The latest video game to CCG making news is Call of Duty, set to become a simultaneous real-time CCG from Upper Deck Entertainment.
Real-time? “During the course of a game, a player might play a card every three seconds until a “pause” card is played… A pause card halts the action and resolves a powerful effect [...]
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The Kentucky Kernel, a student-run publication at the University of Kentucky, recently ran a story on the games club. Sure it had the expected references to Mountain Dew, Cheetos, and “stereotypical gamer physique,” but it was also among the nicest social assessments of dedicated gamers that I’ve seen in a general publication. The article quoted [...]
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Jacked is a new CCG about car racing. You collect tracks, cars, modifiers, and events and try to reach the end of the track first.
The site has a play demonstration.
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Find Your Game Store is a new site to help you find local game stores in the UK.
It covers specialty tabletop games of all types.
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Several Pokemon events in Japan in response to a blackmail letter threatening to disrupt the events.
The source doesn’t give any details as to the nature or motive behind the threat.
(source)
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Pokemon and Nintendo have been chasing after card counterfeiters in half a dozen countries. With the aid of local police forces, they have seized over 47 million counterfeit cards. A single raid in China netted 27 million of these.
A word to the wise: don’t counterfeit Pokemon cards. Haven’t you got something better to counterfeit with [...]
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BattleFMX is a dice and CCG game about motorbike racing from Illektron.
It features Freestyle Motocross superstar Brian Deegan, along with Metal Mulisha Team members Todd Potter & Jeremy Lusk (like I know who these guys are).
The object of the game is to play out a Freestyle MX show, scoring or subtracting pointz (sic) by matching [...]
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Bandai will launch a new Dragon Ball CCG in June ‘08. The game will feature material from all three Dragon Ball sagas. This announcement follows the release this month of additional Dragon Ball Z minis.
The game is purported to be similar to the existing Naruto CCG, if that helps.
(source, hat tip)
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Football Resurrection is a new CCG by Scott Shea combining sports and apocalyptic sci-fi. The game play is pretty straightforward:
Cards represent football players with attack and defense values and special abilities. Play one card each round into either an offensive or defensive squad. You can make one attack per round using an offensive squad into [...]
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Talisman fans rejoice! Fantasy Flight Games announced today that it has secured exclusive rights to publish board, card, and role playing games based on Games Workshop properties, including such popular items as Talisman and the new Dark Heresy RPG. While the deal does not cover games that rely heavily on miniatures, such as Space Hulk, Fantasy Flight will be [...]
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