[1] The first release on both DS and PSP showed significant functional issues that prevented players to complete career mode as their data files were corrupted after a few hours of game play.

[4] The Xbox 360 version also suffered issues, such as in-game players not keeping experience they gained during games, making league play useless.

In April 2010, Cyanide announced an updated version of the game, Blood Bowl: Legendary Edition would be released in November 2010, with 11 new teams (Amazon, Elf, Halfling, High Elf, Khemri, Necromantic, Norse, Nurgle, Ogre, Undead, and Vampire), and added bug and rules fixes.

The similarity between Chaos League and Games Workshop's Blood Bowl led to a lawsuit, which was settled out of court.

One of the terms of the settlement was that Cyanide would receive a license to develop a new title using the official Blood Bowl property.

[3] A limited playable version of the game was demonstrated at the Blood Bowl Grand Tournament in Nottingham over the weekend of the May 10, 2008.

On December 18, 2008 it was announced on the Cyanide Blood Bowl forum by a Focus employee that the release date had been pushed back to Q2 2009 (June).

[20][21][22][23][25] GameZone's Steven Hopper gave the Xbox 360 version a 6.5/10, saying, "Blood Bowl is a missed opportunity as evidenced by the potential of the source on which it's based.

"[35] IT Reviews pointed out that on the Xbox 360, Blood Bowl had a "flaccid and pointless-seeming real-time mode, rough presentation, [and] a lack of online options compared to the PC.

"[36] While reviewing the Windows version, PC Powerplay commented, "Despite some presentation concerns the rest of what was on offer during this match was truly thrilling."

PC Gamer wrote similarly, concluding, "If you can penetrate the mysteries of its boardgame-based rules, Blood Bowl can offer true barbaric happiness."