Nepenthe Games is now working on a gothic horror roleplaying game called Nevermore. It won’t be ready for Halloween, but its own crowdfunding campaign is at least seasonally timely. The game became pledge-able two days ago and has already blown past its initial goal.
Last year Renegade Studios introduced the Power Rangers Deck Building Game, a multiplayer experience where participants assume the roles of popular PR heroes and villains and do battle via the slapping of cardboard. The deck has grown in size since the core set was released…an expansion based on the Zeo season came soon after, and now Renegade is preparing to release the second expansion, based on Power Rangers RPM.
Last December we alerted our readers to the existence of a Kickstarter meant to fund three card games based on the art of Steven Rhodes. We were almost too late to report on them as the campaign was on its last day. But if we didn’t manage to inform you about it soon enough, and you missed your shot to pledge, there’s good news: the games are officially out as legitimate retail products, thanks to Cryptozoic.
Fight Your Friends is a new Tabletop One-on-One Card-Battling Game from Cold War, Inc. In Fight Your Friends, you’ll try to build the ultimate crew from a deck of cards, play them against your opponent, who is trying to do the same and then see what insanity ensues as your crew’s abilities stack.
Most people play RPGs to escape the slings and arrows of the real world, but the new PC video card game Dungeons & Deadlines takes the opposite approach.
The Final Fantasy Trading Card Game has shipped over 200 million cards worldwide, but it’s not showing any signs of slowing down. The latest expansion for the game, Opus X, has just been released, adding new art featuring characters from Final Fantasies 3, 9, 11, 12, and the mobile game Brave Exvius. This art has been crafted by the following Final Fantasy veteran artists:
Chilean game studio Niebla Games has announced that their upcoming online collectible card game, Causa: Voices of the Dusk, will be shown to the world the weekend of November 22. And you’ll get the chance to try it the very next day!
Tabletop card game makers Cryptozoic will be showing off their new lineup later this week at SPIEL 19, a convention in Essen, Germany. The aforementioned Batman Ninja Deck-Building Game will be there, alongside the company’s other DC offerings like Rebirth, and their lineup of Rick and Morty card games including the new deck based on the episode “Look Who’s Purging Now.”
Superfriends ran on multiple networks throughout its decade-plus existence. Superheroes and comic books were as popular with children as they’ve ever been, but under the heavy thumb of strict Saturday Morning censorship, this kind of silly camp was about all you could do with DC superheroes in the 70s and early 80s. These days, with Zack Snyder’s grimdark universe representing Superman and Batman on the big screen, Superfriends has a quaint charm to it.
Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales was released by CD Projekt Red late last month on Steam. Upon its release the game received rave reviews, which you can see in CD Projekt’s new Accolades Trailer below.
Soon, CD Projekt Red will be branding GWENT: The Witcher Card Game with the “COMPLETED” rubber stamp. It’s exiting beta tomorrow and becoming a full-fledged Steam product, but not before one last giant update, which CDPR has dubbed “Homecoming.”
Goblin Grapple, a new card game from Silver Gaming Company, is on the way. To help with costs, Silver Gaming has launched a crowdfunding campaign that is currently a raging success. Here’s how the game works…