via Something Awful in the their TG section:
"May as well drop some rumours here.
40k will get a new edition in September. It is a minor clean up of the current rules, they won't even be changing the cover art, and they will put an FAQ that covers the changes online. It's basically an amended reprint.
There will be two new campaign books this year, covering Blood Angels, Grey Knights, Tyranids and Orks, and will include formations for all of them.
This is because they are the pre-formation codexes.
The studio knows there are problems with the Ork book, but there is no clear direction as to where they want to go with it in balancing it with the current codices beyond minorrewrites and adding formations. Ork Clan formations are very likely.
GW are married to formations now, and will give the studio a brief of things like do some formations for an army and how much the formation should cost to buy the models for, ie a £200 formation.
On fantasy there will be a tournament format for AoS with points. The sales plummeted for AoS but the current fantasy range sales look healthier than before the change(though how much this is people buying stuff to finish their collections I wasn't told). Feedback on the rules was incredibly poisonous, and GW want to move past it and heal.
Bretonnians were going to be in the next WFB starter before it was scrapped in favour of AoS, meaning there are some lovely plastics that made it to prototyping that will likely never be seen now, including a hero on hippogriff better than the Elf Prince from Island of Blood.
Lord of the Rings will include both the Strategy Battle Game and a new version of War of the Ring where it is possible to play a ranked up fantasy game, because Forgeworld know there is a gap in the market.
Forgeworld will have finished their new production facility at some point next month, though they will not be available to order to store until the production quality issues are solved and they can produce in the volume and quality required.
GW will be launching an anonymous feedback system for staff next month, for a number of reasons. Such as 50% of staff not passing 3 month probation and 25% of staff left not finishing the year, which is an eye watering turnover even for retail. These will be gone through for action points, and followed
up at monthly meetings.
Kirby is now gone, and everyone is rejoicing because the new CEO plays the game, won't force people out for telling it to him like it is (as Kirby did to Alessio Calvatore after his presentation to the board where he told them they were pricing out kids, which meant Jervis came back from holiday to find out Alessio had resigned rather than be fired) and actively wants to listen to people.
Forgeworlds star has been rising because of Horus Heresy and Betrayal at Calth, and there are behind the scenes discussions about FW being delivered to store and the Specialist Games range being available through the store.
The new store planograms are here to stay, though some stores don't have enough shelving units.
Kirby in his new adviser to the board hasn't attended a single meeting now the reins of power have passed to Kev Rountree, because they always seem to be held when he is unavailable. Kirby also once loudly and publicly announced no one played games and rules didn;t matter in a Throne of Skulls tournament."
