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Woman Leaves Yu-Gi-Oh Event Because It Smelled Horrible
11.4.2024
A woman went viral on social media after claiming she left a Yu-Gi-Oh card game event due to how terrible many of the other players smelled. Read more
Triple Triad Finally Has A Successor In FF7 Rebirth’s Queen’s Blood
22.2.2024
Though the Final Fantasy series is infamous for its minigames, it’s never delivered something better than the Final Fantasy VIII card game Triple Triad—until now. Final Fantasy VII Rebirth is bursting with more mini-games than you can handle, and while many of them are forgettable, Queen’s Blood...
Pokémon 151 Is Beautiful, But Pull Rates Are Rough
21.9.2023
Pokémon 151 is surely the most anticipated set of the long-running Pokémon Trading Card Game in years. Featuring the original 151 Kanto Pokémon, united into one single set for the first time ever, it’s finally out on September 22. With some of the most beautiful cards we’ve ever seen in the live...
Disney's Magic: The Gathering Clone Now Has A Fan-Made Digital App
22.8.2023
Lorcana, Disney’s trading card game, has transformed from a physical experience to a digital one thanks to a fan-made app out now on PC.Read more
Disney's Magic: The Gathering Clone Now Has A Fan-Made Digital App
22.8.2023
Lorcana, Disney’s trading card game, has transformed from a physical experience to a digital one thanks to a fan-made app out now on PC.Read more
Men Simply Walk Away With $300,000 Of Stolen Magic: The Gathering Cards
9.8.2023
During Gen Con, an annual tabletop gaming convention held yearly at the Indiana Convention Center, some thieves made off with a substantial amount of Magic: The Gathering cards worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. Read more
Yu-Gi-Oh! Is Faltering, But Fans Feel Konami's Ignoring Them
14.7.2023
During a recent Konami shareholder meeting, the game company’s president addressed concerns that its latest free-to-play Yu-Gi-Oh! game, Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel, has negatively affected the franchise’s growth. A shareholder noted that Master Duel’s play style poorly translates to the popular trading...
Hearthstone Is Randomly Awarding Some Players A Ton Of Free Packs
8.7.2022
It’s been a hot minute since I traded rungs in the middle of the Hearthstone seasonal ranked ladder. But some players who recently returned to Blizzard’s take on Magic: The Gathering were greeted with a generous surprise: dozens of free card packs. Before you go getting your hopes up, however,...
What Yu-Gi-Oh Meant For Immigrant Duelists
7.7.2022
Yu-gi-oh never reached the same heights of global mainstream acceptability as Pokémon. The art had a bold style that never fell in line with mass market appeal, and each generation of cards came with a new convoluted ruleset that often stumped even the most dedicated fans. Yet the trading card game...
The Creator Of Yu-Gi-Oh Has Died
7.7.2022
Manga artist Kazuki Takahashi, best known as the creator of the Yu-Gi-Oh series (and the popular card game it’s based on), has been found dead.Read more
Witcher Devs Announce New Single-Player Gwent Roguelike, Out Tomorrow
6.7.2022
One of my favorite things to do in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt was chasing down card sharks to crush beneath my heel. Gwent, a fantasy card game within the world of The Witcher 3, was so satisfying that I would boot up the action RPG just to play a few rounds of it. I was positively thrilled when...
New Marvel Card Game From Ex-Hearthstone Devs Plays Fast As Hell
19.5.2022
Announced today, Marvel Snap looks like a chaotic but fun digital trading card game (TCG) featuring popular Marvel heroes and villains. It’s also the next game from some of the key folks behind Blizzard’s popular digital card game Hearthstone, who left to form their own studio a few years back....
The New Yu-Gi-Oh! Card Game Is Taking Over The Steam Charts
26.1.2022
Trading card game Yu-Gi-Oh! has been around since 1999 and Konami has been putting out video games versions of the TCG for just as long. So why is the free-to-play Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel, released with little fanfare last week, hitting so hard there are a couple hundred thousand people playing it...
Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel Is Some Damn Fine (And Free) Card Fighting
24.1.2022
I love the mechanics of Konami’s long-running collectible card game Yu-Gi-Oh!, but I’m too impatient to wade through banal anime tales of pointy-haired teens learning about friendship and sportsmanship in order to get my collectible card game fix. Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel, the free-to-play game...
There's A New (And Free) Digital Pokémon Card Game Coming
20.9.2021
It’s actually happening: The Pokémon Company is finally giving the world a straightforward way to play the Pokémon trading card game digitally, online, and on your smartphone. Announced today, the new app is called Pokémon TCG Live and it couldn’t be coming at a better time with the Pokémon card...
Fans Upset At Magic: The Gathering Arena's Special New Digital Cards
27.7.2021
Coming to Magic: The Gathering Arena on August 12, the Jumpstart: Historic Horizons expansion adds a trio of new game mechanics that only work in the digital version of the popular trading card game, along with 31 new digital only cards. The move away from traditional paper is rubbing some fans...
Konami Fires Soccer Star After Racism Controversy
8.7.2021
Last month, Barcelona and France star Antoine Griezmann was announced as a global ambassador for Yu-Gi-Oh! He’s now been dropped from that role after a video emerged of a teammate saying some pretty bad shit to their Japanese hotel staff.Read more
Antoine Griezmann Is An Yu-Gi-Oh! Ambassador
14.6.2021
When not playing Football Manager the hard way, Barcelona and France striker Antoine Griezmann is playing soccer. When he’s not doing that, he might be watching Yu-Gi-Oh! But does he play it? Hrm...Read more
Yu-Gi-Oh! Collection Auctioned As Revenge On Cheating Husband, Apparently
14.4.2021
Recently on Yahoo! Auctions Japan, a seller posted images of unopened Yu-Gi-Oh! cards, writing the following: “This is the first time I’ve sold something (here). I putting up my husband’s collection as revenge for getting cheated on.”Read more
Black Is Magic: How Magic: The Gathering Is Transforming One Teacher’s Game Club
13.4.2021
On the wall in Mike Lawton’s classroom rests a cardboard cut-out of a Black man. It’s not Martin Luther King Jr. or any other famous Black figure from history—it’s a mage—dark skinned and powerful-looking as a spell shoots from his fingertips. It’s Teferi, one of Magic: The Gathering’s most...