Games Workshop Group (often abbreviated as GW ) is a British
manufacturer of miniature wargames, based in Nottingham, England. Its best-
known products are Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000.
Founded in 1975 by John Peake, Ian Livingstone and 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. It expanded into Europe, the US, Canada,
and Australia in the early 1990s.