in early 1976, who preferred "traditional games" (such as backgammon). The loss of Peake also meant the loss of the fledgling company's main source of income. However, having successfully obtained official distribution rights to "Dungeons & Dragons" and other TSR products in the U.K., and maintaining a high profile by running games conventions, the business grew rapidly. It opened its first retail shop in April 1978. In early 1979 Games Workshop provided the funding to found Citadel Miniatures in Newark-on-Trent. Citadel would produce the metal miniatures used in its role-playing games and tabletop wargames. The "Citadel" name became synonymous with Games Workshop Miniatures, and continues to be a trademarked brand name used in association with them long after the Citadel company was absorbed into Games Workshop. For a time Gary Gygax promoted the idea of TSR, Inc. merging with Games Workshop, until Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone backed out. The company's publishing arm also released U.K. reprints of American RPGs such as "Call of Cthulhu," "Runequest," "Traveller," and "Middle-earth Role Playing", which were expensive to import (having previously done so for "Dungeons & Dragons" since 1977).