Episode 38 - Selling up!

What’s this? Iain is considering selling the Brainwaves HQ? As they consider the offer they invite the real estate magnate James Naylor to join the team and cover this week’s news: legends dying, profits falling, lawsuits concluding, mashups, acquisitions and much more on this weeks Brainwaves.  Headlines Frances Tresham dies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Tresham_(game_designer) Hasbro Profits Fall https://www.belloflostsouls.net/2019/10/dd-weak-hasbro-sales-propped-up-by-dungeons-dragons.html https://seekingalpha.com/news/3507616-hasbro-minus-7-percent-tariffs-sting Gygax v. DeSanto lawsuit wraps up https://www.belloflostsouls.net/2019/11/dd-gail-gygax-was-being-sued-by-the-producer-of-transformers-until-this-week.html   News Critical Role animated series picked up by Amazon! https://twitter.com/CriticalRole/status/1191778691979735041 https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/criticalrole/critical-role-the-legend-of-vox-machina-animated-s/posts/2674520 Hasbro Mashups line https://www.target.com/s?searchTerm=hasbro+mashup+games&category=0%7CAll%7Cmatchallpartial%7Call+categories&tref=typeahead%7Cterm%7C0%7Chasbro+mashup+games%7C%7C%7Cservice&searchRawTerm=hasbro+mashup WOTC Acquires Tuque Games https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/44397/wizards-coast-makes-acquisition Cards Against Humanity opens boardgame cafe https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/44359/cards-against-humanity-to-open-chicago-board-game-cafe Kickstarter Union Update https://twitter.com/ksr_united/status/1189656841376141312?s=20 Outro Immersive Monopoly show https://www.thestage.co.uk/news/2019/immersive-monopoly-show-to-run-in-london-in-2020/?login_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thestage.co.uk%2Faccounts%2Fusers%2Fsign_up.popup One Page Dungeon https://watabou.itch.io/one-page-dungeon Patreon Lucky Sparrow Games Cafe https://www.facebook.com/luckysparrowgamescafe/ James Naylor Magnate official site / KS email sign-up: https://magnategame.com/ Boardgamegeek link: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/258242/magnate-first-city Official Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Magnateboardgame Official Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/magnateboardgame/ James’ twitter account: https://twitter.com/naylorjames   Thanks very much for listening. If you like what you’ve listened to then the best way to help us out is to share the podcast and drop us a review and rating on itunes.  You can also follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thegiantbrain Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/giantbrainuk/?hl=en Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thegiantbrain/ Website: https://giantbrain.co.uk/ Email: [email protected]