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Japanese Voice Actress Getting Her First Trading Cards

1:20PM Brian Ashcraft | When we were kids, we collected baseball cards. Jose Canseco, Mark Grace and Ken Griffey, Jr. In Japan, kids these days (hey, more like adults!) can collect voice actress cards. More »
Culture

Where World Of Warcraft Meets He-Man

3:30PM Luke Plunkett | World of Warcraft isn’t just a video game. It’s a trading card game as well, and being a trading card game, it can slip a few things under the legal radar its digital cousin may not be able to manage. More »
Media

Mytheon Trailer Casts The First Stone

12:40AM Mike Fahey | The first trailer for Petroglyph’s Mytheon gives us a bit more of an understanding as to what’s actually going on in the online action roleplaying strategy hybrid. More »
News

Play Xbox Live Magic: The Gathering Live Against Game’s Creator

5:20AM Mike Fahey | So you think you’re a pretty good Magic: The Gathering player, but are you good enough to take on the creator of the game in Magic: The Gathering – Duels of the Planeswalkers? More »
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Battleforge Receives Strategic Price Reduction

1:20AM Mike Fahey | EA has announced that their card-based real time strategy game BattleForge is getting a new “competitive pricing strategy”, with the retail price dropping to $US29.99. More »
News

Free Realms Cards Dealt To Stores This Week

3:20AM Mike Fahey | Sony Online Entertainment’s new free-to-play online game Free Realms launched last week, and now it’s time for the pay-to-play collectible card game. More »
Hands On

BattleForge Review: Collectible Card-Time Strategy

6:00AM Mike Fahey | What happens when you mix together real-time strategy gameplay with collectible card game sensibilities? BattleForge happens. More »
Media

BattleForge In Action

9:40AM Mike Fahey | EA’s card-based real-time strategy PC game BattleForge is set loose next week, and this action trailer demonstrates some of the powerful forces that shall be unleashed. More »
News

SOE Collects PoxNora From Octopi, Opens Tucson Studio

12:20AM Mike Fahey | Having had tremendous success with their online collectible card games, Sony Online Entertainment has caught collectible fever, snagging the ultra rare PoxNora collectible strategy game from developer Octopi. More »

2008 May Be the Year of the Board Game?

6:30AM Maggie Greene | “A game is a game is a game” — are they? The plethora of popular card and board game adaptations — and their popularity — would seem to indicate ‘yes.’ Over at the Escapist, Scott Jon Siegel muses on the future and potential of adaptations on a number of levels. Especially when one considers the casual market, familiar electronic adaptations make for potential casual hits: More »