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Submit ReviewThe team are all back together once more to bring you the best in Tabletop Gaming News. This cast they cover the passing of a legend, UK companies buying up others, ongoing issues at Mythic, and more!
Headlines
Klaus Teuber Dies
https://twitter.com/settlersofcatan/status/1643252209033904128?s=20
Dan Thurot’s Piece
https://spacebiff.com/2023/04/04/klaus-teuber/#more-23970
Naylor Games buy ITB assets
News
Mythic in trouble
American Tabletop Awards
https://americantabletopawards.com/
Paizo releases ORC
https://twitter.com/paizo/status/1644418516869578752?s=20
Kenya Chess Controversy
Hasbro Hires
https://toybook.com/tim-kilpin-joins-hasbro-as-president-toy-licensing-gina-goetter-named-cfo/
Jobs, Opportunities, and Events
Creative Scotland Fund
https://www.kickstarter.com/creative-scotland?ref=banner
Tabletop Scotland
https://tabletopscotland.co.uk/
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Outro
Monopoly Go
https://www.dicebreaker.com/games/monopoly/news/monopoly-go-announcement
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Iain isn’t around this week, but never fear! The dynamic duo of Oliver and Jamie are here to the rescue with the latest in Tabletop News. They revisit Wyrmwood, visit Nebulas, and give Warhammer the stamp of approval in episode 118 of Brainwaves.
Headlines
Gizmodo investigates Wyrmwood
https://gizmodo.com/wyrmwood-gaming-doug-costello-bobby-downey-1850237181
Episode 116
https://giantbrain.co.uk/2023/02/27/brainwaves-episode-116-bank-wyrm/
Nebula Games Award
https://www.dicebreaker.com/games/dungeons-and-dragons-5e/news/dnd-radiant-citadel-nebula-award
New GAMA board members
News
Irish board game factory shuts
https://www.rte.ie/news/munster/2023/0322/1365695-waterford-jobs/
One of a kind Yu-Gi-Oh card being sold
Jobs, Opportunities, and Events
Salute 50
https://www.excel.london/whats-on/salute-50
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Outro
Warhammer stamps
https://www.royalmail.com/sending/stamps
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It’s Episode 117 of Brainwaves, bringing you the best in Tabletop Gaming News. This episode we cover companies going green, liquidations, closures, AI art, boardgame films and much more!
Headlines
Games Workshop Goes Green
community.com/2023/03/07/recycling-trial-announced-new-life-for-old-sprues/">https://www.warhammer-community.com/2023/03/07/recycling-trial-announced-new-life-for-old-sprues/
Green Games Guide
https://www.greengamesguide.com/
ITB liquidates
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/itbboardgames/sub-terra-ii-infernos-edge/posts/3744854
News
Meeple Perk Shuts
https://twitter.com/MeeplePerk/status/1631286462137135104
Cubicle 7 Enter Financial Times 1000 List
https://www.ft.com/ft1000-2023
https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/53536/cubicle-7-makes-ft-1000-list
Paizo’s Stance on AI Art
https://twitter.com/paizo/status/1631005784145383424
https://www.pathfinderinfinite.com/
Trans Rights Bundle on itch
https://itch.io/b/1753/ttrpgs-for-trans-rights-in-florida
Hallmark Boardgames Film
https://www.hallmarkchannel.com/game-of-love/about-game-of-love
Jobs, Opportunities, and Events
Tabletop Scotland
https://tabletopscotland.co.uk/
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Outro
Catan Soccer Fever
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgameexpansion/381626/catan-soccer-fever-scenario
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It’s Jamie’s last cast for a little while and it is full of news. From Wyrmwood handling of sexual assault allegations to Hasbro bank troubles and companies not delivering on time. There are even two pieces of Monopoly news, just for Jamie.
Headlines
Wyrmwood Gaming Sexual Assault
The Wyrmwood video mentioned in this piece has since been taken down.
Their statement is below
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gQCyOyruqCWFRq1yGcufTLZjxo3Msz0S/view
Andrew’s videos
https://twitter.com/Andy_Morocco/status/1627178756639956995?t=QLzZIwM3Re7bqfDEEVk7OQ&s=19
https://twitter.com/Andy_Morocco/status/1628745116230815745
Some collated timelines
https://twitter.com/Scotty_Kess/status/1628417973823193093?s=20
Holy Grail Games
Hasbro slapped by Bank of America
slapped-by-bank-of-america-for-destroying-customer-goodwill.html">https://www.belloflostsouls.net/2023/02/hasbro-slapped-by-bank-of-america-for-destroying-customer-goodwill.html
Earnings Call
https://www.geeknative.com/152972/hasbro-q4-2022-earnings-call-quotes/
https://comicbook.com/gaming/news/hasbro-ceo-admits-attempted-d-d-ogl-update-was-a-misfire/
News
Chess Grandmaster under investigation
https://www.chess.com/news/view/alejandro-ramirez-under-investigation-for-sexual-misconduct
As D’or announced
https://www.philibertnet.com/en/awards/3-as-d-or
Games Workshop sales flat
https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/53291/games-workshop-sales-flat-north-america
Zweihander publisher shuts RPG division
the-motherlands-rpg-adrift-after-publisher-claims-shutting-down-division.html">https://www.belloflostsouls.net/2023/02/into-the-motherlands-rpg-adrift-after-publisher-claims-shutting-down-division.html
Chai KS delivery
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/strider88/chai-tea-for-2a-tea-board-game-duel/comments (if you search for discord.com, you’ll probably find that comment there)
https://gamefound.com/projects/steeped-games/chai-tea-for-2-tea-dice-trays#/ (pledge manager Gamefound)
Jobs, Opportunities, and Events
RPG Bundle for Turkey
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/425977/Aid-for-Turkiye-BUNDLE?affiliate_id=31065
Session Zero
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cshaouchine/session-zero?ref=project_tweet
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Outro
Lifesized monopoly
https://blooloop.com/play/in-depth/monopoly-lifesized/
Where do we GO?
https://twitter.com/bcsmaps/status/1622505503199842304?s=20&t=u0xkbhdP9QF1FSUudHJj
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I've been invited to my first international convention. In April I'll be over in Sweden at Gothcon. To get me ready I invited Pontus Wolke and Hampus Nordin from the convention committee to tell me what the gaming scene is like in Sweden and what I can expect at the convention.
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Iain and Oliver are back in the studio while Jamie takes a break from the cast. The team of two bring you updates on the Open Gaming License, Hasbro layoffs, UK companies in trouble, a downturn in the fortunes of the German games market, and much more in episode 115 of Brainwaves.
Headlines
Wizards reverses course
https://www.dndbeyond.com/posts/1439-ogl-1-0a-creative-commons
Smart Party Episode
https://smartparty.wordpress.com/2023/01/23/ogl-omg/#more-1838
Hasbro lays off staff
ITB in more trouble
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/itbboardgames/sub-terra-ii-infernos-edge/posts
https://www.secondgategames.com/
https://www.nutspublishing.com/eshop/index.php
Updates
Victoria Mann
https://medium.com/p/167ec2795418
News
Serge Laget dies
https://faidutti.com/blog/blog/2023/01/23/serge-laget/
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgamedesigner/295/serge-laget
Gamefound cuts into KS
https://twitter.com/Polygon/status/1620791604767297552
Asmodee Pearl Games Studio Closing
German Hobby Games and Puzzles Market Shrinks
Jobs, Opportunities, and Events
Airecon
Gothcon
Conpulsion is back
Moray Games Jam
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And finally
D&D film Monopoly
https://www.worldofmonopoly.com/list-ad/list-dr-du/dungeonsanddragons/2023-uk/index.php
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The team are back after a bit of a break! In this first episode of the new year we cover all the latest with Wizards of the Coast OGL announcements and have two interviews: one with Linda Codega who broke the story and one with Jon Hodgson who runs Handiwork Games. It’s our biggest piece yet on the show and we hope you enjoy it.
Not only that but we report on a new RPG union in Europe, Gil Hova shutting up shop, GW share prices and the largest monopoly collection in the world!
Headline
WIzards of the Coast updates the Open Gaming License
Linda Codega Pieces
Linda’s Twitter
The piece that broke the news
https://gizmodo.com/dnd-wizards-of-the-coast-ogl-1-1-open-gaming-license-1849950634
The 1.1 leaked document
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BXYQJ0ulww7BoZhjMHrZgQ5YrjfPRIma/view
OGL announcement cancelled
https://gizmodo.com/dungeons-dragons-ogl-announcement-wizards-of-the-coast-1849981365
Wizards response reaction
https://gizmodo.com/dungeons-dragons-ogl-license-wizards-of-the-coast-wotc-1849985196
The piece about the culture inside Wizards
https://gizmodo.com/dungeons-dragons-wizards-hasbro-ogl-open-game-license-1849981136
Linda’s most recent post summarising the situation
https://gizmodo.com/dungeons-and-dragons-ogl-1-1-explained-wizards-of-the-c-1850006448
Wizards replies
The first response we read out
https://www.dndbeyond.com/posts/1423-an-update-on-the-open-game-license-ogl
Kyle Brink first post
https://www.dndbeyond.com/posts/1428-a-working-conversation-about-the-open-game-license
The “playtest post”
https://www.dndbeyond.com/posts/1432-starting-the-ogl-playtest
The Alexandrian
https://thealexandrian.net/wordpress/48760/roleplaying-games/open-gaming-license-a-brief-history
Open DnD movement
Paizo announcements
https://paizo.com/community/blog/v5748dyo6si7v?Paizo-Announces-SystemNeutral-Open-RPG-License
https://paizo.com/community/blog/v5748dyo6si7y
Handiwork Games
Critical Role response
https://twitter.com/criticalrole/status/1614019463367610392?s=61&t=5QFplhzM27MsLop4yWeCow
News
European RPG publishers band together
Funagain Distribution closes doors
https://twitter.com/FunagainDistro/status/1615088568975908864?s=20&t=uvarqBSNAMys61GJTEkiSw
Formal Ferret Games closing down
https://twitter.com/gilhova/status/1614377086067539970?s=21
Games workshop share price falls
Jobs, Opportunities, and Events
Cardboard Edison awards are open
https://cardboardedison.com/award
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The world’s largest Monopoly collection
https://www.worldofmonopoly.com/otherpages/worldrecord.php
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It’s the final episode of Brainwaves! For this year at least. The team are back in the studio to discuss racism in RPGs (again), AI art causing a stir, Wizards changing the Open Gaming Licence, and much more in Episode 113 of Brainwaves.
Headlines
Mythic Polynesia
https://twitter.com/mr_orgue/status/1602122837623382019?s=20&t=71lQaIfq-32saosyN0JUSQ
https://twitter.com/_Boganova_/status/1593114267519430658
tangata.co.nz/reflections/moriori-still-setting-the-record-straight/">https://e-tangata.co.nz/reflections/moriori-still-setting-the-record-straight/
Frank West steps down from GAMA president role
https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/52725/new-gama-board-president-steps-down
On Stage with Frank West
https://giantbrain.co.uk/2022/05/23/on-stage-with-frank-west/
Tabletop Games break half a billion
News
DnD moves beyond Race
https://www.dndbeyond.com/posts/1393-moving-on-from-race-in-one-d-d
Wizards announces changes to the OGL
Tric Trac shutdown
https://boardgamegeek.com/blogpost/140323/french-gaming-site-tric-trac-shut-down
Chaosium committed to not working with AI art
U.S. Copyright Office (USCO) maintains that AI art cannot be copyrighted
Kickstarter makes noises about not allowing AI art on platform
https://updates.kickstarter.com/ai-current-thinking/
On Stage with Jon Hodgson
https://giantbrain.co.uk/2022/09/26/on-stage-with-jon-hodgson/
Further thoughts from Jon on AI art
Cancelled AI Kickstarter
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Outro
Warhammer 40k Series coming to Amazon
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-63998585
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The newly forged trio return to the mics to bring you the latest and best tabletop gaming news. From AIs turning their minds to Stratego, Wizards fending off accusations, all the way to gaming related candles! All this, and more, on episode 112 of Brainwaves.
Headlines
AI masters Stratego
https://twitter.com/DeepMind/status/1598392039992958982
https://www.deepmind.com/blog/mastering-stratego-the-classic-game-of-imperfect-information
https://www.gravon.de/gravon/stratego/stratego.jsp
Games Industry Conference Cancelled
uk.co.uk/">https://www.gic-uk.co.uk/
Wizards executives push back
Updates
Dicebreaker Awards announced
https://www.dicebreaker.com/events/tabletop-awards-2022/news/tabletop-awards-2022-winners
Teburu is back, maybe?
https://gamefound.com/projects/xplored/vampire-the-masquerade-milan-uprising
News
Ed Pugh dies
https://icv2.com/articles/columns/view/52792/rolling-initiative-how-ed-pugh-changed-industry
Mythic delve into shady deals
Terraforming Mars optioned for film
https://www.dicebreaker.com/games/terraforming-mars/news/terraforming-mars-film-optioned
Senet wins awards
https://twitter.com/danjolin/status/1597713195581378560?s=21
Jobs, Opportunities, and Events
DnD looks for Art Director
https://twitter.com/robsather/status/1597279812116447235?s=20&t=6uZUNw5oGI0lJBb1_BRaFQ
Protospiel Online
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Outro
Get that new boardgame smell all year round
https://dicebreaker.com/companies/cmyk/news/new-board-game-candle
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It was my great pleasure to be joined On Stage by Flavien Loisier for our last interview of the year. Flavien is the General Manager of Hachette Boardgames UK and it was a fascinating chat covering setting up the company, the challenges of handling a hit, state of the industry, and future plans.
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