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Persona 5 Royal, Elden Ring, The Matrix, and Iron Maiden’s Eddie Come to Tabletop

October 22, 2022

• My lack of video game knowledge continues to impede my efforts to write about newly announced games, as with the news that in Q4 2023 Pandasaurus Games will release a Persona 5 Royal card game designed by Emerson Matsuuchi.

Teaser image

All I can do is quote from the press release:

Matsuuchi teases about the gameplay: “Players will take on the roles of their favorite Phantom Thieves and fight to change the world in this cooperative card-based strategy game.”

• Similarly, UK publisher Steamforged Games has announced that it will publish Elden Ring: The Board Game, a tabletop adaptation of the Elden Ring video game.

In this case I’ve at least heard the name of the game, but beyond that, well, here’s the press release:

Elden Ring: The Board Game will immerse players in the forsaken Lands Between. In a vast, sprawling world of decaying grandeur that unfolds through their exploration, 1-4 “tarnished” players will embark on a huge and varied adventure, visiting iconic locations and crossing paths with familiar enemies and characters.

The video game’s characteristically challenging fights will be recreated by intelligent dice-free combat, requiring players to strategize and adapt their plans during each encounter, whether that be with a lowly Godrick Soldier or the Grafted King himself.

Steamforged Games will launch a Kickstarter project for this game on November 22, 2022.

• CMON has announced a “Bundle of the Beast” set of expansions for Zombicide: 2nd Edition that feature Eddie, the mascot of heavy metal band Iron Maiden. More specifically, fifteen versions of Eddie are available, with some of these characters also being playable in other CMON games, specifically Rising Sun, Massive Darkness 2, Ankh: Gods of Egypt, and Cthulhu: Death May Die.

• At Gen Con 2022, U.S. publisher Upper Deck Entertainment previewed Legendary Encounters: The Matrix, a deck-building card game that it plans to release in Q2 2023.

The game is based on The Matrix trilogy, and during play you take the role of Neo or other heroes to save the human race from extinction, fighting adversaries such as Agent Smith, the Merovingian, the Twins, the Sentinels, and more.

Upper Deck wouldn’t allow photographs of the cards, but I did shoot the front and back covers of the mock-up box on display. (“FPO” on the front cover stands for “for placement only”, which is used to mark low-resolution images as placeholders for what’s to come.)

In an October 2022 press release, Upper Deck notes that this game is “[t]he first product released as part of this new line of products”, with trading cards also being in the offing.

Glass booth at Gen Con 2022 that let you walk through the Matrix

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