Brainwaves Episode 158 - Possible Possums
The team are back to scour the corners of the world for the best in Tabletop Gaming News. This episode we cover mergers, departures, destruction, and we have an interview with those Rascals.
Headlines
Steve Jackson merges with Possum Games
https://www.rascal.news/possum-creek-games-wanders-to-a-new-home-with-steve-jackson-games/
https://www.sjgames.com/ill/archive/2025-02-11?ref=rascal.news
Mythic crumbles
https://boardgamewire.com/index.php/2025/02/06/end-looms-for-mythic-games-as-company-gives-up-trying-to-deliver-1-3m-monsterpocalypse-kickstarter-hands-files-over-to-ip-holder-privateer-press/
Thomas Interview
https://www.rascal.news/
Updates
BGA Awards update
https://boardgamearena.com/news?id=873
News
6 out of 10 tabletop role-playing games campaigns were Gamefound. KS rattled?
https://www.polygon.com/analysis/520142/gamefound-top-10-biggest-board-game-crowdfund-campaigns
GTS cancels Splotter's Indonesia
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid03ThtQGdUZ2wfNsbLu9yL95kKShCaQv1aJFzUkUZWpHmzpKKPQCvEFJd9BKMquzetl&id=100057260687209
Snowbright Studio announces winners of the second annual Nonbinary Tabletop Award
https://bsky.app/profile/snowbrightstudio.bsky.social/post/3liamf2lp2k2g
https://www.snowbrightstudio.com/awards
Swiss Game Awards
https://boardgamewire.com/index.php/2025/02/17/harmonies-captain-flip-triumph-in-this-years-swiss-gamers-award-castle-combo-seals-two-finalist-spots/
https://swissgamersaward.ch/
Haba and Asmodee France
https://www.spielwarenmesse.de/en/mag/toy-market-news/asmodee-france-chosen-as-official-distribution-partner-for-haba/
Roman discovery
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-discover-ancient-tokens-that-roman-soldiers-used-to-play-strategy-games-180985903/
Obituaries
Carla Horger
https://bsky.app/profile/gmtgames.bsky.social/post/3lha6racnoc26
Jobs, Opportunities, and Events
https://www.facebook.com/groups/TabletopJobs
Young Game Designers Scholarship Open for Applications Again
https://www.spiel-des-jahres.de/nachwuchs-spieleautoren-stipendium-wieder-ausgeschrieben/
https://www.spieleautorenzunft.de/files/public/Veranstaltungen-Events/Stipendium%20Bewerbung%202025.pdf
Evil Hat creator programme
https://bsky.app/profile/evilhat.bsky.social/post/3lhh5uzbtts25
Patreon Shoutouts
Kevin Bertram
https://www.fortcircle.com/
James Naylor
https://naylorgames.com/
Shaun Newman
game-a-lot.fun/en (http://www.game-a-lot.fun/en/)
facebook.com/gamealotboardgames (http://facebook.com/gamealotboardgames/)
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Outro
People of note: Cornelius O'Donovan
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgj29qly2dvo
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