Brainwaves - Board Game and Tabletop News Show
Leisure:Games
After the rose tinted glasses of episode 50 we put on the harsh specs of reality and dive into this week’s news. Together the team cover the cancellation of Origins Online, Wizards of the Coast banning cards and striving for diversity, Cards Against Humanity abuse allegations, Golden Bell tolling once more, Everything Board Games imploding and much, much more.
Headlines
Origins Online Cancelled amidst mass walkout of guests over silence on American protests
https://kotaku.com/board-gamings-industry-body-refuses-to-say-a-word-about-1843990186/amp?fbclid=IwAR0mzioSECyHsAtJyW8f8g7v-OPCpkCnQpBGG-fiEO_i1zWKKx85ahcAFmM&__twitter_impression=true
Statement can be found on GAMA facebook page @TheGAMAOnline
https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/45895/gama-cancels-origins-online
Eric Lang Statement
https://twitter.com/eric_lang/status/1271095405644779521
Wizards of the Coast bans Racist magic cards
https://www.geeknative.com/73805/here-are-the-racist-magic-cards-wizards-have-banned/
https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Default.aspx
Cards against Humanity under fire
https://medium.com/@anitasarkeesian/ending-my-relationship-with-cards-against-humanity-and-max-temkin-2f25108dfeb4
https://twitter.com/atheresastewart/status/1269310742450393089
News
Golden Bell Strike again
https://twitter.com/moregamespls/status/1270687206756233217?s=19
Episode 34 cast link
https://giantbrain.co.uk/2019/08/19/episode-34-golden-gnomes/
Everything Board Games implodes
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1941412327/everything-board-games-bi-monthly-digital-magazin
https://mobile.twitter.com/NDShipley/status/1273357515846189058
https://twitter.com/NDShipley/status/1273383596653457410
Diversity & Dungeons & Dragons
https://dnd.wizards.com/articles/features/diversity-and-dnd?fbclid=IwAR08nGlNVFzeFlxaWVIlix7YvyyWd5b0db08bhX1Dw_Xw7dkTpFIWrUCehc
Kinderspiel announced
https://www.spiel-des-jahres.de/en/aktuelle-preistraeger-2020/
Itch bundle breaks $8million dollars
https://itch.io/b/520/bundle-for-racial-justice-and-equality
Blades in the Dark Review
https://giantbrain.co.uk/2017/07/30/blades-in-the-dark-review/
CMON does P&P Foodies
https://www.cmon.com/news/foodies-print-play-edition
Patreon Shoutouts
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Outro
New reddit!
https://www.reddit.com/r/boardgamediscussion/
Munchkin Disney
https://theop.games/2020/06/munchkin-disney-game-coming-soon/
Dobble Variants are on the way
https://twitter.com/ICV2/status/1270386811102101505?s=19
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