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Wizards + Sony create Magic the Gathering — Tactics

By ManaNation.com ⋅ November 2, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment ⋅ Print This Post

A few months ago the USPTO showed a new trade­mark reg­is­tered by Wiz­ards, ‘Magic the Gath­er­ing — Tac­tics’ and it was believed to be a new video game. Today’s announce­ment is just that. The fol­low­ing was dis­cov­ered by ‘canadian_idiot’ on the MTGSal­va­tion forums by view­ing the page source of the Arcana page on Wizards.com. The below info was hid­den from the main view, but it was still present in the page code.

Tied to this, at Pro Tour Austin, there was a rep­re­sen­ta­tive of Sony Online present meet­ing peo­ple and shak­ing hands. He and Trick spoke for a bit, though their dis­cus­sions never came close to dis­cussing any prod­uct part­ner­ships with Wizards.

SONY ONLINE ENTERTAINMENT AND WIZARDS OF THE COAST COLLABORATE TO DEVELOP MAGIC: THE GATHERING –TACTICS&tm;

Online, 3D Turn-Based Strat­egy Game Sched­uled for Launch in Early 2010

DENVER, Colo. – Novem­ber 2, 2009 – Today, Sony Online Enter­tain­ment LLC, and Wiz­ards of the Coast LLC announced they are devel­op­ing Magic: The Gath­er­ing – Tac­tics, an online, 3D turn-based strat­egy game played within the rich Magic: The Gath­er­ing Mul­ti­verse. “By col­lab­o­rat­ing with Wiz­ards of the Coast, we’re able to com­bine the strengths of both com­pa­nies to develop an inno­v­a­tive, online, 3D game based on an extremely pop­u­lar IP,” said John Smed­ley, pres­i­dent, Sony Online Enter­tain­ment. “We’re going to be tak­ing the Magic: The Gath­er­ing Mul­ti­verse places play­ers have never seen.”

“The grow­ing Magic: The Gath­er­ing com­mu­nity has an insa­tiable desire for great strate­gic game expe­ri­ences. Sony Online Enter­tain­ment is the per­fect part­ner to trans­form the best of Magic’s story, strat­egy and com­pet­i­tive play into a fan­tas­tic ‘Tac­tics’ game expe­ri­ence for cur­rent and new Magic fans,” said Greg Leeds, pres­i­dent, Wiz­ards of the Coast.

Magic: The Gath­er­ing — Tac­tics will allow play­ers to com­mand forces of dra­matic 3D fig­ures and pow­er­ful spell cards pulled from the Magic: The Gath­er­ing Mul­ti­verse. Play­ers can par­tic­i­pate in sin­gle player sce­nar­ios or jump right into PVP action against other play­ers world­wide, 24 hours per day. Magic: The Gath­er­ing – Tac­tics is expected to fea­ture reg­u­lar con­tent expan­sions, a robust tour­na­ment envi­ron­ment, an achieve­ment and rank­ings pro­gram, and orig­i­nal sto­ries of the Planeswalk­ers of Magic: The Gath­er­ing.

Magic: The Gath­er­ing — Tac­tics is being devel­oped by SOE’s Den­ver stu­dio and sched­uled to be avail­able for the PC in early 2010, with a ver­sion for the PlayStation®3 com­puter enter­tain­ment sys­tem to fol­low. For more infor­ma­tion on Magic: The Gath­er­ing — Tac­tics, visit www.magicthegatheringtactics.com.

About Sony Online Enter­tain­ment Sony Online Enter­tain­ment LLC (SOE) is a rec­og­nized world­wide leader in mas­sively mul­ti­player online games which have enter­tained mil­lions of play­ers around the globe. SOE cre­ates and deliv­ers com­pelling enter­tain­ment for the per­sonal com­puter, online, game con­sole and wire­less mar­kets. Known for its block­buster fran­chise EverQuest®, its suc­cess­ful online trad­ing card game Leg­ends of Nor­rath®, as well as the recent kids’ phe­nom­e­non Free Realms™, SOE con­tin­ues to raise the bar for online gam­ing and play­ers world­wide. Head­quar­tered in San Diego, with addi­tional stu­dios in Austin, Seat­tle, Den­ver, Tuc­son, and Tai­wan, SOE has a slate of engag­ing, high-quality games cur­rently in devel­op­ment across new gen­res for all plat­forms and audiences.

SOE, and the SOE logo, and Leg­ends of Nor­rath are reg­is­tered trade­marks and Free Realms is a trade­mark of Sony Online Enter­tain­ment LLC in the United States and/or other coun­tries. All other trade­marks and trade names are prop­er­ties of their respec­tive own­ers. All rights reserved.

About Wiz­ards of the Coast LLC Wiz­ards of the Coast LLC, a sub­sidiary of Has­bro, Inc. (NYSE:HAS), is the leader in enter­tain­ing the lifestyle gamer. The com­pany holds an exclu­sive patent on trad­ing card games (TCGs) and their method of play and pro­duces Magic: The Gath­er­ing®, among many other trad­ing card games and fam­ily card and board games. Wiz­ards is also a lead­ing pub­lisher of role­play­ing games, such as Dun­geons & Drag­ons®, and pub­lisher of fan­tasy series fic­tion with numer­ous New York Times best-sellers. For more infor­ma­tion, visit the Wiz­ards of the Coast Web site at www.wizards.com.

Wiz­ards of the Coast, its logo, Magic: The Gath­er­ing, Magic: The Gath­er­ing –Tac­tics, Magic and Dun­geons & Drag­ons are trade­marks of Wiz­ards of the Coast LLC in the U.S.A. and other coun­tries. © 2009 Wizards.

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Comments

  1. This bet­ter not be another “Bat­tle­grounds”. Then again, weren’t we say­ing the same about DotP?

    Sam Feeley | November 2, 2009, 9:18 am | #

  2. why not xbox? it’s for pc, but not xbox? let’s put the con­sole hate aside ladies and gents! looks good, but i don’t get what they mean by 3-d? is it gonna be like yugioh where crea­tures pop-up out of the cards and there are bat­tle sequences?

    KT | November 2, 2009, 12:06 pm | #

  3. @ KT

    Some­thing sim­i­lar has been around for over a year, so no con­sole hate, this is born from pc-hate.

    And this is only the announce­ment, so we’ll prob­a­bly get some more info over time won’t we?

    Ileowen | November 2, 2009, 12:18 pm | #

  4. Its made by Sony… that’s why its not for xbox.

    Froibo | November 2, 2009, 7:50 pm | #

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