Friday 25 February 2011

OCG Release Round Up

With the forthcoming launch of Zexal for the OCG, it's an exciting time for all YuGiOh! players wherever they are in the world. As promised last week, this is just a quick post today to keep you up to speed with forthcoming OCG Zexal releases, and all the stuff we know about them so far.

March 19th is the big date for the diaries - on that day, we get the brand new 2011 OCG Zexal Starter deck 2011, and finally get to solve all the mysteries around how Exceed Summoning works. Over on our guide page to the deck, we've got a guide to what we know so far about Exceed Summons, but there's still a huge number of questions around how it impacts other game mechanics, so we wait with bated breath.

We then need to contain our excitement for nearly a full month before we get the next two installments. First up, there's a new Duel Terminal - the name Exceed Startup tells us everything we need to know :) Then we have the first OCG booster for Zexal - Generation Force - out on the 16th April in Japan, and featuring loads of the cards already seen in the new Manga. Exciting times!

Friday 18 February 2011

Raining New YuGiOh! Releases

It's been quite a week for new release announcements for YuGiOh! - you'd never guess it was New York Toy Fair would you? We'll take a quick run through the news though...

Hidden Arsenal 4 has - surprise, surprise - been confirmed, although earlier than everyone thought; it's coming in April and has a shiny-new title added on - it's Trishula's Triumph fact geeks.

Meanwhile there's decks galore - we already knew about Dragunity Legion, but the release of Lost Sanctuary in July for the TCG is fairly big news - amongst other things, it may include Solemn Judgement as a common. There's also been a new Starter Deck announced, and we'll bring you news on that as soon as we can too.

Finally, Crow's dusting off his Blackwings once more, as he gets his own duelist pack. Look out for the next post and news of the first Zexal cards being spotted in Japan. Stay tuned.

Friday 4 February 2011

Five Words...

STORM OF RAGNAROK SNEAK PEEK

If you've been on Mars, you won't know that this weekend is the Sneak Peek for Storm of Ragnarok. For everyone else, we can almost smell the 6 Sams, and all the other stuff that turns the meta upside down and back to front. So what that the promo card - Vortex the Whirlwind - is late (or at least it is in the UK). We've just taken delivery of our Prize Playmats, and wow - they're nice.

If you live anywhere near the West Coast of Scotland, you can sign up for our Sneak Peek Event here. Wherever you're playing this weekend, enjoy and fingers crossed for good pulls. Oh, and if you're at a loose end, Sunday 2pm GMT, you can follow our Sneak Peek action on Twitter.