The Giant Brain

About

The Giant Brain is a Scottish tabletop games criticism site, currently a WordPress review blog plus the Brainwaves podcast, run by Iain McAllister with Jamie Adams and former hosts Sam Maggs and Iain Chantler. It publishes first reads, first-thoughts pieces, full reviews and editorial commentary across board games, card games, RPGs and the occasional computer game, and has a Patreon and social presence on Bluesky, Facebook, YouTube and Instagram. It was originally a games publisher - the About page credits McAllister as 'head honcho, main writer, and podcast editor' rather than a designer - bu…