In Charge Large, you graduate from a gold credit card to a platinum card to a “dare to dream” black card. You win the game if you have a black card, $2500, and no debt.

The designers started working on the game before the current economic climate, but now may not be a bad time to learn the lessons. Although it looks like it plays like a souped up version of Monopoly.

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Epic is a TCG set for release next month. It was designed by former Magic pro-tour members.

Epic does away with the ramp-up you see in Magic and other games. Each card is powerful and can be played at no cost; you can simply only play one card per round.

Although no official games of Epic have ever been played, it already has a banned list.

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Geek Fight is a CCG (I don’t think that it’s actually collectible) lampooning the game industry, with gamer stereotypes and humor – as well as advertisements – on each card. It plays like an ordinary CCG.

The second edition – The Final Battle: Angry Video Game Nerd Vs Nostalgia Critic – has gone into print as two playable 20 card decks. Both decks are $7, and first edition decks are still only $1 each.

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4Kids Entertainment has announced that you can now get their Chaotic CCG cards in approximately 1,000 7-Eleven stores around the US.

The Chaotic site also announced their 50 millionth card upload, 3.5 million unique visits, 1.25 million registered users, and 150,000 ranked players.

Here’s a recent writeup in the LA Times.

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Visions of Essence is a small RPG company with big ideas and a grand RPG setting. Their game, Eoris Essence, will require only a single core book when it is released later this month, but if the previews and web site are any indication, that book will be stunning! It’s a good thing too, because the background story—a war between earlier and later generations of angels over the fate of the universe—absolutely requires such treatment to do it justice. The system, while clearly designed to handle combat well, also looks to be quite supportive of a focus on roleplaying and the development of complex characters. There are tools for describing a character’s phsychological profile and tracking a character’s emotional state.

A discount on preorders is being offered through March 10th. And for more information, take a look at the Living Dice blog for a preliminary review and interview with the publisher.

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