Blood Bowl dated for UK/US

By Robert Purchese Published 8 July, 2009

Fantasy football pushed to Q4.

Focus Home Interactive has said Blood Bowl will not appear in English-speaking regions until much later this year.

"Blood Bowl will be released end of Q3/beginning of Q4 in UK and North America," a spokesperson told Eurogamer, apologising that no "more detailed" information could be offered. That makes September or October the likely months of arrival, then.

Blood Bowl is a DS, PC, PSP and Xbox 360 take on the Games Workshop tabletop sport of the same name. As such, Blood Bowl is turn-based, bloody and steeped in rules and lore - all of which has been tastefully and faithfully recreated by French studio Cyanide.

French and German versions of Blood Bowl have been released on PC already, and early reviews on Metacritic are favourable.

Eurogamer Germany hopes to deliver its thoughts soon.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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Comments (16) Latest comment 3 years ago

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  • MrFlump #1 3 years ago

    At £39.99 for a digital download from their site (it's also in english direct from there), I'm more than happy to wait for a boxed release.

    How on earth they can justify 40 quid for a PC game is beyond me.
    Edited by 1 at 08/07/09 @ 15:04

  • Gnort #2 3 years ago

    That is ridiculously expensive for a downloadable PC title. I doubt MS will let them charge 4000MSP for it when it hits XBLA, assuming it's still coming to that and hasn't been upgraded to a full retail title.

  • Gl3n #3 3 years ago

    Or you could just buy one of the £13 serials.

  • Roamer #4 3 years ago

    It's a full retail title, I think. Really looking forward to this, but unsure of whether to get it on Xbox or PC...

  • CaoSlayer #5 3 years ago

    The game is also out in spanish for pc and ds already.

  • optimusprym8 #6 3 years ago

    A game released in German and French before English, what is the world coming to!?
    Edited by 1 at 08/07/09 @ 16:30

  • GreatUncleBaal #7 3 years ago

    If they think I'm going to cave and buy the PC digital download because the Xbox version keeps getting pushed back they've got another thing coming. I am now going to disconnect my mouse and keyboard, because I am weak. :(

  • martlev #8 3 years ago

    Im sat waiting on it to become available in a boxed version as £40 is far too much. Especially for a digitally delivered version. Bandwith isnt that expensive anymore.

  • Rirekon #9 3 years ago

    Bought the download version, haven't stopped playing it. Compared to the amount of time I'll commonly spend on other games I'd say I've definitely got my monies worth from it.

  • Razzajazz #10 3 years ago

    I have to admit, I wanted to sit it out for a boxed version, but I cracked. It is awesome, I'm loving the pants off of it, but still, no DD should be £40. Anyone who loves Blood Bowl won't be disappointed, and I've probably got my money's worth already, but I can't recommend that anyone spends that much on it.

    And there's no bloody Dark Elves.... :(

  • Gnort #11 3 years ago

    @insane_cobra

    Thanks, didn't know that. If they upgraded the amount of content far beyond what an XBLA game would contain, then that's great. I'm still looking forward to the game, but I'm planning to wait for the Xbox version, so I'm still not considering the digital download PC version.

  • Skinme #12 3 years ago

    The current trend of more and more publishers releasing PC games for £40 is getting ridiculous! Charging £40 to £50 for a console game is at least, to a certain degree, understandable due to the nice big cut that Sony/Nintendo/Microsoft take in licensing fees.

    The PC gaming industry isn't doing itself any favours, especially considering how much graphics cards cost these days. Do these people even know what the term "Recession" means?

  • lukerocc #13 3 years ago

    I actually pre-ordered it, and have been playin it ever since. Its a great break, and when I'm working at home, its a great 20min break filler :) the game is exciting and strategic, with a decent level of strategical depth. The AI seems solid and has managed to surprise me with underhand tactics. Even though 40quid might seem much, but I beleive I already got my money's worth.

  • kangarootoo #14 3 years ago

    This looks rather promising. It is planned for consoles, right?


    As for the price. It is expensive for a PC game, full stop. Whether it is downloadable or comes on discs is irrelevant surely. You don't play the delivery system, you play the game.

  • Les #15 3 years ago

    Tempted to get this on PSP or DS.

  • CaoSlayer #16 3 years ago

    The psp is out today.

    It has english language option.

    By the way, avoid the ds version if you can, the controls are unresponsive and the camera angle is awful, the psp is way better as far as I have been able to test.