In the upcoming real-time strategy game BattleForge, you will purchase packs of virtual cards that can be unleashed in the game at any time. Developer EA Phenomic is hoping that collecting rare and powerful cards will be as addictive for players of BattleForge as it has been for fans of Magic: The Gathering, the collectible fantasy card game that has upward of 6 million players. Booster packs of eight cards will contain common, uncommon, rare, and ultrarare cards, and EA estimates that the packs will cost less than $5 each.
Theshigen writes "Battleforge was a rather novel idea. It combined collectable card game mechanics with real-time strategy, something new and fresh back in 2009. It's been re-released today as Skylords Reborn. A fan-made project that's made the gamer, completely free."
1RBC: This has been a pretty exciting week for game news- this week, Sony announced that they'd be cutting off Playstation Now support for the Vita, PS3 and every other device that's not a PS4 or PC, some big announcements came out of Nintendo regarding DLC for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild as well as more details about Splatoon 2, and EA has handed over (partial) control of the card/strategy game BattleForge to their fans- all this and more on this week's episode of 1RBC Gaming Weekly.
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