Iain Chantler has been given time off by Jamie so it’s up the remaining Iain to fill the shoes of two Iains! With fewer big news stories than recently the team have an interview with Ian Parovel of Boardgame Arena regarding their recent acquisition by Asmodee. On top of that they cover some updates to Wizards of the Coasts legal entanglements, the world of Pokemon scalpers, and an ancient game brought back to life in beautiful detail. All this, and more, on this episode of Brainwaves
Headlines
Asmodee acquires Boardgame A...
Iain Chantler has been given time off by Jamie so it’s up the remaining Iain to fill the shoes of two Iains! With fewer big news stories than recently the team have an interview with Ian Parovel of Boardgame Arena regarding their recent acquisition by Asmodee. On top of that they cover some updates to Wizards of the Coasts legal entanglements, the world of Pokemon scalpers, and an ancient game brought back to life in beautiful detail. All this, and more, on this episode of Brainwaves
Headlines
Asmodee acquires Boardgame Arena
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2021-02-11-asmodee-acquires-board-game-arena
https://venturebeat.com/2021/02/11/asmodee-acquires-board-game-arena-a-platform-for-playing-tabletop-games-online/
News
Gale Force Nine and Wizards of the Coast settle
https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/47558/gale-force-nine-wizards-coast-settle
ACD Distribution takes hit in case against Wizards of the Coast
https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/47603/acd-distribution-required-pay-250k-wotc-fees-files-appeal
Pokemon Scalpers Target McDonalds
https://www.ign.com/articles/mcdonalds-strongly-encouraging-restaurants-to-prevent-happy-meal-pokemon-card-scalping
Pokemon product supply issues
https://support.pokemon.com/hc/en-us/articles/360056644571-Update-on-Pok%C3%A9mon-Trading-Card-Game-Product-Availability
Fantasy Flight Games brings Legend of the Five Rings: The Card Game to an end
https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/news/2021/2/17/future-of-legend/
Royal game of UR faithfully recreated
https://www.reddit.com/r/GameofUr/comments/lfot70/my_replica_with_original_materials_took_10_months/
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Outro
Clue Animated Series
https://www.dicebreaker.com/games/clue/news/clue-animated-series-announced
Monopoly Lunar New Year edition
https://www.toysrus.com.my/monopoly%3A-lunar-new-year-edition-1065654.html
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