(Press release) Cubicle 7 Joins Rebellion Group

[Roger Calver]

Cubicle 7 Joins Rebellion Group

For Immediate Release.

The British publisher of role-playing adventure games and card and board games, Cubicle 7 Entertainment has announced that it has joined the Rebellion Group of companies.

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.

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.
Cubicle 7 will join other sister companies in the Rebellion Group; 2000AD, the British comic book publisher, Abaddon Books the publisher of sci-fi and fantasy novels, Mongoose Publishing (another British RPG publisher) and Rebellion itself, the massive UK based video games developer established in 1992 by brothers Jason and Chris Kingsley.

The company will be now based out of Rebellion Group offices in Swindon, UK and their support will allow Cubicle 7 to focus on a major licensed mainstream release later this year as well as a busy monthly release schedule.

“This is a great move for the company and one that will certainly benefit the fans of our games. It allows us the time and resources to fully support our existing lines as well as giving us the backing to bring new ideas – and licenses – to the marketplace.” said Angus Abranson of Cubicle 7. “It places us firmly were we wanted to be in several years time, right now,” added Dominic.

Jason Kingsley felt Cubicle 7 was a great addition to the Rebellion Group’s circle of creative companies. “We have been aware of Cubicle 7's ambitions and enthusiasms for some time and approached them with a view to combining resources to make a good thing great. Rebellion is very excited to be welcoming C7 into its family. Wonderful things await!”

For further information, interviews or images please contact Chris Birch Chris@cubicle7.co.uk

Find out more about Cubicle 7 games at www.cubicle7.co.uk

About Rebellion
Rebellion is well known for the Alien’s vs Predator franchise games which first came out on the Atari Jaguar in 1995. Recently Rebellion secured critical acclaim with Sniper Elite for Namco in 2005, Miami Vice: The Game for Vivendi Games, James Bond: From Russia With Love for EA and Rogue Trooper for Eidos in 2006 and was nominated for two British BAFTA awards for ‘Best Character’ and ‘Best Screenplay’ later that year.

In 2007 Rebellion teamed up with LucasArts to produce Star Wars Battlefront: Renegade Squadron and the chart topping Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix with EA for PSP as well as a brand new Aliens vs Predator game in the form of Requiem for Sierra. During 2008 Rebellion produced Call of Duty: World at War for Activision on PS2 gaining yet more chart success.




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Angus Abranson
Cubicle 7 Entertainment Ltd
London, UK
www.cubicle7.co.uk
Publishers of SLA Industries, Victoriana and Starblazer Adventures
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LiveJournal: www.livejournal.com/users/angusabranson

[Lubidius]

What do you envision with this merger? I assume you will continue to pursue RPG material, but then folks within Rebellion may convert to software titles as well? (and the cubicle faction would help write for the software titles in synergy? For once, when Synergy actually means Synergy and not down-sizing!! lol)

That would be a very interesting combination of forces. Good luck with it all. I love their titles! I STILL play Aliens Vs. Predator 2 at our local lan meets. It is awesome. And of course their newer titles are equally great.

Oh, and I assume you will be moving over to OpenD6 no some of your titles then? Just curious.

I hope to take a similar path here in the states. Start with my own licensed material as RPG, but then expand to board games, trading card games, novels, graphic novels, and ultimately computer games to accentuate the setting. I'd love to see all of the offerred products feeding and accentuating one another. (yes, I'm rather ambitious, but crazy that way).

Again, good luck. I think that is an awesome merger.

[Roger Calver]

Thanks we think its excellent news for us as well as it really opens up door.
Im not in a position as of yet to go into much more details regarding the hows and whats of joining Rebellion but its early days so lets see.

Anyway's I best be off to do my run around the forum's again :)

[Lubidius]

"It's a very logical merger.." (voice of Spock), which I hope more companies adopt. You will have a much greater potential user base together then apart. They can tap you both for your writing and design abilities, while hopefully it still offers you the opportunity to supplement any computer games they make with RPG material.

Good luck, and keep everyone posted when you can.

[Roger Calver]

Of course I will keep posting as and when I can.