- Graham McNeill
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birth_date = c1971
birth_place =Glasgow ,Scotland
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known_for = Games Books & Novels
education =University of Strathclyde , Architecture
employer =Games Workshop
occupation = Games Developer
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footnotes =Graham McNeill is a game developer for
Games Workshop . He was born inGlasgow ,Scotland and studiedarchitecture and then building surveying at the andGlasgow Caledonian University from 1989 – 1996. In 1996 he started work in an architects’ office designing new flats and commercial properties, until he saw an advertisement for a writer in the December 1999 copy of White Dwarf.In February 2000, Graham started work for Games Workshop as a staff writer for games development, writing articles for White Dwarf and army-specific books. In May 2000 he started writing for the "
Warhammer 40,000 " team, but has also kept up writing articles for White Dwarf. Graham has been heavily involved working on codexes, especially "Warhammer 40,000 Codex: Tau" (Chambers et al., 2001) between late 2000 and June 2001. Other codexes he has been involved with are "Warhammer 40,000 Codex:Necrons " (Chambers et al., 2002), "Warhammer 40,000 Codex:Chaos Space Marines " (Games Workshop Design Staff, 2002), "Warhammer 40,000 Codex: Imperial Guard" (Chambers et al., 2003) and "Warhammer 40,000 Codex:Daemonhunters " (McNeill and Haines, 2003). Since a promotion from staff writer to games developer, he has written "Warhammer 40,000 Codex:Witch Hunters " (McNeill et al., 2003) and "Warhammer 40,000 Codex: Space Marines" (Chambers, 2004).Graham is an avid writer and has had several novels published by The
Black Library . They are "Nightbringer" (McNeill, 2005) published in January 2002, "Storm of Iron" (McNeill, 2003) in July 2002, "Warriors of Ultramar" (McNeill, 2004a) in February 2003 and "Dead Sky Black Sun " (McNeill, 2004b). In addition McNeill has written "The Ambassador," a Warhammer novel, in November 2003, "The Ambassador Chronicles" in July 2005, "Guardians of the Forest" in September 2005.His most recent works have been "False Gods " (McNeill, 2006), published in June 2006, and "Fulgrim " (McNeill, 2007), published in July 2007, both of which are part of the Black Library'sHorus Heresy novel series. Black Library has announced McNeill will publish another book named "Mechanicum ". Even more recently,Black Library also confirmed another part to McNeill's story about the Ultramarines to be released in June 2008.Graham plays both "
Warhammer 40,000 ", in which he plays with bothTau andNecron armies, he started with The Ultramarines, and "Warhammer", in which he plays an Empire army.References
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