Free Realms to get a real-world trading card game counterpart

Free Realms hasn’t even officially launched yet, and it’s already expanding. It turns out that Sony and Topps will be releasing a physical Free Realms trading card game to complement the virtual Free Realms game and trading card game. Of course, the trading card game isn’t the main focus of the virtual Free Realms game – its more of a typical, child/teen friendly MMO with the ability to also participate in a virtual TCG.

It turns out that both virtual Free Realms games will launch commercially at the same time. (The Free Realms MMO beta is going on now.) The real-world Free Realms TCG cards, all 200+, will be released sometime in Spring 2009. There will be $3.99 booster packs that will have 10 trading cards and a loot card that will give you a free Free Realms game item and also a special starter pack which will include a yet-announced number of trading cards and loot cards.

It seems like almost every game company is now jumping to create some sort of online environment for kids/preteens/teens. I guess they’ve seen that the concept works, and now everyone wants to try and get in on the physical and virtual game fad before the next big thing comes along.

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