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Iain, Jamie and Oliver from The Giant Brain bring you the latest in Boardgame and Tabletop Gaming News
It’s been a while but we are back with all the latest tabletop news. From profit warnings to big projects being cancelled, tune in to the only tabletop podcast that brings you the stories that really matter.
Headlines
CMON Issues Profit Warning
https://boardgamewire.com/index.php/2025/03/13/board-game-crowdfunding-major-cmon-issues-profit-warning-says-losses-could-exceed-2m-for-2024/
https://www.cmon.com/project-status/#crowdfunding
Is Magic losing its sparkle? No of course not.
https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/58912/wotc-magic-sales-down-q4-full-year-2024
https://giantbrain.co.uk/2024/01/15/news-digest-brainwaves-episode-135/
The Sigils aren’t good
https://www.rascal.news/wizards-of-the-coast-shutters-sigil-virtual-tabletop-project-lays-off-30-staff/
News
GAMA/Origins Award Nominations
https://www.originsawards.net/news/announcing-the-48th-annual-origins-awards-finalists
https://boardgamewire.com/index.php/2025/03/12/new-look-origins-awards-has-a-massive-120-nominees-this-year-new-hall-of-fame-inductees-revealed/
https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/59086/the-academy-adventure-gaming-arts-designs-hall-fame-inducts-three
Cardboard Edison award finalists announced
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rZLrFoWkt4E4uDjcUYDYvkwAUcjlqkCR/view
As D’Or Award
https://www.festivaldesjeux-cannes.com/en/festival-as-d-or-jeu-de-l-annee
https://tabletopgamesblog.com/2024/03/30/odin-saturday-review/
Stonemaier Games Stockholder Report
https://stonemaiergames.com/2024-behind-the-scenes-stakeholder-report-for-stonemaier-games/
Obituaries
Respected boardgame box artist Rodger MacGowan passes
https://boardgamegeek.com/blog/1/blogpost/171204/rodger-b-macgowan-has-passed-away-at-age-77
GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-the-recovery-of-rodger-mae-and-steven
Ernie Gygax passes
https://www.enworld.org/threads/ernie-gygax-has-passed-away.712080/
Jobs, Opportunities, and Events
https://www.facebook.com/groups/TabletopJobs
Tabletop Mentorship Programme
https://www.unpub.org/mentorship
Patreon Shoutouts
Kevin Bertram
https://www.fortcircle.com/
James Naylor
https://naylorgames.com/
Shaun Newman
game-a-lot.fun/en
facebook.com/gamealotboardgames
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Outro
Nearly 2 decades later, they win again
https://boardgamewire.com/index.php/2025/03/17/almost-two-decades-after-impressing-in-the-childrens-spiel-des-jahres-wild-vikings-has-won-the-japan-boardgame-prize/
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Brainwaves - Board Game and Tabletop News Show
Iain, Jamie and Oliver from The Giant Brain bring you the latest in Boardgame and Tabletop Gaming News