Cubicle 7 Entertainment Ltd
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| Industry | Game publisher |
| Founded 📆 | 2006[1] |
| Founder 👔 | Angus Abranson and Dominic McDowall-Thomas[1] |
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Key people | Dominic McDowall-Thomas, Jon Hodgson, TS Luikart |
| Products 📟 | Adventures in Middle-earth, The One Ring Roleplaying Game, Doctor Who: Adventures in Time and Space, Doctor Who: The Card Game, Hobbit Tales |
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| 🌐 Website | http://www.cubicle7.co.uk |
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Cubicle 7 Entertainment Ltd is a British games company that creates and publishes tabletop games. Best known for its Doctor Who and Lord of the Rings games, Cubicle 7 offers titles covering a range of licensed and self-developed properties.
History[edit]
Angus Abranson and Dave Allsop formed the role-playing company Cubicle 7 with the priority of publishing new material for Allsop's role-playing game SLA Industries, and Abranson brought on his friend Dominic McDowall-Thomas in January 2004 to edit the books, but later in 2004 production ground to a half and Allsop pulled out of Cubicle 7 to pursue other opportunities. In late 2006, Abranson and McDowall-Thomas formed Cubicle 7 Entertainment Limited, with the two of them as partners.[2]:427 In 2006, Cubicle 7 bought British small-press publisher Heresy Games and published a new edition of their role-playing game Victoriana in 2009. The company's first licensed game was Starblazer Adventures.[2]:428 Cubicle 7 then licensed the French game Qin: The Warring States in 2007 and also got the license to produce their 2009 Doctor Who Roleplaying Game.[2]:429 In 2008, Cubicle 7 began partnering with small-press publishers to do the publishing and distribution for them, including Adamant Entertainment, Alephtar Games, Arc Dream Publishing, Cakebread & Walton, Arion Games, John Wick Presents, Khepera Publishing, Monkey House Games, Postmortem Studios, Savage Mojo, and Triple Ace Games.[2]:430-431
Games[edit]
Role-playing games[edit]
Cubicle 7 designs, develops and publishes the following role-playing games:
- Doctor Who Roleplaying Game (role-playing game based on the TV series)
- Won an Origins Award for Best Card Game in 2013.[3]
- Adventures in Middle-earth (a licensed OGL compatible Middle-earth setting for 5th Edition)
- The One Ring Roleplaying Game (the current Middle-earth licensed official role-playing game)
- Primeval (role-playing game based on the TV series)
- The Laundry (role-playing game based on the Laundry Files series of novels)
- Cthulhu Britannica (a series of supplements and adventures set in historical England, for the Call of Cthulhu role-playing game)
- Victoriana (roleplay in an fantasy alternative Victorian era)
- Lone Wolf Adventure Game (based on Joe Dever's Lone Wolf gamebook series)
- World War Cthulhu (a fantasy World War Two and Cold War setting for the Call of Cthulhu RPG - it requires the Call of Cthulhu rulebook to play)
- Rocket Age (a retro-pulp space opera role-playing game, set in an alternative 20th century where Einstein, Tesla and Ray Armstrong rode the first rocket ship to Mars, entering in a new space opera era)
- Warhammer Fantasy Role-Play - the 4th edition of the venerable fantasy rpg[4]
- Warhammer Age of Sigmar - a separate game from Fantasy Role-Play[5]
Card, dice and board Games[edit]
Cubicle 7 designs, develops and publishes the following card, dice and board games:
- Doctor Who: The Card Game (based on the TV series)
- Hobbit Tales (story telling card game set in Middle-earth)
- Dalek Dice (A Doctor Who push your luck dice rolling game)
Translations from French into English[edit]
Cubicle 7 translates and publishes the following role-playing games from the French publisher "Le Septième Cercle":
- Qin (a wuxia role-playing game, set in China during the Warring States period)
- Yggdrasill (roleplay in the Viking Age)
- Kuro (a horror-cyberpunk role-playing game, set in Japan in the year 2046)
- Keltia (roleplay in the post-Roman Britain, during the 5th century)
Publishing partners[edit]
Cubicle 7 also works with a select group of publishing partners to bring their games to a wider market:
- Hot War (Contested Ground)
- Cold City (Contested Ground)
- 3:16 - Carnage Amongst the Stars (Box Ninja Games)
Awards[edit]
Cubicle 7 has won 12 ENnie Awards,[6] 2 Origins Awards,[7] Best in Show, Lucca 2012[8] and a Golden Geek.[9]
Notable events[edit]
In June 2009, Cubicle 7 announced[10] that it had joined the Rebellion Developments group of companies.
In November 2011, Angus Abranson left Cubicle 7 to form Chronicle City.[11]
In December 2014, Cubicle 7 announced that it had left the Rebellion Developments group of companies, following a successful management, buy out led by CEO Dominic McDowall.[12]
In December 2017, Dominic McDowall and Cubicle 7 announced that they would be producing a new RPG in the Warhammer universe; Warhammer Age of Sigmar. This game has been part of a personal quest of McDowall to bring back the style of play with Warhammer he had played in his youth[13].
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 GamesIndustry International (2009-06-02). "Cubicle 7 acquisition". GamesIndustry.biz. Retrieved 2017-05-08.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Shannon Appelcline (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. ISBN 978-1-907702- 58-7. Search this book on
- ↑ "39th Origin Awards". Archived from the original on 2013-12-27. Retrieved 2014-01-04.
- ↑ "Cubicle 7 and Games Workshop announce new edition of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay | Cubicle 7". cubicle7.co.uk. Retrieved 2017-05-30.
- ↑ "Warhammer Age of Sigmar Roleplaying Game Announced! | Cubicle 7". cubicle7.co.uk. Retrieved 2017-05-30.
- ↑ "ENnie Awards". ENnie Awards.
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-12-27. Retrieved 2014-01-04.CS1 maint: Archived copy as title (link)
- ↑ "Lucca Games Best of Show - Wiki - BoardGameGeek". boardgamegeek.com.
- ↑ "2012 Golden Geek Awards Winners! -".
- ↑ "Cubicle 7 Joins Rebellion Group", June 2, 2009
- ↑ "The Angus Abranson interview: A look inside Chronicle City". www.geeknative.com.
- ↑ "cubicle 7 leaves rebellion group - Cubicle 7". www.cubicle7.co.uk.
- ↑ Jarvis, Matt (December 2017). "A New Old World". Tabletop Gaming Magazine. Warners Group Publications Plc.
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