Brainwaves Episode 133 – Messy Pigs

It’s just the two of us, by which I mean Oliver and Iain bringing you the tabletop news this week. This episode we cover the collapse of games companies, the formation of organisations, where you can watch the new D&D TV channel, and much more on episode 133 of Brainwaves.

https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/gds9ib/BW133.mp3?_=1

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News Digest Episode 133

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Devil pig down the drain

https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/3179322/here-statement-today?fbclid=IwAR31BF_-WUGVuEOJxoNUmuh3MvOPWQEEvX-aREXnvnixXMrNflsSChwqR6E

https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/3176686/devil-pig-team-official-statement

Essen Hacked

https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/3179815/looks-essen-messe-have-been-hacked

Tabletop Game Designers Association

https://www.ttgda.org/

Updates

Handiwork Games theft update

The Loss of the Trials of the Twin Seas Pallet

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News

Othello solved
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.19387.pdf

John Wick leaves Chaosium
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/johnwickpresents/7th-sea-second-edition/posts/3955825

Lin Codega and others fired from G/O Media

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Today I was laid off from @io9/@Gizmodo as part of a 23-person editorial restructuring. I leave behind work that was globally read, award-winning, deeply reported, & sometimes goofy despite the horrors.

I deserved better than this and G/O Media will be poorer for letting me go.

— lin codega, local cryptid (@lincodega) November 9, 2023

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Outro

Gaelic Scrabble

https://www.thenational.scot/news/23892986.scottish-gaelic-scrabble-game-released-christmas/

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