Category: Card Games

Upper Deck is showing the SpongeBob SquarePants CCG, which looks about like you’d expect for a game where you’re trying to convince the most people to eat Krabby Pattys. A casual look (all I’ve had time for) didn’t reveal any interesting game mechanics, but nothing egregiously stupid, either. However, in

Played Initial D and HumAliens at the AEG booth. Both card sets look pretty final, although the games don’t come out until September or so. D is definitely the better game of the two from what I saw – the street racing mechanic is very pretty without sacrificing speed. Lots

We’ve received an anonymous tip that Dungeoneer will be printed by Atlas Games shortly. Apparently, the rights to the game were signed over to Thomas Denmark, the artist and lead designer, and now Atlas will be “bringing it to the people” (a second printing, I’d imagine). This is good news,

Three expansions a year through mid-’07, eh? The ICv2 article makes a point of how Decipher’s CCG license extends beyond the films, to The Hobbit and other stuff. But will the audience persist for this game when the films are a distant memory in pop-culture terms, or will we see

So, which game has the worst art I’ve seen in a while, but gets great laughs and good sales here at KublaCon? Pimps & Hos by Over the Edge Games. Nearly every gamer here has felt compelled to pick up and read a copy, if merely out of disbelief. Yes

Wizards of the Coast‘s new Magic expansion, Scourge, will be in stores in a couple of weeks (as per the press release, under the “Read More” link below). The set will contain the first card designed by players, Forgotten Ancient, the new “Storm” mechanic, and other nifty stuff. It all

Sabertooth Games legitimized the rumor we’ve been hearing for weeks now: the company has signed a deal with Sony Online Entertainment Inc. to create an EverQuest II Collectible Card Game. Tentatively titled Guild Wars, the game will pit players against each other as guilds fighting for prestige on a server.

This here press release claims that these color-printed, plastic sheets where you punch out the deals and make little models have already sold 40 million units. So, the logical thing to do with them is hire Dan Verssen and make a game. You know, given that you can apparently make

It looks like our initial source was inaccurate – those two weird AEG RPGs for kids are card games after all. According to this, the original HumAliens property “is being designed for and released to the core gaming market first.” Does that mean it’ll be followed by a dumbed down