MMOHut, "Oh internet, whatever would we do without you? Once upon a time if I wanted to play a board or card game I had to use something called a ‘telephone’ to ‘call’, as it were, a friend to see whether they were free to play. Needless to say that when I first started playing Magic: The Gathering, arguably the world’s most famous collectible card game (CCG)..."
Despite its storied history, it has been hard to make a good Magic: The Gathering video game. Even the best-ranked game isn't very good.
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.