Jamie and Iain discover that Oliver Kinne has been drifting around the spacetime continuum inside the HQ. Not sure what to do about this situation they invite him to become a permanent member of the team, he has to pay down his tea debt anyway. 

Together the newly expanded Brainwaves team cover trouble at Hasbro, Pandasaurus Games acting like dinosaurs, Embracer letting go, AI conquering diplomacy, Catan Cookbooks, and much more in episode 111 of Brainwaves. 

Headlines

Hasbro loses the magic

https://www.polygon.com/23458064/magic-the-gathering-overprinting-hasbro-stock-downgrade

Heroscape failure to fund

https://www.polygon.com/tabletop-games/2022/11/16/23462750/heroscape-reboot-cancelled-hasbro-haslab-failed

Hasbro looks to sell E-One

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/hasbro-puts-entertainment-one-film-tv-unit-up-for-sale-1235264107/

Pandasaurus games act like dinosaurs

https://www.dicebreaker.com/companies/pandasaurus-games/feature/pandasaurus-games-workers-allege-toxic-workplace-crunch-burnout-payment-issues

Jon Gilmour Tweet

https://twitter.com/JonGilmour/status/1592929929552805889?s=20&t=MPaYOE5ni5iuo_dRAqwGcQ

Embracer loses its grip

https://www.ft.com/content/121c749d-09c5-4c98-a07e-a12788bef7f2

Asmodee Sales

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/52669/asmodee-dark-horse-sales-up-quarter

News

Magic clamps down on Card Conjurer and proxies

https://cardconjurer.com/

https://twitter.com/ImKyle4815/status/1593658825109741568

https://twitter.com/kompreya/status/1593663395890356225

AI Diplomacy

https://twitter.com/MetaAI/status/1595075884502855680

Dicebreaker Tabletop Awards 2022 finalists 

https://www.dicebreaker.com/events/tabletop-awards-2022/news/tabletop-awards-2022-finalists

Anna Blackwell Interview

https://giantbrain.co.uk/2020/11/25/meeting-of-minds-anna-blackwell/

Rail/ Postal strikes coming

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/52715/retailers-urge-congress-avert-rail-strike

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/nov/22/more-uk-rail-strikes-to-disrupt-travel-in-december-and-january

Long Tail Games goes part time

https://twitter.com/long_tail_games/status/1592004962552512513?s=21

Jobs, Opportunities, and Events

Gofundme for games shop that has been broken into

https://www.gofundme.com/f/get-dave-back-running?utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet&utm_content=undefined&utm_medium=copy_link_all&utm_source=customer&utm_term=undefined

Patreon Shoutouts

James Naylor

https://naylorgames.com/

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facebook.com/gamealotboardgames

Our Patreon

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Support Us

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Sir Meeple

https://sirmeeple.com/collections/the-giant-brain

Outro

Catan Cookbook

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/52643/ulysses-press-will-release-catan-hardcover-cookbook

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