GorkaMorkA what happened?

Posted by MortiS-the-Lost on Mar 13, 2009; 3:26pm
URL: http://the-lost-and-the-damned.71.s1.nabble.com/GorkaMorkA-what-happened-tp2474020.html

MortiS-the-Lost (in another thread) wrote

Regarding the rumours of the up coming release of a new edition of SpaceHulk, I have my doubts, I've been hearing them since just before Black Reach Came out – probably because of the plastic terminators, but I have yet to see any real evidence. I've also heard rumours about Blood Bowl coming back too, they be nice to believe but I don't see it happening with they way GW are at the moment.  

General Biakal wrote

i dunno- have you noticed how often bloodbowl and necomunda (NEVER NEVER the awesome gorkamorka) are mentioned in apocalypse/ultramarine monthly? i think they are gradually raising awareness for a new launch of side games to pinch our lunch money with

Yea Blood Bowl still gets lots of people playing it and there are quite a few people running leagues (in fact a friend of mine is starting one soon – hence me recently adding a Blood Bowl section to the website). You tend to see ads for some of the more popular leagues in the back of WD. Of course Blood Bowl was one of the 'Specialist Games' and had/has an online PDF 'living rulebook'
SpaceHulk apparently makes for a good computer game, I my self found all the SpaceHulk computer games unplayable but maybe thats just me. But recently a SpaceHulk game was released for mobile phones and several unofficial SpaceHulk Mods have been made for Dawn of War.
Necromunda, like Blood Bowl became a Specialist Game and even at one point got a 'Re-Dux' rule book printed and got plenty of support from GW on and off (it even got a multi-page article in WD not long ago)
But GorkaMorkA strangely got little to no support from GW. It was also the most short lived of all the  40k sub-games even at the time of release and GW stopped supporting it after about a year and a half after it's initial release. While other games got their own official supplement mini-magazines (Gang War, Town Crier, Blood Bowl Magazine) GorkaMorkA got nothing. Back in 2000 I sent several eMails to several GW studio and production staff about this and even started an online petition to get GorkaMorkA some official support. I even pestered Andy Chambers, Adrian Wood and Rick Priestley at GamesDay 2001 about it.
There are penalty of  GorkaMorkA fans out there, but GW has resined GorkaMorkA to forgotten history along with Warhammer Quest (which I'll talk about another time). And it wasn't long after GW stopped supporting GorkaMorka that the Orks found them selfs rendered useless in Warhammer 40,000 by the 3rd edition rules, maybe the studio just hate Ork players.
It's at this point that if I were to say this in a GW store a member of staff would jump in and say “but you've got a Stompa Gargant now! Look it's got giant chainsaw!”

GorkaMorkA also had a computer game in development for a while, but it was never finished (this might have had something do with being for the Sega Dreamcast though)
Check out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndLhrTw-wgA&feature=related to see the only remaining evidence.