Posts Tagged ‘cards’
EA Announces Competitive Pricing for Battleforge
Electronic Arts Inc. has released a new competitive pricing for gamers regarding its real-time strategy game Battleforge. For $29.99, gamers can experience the magical realm that comes with four ready-made faction decks based on the four elements in the game – Fire, Frost, Nature and Shadow and 3000 BattleForge points.
The BattleForge Points allow players to buy an additional 12 booster packs bringing the box total to 160 cards. Players can use BattleForge Points to purchase new cards in booster packs. Booster packs contain eight cards – 5 common, 2 un-common, 1 rare or ultra rare, all for just 250 BattleForge points. This dynamic system allows players to customize their RTS experience with content that can be purchased at their own discretion.
“BattleForge is a specialized RTS which has so much more to offer to the players whether they are straight up RTS fans or collectible card gamers. The battles are becoming more epic as the players’ skills are advancing,” said Producer Michael Krach, “There has never been a better time to get into the action on BattleForge.”
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Free Realms to get trading card game
What? You didn’t see this coming? I mean, FreeRealms is marketed almost dominantly towards kids so it’s no surprise Sony has taken appropriate action.
Anyways, it was recently announced that a deal between Sony Online Entertainment and Topps was inked resulting in a FreeRealms trading card game.
The first batch shiped to retailers includes 180 different trading cards broken down into both booster packs and starter decks. Kotaku is reporting that the starter deck will sell for $9.99 and include 40 cards, a playmat, an exlusive in-game pet, t-shirt and racing cart. The booster pack, however, will ship with just cards and will sell for $3.99.
The real thing that will have kids coming back for more, however, is that eat set will include a loot card which players can redeem for a virtual items.
Armor Wars Game Review–Good Card Game, Bad Name
Over at Armor Games, I’ve found a piece that might well help if you’ve been jonesing for Magic the Gathering lately–it’s called Armor Wars.
I found it at least a little odd that Armor Games is hosting a game called Armor Wars–can we get just a little more self-referential? Come on!–but the game itself is at least fun enough. Basically, it’s a card game, or approximation thereof, in which you play different cards with different effects in an attempt to take out your opponent’s castle. Or “life points” if you favor the M:TG lingo. You’ll get to work with creatures, direct damage, and spell effects to generate the various points you need to activate your cards.
This is, of course, fairly standard–anyone who’s played Magic in the last ten years will pick this game up and run with it. Most of what decides a win or a loss, sadly, is the luck of the draw, but it’s still a good casual time waster. Online play is also available, so you’re not just stuck taking on the computer.
Basically, Armor Wars is a surprisingly fun time that’s easy to pick up and play as long as you understand a few basics.
Capcom announces pre-paid Visa cards
Joystiq has recently gotten word from Capcom that they are preparing to launch a line of game-branded Visa debit cards.
Entitled the Capcom Unity Card, this “rechargable” debit card will feature Capcom games like Resident Evil 5 and Street Fighter IV. Apparantly for every 1 dollar you put on the Unity Card you will get 5 Capcom Unity Points.
Capcom has things like raffles, contests, and other rewards to spend our Unity Points on in the works. The official website for the card is set to be www.capcom-unity-card.com but it has apparently not gone live yet, currently showing a blank page.