There are online collectible card games, of course. Magic: The Gathering, the granddaddy of all modern CCGs, has a digitized version that plays exactly like the physical game, only it's online. BattleForge, from EA and its EA Phenomic studio, from Germany, looks to put a twist on online CCGs. This game features the card collecting and deck building of CCGs, but blends a real-time strategy mechanic of you being able to control fantastic creatures and powerful spells on a battlefield. EA introduced BattleForge earlier this year, and as the game approached its closed beta IGN recently got another look at it.
Theshigen writes "Battleforge was a rather novel idea. It combined collectable card game mechanics with real-time strategy, something new and fresh back in 2009. It's been re-released today as Skylords Reborn. A fan-made project that's made the gamer, completely free."
1RBC: This has been a pretty exciting week for game news- this week, Sony announced that they'd be cutting off Playstation Now support for the Vita, PS3 and every other device that's not a PS4 or PC, some big announcements came out of Nintendo regarding DLC for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild as well as more details about Splatoon 2, and EA has handed over (partial) control of the card/strategy game BattleForge to their fans- all this and more on this week's episode of 1RBC Gaming Weekly.
iLLGaming.in's weekly roundup of Free-2-Play games, by F2P writer Ajay Verma.