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
and Dave Allsop formed the role-playing company Cubicle 7 with the aim of publishing new material for Allsop's role-playing gameSLA Industries. Abranson brought on his friend, Dominic McDowall-Thomas, in January 2004 to edit the books, but later in 2004 production ground to a halt 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. 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. Cubicle 7 then licensed the French game in 2007 and also got the license to produce their 2009 Doctor Who Roleplaying Game. 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.
Games
Role-playing games
Cubicle 7 designs, develops and publishes the following role-playing games:
Victoriana. The game published by Heresy Games in 2003, with second and third editions by Cubicle 7 in 2009 and 2013. It was reviewed by Black Gate #15
Cthulhu Britannica is a series of role-playing game supplements produced by the British game company Cubicle 7 Entertainment for use in the Call of Cthulhu role-playing game produced by Chaosium. The series allows for games to be set in the United Kingdom. Cubicle 7's Call of Cthulhu license resulted in the Cthulhu Britannica core book, which included five scenarios. Additional books were then released every year until 2012, including Shadows over Scotland. In 2013 a Kickstarter campaign was run in order to produce a boxed set and series of supplements set in London, with the London Boxed Set set being released in the following year.
Cubicle 7 announced on 27 November 2019 that they would cease publishing The One Ring and Adventures in Middle-earth properties. Cubicle 7 had published The One Ring for eight years at that time.
In June 2009, Cubicle 7 announced that it had joined the Rebellion Developmentsgroup of companies. In November 2011, Angus Abranson left Cubicle 7 to form Chronicle City. 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. 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.
