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Black Industries was therole-playing game imprint ofBL Publishing, the publishing arm ofGames Workshop. It was announced on January 28, 2008 that it would cease operations after its products currently scheduled for release are published.
In early 2003, afterJames Wallis shut downHogshead Publishing, the rights toWarhammer Fantasy Roleplay reverted toGames Workshop; a year later Games Workshop planned to publish a new edition ofWarhammer Fantasy Roleplay using theirBL Publishing division and created the subdivision Black Industries as a new roleplaying imprint for the game.[1]: 51 Games Workshop hiredGreen Ronin Publishing in 2003 to produce a second edition ofWarhammer Fantasy Roleplay, and also a line of supplements which would be sold by Black Industries.[1]: 375
A fourth edition of theTalisman fantasy board game was released in 2007.[1]: 349
Black Industries also developed aWarhammer 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.[1]: 51
Games Workshop gave a new license toFantasy Flight Games, and the last product from the Green Ronin version ofWarhammer Fantasy Roleplay was theCareer Compendium (2009) produced by Fantasy Flight Games.[1]: 376
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