Episode 67 - Virtually News

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/ Patreon Shoutouts   Exec Producers: Lucky Sparrow Gaming Cafe https://luckysparrow.co.uk/ Shaun Newan game-a-lot.fun/en facebook.com/gamealotboardgames Our Patreon https://www.patreon.com/thegiantbrain   Support Us https://giantbrain.co.uk/support-us-new/   Metallic Dice Games https://metallicdicegames.com/ Promo Code: ROLLWITHBRAINS   Discord https://discord.gg/8fDwvEJPFc 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   Our Links   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   Discord: https://discord.gg/3bMx2HK75r Twitter: https://twitter.com/thegiantbrain Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/giantbrainuk/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thegiantbrain Website: https://giantbrain.co.uk/ Email: [email protected]