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

 

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