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This one is for all your Trading Card Game enthusiasts. Konami is scheduled to release, Yu-Gi-Oh! Gold Series: Haunted Mine, on June 12. This series is introducing a Gold/Ghost Hybrid card. The hybrid card will be a 3-D holographic image and have a gold border and gold text. The series will be released in boxes of 25 cards for around $19.99. The break down of the pack will be: 1 Gold Ghost Hybrid card; 2 Gold Rare cards; and 22 common cards.
Here is some news for your library’s gamers. WizKids is coming out with Avengers Movie HeroClix. There will be a starter deck and two theme packs, S.H.I.E.L.D. and Hydra. There will be 40 figures for the set.
Let all your gamers know that Pokemon is having a new expansion come out on May 9. The new expansion is called Pokemon: Black & White – Dark Explorers. The expansion deck will have 100 cards to include six new “Pokemon-EX” cards. The expansion will have theme decks at $11.99 and booster packs at $3.99.
Join Richard, Matt, and Chris as we review and discuss Bad Island by Doug TenNapel and, something different this time, the Skylanders video game by Activision.
This June gamers will be able to pick up CAPCOM’s Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor for the XBox 360 Kinect. The release schedule is planned for June 19 in North America, June 21 in Japan, and June 22 in Europe. Thanks to AnimeNews Network and YouTuber CapcomUnityVideos for the trailer.
Let all your Marvel and TCG fans know about the new, Upper Deck, Marvel Trading Card Game Superhero Squad. This product is geared for the younger fans, but your older fans that are into collecting different TCG’s might be interested in this set as well.
Remember to let your TCG fans about the Magic the Gathering, Wizard of the Coast, cards that are packed with IDW’s Magic the Gathering mini series. The cards are pictured above, “Electrolyze” and “Feast of Blood” respectfully.
For those of us that will never get to Comic-Con, Comic-Con Episode IV A Fan’s Hope might be as close as we get. The documentary will have a very limited release and will get most of it’s money from Blu-Ray/DVD sales. This would be one for a library to get, so patrons that have expressed an interest in the convention can see what it would be like. Thanks to ICv2 and YouTuber “movieclipsTRAILERS” for the trailer below.
If your library is in the D.C. area you will definitely want to let your gamers know about this upcoming exhibit at the Smithsonian Art Museum. During March 16 – September 30 the Smithsonian will have an exhibit entitled “The Art of Video Games”. During it’s opening weekend they will be having an additional event “GameFest”. During “GameFest”, on March 17, from 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. the Art Museum will host Metal Gear Solid’s game series designer Hideo Kojima in the McEvoy Auditorium. Follow the second link below to the Smithsonian’s Exhibitions page for more information.
Yahoo reports that six chase figures of Skylanders sold for over $1,000. I’m currently working on episode 13 and we have 14 and 15 waiting in the wings and in episode 14 ComicPop Library reviews Skylanders. As the article says if people are paying this amount it is definitely a hit at this time. We’ll see over the next year or two if it has staying power.
http://games.yahoo.com/blogs/unplugged/rare-skylanders-figures-fetch-over-1-200-201020541.html