One of the great things about gamers is that if they want something they tend to build it. Gaming groups frequently make house rules or create campaign settings to suit their news. That’s the history behind BitFlip Games’ Minion Master. The idea came after an epic tabletop session was foiled, despite a month of planning, […]
Call of Cthulthu CCG European Championships
The 2012 Call of Cthulthu: The Card Game will be held this year in Liège, Belgium, on the 27th of October. It’ll take place during the 30th International Rendex-Vous of the Object-Jeux association and will have two side events. Cue last minute searching for flights to Liege. The main event starts at 10am, will feature […]
2 million dollars for rare trading cards find
A family will be looking to earn as much as 2 million dollars in a series of auctions after finding a complete set of rare baseball trading cards in their attic in Ohio. The money will be split between some 20 cousins. The home, in Defiance, Ohio, belonged to their grandfather who ran a market […]
Fantastic Star Wars Galaxy teaser pictures
One of my favourite animators and illustrators is Patrick Schoenmaker from the Netherlands. He manages to score some desirable gigs and is often kind enough to share some teasers via his blog. Check out these illustrations from the animated Army of Darkness series as an example. Schoenmaker has been working on Topps’ Star Wars Galaxy […]
Magic the Gathering intro video becomes YouTube smash
I work in digital marketing so I get to do stuff like monitor which of all the thousands of videos uploaded to YouTube each and every day have been the most successful. There are a lot of gaming videos; Call of Duty, zombies and recently Minecraft. Imagine my surprise, though, when I saw one og […]
Augmented Reality CCG – Drako
I remember Eye of Judgement well. I never played it – but I saw friends beginning to dabble with it. It was a collectable card game that the PS Eye turned into something special. The camera would scan the cards being used in the game and provide some pretty cool animations. The game was closed […]
An introduction to Runespell Overture via Powercards
I’ll say this for Runespell – I was about 1 minute and 30 seconds into watching this video when it occured to me I was actually just watching a card game. It speaks very well to the design of the game that its fun enough to watch for a while. I imagine gameplay will be […]
