The team are back from UK Games Expo and whilst everything was fresh in their minds, sat down to wax lyrical about the games they had seen at the convention. Our special guest is our honorary member of The Giant Brain, Rich Stokes: long time friend of Iain and the show. We cover a wide range of games and products from ones so new they barely have a name to the behemoth that is Games Workshop.

Do let us know what you saw at the show and if you think we missed any gems.

Chapter 2 - Strudle Games

https://twitter.com/RomanRybiczka

Watch the Skies 2 - Second Sight

http://www.megagame-makers.org.uk/megagamet-wts.htm

Villagers

https://www.sinisterfish.com/

Flat Pack Forces

https://flatpackforces.com/

Team 3

https://www.publishing.brain-games.com/team3

Seminars

Smart Party

https://smartparty.wordpress.com/

Paul Grogan - Gaming Rules

https://gaming-rules.com/

Megacity Oceania

https://www.wearehubgames.com/our-games/megacity

Big Book of Battlemats

https://www.gamingbooks.co.uk/shop/big-book-of-battle-mats.html

Folded Space

https://www.foldedspace.net/

Contrast Paints

https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/detail?N=3815391097+3891072176

Periodic

https://www.geniusgames.org/

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Jamie, Iain and..... well Sam is away doing things beyond Space and Time. In the meantime it's time to call in our band of roving reporters in from the wild and get them a seat at the table. First up is Ross Connell from More Games Please. The team cover the recent cancellation of Kollosal Games kickstarters, why they didn't win any Golden Geeks, loads of financial news from across the hobby and discuss the importance of art in games.

Headlines

Kickstarter pulls Kollosal Games' campaigns

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/389480684/folding-space?ref=discovery_category&term=Folding%20space

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kolossalgames/papillon?ref=discovery&term=papillon

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kolossalmikro/hunt-the-ravager?ref=nav_search&result=project&term=hunt%20ravager

Mensa Select Awards

https://www.us.mensa.org/newsroom/press-releases/2019-mensa-select-winners-announced/

https://mensamindgames.com/about/information-for-first-timers/

13th Annual Golden Geek Awards

https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/2179643/13th-annual-golden-geek-awards-winners-2018

News

Steve Jackson offers refunds after ethical concerns over relationship with Frog God Games

https://www.geeknative.com/65227/steve-jackson-games-offer-partial-refunds-after-gamers-raise-ethical-concerns/

http://www.enworld.org/forum/content.php?4613-Harassment-At-PaizoCon-2017

Solar City Kickstarter Collapses

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1689336268/solar-city-a-solarpunk-game/posts/2480259

GW profits

https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/markets/article-6915187/Games-Workshop-expects-bumper-profit-haul-Warhammer-fans-come-force.html

ICV2 reports hobby game sales

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/43024/hobby-game-sales-total-1-5-billion-2018

Kickstarter breaks $1 billion in its game category

https://venturebeat.com/2019/04/16/kickstarter-game-projects-top-1-billion-with-tabletop-making-up-69-of-pledges/?fbclid=IwAR0eW6QM09RbXiEj8YDz9sACna2L5wZ9CK9F0HlKBF24vaiUNTYjZiCQd04

Outro

Lion King Monopoly

https://www.joyscribe.com/be-prepared-to-lose-at-new-lion-king-monopoly/

Well it's the morning after the party and the crew are all nursing a headache and wondering what is going on in the basement. In the meantime they get down to the business of news reporting. We cover 7th sea sailing into a safe habour, scholarships from gaming luminaries, controversy at GMT and debate the merit, or not, of expansions. 

Headlines

7th Sea finds safe harbour

https://www.chaosium.com/blogjohn-wick-joins-chaosium/

Geoff Englestein announces Scholarship

https://www.tabletopnetwork.com/new-voices-scholarship

Scramble for Africa pulled by GMT

https://mailchi.mp/a9c2643ed89c/p500-update-removing-scramble-for-africa?fbclid=IwAR0blZiYs6U02Nw8YhTEFyQDEU5QT2KdkV_aFB2GQXXV71UrcKFDmN7phBE

News

Games Workshop rebrand Warhammer and Warhammer 40k

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2019/04/05/together-at-last/

Acquisition Incorporated book from Penny Arcade and Wizards of the Coast

http://dnd.wizards.com/products/tabletop-games/rpg-products/acqinc

Hunter's Enterainment to produce Altered Carbon RPG

https://www.facebook.com/HuntersEntertainment/

District 9 from Weta Workshop

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/wetaworkshop/district-9-the-boardgame

Outro

Iain's Charity Ride

https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/iain-mcallister

April Fool's

https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/news/2019/4/1/the-dogwich-legacy/

https://www.modiphius.net/products/star-trek-adventures-tribble-player-character-free-pdf

https://www.zmangames.com/en/pandemic-cereal-product/?fbclid=IwAR1NezFaG-3R0ajWvkcsDG7A90Iqj7HZL2aLitv9I9pEQqSD7womhhayNlM

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Get on your party hats, blow up the balloons and cut the cake because Brainwaves is one year old! On this special episode we are joined by our executive producers Robert and Sadie from the Lucky Sparrow Games Cafe and a few friends of the show. Although we were mostly partying we still had time to cover a bit of news with our guests and debate the merits of various party games! 

Iain, Jamie and Sam would like to thank all our listeners, friends and family for supporting us over the last year. The response to the cast has been more than we could have hoped and we are looking forward to what the next year will bring. 

Resolution to Martin Wallace/Eagle Gryphon

https://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/2167942/resolution-aos-situation?fbclid=IwAR3NATWG89Ya3_aRYmP14rkDvMiHZoYrxc9o5dCi3PMN-2I72Ht6DPRjBxA

Dune reprint from Gale Force 9

https://twitter.com/therewillbegame/status/1106260088308686848?s=19&fbclid=IwAR1FpdJEFdmZEJ1GkyXLxE2fLl6wRcYKK34ByMam7L20LVxPQU1n-Br_nM4

CMON and Asmodee enter exclusive agreement

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/42699/cmon-enters-exclusive-north-american-distribution-deal-asmodee-na

Die Hard: Nakatomi Heist Board Game

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/42754/die-hard-the-nakatomi-heist-board-game

Root Tabletop Game of the year at SXSW

http://www.dicetowernews.com/big-honors-for-root-at-sxsw-and-on-kickstarter/57964

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2074786394/root-the-underworld-expansion/posts/2451778

TalisBatman

https://www.tabletopgaming.co.uk/board-games/news/become-dc-super-villains-and-try-to-bring-down-the-dark-knight-in

Kingdom Rush comes to mobile

https://www.tabletopgaming.co.uk/board-games/news/kingdom-rush-is-the-next-ridiculously-popular-mobile-app-to-get-a

Larry Ditillio, writers of Masks of Nyarlathotep dies

https://www.tabletopgaming.co.uk/board-games/news/r-i-p--larry-ditillio-rpg-designer-and-writer-of-legendary-call-ofhttps://www.tabletopgaming.co.uk/board-games/news/r-i-p--larry-ditillio-rpg-designer-and-writer-of-legendary-call-of

Critical Role Animated Film

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/criticalrole/critical-role-the-legend-of-vox-machina-animated-s?ref=nav_search&result=project&term=critical%20role

D&D Movie begins casting

http://www.enworld.org/forum/content.php?6151-Casting-Begins-Soon-For-D-D-Movie&s=177d02adc97cdae1c78127ed5aab6483

Chinese Government burns RPG books

https://www.yog-sothoth.com/index.html/news/chinese-government-burns-call-of-cthulhu-supplement/?fbclid=IwAR07CifFloRO_f_C8QfhGAtsGAfHPM4z_dokA6GLDDvRxzrqX7UM4Bihqpc

Monopoly proposal

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-45398154

Many thanks to those who sent us some audio for the cast

Ross from More Games Please

https://www.moregamesplease.com/

Gaz from The Smart Party

https://smartparty.wordpress.com/

Stuart Garside from District 31

http://www.district31.co.uk/

Isa Yu and David Dolliver 

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On the eve of our 1st year anniversary the guys look into the depth of the news sea and hook only the tastiest bites for you. This week the world of Bridge is rocked by doping, Martin Wallace has a bone to pick with Eagle Gryphon games, Asmodee loses track of its Bears, franchise tie-ins galore and we finally get down to debating the merits, or not, of Monopoly. 

Headlines

Top Bridge Player faces doping ban

https://amp.theguardian.com/sport/2019/mar/01/world-no1-bridge-player-suspended-after-failing-a-drugs-test-geir-helgemo?__twitter_impression=true

Martin Wallace says Eagle Gryphon does not have the rights to publish Age of Steam

Kickstarter page: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/eaglegryphon/age-of-steam-deluxe-edition

Original accusation: https://boardgamegeek.com/article/31426723#31426723

Christian Petersen statement: https://www.boardgamegeek.com/article/3920163#3920163

Resolution that came about after recording: https://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/2167942/resolution-aos-situation

Heidelbar leaves Asmodee Group

https://heidelbaer.de/en/heidelbar-games-becomes-independent-publisher/

News

IT gets the boardgame treatment

https://parameter.io/stephen-king-it-board-games/

Imaginable Guidelines

https://www.citylab.com/design/2019/02/urban-planner-card-game-turkey-imaginable-guidelines/583465/

Restoration Games announces Unmatched

https://restorationgames.com/unmatched/

Labyrinth RPG

https://www.geeknative.com/64770/game-designer-announces-official-jim-henson-labyrinth-rpg-adventure/

Brainstorm

https://monopoly.hasbro.com/en-gb

https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/article/1596064/how-monopoly-came-dominate-board-games

And finally...Black Lotus breaks the bank

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/42632/rare-m-tg-alpha-black-lotus-nearly-doubles-price-last-ebay-auction

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On this episode we address controversy withing the RPG community, the nature of randomness in dice, head to France for some awards, Glasgow for some games cafe action and feature more news than you can shake a reasonably sized game at! 

Headlines

Wizards issue statement regarding Zak Smith

Wizards Statement - http://dnd.wizards.com/articles/news/dndstatement

Mandy Morbid's Statement - (Content Warning for descriptions of abuse) https://m.facebook.com/amandapatricianagy/posts/10215845527064252 

Awards Season comes to France

http://www.festivaldesjeux-cannes.com/en/asdor/winners

How random are your dice?

http://www.awesomedice.com/blog/353/d20-dice-randomness-test-chessex-vs-gamescience/

http://www.markfickett.com/stuff/artPage.php?id=389

News

Keyforge Expansion announced

https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/news/2019/2/12/age-of-ascension/

Funko gets into board games

http://globenewswire.com/news-release/2019/02/15/1726226/0/en/Funko-Acquires-Award-Winning-Board-Game-Studio.html

Root expands again

https://twitter.com/LederGames/status/1095448085809905664

D&D Stranger Things

http://www.belloflostsouls.net/2019/02/dd-breaking-new-stranger-things-dd-starter-set-revealed.html

Ancient Game Books

http://librojuegos.org/2019/02/hallazgo-impresionante-librojuegos-del-siglo-xv/

https://www.nms.ac.uk/national-museum-of-scotland/

The Giant Brain on Tour

Lucky Sparrow Games Cafe

UK Games Expo

Tabletop Scotland

Dragonmeet

Outro - The monopoly news returns!

https://www.horseandhound.co.uk/news/barns-shelters-replace-hotels-houses-new-monopoly-game-679180

https://techraptor.net/content/hasbro-announces-overwatch-board-game-overwatch-monopoly

https://www.geeknative.com/64637/talisman-monopoly-agreed-by-usaopoly-and-games-workshop/

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Iain, Jamie and Sam are back in the news saddle and are roping the best in Tabletop gaming news. On this episode we look at the smashing success of Tabletop Games on KS, wonder about some Russian inspired design, get excited about Captain Sonar and talk about ways we can all be more welcoming to new people in the hobby. 

Headlines

Tabletop Games smashed records on KS this year

https://www.polygon.com/2019/1/15/18184108/kickstarter-2018-stats-tabletop-video-games?fbclid=IwAR1QxgokulvgZLiip7NIr9Wga9mth-m9h1wzFZ0JX8nFkXq4rVGYsCW7eD8

Dobble has smashed the million sales target

https://www.toynews-online.biz/retail/dobble-named-uks-biggest-selling-card-game-as-one-millionth-unit-sold

Our guys in Salisbury

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/24/salisbury-novichok-attack-board-game-on-sale-russia?fbclid=IwAR05EqG7RddHDO6AN9FR4beHf_PrE4fBz7VB9_tooIecnY9MvXUorx-i1_Q

News

Fog of Love sequel - Midlife Crisis

https://twitter.com/FogOfLoveGame/status/1087092840285507584

Days of Wonder announce Roll and Write game "Corinth"

http://blog.daysofwonder.com/2019/01/16/corinth-become-the-best-trader-of-the-mediterranean-sea/

http://www.leacock.com/blog/2019/1/29/announcing-era-medieval-age

Captain Sonar Campaign - Operation Dragon

https://www.matagot.com/en/catalog/extensions/captain-sonar-upgrade-two-op-ration-dragon/808/121

Tabletop Scotland Tickets are now available

https://tabletopscotland.co.uk/

Outro

Monopoly film secures Kevin Hart

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/jan/17/kevin-hart-monopoly-film

The Robots are coming

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jan/31/block-party-scientists-celebrate-robot-that-can-play-jenga?fbclid=IwAR3HJOy47-jLj9nox5DrO3HUR06S7vTGrX3TCFVfZUGVeP5oqeUgLZBZs9M

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