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Cryptozoic Entertainment Releases DC Comics Deck Building Game: Crisis Expansion Pack 3 this Week

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DC Comics Deck Building Game Crisis Expansion Pack 3Cryptozoic Entertainment this week releases the DC Comics Deck Building Game: Crisis Expansion Pack 3. After successful releases in this product line, including standalone versions as well as expansion and crossover packs, increased consumer demand for new game content continues.

The newest add-on release within the DC Comics Deck-Building game line, the Crisis Expansion Pack 3 will release on March 2 and is fully compatible with all previous standalone releases of the product line. The expansion pack adds further customization to the game.

In the DC Comics Deck-building Game Crisis Expansion Pack 3, players will face some of the most epic challenges, events, and destructive forces in the history of the DC Comics universe. Players will find 14 “Impossible Mode” Crime Syndicate Super-Villains to battle against and Crisis versions of eight oversized characters such as Lex Luthor, Sinestro, Bane and many more. Also included are six new playable oversized characters and new main deck cards for competitive players.

This Crisis Pack features two unique modes of cooperative play, one is a completely cooperative mode, where players all work together to overcome challenges and foes. The other is a “Hidden Objective” mode, which has never before been seen in a deck-building game. The Suicide Squad makes its debut in this game as playable oversized characters. With this team, it seems someone always has their own agenda when they take on a mission. In this mode, players are still working together, but everyone has their own definition of what a win means. One player may be secretly working against the rest of the team.

This is not a standalone product. DC Comics Deck-building Game, Heroes Unite, Forever Evil, or Teen Titans is required to play.

  • Number of Players: 2-5
  • For Ages: 15+
  • Playing Time: 30-45 minutes
  • Retail Price: $20
  • Fully compatible with the original set, Heroes Unite, Forever Evil, and Teen Titans
  • Two unique modes of co-operative play
  • Eight oversized crisis versions of Super-Villain characters originally found in “Forever Evil”
  • Six all-new playable oversized Super-Villain characters
  • Impossible Mode” Super-Villains

Fireside Games Announces Summer Release – Dastardly Dirigibles

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Fireside Games is excited to announce a third product release for 2016. This summer they will release Dastardly Dirigibles, a Steampunk airship building game! Professor Phineas Edmund Hornswoggle, famed airship builder, is retiring and you are an engineer competing to inherit the Hornswoggle factory!

This game features tarot-sized cards that are played in a constant action format where each time a part is added, ALL players MUST add the SAME part–which may replace an existing one. Build your airship from different parts of 9 beautiful suits, using Special cards to your advantage or to thwart your opponents. The round ends when the first airship is complete. But you score only the suit used most in your airship. The player with the highest score after 3 rounds wins!

Dastardly Dirigibles will be available in July and will retail for $19.95. It can accommodate 2-5 players, ages 8 and up, and plays in approximately one hour.

Dastardly Dirigibles joins Bears! and Here, Kitty, Kitty! as part of their line of fun, friendly competitive games under $25.

Unboxing: DC Comics Deck-Building: Crossover Expansion Pack 4: Watchmen

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Cryptozoic‘s DC Comics Deck-Building game is one of our favorite deck-building games out there. With each release they slowly add new mechanics, as well as new characters, that always change up the game just enough to make it feel fresh, but never over the top to make it feel like something completely different.

The company’s latest Crossover Expansion features cards based on the classic graphic novel Watchmen.

We open up the pack and go over the cards, talking about the new mechanics, and what they might bring to the game.

DC Comics Deck-building Game Crossover Pack 4: Watchmen Out Now

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DC Comics Deck-building Game Crossover Pack 4 Watchmen1986’s Watchmen is one of the most celebrated stories in the history of comics. And now that world is available as a new Crossover Pack for the DC Comics Deck-Building Game. This expanded Crossover pack includes Hidden Roles, Villainous Machinations, Challenge Cards, Mastermind Plots, plus new main deck cards and new oversized Super Hero cards.

This Watchmen set adds a new element to deck-building games: Hidden Roles! As in the original story, one of the members of the team has their own ideas on the best way to solve the world’s problems. The Villain must work towards his or her secret plot while not making it too obvious. “Loyal” players will strive to overcome various challenges, though the “Villain” of the story can disguise his or her intentions by helping with these challenges as well. Should the Mastermind Plot become hatched, the Loyal players will certainly have their work cut out for them…

It adds yet another way to enjoy the DC Comics Deck-Building Game with a new mechanic that you can choose when you’d like and with set you’d like.

You’ll need a base game to use it, and we’ll have our review soon.

Cards Against Humanity Highlights Unfair Working Conditions

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social-3f4a4c57Cards Against Humanity is a game which folks either love or loathe. As a company, they wear their politics on their sleeve regularly talking about donating to charities or starting a scholarship fund to get women involved in STEM careers.

This year the card game is holding another holiday tie-in, this time sending eight gifts in honor of Hanukkah. The gifts have been a range of items including socks, some game cards, and in the sixth package a comic and items from their printer in China including photos and a letter regarding the two’s relationship.

The company included a long letter about the manufacturer saying as their printing has grown, so has the printer. But, what’s interesting is the company’s focus on the wages and working conditions, both of which are “excellent.” What they have done different though is give the workers something they don’t have, a paid vacation.

Below is the letter included with the package:

Like many of the physical products we buy, Cards Against Humanity and most of these gifts are made in China. This is something a lot of companies don’t like to draw attention to, and as a result Americans often don’t see the labor that goes into the things they buy. But we’ve always viewed the way our stuff is made as a part of who we are.

Our printer in China has grown with us from a small business to a huge operation, and it’s important to us to go above and beyond our obligation to the workers who make our game. While our factory provides excellent wages and working conditions, Chinese working conditions are generally more strict. This year, we used the money from one day of our holiday promotion to give our workers something very uncommon in China: a paid vacation.

The printer didn’t have any formal procedures for paid vacations, so we bought 100% of the factory’s capacity and paid them to produce nothing for a week, giving the people who make CAH an unexpected chance to visit family or do whatever they pleased.

This doesn’t undo the ways that all of us profit from unfair working conditions around the world, but it’s a step in the right direction. Enclosed you’ll find some thank-you notes and vacation photos from our factory staff.

Happy holidays!

– Cards Against Humanity

Bravo to the CAH team, and think about this small act when making gift purchases this holiday season.

A New Magic: The Gathering Set Announced for April

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Shadows of InnistradApril 8 sees a new release for Magic: The Gathering. Wizards of the Coast announced the new 297 card set which is the first in the next block for the popular collectible card game. Dubbed Shadows Over Innistrad the set will see its pre-release April 2-3 and Launch Weekend events April 8-10. There’s also an official Game Day planned for April 30-May 1 as well as a Magic Online version April 18, with pre-release events April 15-18.

The set will be released in Booster Packs, Intro Packs, Fat Packs, Deck Builder’s Toolkits, and Gift Boxes.

Before this set sees release, the second half of the Battle of Zendikar block, Oath of the Gatewatch, releases January 22.

Battle for Zendikar is Out Now!

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Battle for Zendikar 1Today marks the release of the highly-anticipated Battle for Zendikar set expansion for the world’s most popular trading card game, Magic: The Gathering. More than 20 million Magic players and fans worldwide will be excited to return to the fan favorite plane of Zendikar, where allied teams of elves, vampires and humans struggle against the monstrous alien Eldrazi, who are threatening the entire world with destruction. Some of Magic‘s most iconic hero Planeswalkers, the Zendikari people and even the land itself battle to reclaim their world starting today Friday, October 2.

You’ll want to check in and head to your local game shop this weekend as many are hosting special events for the launch.

For those interested in the set, certain packs of the Battle for Zendikar set will include a very rare version of some of Magic‘s well-known cards. Called Zendikar Expeditions, these cards have gorgeous foil art featuring the beautiful Zendikari landscapes.

On October 16-18 you’ll also be able to watch some of Magic‘s best pro-players battle for the top spot in the Pro Tour Battle for Zendikar!

The December 11-13, the 2015 World Magic Cup is happening in Barcelona, Spain! Check out the event page to see where to watch the stream.

The Legion of Super-Heroes is out now for the DC Comics Deck-Building Game

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DC Comics Deck-building Game Crossover Pack 3 Legion of Super-HeroesA legion of young guns from the DC Universe are ready for their time in the spotlight! Play as a founding member of the Legion of Super-Heroes: Lightining Lad, Saturn Girl, Cosmic Boy, and more in the DC Comics Deck-Building Game! Take on Super-Villains like Time Trapper, Emerald Empress, Persuader, and many others. Find interesting new Heroes, Villains, Equipment, Super Powers, and Locations in this set as well.

For those who have never played the DC Comics Deck-Building Game, you use a starting hand of cards to buy new cards… building your deck. You’re goal? Beating a group of DC super villains and in the end gaining more points than your opponent. The DC Comics Deck-Building Game Crossover Pack 3: Legion of Super-Heroes adds new mechanics to the game, and the crossover packs aren’t a game unto themselves. You’ll need the main DC Comics Deck-Building Game, Heroes Unite, Forever Evil, or Teen Titans to play. Each game comes with their own unique spin.

This set features an exciting new keyword sure to throw DC Deck-building Game players for a loop. A time loop, that is! The keyword is Time Travel, and almost every card in this set has it. A Time Travel card can be played while in the Line-Up or on the Super-Villain stack at the cost of discarding a card from hand. It will give you a bonus for the turn, but then you can’t buy or gain that card. Players will have interesting decisions to make each turn. If you use a Time Travel ability, it limits your purchase options, and it also means the next player will be able to use that Time Travel card as well. Now you need brains, skill, and timing to beat your foes!

You can get the expansion now.

 

 

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Upper Deck Releases Legendary Encounters: A Predator Deck Building Game

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Upper-Deck-Legendary-Deck-Building-Game-Encounters-PredatorUpper Deck and Twentieth Century Fox Consumer Products have officially released Legendary Encounters: A Predator Deck Building Game, which is sure to become an instant hit with both Predator fans and gamers around the world.

This new release brings an exciting and unique element of gameplay to the popular Legendary Deck Building games, allowing players to choose a fully cooperative mode or fully competitive mode of play. In cooperative mode, players take on the role of the Humans and work together to complete objectives, stay alive and defeat the Predator.  In competitive mode, the basic game mechanics are the same, but players take on the role of the Predators, whose objective is to hunt their prey and earn the most honor.

The new game takes you through Predator 1 and 2 and is 100% compatible with Legendary Encounters: an Alien Deck Building Game.

Designed for 1 to five players, the game includes 700 cards featuring all new original art, a full color 33” x 14” game mat and color rule book, with a retail price of $59.99.

Get the game today!

 

 

 

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Fantasy Flight Nabs Legends of the Five Rings from AEG

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Fantasy Flight GamesWe didn’t see this one comic. Alderac Entertainment Group (AEG) and Fantasy Flight Games have come to a deal where Fantasy Flight will purchase Legend of the Five Rings from AEG.

L5R has been a popular game for two decades, and their events at Gen Con are always packed, so the deal is a bit of a shocker to me. Fantasy Flight has said it expects its first product for the relaunch will be for Gen Con 2017, and the game will be a Living Card Game (LCG) instead of a collectible card game (CCG).

AEG has cited their focus on other things beyond the CCG as a reason for the deal. Fantasy Flight does have a history with the property, and I’d expect to see it in more than just an LCG.

The current incarnation of the Legend of the Five Rings CCG will be complete with the release of the Evil Portents expansion from AEG. After that release, the game will go on hiatus until FFG relaunches it.

For players unfamiliar with the LCG model, a Living Card Game offers regular, non-randomized releases that include full playsets of every card. In its new form, Legend of the Five Rings will use this release format, rather than “blind” boosters that contain randomly assigned rare, uncommon, and common cards. Instead of spending their time chasing hard-to-find cards, the LCG distribution model allows players to focus on building decks by buying a single expansion that includes a full playset of every card in that expansion.

This will also see significant design changes in the newest version, including a new mechanical design.

(via Bell of Lost Souls, Tabletop Game News, Fantasy Flight)

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