Konami has revealed what winning the upcoming OTS Championship at local card shops around the country, in addition to an invitation to next year’s World Championship Qualifier, will net you. Ain’t it beautiful?
The first OTSC happens around the country on September 28th. Check with your local game shop to see if they’ll be hosting it or another one in the future.
So, uh, this is a thing. Words cannot describe the confusion that comes with this list.
Shriek and a bunch of other sources have confirmed the list that’s been floating around the internet for the past few days as the Official Forbidden & Limited List for the OCG. It’s essentially going to be the same here in the TCG (which will be released officially this upcoming Tuesday, August 20th), so we can finally breathe easy and start preparing for the upcoming format. The list and link is past the jump.
If you’ve got a little bit of time on your hands, feel free to watch any of the premier card game events happening this weekend. Links below.
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If you didn’t know already, PST is Pacific Daylight Time (West Coast right now), and EDT is Eastern Daylight Time (East Coast right now).
As detailed in Da Nu’s yesterday, Mega-Pokemon are going to be a new feature in Pokemon X and Y. We now have an official trailer that hints at how our new Super-Saiyan overlords exist and function in the game world. At first glance it looks to be through a held item called the Mega Stone, and as noted in the CoroCoro leaks yesterday only the appearance and Abilities of the Pokemon themselves change. There are more details about these Mega-Pokemon in the trailer below so give it a look-see.
Reignbeauxdash here with some of the top stories this week in news from the video gaming world.
From the Vault: Twenty Full List Revealed
Wizards has finally released the entire list for FTV: 20 and it’s … a Jace reprint cleverly disguised as 20 years of Magic history! Good luck getting one at MSRP ($39.99) when it releases on the 23rd of August. Other cards of note include Dark Ritual, Thran Dynamo, and Gilded Lotus. The entire list is below, in order of year relevant to Magic’s history:
So uh … wow. I’m both excited and horribly disappointed. Number 106: Giant Hand is a very good card, and now it’ll only see play in the decks of a very select few.
Number 106: Giant Hand [EARTH]
Rank 4 – Rock/Xyz Effect
2 Level 4 monsters
During either player’s turn, when a monster effect is activated on your opponent’s side of the field: You can detach 2 Xyz Materials from this card, then target 1 face-up Effect Monster your opponent controls; while this card is face-up on the field, its effects are negated, also it cannot change its battle position.2000 ATK/2000 DEF
Hello there! I’m reignbeauxdash, and starting today I’ll be handling a lot of the writing for both card games and video games here on Kadare. I’ll give myself a formal introduction in a bit, but today was a pretty big day in news so let’s get down to it.
Today in news from your favorite collectable card games:
It’s “the Nu’s”…get it?
Welcome to In the Nu’s where we give a brief synopsis of some of the day’s top stories throughout the fandom.
Famous Mangaka Eiichiro Oda was admitted to the hospital earlier today and as a result the popular One Piece manga will be placed on a brief 2 week hiatus. He is reported to have been admitted with a case of peritonsillar abscess and is expected to make a complete recovery in time for the June 10th issue of Shonen Jump.
[via Kotaku]
Microsoft unveils it’s new next gen console today at 10:00 AM PDT. For more information about what to expect for the ‘Nextbox’ check the link below. Inb4 Call Of Shooty: The Shootening: Revengeance…
[Kotaku]
The first ever Japan Film Festival of San Francisco will run from July 27th to August 4th and will host director Shinsuke Sato (of the GANTZ movie fame) on the U.S. premier of his new Library Wars adaptation . Among the many films being aired during the festival, the list includes the live action adaptations of Rurouni Kenshin, Space Battleship Yamato, Himizu and Helter Skelter (a personal fave of yours truly).
RK
Yamato
Helter Skelter
The festival will also have showings of animated films including the Tiger and Bunny movie, Wolf Children and HunterxHunter: Phantom Rogue.
T&B
For more news on the festival see the link below.
Namaste Nerds!
Who the Heck is Ayumu Kasuga? 