Big Summer Warhammer Preview Adds Black Library Logo, Now Warhammer 40,000 fans hope the game workshop is finally ready to push the narrative forward
Blog Andrew Joseph 17 Jul , 2025 0

Games Workshop has sparked speculation that the company may announce a new novel that will eventually move the Warhammer 40,000 narrative forward with the addition of the Black Library logo to its official Big Summer Warmammer preview display cabinet.
The large summer warhammer preview will take place on Friday, July 18, and will feature the unveiling of major tabletop games with Games Worksop, including the Sigmar era, Horus Heresy and of course the Warhammer 40,000. Its initially released digital posters for the event did not provide the logo for Black Library, Games Workshop's in-house book publishing department. However, on July 16, it released a new version of the poster and added a black library logo, sparking speculation that fans will also receive new novel announcements.
Why is this exciting for fans of the environment? There is a lot of speculation that the game workshop may eventually be ready to push the Warhammer 40,000 narrative forward, a whole new series of books, a ridiculous party between two returning Primarchs, or a long-standing third book in Dan Abnett's Bequin Trilogy.
IGN has previously reported the current fabulous pandemoniumwhen fans speculate that its delays may be related to Games Workshop and Amazon's narrative ducks are ahead of the Henry Cavill-Fronted Warhammer 40,000 movie universe. This is perhaps the most anticipated book of all Warhammer fanatics. The first novel in the bequin series, Pariah, was released in 2012. The sequel “The Treasure of 40,000 Legends of Warhammer” is regrettable. Nearly ten years later, in March 2021, there was no release date. Waiting for announcements, waiting to be announced quickly became Warhammer 40,000 George RR Mia Mia Mia Mia's Mia's Mia's Mia's Mia's Mia's The Winters of the Winters of Winters of Winters of Winters of Winters of Winters. Some fans are speculating – perhaps more hope than expectation – now is the time for fanatical revelation.
There is a higher interest in Pandemonium as it promises to actually push the overall Warhammer 40,000 forward. Pen regret ends with a big legendary revelation (which is related to the mysterious king's identity in yellow, we won't destroy it here), so the pandemonium's impact on the wider Warhammer 40,000 universe may be very large.
Perhaps more realistic is the new novel series during what is known as the Search. This was an undeveloped time in the Warhammer 40,000 history, when the Empire defeated the Legion of Traitors after its defeat in the first 10,000 years of the current environment. With the release of Horus heresy, it seems to be over Age of RuinsIf you want to continue filling the gaps in Warhammer 40,000 narrative, searching seems to be the natural next step in the game workshop.
Otherwise this might have nothing, and the existence of the Black Library on the show ultimately disappoints. You want to think that Games Workshop knows what fans expect by slapping the Black Library logo on its preview poster.
This gave me a neat understanding of why Warhammer 40,000 legendary fans were excited about such teasing in the first place. As I reported earlier, Warhammer 40,000 Stories (such as it) is a slow beast. It sometimes takes years for scribes to move forward in game workshops. With the return of the beloved Primarch, the return of the lion El'Jonson, the book was announced in March 2023. Now, two years later, the character hasn't done anything in the environment, his party with his brother, Roboute Guilliman, has continued a lot, and seems to be further away than ever before. Can a new novel finally explain in detail whether this will definitely be spicy?
Maybe on Friday, we finally got some answers. The large summer warhammer preview is scheduled for Friday, July 18th BST/11am PDT is scheduled for 7pm.
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