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The novels span the Warhammer 40,000, Age of Sigmar, Warhammer Fantasy, and The Horus Heresy settings.
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In the grim darkness of the present day, everything has to be an app. So it is that after many long years of service, Games Workshop's Black Library website—home of its wide range of Warhammer novels—is being replaced with something a little more high tech.
Some scepticism is understandable, particularly because this means you now can't download ebooks and audiobooks as DRM-free files—you can only read or listen to them within the Black Library app.
On the plus side, Games Workshop seems to realise there's a bit of hesitancy in the community, and it's offering a sweetener to get people to download and try it. If you do so before April 20th, you can grab eight novels completely free.
I gave it a go myself today and it's agreeably easy. All you need to do is:
You can also grab them as both ebooks and audiobooks, which is a nice touch—just make sure to click the button for both versions.
If you have an existing Black Library account, you can link it to your MyWarhammer account to transfer all your purchases over. I was worried this would be a fiddly process but it was very quick and easy too, and my library updated instantly. Considering Games Workshop's spotty history with apps and web development, so far this latest launch seems impressively smooth.
As for the books themselves, it's a nice selection covering a variety of different novels that take place in the Warhammer 40,000, The Horus Heresy, Warhammer: Age of Sigmar, and Warhammer Fantasy settings. They're mostly not the big, obvious classics—there's no Gaunt's Ghosts in here for example—but it still seems like a strong selection, especially for the very reasonable price of free. The full list is:
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Now, I have to admit I haven't read any of these myself, but there are definitely some that leap out as ones I'm excited to check out.
Realmslayer is a full-on audio drama starring Gotrek from the classic Gotrek & Felix novels, brought forward in time to the Age of Sigmar setting. Notably, Brian Blessed stars as the titular dwarf (just as he did in the Total War: Warhammer series), which has got to be worth a listen.
Ciaphas Cain is always good fun—he's basically Warhammer 40,000's version o...Read more: Full article on www.pcgamer.com
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In the grim darkness of the present day, everything has to be an app. So it is that after many long years of service, Games Workshop's Black Library website—home of its wide range of Warhammer novels—is being replaced with something a little more high tech.
Some scepticism is understandable, particularly because this means you now can't download ebooks and audiobooks as DRM-free files—you can only read or listen to them within the Black Library app.
On the plus side, Games Workshop seems to realise there's a bit of hesitancy in the community, and it's offering a sweetener to get people to download and try it. If you do so before April 20th, you can grab eight novels completely free.
I gave it a go myself today and it's agreeably easy. All you need to do is:
You can also grab them as both ebooks and audiobooks, which is a nice touch—just make sure to click the button for both versions.
If you have an existing Black Library account, you can link it to your MyWarhammer account to transfer all your purchases over. I was worried this would be a fiddly process but it was very quick and easy too, and my library updated instantly. Considering Games Workshop's spotty history with apps and web development, so far this latest launch seems impressively smooth.
As for the books themselves, it's a nice selection covering a variety of different novels that take place in the Warhammer 40,000, The Horus Heresy, Warhammer: Age of Sigmar, and Warhammer Fantasy settings. They're mostly not the big, obvious classics—there's no Gaunt's Ghosts in here for example—but it still seems like a strong selection, especially for the very reasonable price of free. The full list is:
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Now, I have to admit I haven't read any of these myself, but there are definitely some that leap out as ones I'm excited to check out.
Realmslayer is a full-on audio drama starring Gotrek from the classic Gotrek & Felix novels, brought forward in time to the Age of Sigmar setting. Notably, Brian Blessed stars as the titular dwarf (just as he did in the Total War: Warhammer series), which has got to be worth a listen.
Ciaphas Cain is always good fun—he's basically Warhammer 40,000's version o...Read more: Full article on www.pcgamer.com
What do you think about this?