Review by Matt S. I’ve been waiting for this game to be released on the Nintendo 3DS Virtual Console ever since Nintendo announced that it would be bringing classic Game Boy and Game Boy Color games to it. See, of all the attempts to digitise collectible card games, it is…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. It’s a tough battle in the digital CCG market right now. Magic the Gathering remains a permanent presence, of course, but from Hearthstone to Ubisoft’s Might & Magic: Duel of Champions and right through to indie productions such as Infinity Wars, there are plenty of others…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Yu-Gi-Oh! Millennium Duels is an odd game. In an era where collectible card games (CCGs) are typically free-to-play and focused on multiplayer, Millennium Duels has an up-front cost, doesn’t demand microtransactions after that, and is more focused on the single player experience. As a result, this…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. You just knew that when Blizzard finally decided to step into free-to-play that it would do something that would be both spectacular and expensive. Hearthstone is that; both spectacular and expensive. I want to warn those with addictive personalities in advance; stay well away from this…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Last year we covered an upcoming collectible card game (CCG), by some talented Australian developers that had the wonderful idea of fully animating all the art work in all the cards. That game, Infinity Wars, needed a lot of work when we played it in a…
Read MoreInterview by Matt S. A couple of ex-EA staff have done something brave indeed; despite having relatively few resources, the team has released Atomic Brawl; a CCG/ miniatures game that is directly taking on a host of other big game developers, not least of which the almighty Blizzard itself. But,…
Read MoreInterview by Matt S. A month or so ago at the EB Games Expo in Sydney, one game really caught out attention, and it wasn’t from one of the triple-A developer or publishers; it was home-grown digital card game, Infinity Wars. Here was a PC game with real ambition, and…
Read MorePreview by Matt S. There’s no shortage of digital collectible card games (CCGs). From Magic: The Gathering and Might & Magic: Duel of Champions right through to little indie efforts like Orbs CCG, this is a genre that is remarkably good for game developers for two reasons; it keeps people…
Read MoreReview by Nick H. Reviewing an expansion is always a difficult thing to do. Generally speaking, they do not stack up quite as well in value when comparing the expansion to a base game. That is the same with the new expansion for Magic 2014. I reviewed the original game to…
Read MoreWhen Card Hunter was pointed out to me, the idea of a web browser collectible card game with strategy elements held immediate appeal for me. I really did not know what to expect – some sort of a Magic: The Gathering Tactics game? That was what I was hoping for,…
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