Gamers may never notice the change but today’s management buy-out of Cubicle 7 is big news. The British RPG publisher has left 2000 AD owners Rebellion. Dominic McDowall, who led the successful management buy-out, said; I’m excited to be taking Cubicle 7 into its next phase of development,” “Rebellion’s investment and mentoring has given us […]
Good news citizen: Paranoia Kickstarter
I’ve fond memories of the original Paranoia roleplaying game. It’s fun, funny and has been an entrance game for the RPG-curious. Certainly when I was running the RPG club back at school (medieval era) it was Paranoia that greeted the yearly influx of new faces. Now James Wallis is rebooting the game via Kickstarter. [Back […]
The art of Jake Murray
Jake Murray is an illustrator from Columbus, Ohio who specialises in sci-fi. Jake creates for publishing and advertising markets as well as doing plenty of work in gaming. In particular, gamers might know his work for Fantasy Flight Games. Alternatively, his work for AEG, Dark Horse, Solaris or Mongoose Publishing might well have him on […]
Which new RPG does Cubicle 7’s reshuffle point to?
Cubicle 7 has announced the appointment of four new members of staff, including Andrew Kenrick who will be coming on board as the publisher’s new Managing Editor. I asked whether Kenrick’s appointment meant any changes to the role of Dominic McDowall as CEO. They do. With Andrew Kenrick, who has six years experience at Games […]
Joe Dever takes Lone Wolf to Cubicle 7
Flash back to March and we had news of Lone Wolf and Mongoose splitting up. Details were sparce but “Megadeal” customers were offered credit. At the time Matthew Sprange noted; Termination of Mongoose Publishing’s Lone Wolf gamebooks and RPG range has been actioned by mutual consent of the author and the publisher. Contractually, we are […]
Mongoose and Lone Wolf split; Megadeal customers offered credit
Something’s up between Mongoose Publishing and the creator of Lone Wolf Joe Dever. The RPG publisher can’t share the details but won’t be publishing any more Lone Wolf books. With Lone Wolf pages already pulled from the Mongoose website, writing on the forums, Matthew Sprange notes; Termination of Mongoose Publishing’s Lone Wolf gamebooks and RPG […]
Mongoose Publishing report “miserable RPG market”; print never to recover
Mongoose Publishing is a British RPG publisher. They grew quickly and cleverly during the d20 and OGL era and has been wise with license deals since. I get the feeling unpleasant staffing decisions are taken bravely as and when they’re needed. Despite all this savvy, Matthew Sprange, the owner, has reported a pretty bleak picture […]
Dragon Warriors returns to print, hardback
Dragon Warriors was my first ever RPG (not counting the homebrew system a young-me invented with buckets of d6 and Star Wars figures!). I’m not alone; thousands of gamers in the UK and, well, outside of the US have this 1985 classic as their first roleplaing experience. The game was written by Dave Morris and […]
Interview with RPG designer James Desborough
James Desborough runs Postmortem Studios and is a self-employed games designer. This month Desborough finds himself in a whirlwind of attention when a petition against him urged Mongoose Publishing to drop his work. That petition used to be available here but now redirects here and has transformed into a petition to Steve Jackson Games to […]
Jimmy Swill’s Wayfarers interview
Ye Olde Gaming Companye has a RPG on the way. Wayfarers is a sword and sorcery style RPG and is being published in conjunction with Mongoose. The game is not yet out but you can sign up for a pre-order today. Jimmy Swill is a co-founder of YOGC and has kindly agreed to do Q&A […]
