Cubicle 7 has been nominated for three awards for Starblazer Adventures and is currently also on the short list for the Fan Nominated Best Publisher of the Year Award.
Starblazer Adventures is nominated in the following categories: Best Rules; Best Game and Product of the Year.
Voting goes live on Friday 24th July and lasts until 1st August, with the Award ceremony taking place at GenCon in Indianapolis on the evening of Friday 14th August.
Our thanks go to everyone involved in the creation of Starblazer Adventures - and those who have nominated us for Best Publisher - and we'll be on the canvassing band wagon soon to try and get your votes! :p
For the full list of 2009 ENnie Award Nomineescheck out http://bit.ly/4x0iqt
Many thanks and best wishes,
Angus
So please feel free to come down and join in the games playing! :)
The GameForce Network Presents:
GAMEFORCE : LONDON
Next London Meet: Sunday 19th July (And every third Sunday of the month)
Time: noon to 9.30pm
Venue: The Parker McMillan, 47 Chiswell Street, Moorgate, EC1Y 4SB- http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?x=532
Price: £2 members; £3 non-members
Nearest Underground: Barbican (Circle, Metropolitan & Hammersmith & City Lines) or Moorgate (the same as the Barbican plus Northern Line). Liverpool Street (same as Barbican plus Central Line & British Rail) and Old Street (Northern Line only) are not too far away either though.
Games Played: RPGs, Board and Card Games, TMG and CCGs
Entry also includes automatic entry into the Games Raffle to be drawn around 5pm..
GameForce: London is a brand new games club in Central London catering for Board & Card Gamers, Roleplayers and CCG/TMG players!
Taking place every third Sunday of the month the club aims to provide a regular meeting place for gamers and a friendly environment to play games both familiar and unfamiliar.
For further information please contact Angus Abranson on info@gameforcehq.org or phone 020 8346 2327 (9.30am to 6pm) or join Gameforce Community on Livejournal (http://community.livejournal.com/gamefor
Alternatively join the Gameforce Yahoo Group by sending an email to GameforceHQ-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
Grab a game and Come and play!
Future Dates:
16th August
20th September
18th October
Cubicle 7 – John Wick Announce Partnership
Cubicle 7 Entertainment and John Wick are pleased to announce they have signed a publishing agreement. This partnership will see Cubicle 7 bring award-winning author and game designer John Wick’s games to a wider audience through distribution and retail stores.
“I’ve enjoyed John’s games ever since he designed 7th Sea and Legend of the Five Rings for Alderac Entertainment,” said Angus Abranson of Cubicle 7 “I carried on following him when he left the mainstream industry, set up his own company – Wicked Dead Brewing Company – and produced some fantastic games such as Cat and Thirty. It’s an honour to now be able to work alongside John and help bring some of his newer, and future, games to the wider audience they deserve.”
HOUSES OF THE BLOODED is the first book to be published through Cubicle 7: a game of Ambition, Lust and Revenge. Thousands of years ago, the ven ruled the world. They were a passionate people, obsessed with Romance and Revenge, opera and theater, and all the forbidden delights their decadent culture provided. In the end, that which made them beautiful was also the key to their own destruction. Houses of the Blooded is a game about tragic obsession. Set in the fantastic world of ven myth and legend, players take the roles of powerful characters bent on conquering their world, destroying their enemies and possessing all they desire.
“I'm very excited,” said John Wick. "My end goal has always been to get as many people playing my games as possible. My partnership with Cubicle 7 will help make that happen."
About Cubicle 7 Entertainment Ltd
Founded in 2006 Cubicle 7 Entertainment was set up by Angus Abranson and Dominic McDowall-Thomas, two gaming entrepreneurs who wanted to create a games publisher fostering some truly iconic brands. Since then the company has published role playing games from a growing list of properties including Victoriana, SLA Industries, Starblazer Adventures (based on DC Thomson’s 80’s Starblazer comic series), 7th Circle’s Chinese fantasy Qin and is releasing Doctor Who: Adventures in Time and Space, under licensed from the BBC, in October . In June 2009 Cubicle 7 announced it had joined the Rebellion Group. You can find out more at www.cubicle7.co.uk
About John Wick
John Wick is the co-creator of Legend of the Five Rings and 7th Sea, both of which have won Origins Awards for both Best Roleplaying Game and Best Collectible Card Game. He founded the Wicked Dead Brewing Company with Jared Sorensen and recently started John Wick Presents! as a company devoted to creating games for adults, children and families. You can find out more about John and his games at www.johnwickpresents.com.
The Retropolis Transit Authority
I never knew that Placebo had created a cover of Kate Bush's classic "Running Up That Hill" but apparently they did a couple of years back. I heard the song on the new Daybreakers movie trailer and immediately went in search of it. Found a good fanmade video of song too (thus this post).
Placebo make the song their own, with a more haunting and dark style. love it :)
Daybreakers is a very cool looking new vampire flick coming out in 2010.
Vampire dominate the earth and Humanity has been hunted to the brink of extinction - which brings it's own problems for the Vampires as it also means there food is about to run out...
Great cast too. Realy looking forward to this one.
We'll be at Dragonmeet South West in Swindon this coming Sunday (28th June). We have a stand there (with a special surprise on it) and I'll be doing two seminars too.
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TIME: 12.30pm - 1.30pm
TITLE: Small Press - Publishing Your Own Games
HOST: Angus Abranson
Small Press and Independent Publishing in the games arena has really taken off other the last few years. With some of the best titles - such as Evil Hat's "Spirit of the Century " and Contested Grounds' "Cold City" selling as many, if not more, copies as many more established companies.
With the lowering cost of entering the games publishing business thanks to Print-on-Demand companies such as Lulu and Lightning Source many budding games designers have turned their hands to publishing.
Angus looks at the areas a budding games publisher should look at as well as other options available to them.
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TIME: 2.30pm - 3.30pm
TITLE: Holy Grails? – Licensing in the RPG Industry
HOST: Angus Abranson and Matthew Sprange
Licensed games have been a stable of the games industry for decades. All sorts of films, comics, TVs and books have been turned into games from titles such as Star Wars, Ghostbusters, Babylon 5, Buffy: The Vampire Slayer, Marvel and Star Trek to titles such as Hercules & Xena, He-Man, Evil Dead and even Dallas!
What's the attraction of licensed games to publishers and fans? What are the rewards and pitfalls?
With a host of licensed games still in the works such as The Dresden Files, Doctor Who and Dragon Age all due out in the next six months companies certainly seem keen on licensed properties.
Matthew and Angus discuss licenses, past and present, and answer questions about these so called "Holy Grails".
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Chris is also doing one...
TIME: 11.30am - 12.30pm
TITLE: Starblazer Adventures - Behind the scenes on the space opera and forthcoming fantasy RPG's!
HOST: Chris Birch
Chris Birch, line manager and writer of Starblazer Adventures talks about the process of creating the massive RPG core book, how it started, the highs and lows, and where it's going including a discussion of the forthcoming Chronicles of Anglerre based on Starblazer's fantasy issues, which will allow everything from low level gritty play through to epic god like legends.
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...and we have demo games of Victoriana and Starblazer taking place being run by there developers (that'll be Andy and Chris). Plus Andy is running a game of Hellcats and Hockeysticks which is his own 'Indy' small press game he's developing for his own company (Corone design).
So quite a busy day for us all told.
Please come along if you can!
-- Angus Abranson Cubicle 7 Entertainment Ltd www.cubicle7.co.uk Publishers of SLA Industries, Victoriana, Starblazer Adventures, QIN: The Warring States and the Doctor Who Roleplaying Game oxxxx[====================> Livejournal: www.livejournal.com/users/angusabranson/
Just a quick reminder that Dragonmeet SouthWest is taking place THIS SUNDAY (28th June) in Swindon at The Croft Sports Centre. For details, directions, etc please check out the DRAGONMEET WEBSITE.
It's only £2 for Adults and £1 for Under 16's so nice and cheap with plenty of games going on.
Come down and join us for a game or two!
Angus
Cubicle 7 – Boxninja Announce Partnership
3:16 has been a best seller in the Indie Press market since its initial debut at GenCon in 2008, attracting a lot of attention and praise. Its innovative game mechanics and design have been firm favourites at many conventions and with reviewers.
“Gregor is one of the hottest designers on the Indie scene today and 3:16 is one of the scene’s hottest games,” Angus Abranson of Cubicle 7 said, “To bring 3:16 to a wider audience is a great privilege and to be able to publish Carnage Amongst the Tribes is the added icing to an already exciting partnership.”
"I'm thrilled to be co-operating with Cubicle 7. These are very exciting times to be a games designer in the UK. Angus and Dominic have a bold plan and I'm glad that 3:16 Carnage Amongst The Stars is part of it. I'm also really looking forward to the release of the fantasy version Carnage Amongst The Tribes later in the year too." said Gregor Hutton.
3:16 – Carnage Amongst The Stars will be available in stores worldwide in October 2009 whilst Carnage Amongst The Tribes will be making its debut in November.
About Cubicle 7 Entertainment Ltd
Founded in 2006 Cubicle 7 Entertainment was set up by Angus Abranson and Dominic McDowall-Thomas, two gaming entrepreneurs who wanted to create a games publisher fostering some truly iconic brands. Since then the company has published role playing games from a growing list of properties including Victoriana, SLA Industries, Starblazer Adventures (based on DC Thomson’s 80’s Starblazer comic series) and 7th Circle’s Chinese fantasy Qin. In June 2009 Cubicle 7 announced it had joined the Rebellion Group.
Victoriana is a fabulous fusion of Victorian adventure and fantasy myth, SLA Industries is a gritty futuristic urban horror fuelled by classic British punk imagery, whilst Starblazer Adventure is set firmly in the heart of classic 80’s space opera where gigantic fleets prowl the starlanes and devilish scientists operate enormous engines of destruction. The English translation of French publisher 7th Circle’s Qin propels players in to the epic fantasies and tragic events of ancient Chinese legend.
About BoxNinja
BoxNinja is a Scottish based publishing company that exists to publish the creative works of its owner, Gregor Hutton.
Cubicle 7 Entertainment
http://www.cubicle7.co.uk
BoxNinja
http://www.boxninja.com/
Cubicle 7 – Postmortem Studios Announce Partnership
Cubicle 7 Entertainment is pleased to announce that we have signed contracts with Postmortem Studios to publish new editions of their popular PDF range of ‘100 Series’ titles in print format.
The ‘100 Series’ contains titles such as 100 Fantasy Adventure Seeds, 100 Planets, 100 Horror Adventure Seeds and, the first to appear through distribution in September 2009 – 100 Sci-Fi Adventure Seeds.
The books are written by Origins Award Winner James ‘Grim’ Desborough (The Munchkin’s Guide to Power Gaming) and each contain one-hundred adventure seeds, or locations, to be used with any game system.
The books will appear, through distribution to retail stores worldwide, from September 2009.
“I’m very pleased to have Grim, and Postmortem Studios, on board. They’ve built a very good following and range of titles for their PDF business and having known Grim for the best part of the last 15 years I’m excited to see where this partnership leads.” said Angus Abranson, Director of Cubicle 7 Entertainment.
“I’m delighted to have the opportunity to move forward with Cubicle 7 and to take my books into print. I hope this is the beginning of a long and fruitful relationship between Postmortem and Cubicle 7. The 100 series is very successful in PDF and I’m excited to bring the work to a wider audience in print.” added Grim.
About Cubicle 7 Entertainment Ltd
Founded in 2006 Cubicle 7 Entertainment was set up by Angus Abranson and Dominic McDowall-Thomas, two gaming entrepreneurs who wanted to create a games publisher fostering some truly iconic brands. Since then the company has published role playing games from a growing list of properties including Victoriana, SLA Industries, Starblazer Adventures (based on DC Thomson’s 80’s Starblazer comic series) and 7th Circle’s Chinese fantasy Qin. In June 2009 Cubicle 7 announced it had joined the Rebellion Group.
Victoriana is a fabulous fusion of Victorian adventure and fantasy myth, SLA Industries is a gritty futuristic urban horror fuelled by classic British punk imagery, whilst Starblazer Adventure is set firmly in the heart of classic 80’s space opera where gigantic fleets prowl the starlanes and devilish scientists operate enormous engines of destruction. The English translation of French publisher 7th Circle’s Qin propels players in to the epic fantasies and tragic events of ancient Chinese legend.
About Postmortem Studios
Postmortem Studios is the personal, self-publishing imprint of RPG freelancer James 'Grim' Desborough and has been in operation, full time, since 2004. Postmortem Studios embraces the digital age in producing electronic and print-on-demand gaming products of a quirky and unconventional bent. Postmortem Studios has had great success with the '100' series, with resurrecting the Blood! horror RPG from the 1990s and with various card games and support materials.
Cubicle 7 Entertainment
Postmortem Studios
http://www.postmort.demon.co.uk
-- -- Angus Abranson Cubicle 7 Entertainment Ltd www.cubicle7.co.uk Publishers of SLA Industries, Victoriana, Starblazer Adventures, QIN: The Warring States and the Doctor Who Roleplaying Game oxxxx[====================> Livejournal: www.livejournal.com/users/angusabranson/
Here's the front cover to the box...
The exhibition runs for the public from 29th June to 22nd August 2009 and is taking place at The Lamb gallery, Tower Building, University of Dundee.
Information:
DUNDEE LITERARY FESTIVAL EVENT
COMICS CONFERENCE/// Timeframes
28 June, 11am - 6pm. D’Arcy Thompson Lecture Theatre, Tower Building, University of Dundee
Timeframes, the third annual Dundee comics conference will be held in association with the Dundee Literary Festival on Sunday 28th June 2009. It will explore how the medium of comics bends, distorts and manipulates time, and the representation of the past and future in comics, and how the comics form relies on sequence. The speakers include prominent comics writers Warren Ellis and Alan Grant, artists such as Keith Robson and Emma Vieceli, comics editors Bill McLoughlin and David Bishop, and comics scholars Julia Round, Peter Hughes Jachimiak, and Ian Hague. The conference will also feature a workshop on writing for comics and graphic novels, and the opening of an exclusive exhibition of artwork from DC Thomson’s science fiction comic Starblazer.
All are welcome. The conference fee is £10, which includes refreshments. For more information contact Chris Murray (c.murray@dundee.ac.uk)www.literarydunde
Cubicle 7 – Adamant Entertainment Announce Partnership
Cubicle 7 Entertainment and Adamant Entertainment are pleased to announce they have formed a publishing partnership.
The deal sees Cubicle 7 handling production and marketing for Adamant’s print products, starting with Mars: Savage Worlds Edition in September. This fantastic Savage Worlds setting features sky-corsairs, ancient cities, warrior tribes and albino apes – the Mars of pulp fiction and Saturday morning serials.
Following in October is Thrilling Tales – a great blend of classic pulse-pounding excitement from the pulp magazines and cliffhanger serials of the 1930s and 40s, again using the award-winning Savage Worlds system.
“Adamant Entertainment are an Origins and Ennies Awards nominated company and Gareth-Michael Skarka is a visionary in the gaming field so we’re obviously delighted to have him, and his company, on board,” said Dominic McDowall-Thomas of Cubicle 7, “creating a partnership between the two companies has been something we’ve long spoken about and with the plans that Gareth has in place for the next few years I’m overjoyed that we can part of that process and dream.”
“I’ve been continually impressed by the talent, drive and enthusiasm that the Cubicle 7 crew bring to their projects, and I’m pleased that Adamant can now be a part of that,” added Gareth-Michael Skarka, Director of Adamant Entertainment. “We’ve been on the same metaphorical page for a few years now, offering each other advice and assistance from time to time, so having the partnership ‘go public’ is very exciting.”
About Cubicle 7 Entertainment Ltd
Founded in 2006 Cubicle 7 Entertainment was set up by Angus Abranson and Dominic McDowall-Thomas, two gaming entrepreneurs who wanted to create a games publisher fostering some truly iconic brands. Since then the company has published role playing games from a growing list of properties including Victoriana, SLA Industries, Starblazer Adventures (based on DC Thomson’s 80’s Starblazer comic series) and 7th Circle’s Chinese fantasy Qin. In June 2009 Cubicle 7 announced it had joined the Rebellion Group.
Victoriana is a fabulous fusion of Victorian adventure and fantasy myth, SLA Industries is a gritty futuristic urban horror fuelled by classic British punk imagery, whilst Starblazer Adventure is set firmly in the heart of classic 80’s space opera where gigantic fleets prowl the starlanes and devilish scientists operate enormous engines of destruction. The English translation of French publisher 7th Circle’s Qin propels players in to the epic fantasies and tragic events of ancient Chinese legend.
About Adamant Entertainment
Adamant Entertainment has been at the forefront of the electronic publishing segment of the games industry for five years, offering innovation and standard-setting performance for digital delivery of RPGs. In 2007, Adamant was featured in an Associated Press article spotlighting the growth of the ePublishing industry, which was carried in publications ranging from the Washington Post to the South China Morning Post, and online via dozens of sites, including, CNNMoney, ABCNews.com and the Nintendo Wii News Channel.
Adamant Entertainment’s expanding list of RPG properties include the critically-acclaimed Thrilling Tales pulp series and the forthcoming Tales of New Crobuzon, a licensed fantasy role-playing game based in the world of acclaimed author China Miéville. The company is currently developing a number of web series properties, which will including RPG support among other merchandising options.
Cubicle 7 Entertainment
Adamant Entertainment
New Releases
CB7201 Victoriana Main Rulebook (Hardcover) $49.95
CB7701 Starblazer Adventures Main Rulebook (Hardcover) $49.95
August
CB7202 Faulkner’s Millinery and Miscellanea (Victoriana Sourcebook) $29.95
CB7204 Marylebone Mummy (Victoriana Adventure) $14.95
CB7350 Cthulhu Britannica (Call of Cthulhu Adventure Anthology) $29.95
CB7401 QIN: The Warring States Main Rulebook (Hardcover) $44.95
CB7402 QIN Game Master’s Screen $14.95
CB7403 QIN: Legends $9.95
CB7702 Starblazer Story Teller’s Screen $14.95
September
CB7205 Victoriana Game Master’s Screen $14.95
CB75000 Mars: Savage Worlds Edition (Hardcover) (with Adamant Entertainment) $34.95
CB75100 100 Sci-Fi Adventure Seeds (with Postmortem Studios) $24.95
CB75200 Houses of the Blooded Main Rulebook (with Wicked Dead Brewing Company) $44.95
Have to wrap up soon though as I need to get into London as I have dinner with the Mothership this evening and then Gameforce tomorrow :)
I saw this at the cinema this afternoon. Fantastic film.
The original Chinese film is in two parts (the Western release is both edited into one film - and is an hour or so shorter at only 2 hours 28 mins). I'm going to have to get the Chinese release on dvd when it's available. The Western release is still very, very good though.
Red Cliff
...and I saw the trailer for this whilst I was there.
Can't wait :)
GAMEFORCE : LONDON
Next London Meet: Sunday 21st June (And every third Sunday of the month)
Time: noon to 9.30pm
Venue: The Parker McMillan, 47 Chiswell Street, Moorgate, EC1Y 4SB- http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?x=532
Price: £2 members; £3 non-members
Nearest Underground: Barbican (Circle, Metropolitan & Hammersmith & City Lines) or Moorgate (the same as the Barbican plus Northern Line). Liverpool Street (same as Barbican plus Central Line & British Rail) and Old Street (Northern Line only) are not too far away either though.
Games Played: RPGs, Board and Card Games, TMG and CCGs
Entry also includes automatic entry into the Games Raffle to be drawn around 5pm..
GameForce: London is a brand new games club in Central London catering for Board & Card Gamers, Roleplayers and CCG/TMG players!
Taking place every third Sunday of the month the club aims to provide a regular meeting place for gamers and a friendly environment to play games both familiar and unfamiliar.
For further information please contact Angus Abranson on info@gameforcehq.org or phone 020 8346 2327 (9.30am to 6pm) or join Gameforce Community on Livejournal (http://community.livejournal.com/gamefor
Alternatively join the Gameforce Yahoo Group by sending an email to GameforceHQ-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
Grab a game and Come and play!
Future Dates:
19th July
16th August
20th September
It's for an upcoming BBC Three show made by Renegade Pictures
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One of the things we're going to start doing on our website very shortly is posting up an interview each month with people connected to the company. This could be a writer or line developer, an artist, an author whose work we've licensed to turn into a game or one of our publishing partners (more on that will be announced week).
To kick things off we've decided that our first interview should be with Dominic and myself, as Directors and owners of Cubicle 7.
We'd like to get your input into this process (not just for Dominic and myself) so every so often we'll be posting up a post like this (on our own Forums - www.cubicle7.co.uk) asking for suggestions of what you'd like to ask the person/people next up on the hot seat.
You can let us know your questions by either replying to the relevant thread (we'll be checking back and choosing some of the questions to take to the interviews) or emailing us on angus@ cubicle7.co.uk (or you can reply here on LJ and I'll check back) with the subject title "Interview Question" and then the question in the text of your mail. Any questions that get used will be credited to the person who asked them.
The deadline for questions for the first interview (the one to Dominic and myself) is June 15th.
We look forward to hearing your questions!
Best wishes,
--
Angus Abranson
Cubicle 7 Entertainment Ltd
www.cubicle7.co.uk
Publishers of SLA Industries, Victoriana, Starblazer Adventures, QIN: The Warring States and the Doctor Who Roleplaying Game
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