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This week on Shut Up & Sit Down…

Quinns: Hello everybody! Welcome to our new look Monday post.

Today, with a heavy heart I must announce that after many years of faithful service, the Games News is being retired. This will be sad news for its regular readers, but the Games News demanded a tremendous amount of work from our team while outright refusing – and you’ve got to hand it to the ol’ Games News here – to ever grow in popularity.

So this year, instead of doing the Monday news our team will be redoubling its efforts to make more of the stuff you like, as well as taking the time to come up with brand new features. Instead, on Monday we’re going to be doing these nifty little posts checking in with our community and teasing what we’ve got coming up that week.

For example: On Tuesday of this week (tomorrow!) head over to our Twitch page to watch us play the new and pleasingly mauve-coloured card game Vampire: The Masquerade – Vendetta. On Wednesday I’ll be presenting our first video review of the year, a eurogame that Shut Up & Sit Down donors will already have heard me squeaking about in our behind-the-scenes newsletter. Then on Friday you can look forward to podcast #126, which was a LOT of fun to record- Tom, Ava and myself discussed the new Uwe Rosenberg game Hallertau, and then spent the whole rest of the podcast discussing which Rosenberg games Tom should play.

But enough about us! What did you get up to this weekend, everybody?

Hello there folks! Happy Saturday. Just a quick heads up that at 8pm UK time today we’ll be hosted on UKGE’s digital internet channels to broadcast a LIVE edition of our famous* podcast. We’ll also direct our Twitch channel to point at it for the duration that we’re live – so if you’re already following it, the machines will give you a PING. Have a great day – we’ll see some of you later!

We talk a lot about community at Shut Up & Sit Down, and that’s because for a while we’ve been aware that it isn’t us that makes this place special: it’s the people who congregate around the fringes of our work that drive us to keep on making more of it. This week we’re extremely sad to report that one of the most beloved members of this community recently passed away, peacefully, after a long-term illness.

Quinns: Hey everybody! Tonight team SU&SD is celebrating how superb negotiation game Chinatown is arriving back in shops after a very long absence. You can watch Quinns’ review above, and at 7pm BST we’ll be playing a game of Chinatown live on Twitch! Yes, we normally stream on Thursdays, but not tonight! Remember to click “Follow” on our Twitch page to get an email whenever we go live.

Anyway, as I was saying, what a game! With a slim box, reasonable price, and simple-yet-fresh design, this is the kind of game that we can see ourselves recommending from now until this site finally implodes like a dying star.

…That said, the box art and setting look increasingly iffy with each passing year. Here’s hoping that with the next print run, Z-Man update the theming to something less eye-rolly to Chinese board gamers.

Quinns: Hey everyone! There will be no Games News this week, as our team is developing one of 2019’s more… standout reviews.

In fact, this is the most time we’ve spent on a single review since Matt’s examination of Gloomhaven. However, we think this game is more than worth it.

You’ll find out lots, lots more on Friday. Thanks for your patience!

Quinns: Hey everybody! After doing a nine hour(!) stream of Twilight Imperium this weekend, Matt and I are going to spend this week resting up and finishing up our quest to find this year’s SU&SD interns.

Normal service (Monday news, Wednesday podcast, Friday review) will be resumed next week, although we’re still going to be posting little bits for you to watch. Some of our best panels from SHUX ’18 will be going up on our YouTube channel, and on Friday we’ll post our playthrough video of SEAL Team Flix.

Best of all, you can watch our epic game of Twilight Imperium right here as a video-on-demand, but if you do that, we’d actually like to ask a favour…

In a couple of months we’re going to upload this gargantuan 9 hour video to YouTube, but we want to start preserving some of the best comments from Twitch chat as text pop-ups within the YouTube video. So, pretty please, if you watch any of the video on Twitch and something in Twitch chat makes you laugh, could you leave a comment on this post with the line of chat, the username and the timestamp where it appears? You should be able to copy-paste everything you see, so it should be pretty easy.

Thanks so much everybody, and have a great week!

Quinns: HELLO! After a literal week of preparation, today is the day we’re going to be streaming a full game of Twilight Imperium 4th edition. And with a bit of luck, it’s going to be the most exhaustive playthrough of Twilight Imperium that the internet has ever seen. We will have…

Our secret diary room for whenever players want to share their secret plans
A tactical overlay showing the map, the objectives and who’s completed them
The “Galactic News” readout showing the best Twitch comments
And even more!

Obviously after the stream is over you’ll be able to watch it as a Twitch video on demand, and after that’s gone we’ll be uploading it to YouTube, but if you want to come along and join in the fun we’ll be starting at 2PM GMT, 9AM EST, 6AM PST.

See you there!

Quinns: Hey everybody! If you’ve not checked out our live Twitch streams yet, you’re officially missing out. They’re basically an extra-long, live Let’s Play, and I can now proudly say the channel has developed a frighteningly witty chat community. If you’ve been part of our chat over the last few months, thank you so, so much.

But here’s the thing- you don’t actually need to remember when we’re streaming. If you just go to our Twitch channel and click on the button that reads “Follow”, you’ll get an email every time we start the show, which is once every couple of weeks. Also, you’re adding follower count, which helps us out.

Tomorrow we’re going to be trying the Great Western Trail expansion, Rails to the North, and the show after that… well, let’s just say you won’t want to miss it, and we’ll be confirming more details shortly.

Oh, and did I mention our Twitch chat has a custom emote of the LADY ON THE CONCORDIA BOX? That’s right! The wonders never cease.

Thanks again, everybody!

Quinns: Good news, everyone! The SU&SD board game podcast is now available on Spotify. If you’d like to listen to it, it can be found there now, in addition to the other places where it can usually be found. A short FAQ follows.

Q: Can I now listen to the SU&SD podcast on Spotify?

A: Yes

Q: Will brand new episodes of the SU&SD podcast be on Spotify?

A: Yes

Q: Using Spotify, can I now put the SU&SD podcast into my ears?

A: Yes

We hope that clears everything up! If you have any further questions about the SU&SD podcast being on Spotify, please leave a comment and I’ll see if I can help out.

Quinns: Hello my board-based bosom buddies! Shut Up & Sit Down’s misadventures on Twitch will be continuing, live, any minute now, right here on our channel. You can expect the show to run from 7pm GMT to 10pm GMT.

This week will be especially worth your time because we’re playing a game that isn’t even out yet– the next dexterity game from the makers of Flick ‘Em Up and Junk Art, it’s Men at Work!

If you’ve not joined in the fun on our Twitch streams yet, lemme tell you, it’s an absolutely fantastic time. Our Twitch commenters are routinely a lot funnier than the stream itself, and as hosts we’re really starting to find our groove.

In other words, try it! You might just like it.

Time for me to join the others and take my place. I’ll see some of there!

This week on Shut Up & Sit Down…

SU&SD Podcast: UKGE Show Later Today!

MinuteWalt: In Memoriam

Tonight, we’re streaming Chinatown!

Games News Will Return Next Week

It’s gonna be a wonky week

Today we’re streaming Twilight Imperium!

Reminder: Click “Follow” On Our Twitch Page!

The SU&SD Podcast is now available on Spotify

Don’t Miss Our Streaming Tonight!

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