Cubicle 7

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Cubicle 7 Entertainment Ltd
Company type Private
IndustryGame publisher
Founded2006 [1]
Founder Angus Abranson and Dominic McDowall-Thomas [1]
Headquarters
Gormanston, County Meath [2]
,
Ireland
Key people
 Dominic McDowall-Thomas, TS Luikart
Products Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 4th Edition , The One Ring Roleplaying Game , Doctor Who: Adventures in Time and Space , Doctor Who: The Card Game, Soulbound
Website https://www.cubicle7games.com

Cubicle 7 Entertainment Ltd is an Irish 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.

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History

Angus Abranson and Dave Allsop formed the role-playing game company Cubicle 7 with the aim of publishing new material for Allsop's role-playing game SLA Industries . Abranson brought on his friend, Dominic McDowall-Thomas, in January 2004 to edit the books, but later in 2004 production was halted and Allsop left Cubicle 7 for other opportunities. In late 2006, Abranson and McDowall-Thomas formed Cubicle 7 Entertainment Limited, as its partners. [3] : 427  In 2006, Cubicle 7 purchased the British small-press publisher Heresy Games and published a new edition of their 2003 role-playing game Victoriana in 2009. The company's first licensed game was obtained in 2006, with Starblazer Adventures published in 2008. [3] : 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 . [3] : 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. [3] : 430–431 

Cubicle 7 relocated from Oxford, United Kingdom to Stamullen, Ireland in 2018. [4]

Games

Role-playing games

Cubicle 7 designs, develops and publishes the following role-playing games:

Victoriana, boxed set.jpg

Card, dice and board Games

Cubicle 7 designs, develops and publishes the following card, dice and board games:

Translations of non-English Language Games

See Former licences

Publishing partners

Cubicle 7 also works with a select group of publishing partners to bring their games to a wider market:

Former licenses

Cubicle 7 announced they were returning the rights to the game's designer on 30 June 2017. It is now published by Why Not Games, including reprints of books originally published by Cubicle 7. [10]

Cubicle 7 announced on 27 November 2019 that they would cease publishing The One Ring and Adventures in Middle-earth properties. [11] Cubicle 7 had published The One Ring for eight years at that time. [11]

Cubicle 7 announced on 2 July 2021 that they would cease publishing the Lone Wolf Adventure Game property. [12]

Cubicle 7 published English-language translations of the above 4 role-playing games from the French publisher "Le Septième Cercle" until the licence was ended June 30 2017. [13]

Awards

Cubicle 7 has won 12 ENnie Awards, [14] 2 Origins Awards, [15] Best in Show, Lucca 2012 [16] and a Golden Geek. [17]

Notable events

In June 2009, Cubicle 7 announced [18] that it had joined the Rebellion Developments group of companies.

In November 2011, Angus Abranson left Cubicle 7 to form Chronicle City. [19]

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. [20]

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. [21]

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