Final Fantasy TCG Opus XIII: Crystal Radiance booster pack out now

Opus XIII: Crystal Radiance, the newest collection in the Final Fantasy Trading Card Game, is now available in North America. Final Fantasy TCG is a trading card game developed by Square Enix and Hobby Japan. The first iteration is known as the “Chapter” series. It was published in Japan back in 2011 but never released … Read more

Magic: The Gathering Arena adds Strixhaven School of Mages card set

Strixhaven: School of Mages is now available to play in Magic: The Gathering Arena. As the first card set to launch since Magic: The Gathering Arena released on mobile, Strixhaven: School of Mages introduces 275 cards. It is a card set focused around a multiversal wizard’s college. Players are set to join one of five colleges, each named … Read more

Crimson Company fully funded, Wildwood Tales expansion coming to mobile

After garnering the support of over a thousand backers, the German indie game studio Crimson Company raised $28.7k for their eponymous video game. That’s more than 559% of its original goal that the studio set last week on Kickstarter. Dario and Fabian are the teams behind Crimson Company. These two indie developers are professional video game designers … Read more

Exploding Kittens lands on Nintendo Switch

The popular card game Exploding Kittens is making its way to video game consoles via the Nintendo Switch. In a surprise announcement, the game just launched. Exploding Kittens started as a card game with a Kickstarter campaign. Seeking $10K through Kickstarter, the campaign raised an amazing $8.7M in 30 days from 219,000 backers. To date, … Read more

Vulgord’s Tower is a card-based RPG from a father-and-son indie developer

We’re big fans of indie developers here at Game Freaks 365. So when we heard about Vulgord’s Tower from a father and son duo – Brian and Gage Magar – we wanted to share their story. The pair began work on Vulgord’s Tower when Gage was just eleven years old and together spent nearly four … Read more

Charizard Pokémon card sells for $311,800

If you’re a Millennial, you probably fondly recall kids trading Pokémon cards at school during lunch or on the playground during recess. The most sought-after of the original Pokémon Trading Card Game cards was a holographic Charizard. And if your parents told you that you were wasting your money buying all of those cards, let them … Read more

Crit for the Cure: the*gameHERs livestream for Breast Cancer Research Foundation

The women-led gaming community the*gameHERs is partnering with the Breast Cancer Research Foundation for their Crit for the Cure fundraising in honor of Women’s History Month. Starting today, Crit for the Cure is a three-day series of live-streamed tabletop games. The gaming community can watch the*gameHERs and other names in the industry play one-shot role-playing … Read more

SXSW Gaming Awards 2021 winners

The winners of the SXSW Gaming Awards 2021 have been revealed. SXSW partnered with IGN to produce the SXSW Gaming Awards show. It was broadcast on Saturday, March 20 via livestreams on ign.com, twitch.tv/sxswgaming, and twitch.tv/ign. The 2021 SXSW Gaming Awards include 43 nominees across 12 different categories. Winners of the awards are determined through … Read more

Wizards of the Coast announces Magic cards in support of Black Girls Code

Wizards of the Coast is celebrating Black History Month with new Magic: The Gathering cards. The set is called Secret Lair: Black Is Magic. The card drop celebrates and supports different expressions of black identity with proceeds supporting a good cause. Each Black Is Magic set comes with seven borderless cards available in foil and or non-foil formats. A black … Read more

SXSW Gaming Awards 2021 nominees announced

The nominees for the eighth annual SXSW Gaming Awards have been revealed. SXSW has partnered with IGN to produce the SXSW Gaming Awards show. It will broadcast on Saturday, March 20 at 7:00 PM Central Time. The show will livestream on ign.com, twitch.tv/sxswgaming, and twitch.tv/ign. “Gaming is a key part of the creative ecosystem that … Read more

Frostpunk: The Board Game has raised $2.3 million on Kickstarter

Frostpunk: The Board Game is going to become a reality. The game approaches its Kickstarter campaign deadline on October 29 with over 1,000 percent of its funding achieved. We’ve been following Frostpunk: The Board Game since it was announced in June. The game quickly blew past its Kickstarter goal within 54 minutes of launching the … Read more

Necromunda: Underhive Wars Review

Necromunda: Underhive Wars is based on the recent re-release of the original ’90s skirmish tabletop game produced by Games Workshop. Developed by Rogue Factor, the game has released on PC, PS4, and Xbox One after a troubled development. For the most part, there aren’t many obvious signs of this though. The game’s campaign is the … Read more

Frostpunk: The Board Game blows past Kickstarter goal within 54 minutes

Fans must really want to get their hands on Frostpunk: The Board Game. The tabletop adaptation of the survival city-builder was fully funded on Kickstarter within an hour. “It took exactly 54 minutes to reach the initial 200,000 Euro goal once the Kickstarter launched earlier today,” developer 11 Bit Studios announced. “In the upcoming days, … Read more

Tiny Build buys Hello Neighbor developer

Tiny Build has acquired Dynamic Pixels, the developer of Hello Neighbor. Tiny Build says that they plan to invest over $15 million into the franchise, which includes the investment into the development studio. The new team is called Eerie Guest Studios and is based in Hilversum, Netherlands. “We are working on more acquisitions to strengthen … Read more

Escape the Night: The Board Game is based on the hit YouTube series

YouTube star Joey Graceffa has partnered with Studio 71 Games to expand the Escape the Night universe with an all-new board game. Graceffa – who has over 12 million subscribers on his channel – is perhaps best known for his YouTube series Escape the Night. In its fourth season, the murder-mystery series won Best Unscripted Series at … Read more

Sugar Heist Review: A family-friend card game with cute candy currency

Sugar Heist is a card game with an interesting backstory. According to the game’s creator, the idea first came after one of their best friends became pregnant. The initial premise of the game was dark and creepy. On the game’s Kickstarter page, it recalls that comedian Alex Clark – one of the co-creators of Sugar … Read more

Frostpunk is getting a board game

The best-selling survival city-builder game Frostpunk is officially getting a board game. Frostpunk: The Board Game is a collaboration between 11 Bit Studios and the Glass Cannon Unplugged, a new tabletop game studio. The board game will provide “tough moral choices, challenging and strategic gameplay, emotion-driven narrative, and snow.” Okay, maybe not real snow. Leading the … Read more

Pokémon Trading Card Game Battle Academy out now

Fans looking to learn the Pokémon Trading Card Game have a new option with the just-released Battle Academy. The Pokémon Company just released the Pokémon Trading Card Game Battle Academy. Each box comes with three complete decks, tutorial guides, a rulebook, and a game board. There are also a set of damage counters and a … Read more