Black Industries

In early 2003, after James Wallis shut down Hogshead Publishing, the rights to Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay reverted to Games Workshop; a year later Games Workshop planned to publish a new edition of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay using their BL Publishing division and created the subdivision Black Industries as a new roleplaying imprint for the game. Games Workshop hired Green Ronin Publishing in 2003 to produce a second edition of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, and also a line of supplements which would be sold by Black Industries. A fourth edition of the Talisman fantasy board game was released in 2007. Black Industries also developed a Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay game, Dark Heresy, first as a collector's edition and then released the mass-market version on January 26, 2008; just two days later, on January 28, Games Workshop announced that they were closing down Black Industries, claiming its role-playing game products sold poorly compared to the fiction from the Black Library. Games Workshop gave a new license to Fantasy Flight Games, and the last product from the Green Ronin version of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay was the Career Compendium (2009) produced by Fantasy Flight Games.