219 episodes
Game Brain: A Board Game Podcast About Our Gaming Group Game Brain
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4.9 • 16 Ratings
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A podcast about Board Games and friendship, and a real life board game group! Join us every week for an in-depth look at the board gaming hobby, including board game news, reviews and much, much more.
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#212: 2024 Golden Geek Predictions
The 2024 Golden Geek Award nominations have just been revealed, and we're choosing faves, making endorsements, and offering sweeping predictions on which games will win. Oh and by the way, thanks to everyone who voted and nabbed us a nom! Don't worry, we're focused on the games, not shameless self-promotion (well, maybe just a little self-promotion).
Plus, Ben, Jordan, and Paul talk about recent plays of Ironwood, Galactic Cruise, Arcs, and Twilight Imperium. -
#211 Space Games!!
Ben and Jordan talk about recent plays of Inventions, Galactic Cruise, Twilight Imperium, Arcs, and Resist. Plus, discussion about space games — what does the concept of space bring to a game, and what makes a game a SPACE GAME (as opposed to a game set in space).
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#210: Finger Etiquette and Games
Ben and Paul talk about recent plays of Inventions, Terraforming Mars, and City of the Big Shoulders. Then they do a deep dive about finger etiquette and games: why does it bother us, how do we address bad behavior, and what are the most common mistakes. Shots will be fired. Takes will be hot.
00:00 - Intro
02:33 - Inventions
14:47 - Western Empires / Mega Empires
23:25 - Terraforming Mars
29:37 - 1830
33:07 - City of the Big Shoulders
35:47 - Finger etiquette for board games -
#209: Second Wind Games
Tom, Jordan, and Ben discuss games they had shrugged off but later came to love. Plus, recent plays of Imperium Horizons, Legacies, and El Grande.
00:00 - Intro
00:06 - Legacies
26:11 - Avalon
29:14 - El Grande
34:14 - Franchise
39:31 - Second Wind Games
41:51 - Modern Art
46:26 - Imperium Horizons
54:37 - Dune Imperium: Uprising
01:02:22 - Android: Netrunner
01:08:42 - Black Angel
01:14:26 - A Feat for Odin
01:17:49 - Gold West
01:19:55 - Boonlake
01:22:06 - Great Western Trail: Argentina
01:30:40 - Skymines
01:39:48 - City of the Big Shoulders -
#208: Let's Go To Japan
Trey, Ben, and Dmitry review the 2024 release Let's Go To Japan.
0:00:00 IntroductionWatch What Crappens wins Best Pop Culture PodcastThe Traitors0:08:48 Games on the BrainBaseball Highlights 2045 on GamefoundStar Wars: UnlimitedTry online at Force TableNetrunner at Nullsignal.gamesKnarrMarrakeshCuzco00:51:30 Game Review: Let's Go to JapanStationfallSanta Monica
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#207: Exploring Root, Agonizing in Cuzco
Ben, Matt, and Paul sit down to talk about games they're going deep with (Root), and games that are brutalizing them (Cuzco). And everything in between.
00:08:04 - Traitors & Avalon
00:14:10 - Root
00:39:34 - Franchise
00:50:36 - Netrunner
01:07:10 - Cuzco
01:25:00 - Dinosaur Gauge
01:29:49 - Legacies
01:36:52 - Lunar
01:38:00 - Tournament at Avalon, Mino Dice
01:40:00 - Boon Lake: Artifacts
01:43:45 - Shikoku 1889
Customer Reviews
This podcast is on my brain
I have been exploring the hobby of modern board games over the past year, and I have listened to all of the major board game podcasts, and then some. I only discovered Game Brain a couple of weeks ago, and it really is outstandstanding. It's informative, thought-provoking, and entertaining. Also, with diverse content, it has something for a wide range of board gamers.
As a bonus, the YouTube channel (I believe it's called "Game Brain Podcast") has the topics broken into individual segments. I love the concept and execution of this podcast, and I hope it continues for a long time.
It’s all in the game
So it is one of the best pod on the hobby, bar none. The concept being a rotation of members of the same gaming groupe. You get to meet and get attached to them and see who you align with the most. It gives you a great sens of what game you’ll like. 5 stars would listen again.