Monthly Archives: November 2018
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How the Final Fantasy Card Game Was Created
The Final Fantasy Trading Card Game is releasing its 7th set in the series this weekend after initial releasing in 2016.
The trading card game has added many characters from the Final Fantasy series such as Crystal Chronicles, Dissidia, and Tactics Advance. With the 2018 World Championships just around the corner on November 24th in London, we interviewed FFTCG and Hobby Japan Producer, Tarou Kageyama, about the game and how it was created.
IGN: For those not familiar with the game, could you give our audience a brief rundown on Final Fantasy TCG?
FFTCG is a one-on-one competitive trading card game based on characters from the FINAL FANTASY series where players utilize familiar characters and monsters to inflict damage on their opponents. It features many characters from both mainline and spin-off games from the series.
How the Final Fantasy Card Game Was Created
The Final Fantasy Trading Card Game is releasing its 7th set in the series this weekend after initial releasing in 2016.
The trading card game has added many characters from the Final Fantasy series such as Crystal Chronicles, Dissidia, and Tactics Advance. With the 2018 World Championships just around the corner on November 24th in London, we interviewed FFTCG and Hobby Japan Producer, Tarou Kageyama, about the game and how it was created.
IGN: For those not familiar with the game, could you give our audience a brief rundown on Final Fantasy TCG?
FFTCG is a one-on-one competitive trading card game based on characters from the FINAL FANTASY series where players utilize familiar characters and monsters to inflict damage on their opponents. It features many characters from both mainline and spin-off games from the series.
Captain Marvel’s Brie Larson Wants to Play Samus in a Metroid Movie
Brie Larson will hit theaters next year as Captain Marvel, and she wouldn't mind jumping into the pilot's seat of another space-faring heroine's franchise.
Larson dressed up as Zero Suit Samus — one of the many, many confirmed characters for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate — for Halloween this year. A fan then tweeted at the Captain Marvel star, asking if this costume would be the closest we'll ever get to a true Metroid movie.
"I hope not," Larson tweeted back. "I want to make that movie."
Diablo: Immortal Met with Negative Response by Fans, Blizzard Responds
UPDATE 11/2: Speaking with IGN at BlizzCon, Blizzard’s Wyatt Cheng responded to the community reaction to Diablo: Immortal’s announcement, as well as the accusations that it’s just a reskin of a previous NetEase mobile game.
“I don’t think mobile should be a dirty word,” Cheng said, explaining that the developers at Blizzard play and enjoy games on all platforms. “When it came to looking at making a new Diablo game, and this opportunity to partner with NetEase to make this – the technology is there, where our mobile phones are more powerful than ever, and they’re capable of top tier gaming experiences.”
Cheng responded to claims that Diablo: Immortal may be a reskin by saying the following: “We’ve been working with NetEase Games from the beginning as a partnership to create everything in Diablo: Immortal. We have artists on our side, they have artists on their side, and we work together as a team, as a partnership to create everything about Diablo: Immortal. The environments, the characters, the skills, the story.”
Pokemon’s Biggest TCG Set Ever Changes Everything
Pokemon just released its biggest Trading Card Game set ever with Sun & Moon: Lost Thunder. At 236 cards, it beats out the previous record holder from 2003, Aquapolis with 186 cards. Lost Thunder is such a big set because instead of combining two Japanese sets into one to be sold in the US, as per usual, it’s combining three -- Explosive Impact, Fairy Rise, and Thunderclap Spark. The result is a gargantuan set, the first to ever break 200 cards in the history of the Pokemon TCG, that includes seven Prism Star cards and 13 Pokemon-GX, plus a handful of Secret Rares.
Lost Thunder is poised to make a huge impact (an explosive impact, even) on the competitive scene. Typically, a set will introduce a couple new deck archetypes, and maybe one of them will be competitively viable, but the sheer size of this set means there are numerous powerful decks all hitting at once. The Standard metagame was just starting to stabilize with the likes of Malamar, Zoroark/Lycanroc, Buzzwole/Lycanroc, Buzzwole/Shrine, and Vikavolt/Rayquaza forming the top tier, but this set shakes everything up with a high number of new cards that are instantly viable. Suddenly we’re in a wild west metagame where the old power structure has been thrown out the window and anything goes.
Fantasy Artists Pay Tribute to Magic: The Gathering
Magic: The Gathering isn't just one of the most popular collectible card games in the world, it's also a showcase for some of the best and brightest fantasy artists in the business. Those artists are taking center stage in a new Magic-themed art show in Los Angeles this weekend. From now until Sunday, November 4, Gallery 1988 is celebrating the franchise's 25th anniversary by showing off dozens of art prints and original works.
If you're not able to make it to the show this weekend, we've put together a gallery of all the art on display. Check them out below:
Most of these pieces are available to purchase on Gallery 1988's website.
Avatar Sequels’ Titles Reportedly Revealed
The titles to the four upcoming sequels to Avatar -- still the highest-grossing movie of all time at the worldwide box office nearly a decade after its release -- have reportedly been revealed.
BBC News claims it "has seen documentation regarding future Avatar plans which makes reference to four specific projects."
According to the outlet, the sequels titles are Avatar: The Way of Water, Avatar: The Seed Bearer, Avatar: The Tulkun Rider and Avatar: The Quest for Eywa.
As the BBC points out, "Eywa in The Quest for Eywa appears to be a reference to the deity and goddess of the Na'vi people who inhabit Pandora."
5 Awesome Local Multiplayer Games on Switch That Don’t Have Mario
Super Mario is the most iconic video game character in history but he also kind of hogs the whole conversation when it comes to multiplayer games on Nintendo systems.
Look, I get it! Mario is awesome! But I’m here to tell you that there a bunch of great multiplayer games you can play on the same couch with your friends on Nintendo Switch right now and none of them rely on Mario.
Here are five very fun local co-op games on Nintendo Switch. Take a nap, Mario.
5. Death Squared
Robotic cubes work together to probably accidentally kill each other.
- Price: $14.99
- Players: 1-4 Players
Ubisoft Developing Child of Light TV Series
Ubisoft has announced that it's working on adapting Child of Light for a live-action television show and Werewolves Within for a live-action movie.
The two projects are part of Ubisoft's Women's Film and Television Fellowship, which was designed to spotlight women working in the entertainment industry. For the inaugural fellowships, Ubisoft selected Tasha Huo to pen a Child of Light pilot and Mishna Wolff to script the Werwolves Within's film.
"This fellowship is about creating more opportunities for emerging female voices in film and television," said Ubisoft Director of Film Development Margaret Boykin in a prepared statement.
Ubisoft Director of Television Development Danielle Kreinik added that the company was "blown away" by Wolff's and Huo's visions. The two writers were granted a six-month development period to explore Ubisoft's library for development ideas while being mentored by Boykin and Kreinik, respectively.