Excited by the news of a Blades in the Dark TV series Iain pitches Jamie his best boardgame based TV shows. Will he pass muster or fall flat? Whilst Jamie is mulling it over they cover the latest news from a well known publisher shutting its doors to a team up between Magic: The Gathering and football. All this, and more, on this episode of Brainwaves.
Headlines
IDW shutters publishing arm
https://www.dicebreaker.com/companies/idw-games/news/idw-games-closure
Kickstarter board games do well
https://medium.com/icopartners/state-of-kickstarter-and-games-mid-2021-update-132964d2c523
Blades in the Dark TV show
https://www.screendaily.com/news/uks-warp-films-and-anton-team-for-international-development-partnership/5162777.article
https://twitter.com/bladesinthedark
News
Broken Token Update
Pandasauraus Games statement https://twitter.com/Pandasaurusgame/status/1430239890617286658
Broken Token Statement
https://twitter.com/tbt_gaming/status/1433528322474971137?s=21
There’s Magic down at Leyton Orient
https://www.leytonorient.com/magic-the-gathering/
SW: Armada loses support (outside OP)
https://twitter.com/atomicmassgames/status/1428828647994109954/photo/1
R Talsorian backs out of GenConhttps://twitter.com/RTalsorianGames/status/1433122593159143433?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1433122593159143433%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dicebreaker.com%2Fcompanies%2Fr-talsorian-games%2Fnews%2Fr-talsorian-games-exits-gen-con-2021
https://twitter.com/Gen_Con/status/1433145981361659919
Netrunner rises from the Digital ashes (maybe?)
https://twitter.com/captainraffi/status/1430252745265754116
https://nisei.net/
https://jinteki.net/
Patreon Shoutouts
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Outro
Catan Beer is real!
https://table22.com/champion#membership-tiers
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