Last April, Dong Nguyen, a quiet 28-year-old who lived with his parents in Hanoi, Vietnam, and had a day job programming location devices for taxis, spent a holiday weekend making a mobile game. He wanted it to be simple but challenging, in the spirit of the Nintendo games he grew up playing. The object was to fly a bug-eyed, big-lipped, bloated bird between a series of green vertical pipes. The quicker a player tapped the screen, the higher the bird would flap. He called it Flappy Bird.

Even though you’re not in middle school anymore and may not have even seen a Magic the Gathering card in years, the game is as big as it has ever been. In fact, thanks to a plethora of trading and collectible card games on iOS and Android, Blizzard’s Hearthstone, and Mojang’s Scrolls, the trading card game genre is experiencing one of its most successful runs. Though Pokémon and Yu-Gi-Oh! are stable, Magic is the king of the crop, which is why its most famous card, the Black Lotus, just sold on eBay for $27,302.

Google is working on a videogame console and smartwatch powered by Android software, according to reports.

The new hardware would allow Google to compete with rumoured products from its rival, Apple, including a next generation TV that will include a videogame console and an Apple smartwatch.

The internet search giant is planning to design and market the two devices and then release at least one of them this autumn, according to reports.

On June 21, 2013 Power9Pro is releasing a new service called "Magpie," which aims to help "Magic: The Gathering" players and and store owners with "the complexities and headaches associated with monitoring card prices."

Sony launched the latest salvo in its ongoing rivalry with Microsoft with the launch of the PlayStation 4, the first of a new generation of consoles. At an event held in the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York's Manhattan Center, Sony revealed that the PlayStation 4 would go on sale this Christmas. It refused to set a price, or even show the console itself but it is unlikely to cost much less than £300.

Aaron Levine

Twenty months ago Aaron Levie, all of 26 years old, did something arguably foolish, undeniably gutsy and entirely counter to the prevailing mood that startups should be “lean” in the Internet age. Forty-five minutes into a routine meeting with his board at Box, Levie blithely announced: “I want to make a small adjustment. We need to raise an extra $50 million.” An awkward pause followed. Box had previously raised $106 million, already a heady sum for a company with just $25 million in sales and no profits. Levie’s early investor and biggest booster, Josh Stein of venture firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson, piped up: “I’m sorry, but you said $15 million, right?”

Duskmantle Seer is one of the newest "Magic: The Gathering" cards spoiled today Jan. 17, 2013 from Wizards of the Coast's upcoming expert expansion set "Gatecrash." Revealed in an article by Mike Flores on MagicTheGathering.com, Duskmantle Seer provides card advantage and can damage your opponent at the same time.

Duskmantle Seer - 2UB

Creature - Vampire Wizard (Mythic Rare)
Flying
At the beginning of your upkeep, each player reveals the top card of his or her library, loses life equal to that card's converted mana cost, then puts it into his or her hand.
4/4

Duskmantle Seer is an interesting Dark Confidant variant that

Today Wizards of the Coast confirmed a rumor about a new Planewsalker from their upcoming expert "Magic: The Gathering" expansion set "Gatecrash." Domri Rade is the second Planeswalker in the set, the first being Gideon, Champion of Justice. This news leads credence to the other four mythic rares that were also spoiled by the same person on Craigslist.org.

As a three mana Planeswalker, Domri Rade joins the elite ranks of Liliana of the Veil, Ajani, Caller of the Pride, and Jace Beleran. While Tibalt, the Fiend-Blooded is the only two mana-costed Planeswalker, because Domri Rade is green you'll have a high chance of casting him on your second thanks to a mana dork

For someone who doesn't play the fantasy card game "Magic: The Gathering," watching a round and trying to understand what is going on is difficult.

The pace is fast. There are cards and dice. A round can be over before you know it.

The game has recently taken the local spotlight for a very dark reason: Sean Dugas, 30, one of the area's most active players, was killed, according to police, by two Magic players who robbed him for his collection of cards.

The cofounders of Sifteo first imagined how great it would be to sort through a pile of digital data as if it were a pile of Legos while graduate students at the MIT Media Lab. Thirteen million dollars and several generations of prototypes later, today they announced the next generation of their Sifteo Cubes, an interactive gaming system of LEGO-like blocks—except with computer screens.

Hi. My name is Elisa, and I am a gamer and a geek. I’m at the computer writing this in a Star Trek T-shirt, in celebration of the recent Mars Curiosity rover landing. I’ve been a gamer for as long as I can remember, having had a Nintendo Power magazine thrust into my hands as soon as I could sound out the words on the page in order to be my older brother’s co-pilot. Since then, I have developed a fierce love of games, some of which I defend with the ferocity of a mother protecting her cubs. I have a tattoo of a Trivial Pursuit pie on my right hip. My haircut resembles one of my favorite characters, Lilith, from Borderlands. You can’t tell me Revolution X wasn’t amazing. You just can’t.

Richard Garfield, the creator of the first and still best-selling collectible card game, Magic: The Gathering, has a new online CCG coming out called SolForge. It’s being published by Gary Games, the company of top Magic player Justin Gary, which already has a

Gilded Lotus is an incredibly powerful rare artifact from Wizards of the Coast's upcoming "Magic 2013 Core Set" that can produce mana of any color.


Gilded Lotus - 5
Artifact (Rare)
Tap: Add three mana of any one color to your mana pool.
Over such beauty, wars are fought. With such power, wars are won.

Revealed in an  article by Brian David-Marshall on DailyMTG.com, Gilded Lotus was originally printed in "Mirrodin."

There are a lot of amazing

Slumbering Dragon is a new rare red creature card fromWizards of the Coast's upcoming "Magic 2013 Core Set." Slumbering Dragon is "Magic: The Gathering's" first one mana dragon.

Slumbering Dragon - Rare

Creature - Dragon (Rare)
Flying
Slumbering Dragon can't attack or block unless it has five or more +1/+1 counters on it.
Whenever a creature attacks you or a planeswalker you control, put a +1/+1 counter on Slumbering Dragon.
3/3

Last week, the latest digital version of uber-popular collectible card game Magic: the Gathering was released. There could be no better time, then, to cover the "real life" version of Magic for Tabletop Co-Op. Magic is, generally speaking, a highly competitive game, but what if there were a way to play it in co-op? I've got good news for you, reader, the always innovative Magic community has created just such a format. Horde Magic blends the awesome deckbuilding fun of Magic with the unrelenting pressure and tension of survival modes, like Gears of War 3's Horde mode, or Left 4 Dead's Survival. The combination is glorious!

Ever wanted to design your own Tumbler for Batman? You can now and you can even race it around a virtual track online. Check out examples of custom Tumblers and some awesome details after the jump.

After the destruction of the Tumbler by The Joker in The Dark Knight, Batman's been needing a new ride. You can now create your own Tumbler and race it on a virtual track.

Steven Bryant, former co-owner of Heroes Comics and Cards, decided that selling comic books was not really his thing. Yet, he still wanted to do something with his passion for Magic the Gathering, a popular trading card game.

"I sold my share of Heroes to my partner and I took some time off before I opened the store here," said Bryant.

Creating your own religion in the real world can result in weird looks, unusual friends and sometimes, visits from law enforcement officials.

Creating your own religion in the soon-to-be-released expansion for "Civilization V" results in bonuses and benefits on your way to world domination.

The new "Civilization V: Gods and Kings" expansion pack offers players two revamped elements to the iconic real-time strategy game -- faith and spies. Neither is entirely new to the franchise, but each has been redone to make it more interesting and rewarding to use.