Blood Bowl 3 closed beta preview — Still better than actual sports games

Blood Bowl has a stormy history, but what Games Workshop Specialist Game hasn’t? However, it was the first to be resurrected as a video game in an uncharacteristically good deal between Tom Kirby’s regime and Cyanide Studio, the developers of Chaos League. And now, with the game back in physical form with two editions, it returns to PC as Blood Bowl 3. For those not in the know, Blood Bowl is a game of fantasy football. No, not the American past time of making office drama about their dream hand-egg teams. We’re talking about an alternate Warhammer Old World, where orc, humans, dwarves, the undead, and many others have laid down their arms in order to take part in a version of rugby only slightly less violent than war. I got to play in Blood Bowl 3‘s second beta, which is, as far as we know, the last time we’ll get to touch Blood Bowl 3 before the full release. Out of the dozen teams promised at launch, only four were available: Imperial Nobility, Black…