Brainwaves Episode 164 – Zombie Dragons

It’s the latest episode of Brainwaves! Join Iain and Jamie as they dive into the world of tabletop industry news to bring you the glistening pearls and dank seaweed from across the globe. From global job cuts to union victories get the lowdown on everything going on in episode 164 of Brainwaves.

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Digest 164

Headlines

Hasbro cuts 3% of workforce 

https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/hasbro-cuts-3-its-total-workforce-wsj-reports-2025-06-17

Dungeons and Dragons designers end up at critical role

DrivethruRPG hates rebels

https://www.rascal.news/drivethrurpg-delisted-a-tabletop-game-about-revolutions-over-hateful-politics

Updates

Tabletop Workers United win a Union contract

https://www.rascal.news/new-york-based-tabletop-workers-united-win-a-union-contract-after-prolonged-battle

Zombicide finds a new home 

https://www.cmon.com/press/zombicide-finds-a-new-home-with-asmodee

News

Diana Jones Award finalists announced

The committee of the Diana Jones Award is pleased to announce the finalists for its 2025 award, which it believes best exemplified “excellence” in the field of gaming for the past year. They are:

The Diana Jones Award (@dianajonesaward.org) 2025-06-17T16:05:31.810Z

Elizabeth Hargrave, Kristin Looney and others meet Capitol Hill to talk about Tariffs

Today I walked 6 miles crisscrossing Capitol Hill to meet with staff about how tariffs are affecting the boardgame industry. More tomorrow. Please contact your members of Congress, especially Rs. In the Senate, you can ask them to cosponsor S.1593, which would exempt small businesses from tariffs.

Elizabeth Hargrave (@elizhargrave.bsky.social) 2025-06-11T02:08:04.879Z

Link to S 1593: https://www.congress.gov/119/bills/s1593/BILLS-119s1593is.pdf

Related post on GAMA’s Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/TheGAMAOnline/photos/gama-members-and-staff-are-on-capitol-hill-advocating-for-zero-tariffs-on-toys-a/1128806115959973/ 

Reaper moves out of the UK

We were alerted to this by a Facebook follower. Reaper is a major UK player in the miniature figures for wargaming.Our follower told us "Gameswork shop, warlord games, all big players in wargaming are all in Nottingham so this company moving out of uk is big"

Leeds for Europe (@leedseurope.bsky.social) 2025-06-20T10:01:45.538Z

Jobs, Opportunities, and Events

https://www.facebook.com/groups/TabletopJobs

Tabletop Games Blog Raffle

http://tabletopgamesblog.com/raffle 

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  1. 30 Jun 2025

    […] is a copy of the “script” we used to organise Brainwaves Episode 164. It is not a full transcript but should give you an overview of the news as we reported it. Quotes […]

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