I have gone from being a regular White Dwarf reader in years
past, never missing an issue to these days hardly ever buying it (I think the
last issue I bought was some commemorative one marking so many years in print).
Back when I started reading White Dwarf it was not solely a Games Workshop rag
but was more of a general RPG magazine and I miss that very much as there were
some great articles in those early editions.
I don’t play Warhammer or 40K or any other of the Games
Workshop games these days (although I am very partial to a game of Space Hulk) so their magazine has hasn’t been of
much use to me other than eye candy but all the battle reports etc got in the
way as I had no interest in them. All that being said I have never grown tired
of Games Workshops figures, and game world backgrounds, the 40K universe is as
rich and detailed as any imaginary universe you could wish for.
So now White Dwarf has had a major shakeup and is a weekly
magazine and costs half the price of the old monthly edition and there is a
monthly show case magazine called Warhammer Visions. I bought a copy of the
smaller weekly edition last week, my first White Dwarf in years as the whole
edition was dedicated to the new Imperial Knight model and it makes for a nice
magazine to keep on the shelf (or at work to have a quick flip through at
lunchtimes). With these smaller editions possibly dedicated to one subject each
issue I will certainly keep my eye open and would probably start buying White
Dwarf again on a subject by subject basis in future.
As to the new monthly Visions magazine, I have not seen a
copy of that myself yet but over at the Tale of Painters blog there is a good
and unbiased review of this new magazine and going by what it says there it
might be time for me to search it out and have a look myself.
You can find the review here:
http://taleofpainters.blogspot.de/2014/03/review-warhammer-visions-issue-2.html
http://taleofpainters.blogspot.de/2014/03/review-warhammer-visions-issue-2.html