February 19, 2008

Magic: The Gathering Coming to a PC/Xbox360 Near You

Trading Card Games on Windows and console systems seems to be all the rage these days. But this news is substantial.

""We're excited to bring the Magic brand to new platforms and give our fans new ways to experience this great property," said Jared Gustafson, Brand Director for Magic: The Gathering at Wizards of the Coast. "It's partnerships like these that will advance the strategy games category and transform it to meet the needs and desires of today's digital gamers.""

Magic: Online is getting pretty dated, and the "new" revision has been in the work for years now. Years! Like two to three. The fact that Wizards of the Coast hopes to expand their enterprise onto multiple systems leads us to believe they're finally getting serious about bringing the game into the digital forefront. Good for them, and good for us. Now Upper Deck just needs to make an online game out of the World of Warcraft TCG franchise and we'll call it a clean sweep.

Oh wait.

Tomorrow we promise to get back to some board gaming news, but for today this was too big to pass up.

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