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• Duels of the Planeswalkers coming to PC & PS3 in 2010

  
  ManaNation.com — Authority: 521
  Today on their website Wizards of the Coast announced that the wildly popular Duels of the Planeswalker Xbox Arcade game will be expanding to the PC and the Playstation 3 in 2010. This isn’t too big of a surprise as the game proved startlingly popular on the Xbox, racking up over 300,000 downloads in the first few ...
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• Steve Dacri’s Tribute to Carl Ballantine

  
  Inside Magic — Authority: 114
  Steve Dacri wrote a wonderful tribute to Carl Ballantine. He graciously gave permission for Inside Magic to re-publish here for our readers. Whilst we were formatting the essay, we began to get a lump in our throat and by the end, we were in tears but with a smile.  We really miss The World’s Greatest ...
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• Carl Ballantine Passes

  
  Inside Magic — Authority: 114
  We were in Las Vegas last week and did not have access to anything that could be used to communicate with the outside world.  Consequently, we were unable to pass along the very sad news that Inside Magic Favorite and Hero Carl Ballantine (stage name of Meyer Kessler) died in his sleep last Tuesday. He was 92. Mr. ...
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• ‘Prosper,’ Zendikar’s 3rd Set is ‘Rise of the Eldrazi’

  
  ManaNation.com — Authority: 521
  To many of us this isn’t going to be news, ‘Rise of the Eldrazi’ (shortened to ‘RoE’) had been discovered at the same time as ‘Worldwake’ but it took a while longer to be accepted as the name for the third set of Zendikar. Well today, the set logo as well as the expansion symbol arrived on the ...
  4 days ago

• More Singapore Magic in the Media

  
  BACKSTAGE BUSINESS: The Art, Science & Business of Showbiz by J C Sum — Authority: 125
  Over the last 2 weeks, Ning & I were constantly greeted by strangers who said they saw us on TV. While, people do generally acknowledge us with recognition when we are in a public place, we were a bit confused because the last time we were on TV was on Ch 8 and Star World earlier in the year. Then, we realized ...
  5 days ago

• Wizards announces Deck Builder’s Toolkit

  
  ManaNation.com — Authority: 521
  Following in the style of the Fat packs, Wizards announced today the ‘ Deck Builder’s Toolkit ‘ to be released on May 21, 2010 which will contain: 100 Basic Lands 125 “semi-random game cards” 4 Booster packs from recent Magic the Gathering sets A card storage box An insert with advice and tips This ...
  1 week ago

• Chicago’s Answer to Magic Castle

  
  Inside Magic — Authority: 114
  Kevin Pang of The Chicago Tribune tells us about the Windy City’s new magic enclave and suggests it may be a competitor to the iconic Magic Castle. Heresy, we murmur.  Still, we were born and reared in Chicago just a few blocks from the old Edgewater Presbyterian Church on Bryn Mawr Avenue.  It was just up the ...
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• Wizards + Sony create Magic the Gathering – Tactics

  
  ManaNation.com — Authority: 521
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• Pity the Dead on Halloween: Houdini Not Amused

  
  Inside Magic — Authority: 114
  Discover Magazine ’s Phil Plait worked with Justin Robert Young, Andrew Mayne and the folks at the James Randi Educational Foundation attempted to communicate with Harry Houdini during the foundation’s Halloween Seance. Poor Houdini.  He works hard his whole life, from circus worker, to neck-tie cutter, to ...
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• Wizards Hoping to Crash Webserver

  
  ManaNation.com — Authority: 521
  Mondays’ site update saw the now well known “Announcing” image in the Arcana section of Wizards.com. But instead of just being an announcement, it is a notice to visit the site again at noon EST, or 9am PST for the real announcement. Whatever the reason for the “scheduled” announcement, it seems likely to ...
  1 week ago

• Runes of Magic patches in ‘Storming of the Acropolis’

  
  Be The Gamer — Authority: 457
  Today brings patch 2.1.2 to Runes of Magic , which is also being called Storming of the Acropolis. The biggest addition is of course a new dungeon in the form of the Naga Acropolis, which is crawling with elite henchmen. This is a particularly hard challenge meant for grouped players wholl eventually earn the ...
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• October 26 News Update:

  
  Neko Magic: Anime & Figures — Authority: 141
  Stat:Sorry guys, I forgot to post our Nekomagic monthly news until today. Since it’s almost the end of October, the stats here can’t repesent the real stat of Nekomagic in September anymore. =/As of this moment, Nekomagic.com is ranked 156,505 (was 116,736 last month). We dropped... **This is a content summary ...
  2 weeks ago

• Chicago’s Answer to Magic Castle

  
  Inside Magic — Authority: 114
  Kevin Pang of The Chicago Tribune tells us about the Windy City’s new magic enclave and suggests it may be a competitor to the iconic Magic Castle. Heresy, we murmur.  Still, we were born and reared in Chicago just a few blocks from the old Edgewater Presbyterian Church on Bryn Mawr Avenue.  It was just up the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Magician Jonathan Pendragon to Stand Trial on Felony Charges

  
  Inside Magic — Authority: 114
  San Luis Obispo County Superior Court Judge John Trice ruled Friday that Jonathan Yarbrough – whose stage name is Jonathan Pendragon – must stand trial on felony charges of assault with a firearm, making criminal threats and other charges that could result in a decade in jail. His wife of 33 years Charlotte ...
  2 weeks ago

• Swine Flu Kid Show Magic

  
  Inside Magic — Authority: 114
  We were trying to figure out why our bookings had fallen off dramatically. We still have our Yellow Pages ad, the newspaper classified and display ads, our radio blitz, and even a 15 second spot on local cable news. In fact, our advertising expenses have only increased this year over last but the number of shows per ...
  2 weeks ago

• Jonathon Bryce to escape from Corn Burial

  
  Inside Magic — Authority: 114
  Jonathon Bryce will be performing a different kind of burial escape this Saturday in Shakopee, Minnesota. Anyone can escape from beneath 128 cubic yards of packed soil, cement, or even ice. Mr. Bryce is going to escape from corn. According to the Pioneer Press , the 30-year-old Escape Artist wanted a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Isiah Thomas ‘hurt’ over Magic Johnson’s book comments

  
  enjoyfrancis.com — Authority: 465
  MIAMI – Hall of Fame players Isiah Thomas and Magic Johnson famously kissed moments before tip-off of Game 1 of the 1988 NBA finals. Today, the relationship clearly isnt anywhere near as close. Excerpt from: Isiah Thomas ‘hurt’ over Magic Johnson’s book comments
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• Premium Sliver Decks Officially Announced

  
  ManaNation.com — Authority: 521
  As we previously revealed Wizards is releasing a Slivers ‘Premium’ deck on Nov. 20th, 2009. Today Wizards officially announced it with packaging matching our earlier graphics. Today’s announcement also contained five card pictures:
  2 weeks ago

• Duels of the Planeswalkers Expansion Releases Today

  
  ManaNation.com — Authority: 521
  Wizards had announced the expansion a few weeks ago but today, the expansion for the wildly popular ‘Duels of the Planeswalkers’ Xbox Live Arcade game is released. It gives players three new decks and a number of new cards to play with on the Xbox. Today is the release date for the expansion, and today Jay ...
  2 weeks ago

• Eric Mead and Apollo Robbins Perform – So We Heard

  
  Inside Magic — Authority: 114
  So, we’re hanging out at the Annual Society for Neuroscience Meeting in our hometown of Chicago, Illinois. We didn’t get a program until we opened our goody bag during the first seminar on Saturday morning. We were listening to Dr. Tracy Bale from the University of Pennsylvania give a talk entitled Oh, ...
  3 weeks ago

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