Independent card game developer Diving Dragon Games is looking for a little monetary love to print its next two sets and reprint its Beta Edition set.

The Magic: The Gathering 2012 Core Set is now available in stores.

Core sets represent the ‘base cards’ for Magic: The Gathering (M:TG) for the coming year. They’re officially tournament legal but tournament players usually don’t buy many core cards.

In the coming months these cards will quickly be replaced in tournament decks by often more powerful and more interesting cards from upcoming expansions.

Gamertell previously reported that Xbox Live’s Primetime Network is getting a its own poker game. We now know it will be an integral part of Microsoft’s upcoming Xbox Live House Party promotion. This is Microsoft’s second year doing the promotion that calls attention to its arcade titles. Joining Full House Poker in the lineup are much anticipated games including an HD remake of cult classic Beyond Good and Evil and Hard Corps Uprising, the latest installment in the Contra series.

Kmart’s January 9-15, 2011 ad has a full page filled with video game deals. The only downside is, none of the deals pertain to new releases. Still, there are a number of good games on sale and if you have a gift card from the holidays, you could get some good games you may have missed when they first came out.

First, let’s look at the bigger deals. If you buy a 320gb PS3 for $349.99 and then also buy an extra DualShock 3 controller at the same time, you’ll pay $34.99 for the controller instead of $54.99…

Resident Evil video game and movie franchise is taking on the world of card games.

Bandai has announced that is will release the Resident Evil Deck Building Card Game November 19, 2010. Unlike a collectible game such as Pokemon, a deck building game comes packaged with all the cards in the set.

The World of Warcraft Trading Card Game’s Wrathgate expansion is coming May 25, 2010, according to Cryptozoic Entertainment‘s web site. Wrathgate is the eleventh set in the WoW TCG and the first from Cryptozoic, which picked up the rights to the successful TCG after Blizzard did not renew its agreement with Upper Deck Entertainment.

In a state of limbo since Blizzard ended its relationship with Upper Deck Entertainment in February 2010, the card game based on World of Warcraft is back in action.

It’s now in the hands of Cryptozoic Entertainment, a new company formed by former Blizzard Director of Global Business Development Cory Jones and John Nee, formerly the vice president of business development at DC Comics.

EA’s Madden franchise often comes under fire for a perceived lack of innovation but here’s a feature that certainly promises some unique wrinkles.

Madden NFL 10 will soon contain a game mode that will combine elements of fantasy football and trading card gaming.

Madden Ultimate Team is a free downloadable addition on Xbox Live and PlayStation Network coming January 2010. In this game players will collect virtual packs of cards ranging from “platinum” to “bronze.”

The latest set from Magic: The Gathering is interesting for a couple of reasons. First, the set was broken into two mini-blocks (Lorwyn and Shadowmoor) with two expansions each. Second, the set has two of the best story cycles written in the game’s history. For the purposes of this article the focus is novels.

The block novels for the current set begins with Lorwyn, named after the plane that it takes place on. The plane of Lorwyn is one that is stuck in midsummer, full of color and life. The story follows a motley crew of characters from every walk of life while they try to stop the elves and treefolk from what seems to be…

In the wake of the Cuban Missile Crisis two good things came out of living in a time teetering on the brink of destruction. One good thing was the détente, easing of tension between the USA and the USSR. The other good thing was the release of the satirical card game Nuclear War.

This game, much like the film Dr. Strangelove (Or How I Learned to Love the Bomb), actually had the guts to taunt the destructive idiocy of mankind and its war-like nature. This is because it is the first game with a scenario where everyone can lose.

The card game and its expansions are available for purchase pretty much any game shop that sells card games. The base game costs $29.99 and it’s roughly the same cost for the expansions…