Gorilla Games is releasing a Weather Deck expansion for their Origins Award nominated Lifeboat card game in June. This expansion includes 10 unique new cards that will increase the depth of the classic game, adding the dimension of the weather to this "survival at sea" title. The MSRP on the expansion is $5.00 US.
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Lifeboat Gets Weather Deck Expansion in June
FFG Posts Preview of Rune Age
Fantasy Flight Games has posted a preview of Rune Age, their upcoming deck-building card game set in the Runebound Universe. The game uses the deck-building mechanic combined with a scenario-based design to improve replayability.
Category: Card-based Games | Tags: card game, deck-building, Fantasy Flight Games, FFG, Rune Age, Runebound
Fun Q Games Releasing Befuzzled
Fun Q Games‘ web site says that their upcoming game "Befuzzled" will be available in Spring 2011. In Befuzzled, players take turns flipping over cards with different shapes printed on them. There are actions associated with each shape. If you’re the first to perform the correct action when a new card comes up, you score a point. The game is designed for 3-8 players ages 7 and up. Playing time is 30 minutes.
APE Promotes Talton’s BattleCON
Advanced Primate Entertainment (APE) Games has announced a "kickstarter" for Level 99 Games’ Brad Talton’s title Battle Connection or BattleCON.
BattleCON is a board game adaptation of 2D console fighting video games. Each player controls a different character with unique skills and playing style. It is a fast-paced game, with a battle finishing in 10 minutes.
BattleCON ships with 12 different characters, and each character includes all the cards needed to play it. You don’t have to buy boosters or collect rare and uber-rare cards.
For more information, or to order, see the kickstarter information on the APE Games web site.
Category: Board Games, Card-based Games | Tags: APE Games, Battle Connection, BattleCON, Brad Talton, card game
Upper Deck Forced to Drop Yu-Gi-Oh! Support
Upper Deck has apparently been ordered to cease and desist producing Yu-Gi-Oh! card game products. This is the announcement on their web site:
North Las Vegas, NV (February 26, 2009) – Throughout this uncertain time for the Yu-Gi-Oh! players and retailers, Upper Deck has continued in good faith to support the community of which it has been an integral part for six years.
Despite having no new product since December of 2008, Upper Deck has continued to ship league kits to hobby stores, run top level Organized Play events, such as Shonen Jump Championships and Regional Championships, without interruption for as long as possible and at great expense over the last three months.
Unfortunately, Konami has continued to disregard the needs of the Yu-Gi-Oh! community and the court has placed a temporary injunction against us on all Yu-Gi-Oh! TRADING CARD GAME products. This ruling will immediately affect all support for Yu-Gi-Oh! online and through Upper Deck’s proprietary Mantis tournament software. In addition, the cancellation of Upper Deck sponsored Organized Play, which it hoped would be temporary, is now permanent. We do not feel that this course of action is in the best interest of the players and regret that the absence of Upper Deck support will leave such a large void in the Yu-Gi-Oh! community.
As Upper Deck moves forward with this transition, we will always keep our customers’ needs in mind. To find out more about our exceptional products and exciting Organized Play opportunities for all of our great games, please visit www.UDE.com.
Upper Deck Releases Huntik TCG
North Las Vegas, NV February 18, 2009) – It’s finally here! Upper Deck is pleased to announce that the Huntik Trading Card Game (TCG) has launched nationwide! This brand new game is closely tied with the popular Huntik: Secrets & Seekers animated series, currently airing Saturday mornings on The CW4Kids Network. Visit Huntik.com for more information on this exciting action-adventure brand!
Magic, mystery, mythology and adventure come together in Huntik, and the Huntik Trading Card Game brings all the excitement of the TV series right to your table top. In the animated series, young Lok Lambert and Dante Vale travel the globe with their group of amazing Seekers, exploring exotic locations and seeking to unlock ancient secrets. Lok and his friends search for powerful spirit-warriors, called Titans, to use in battle against the evil Organization. The Huntik TCG lets players direct their own Seekers to complete missions by using amazing powers and controlling mighty Titans. Plus, one in every three Huntik TCG card packs includes a password that unlocks Titans and other great content on the Huntik website. Visit Huntik.com for more information.
“There is a lot of excitement behind our new action-adventure brand and we are delighted to launch the TCG today,” said Erika Conway, brand manager for Huntik: Secrets & Seekers TCG at Upper Deck. “The TV show is doing very well, the brand is gaining traction around the world and now the TCG offers Huntik fans another way to enjoy the characters and story lines that they are coming to love.”
To augment the debut of this engaging new game, Toys “R” Us is showcasing Huntik TCG with an exclusive feature store in its flagship location in Times Square. Huntik TCG launch events will take place at hobby stores throughout North America on February 21 and 22. Visit Huntik.com to find a location near you!
The Huntik: Secrets & Seekers animated, action-adventure series recently debuted on the CW4Kids Network to high praise and is airing in over 20 other countries worldwide! During each episode, the Huntik Foundation Seekers go on a new mission and battle the Organization. Each mission is assigned to the Seekers through a Mission card, just like in the Huntik TCG. With more exotic locations than any other animated series, this adventure is not to be missed! Each episode also features a new password, letting fans unlock exclusive content on Huntik website. For more information, please visit Huntik.com.
Clocktowers from Jolly Roger Games
The Jolly Roger Games web site was recently updated to include “Clocktowers“, a card game in which players compete to build the most clocktowers in the city, while keeping wild animals out of the towers, and overcoming other obstacles. As of this writing, it’s priced at $10.00.
Looney Labs’ Zombie Uprising Fluxx
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The following discussion is based on a demo game I played of a beta version of the Looney Labs "Zombie Uprising Fluxx" card game. It’s possible that some of the elements I saw today might not make it into the final game.
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The main objective of Fluxx is for a player to be the first to accomplish a "goal" laid out on a card laid out on the table. There are multiple goal cards in the set, and playing a new goal card changes the goal the players are shooting for.
In addition to the changing goal, the game’s rules itself also change during play. In the initial round, players draw one card from the deck and play one card from their hand on their turn. However, it’s possible to get cards in your hand that let you change the rules. For example, you might get a rule change card that makes everyone draw 2, 3, or 5 cards on their turn. You might get a rule change card that makes everyone have to play all the cards in their hand each turn. Other rule change cards might let you move zombie cards around, kill zombies, or do other things on your turn.
There is a "radioactive potato" card that changes hands during play. If you’re holding this card, you can’t win the game until you give it up to someone else.
The game is due for release in August, probably at GenCon, and appears to be fun to play based on today’s demo.
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Category: Card-based Games | Tags: card game, fluxx card game, Looney Labs, zombie game, Zombie Uprising Fluxx
Studio 9′s Treasure and Traps Card Game
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Today at Origins I discussed the "Treasures and Traps" card game with Studio 9. This is a non-collectible card game (i.e., buy it and you get all the cards, so you don’t have to go hunting for rares) with over 100 different cards. It plays in a few minutes with just two players, or longer with more. The goal of the game is to collect one each of gold, silver, and bronze treasures. The player who collects all three first wins. Up to 6 people can play, and players can team up to win together. The game is priced at $12.95.
Studio 9 says that many D&D players and other RPG players like to play this game on their lunch hour or while waiting on their gaming group to get together.
I hope to get in on a demo of it at some point because it sounds like it could be fun.
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Category: Card-based Games | Tags: card game, non-collectible card game, Studio 9, Treasures and Traps
Eye Level Entertainment’s Nature of the Beast Card Game
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Today I sat through a short presentation on Eye Level Entertainment’s "Nature of the Beast" card game. I walked away from this short presentation with a pretty good understanding of this game and thought I’d share it with you.
Nature of the Beast is a card game for two players. Each player has a playing field in front of them onto which "animal" cards can be placed. The object is to fill your playing field with animals before your opponent does. Animals can recruit other animals to join in the fight, they can acquire allies to help them, and get weapons to make them fight better. Each animal can only move in certain directions on the battlefield. While it might seem that a good strategy would be to attack your opponent’s animals with impunity, this probably won’t work in practice. Attacks generate fury. Get too much fury, and you open yourself to sneaky, evil forms of retribution by other players. Each player can also accumulate and use "favor", which is sort of the opposite of fury, in that it’s hard to get and easy to use up.
Nature of the Beast is NOT a collectible card game, though its play style is similar to one. When you buy one of the two currently-available sets (priced around $12.50) you get two decks and enough to play for two people. Buying a second set gives you more cards and options to work with, but isn’t essential. There are no "rares" or "random distributions".
