Black Industries to close

[Krug]

Did a search and didn't find any notice of this announcement, so posting this:

28/January/2008 - Black Industries Announcement
Black Industries regret to announce that Dark Heresy: Disciples of the Dark Gods out in September will be the final product to be released from Black Industries.

Kevin Rountree General Manager of BL Publishing said 'As a result of the continued and impressive success of our core novels business, which we have built around 40K and Warhammer, we have decided to focus all of our efforts on growing this part of our business. Black Industries has seen fantastic success, most recently with Talisman and Dark Heresy. This change does not take away from that achievement rather it allows BL Publishing to focus on producing the best novels we can. This is a purely commercial decision and will enable us to carry on the huge growth that we have recently been experiencing with our novels'

For the time being Black Industries will continue to post articles in support of the products on their official website, which is a fantastic resource for scenarios and gaming tools for GM's and players alike.

Quite disappointing. Was thinking of picking up Dark Heresy at the bookstore and then I read this...

 

[frankthedm]

Old news. The DH book is still a good buy.

 

[Turjan]

Did a search and didn't find any notice of this announcement, so posting this:

Here, from the day of the announcement.

Quite disappointing. Was thinking of picking up Dark Heresy at the bookstore and then I read this...

Yes, disappointing, indeed.

 

[Olaf the Stout]

Did a search and didn't find any notice of this announcement, so posting this:



Quite disappointing. Was thinking of picking up Dark Heresy at the bookstore and then I read this...

Buy it and resell it on eBay in a couple of months time!

Olaf the Stout

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I guess this means no Talisman expansions, huh?

 

[Gentlegamer]

We Talisman fans just can't win!

 

[MerricB]

Oh, tell me about it. I'm furious about this news. I've been a Talisman fan for many, many years, but I never was able to get the 2e expansions. So, along comes 4e, and it gets canned immediately after it sold out.

Mind you, the BL team weren't exactly competent in their handling of the 4e reprint - a lot of errors that weren't in the original, and a lack of thought about some rule changes.

Cheers!

 

[Greg K]

Does this mean that the DC license is up for grabs? I would love to see Green Ronin get it for Mutants and Masterminds especially if they could get the Vertigo titles as well.

 

[jmucchiello]

if they could get the Vertigo titles as well.

I would seriously doubt that DC has relicensing rights to its Vertigo line. Isn't the whole point of Vertigo that the creators retain rights to their creations?

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I would seriously doubt that DC has relicensing rights to its Vertigo line. Isn't the whole point of Vertigo that the creators retain rights to their creations?

It depends on the book. About half of it is DC property -- heck, it started with a Swamp Thing spin-off, John Constantine.