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Apple and Pokémon Tease Special Pikachu-Themed Beats Pill Speaker Beats har offentliggjort en kort teaser for et nyt samarbejde med Pokémon, som efter alt at dømme bliver en Pikachu-inspireret udgave af Beats Pill-højttaleren. Videoen viser en Beats Pill sammen med Beats- og Poké Ball-symboler. Der er endnu ikke meldt en lanceringsdato ud, men billeder af emballagen er tidligere blevet delt fra en amerikansk Target-butik.

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'My Phone is Open' — The Walking Dead Star Chandler Riggs Made His Own Resident Evil 7 Fan Film, and He’d Love to Work With Zach Cregger on a Sequel Chandler Riggs har lavet en 20 minutter lang fanfilm baseret på garagekampen mellem Ethan Winters og Jack Baker fra Resident Evil 7: Biohazard. Filmen udkommer 14. oktober og viser Riggs som Ethan Winters. Skuespilleren håber også på at kunne lave en spillefilmsudgave eller samarbejde med instruktøren Zach Cregger om en kommende film i serien.

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With the Street Fighter Movie Days Away, Get an Exclusive Look at Street Fighter 6's Live-Action Crossover Costumes and Claim Your Free Zangief Code Capcom har afsløret film-inspirerede kostumer til Dhalsim, E. Honda og Zangief i Street Fighter 6 som optakt til den nye live-action-film. Zangiefs kostume kan indløses gratis på alle platforme fra 16. oktober med en kode, mens koderne til Dhalsim og E. Honda offentliggøres senere. Filmen får biografpremiere samme dag.

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Apple Announces 'Indie Games Week' on App Store Apple har lanceret Indie Games Week på App Store for at fremhæve spil fra uafhængige udviklere. Syv spil får premiere på platformen, herunder No Man's Sky, som kommer til iPhone og iPad den 28. oktober. De øvrige titler er Sifu, Vampire Crawlers, Little Kitty, Big City, 9 Kings, Dome Keeper og Yes, Your Grace 2: Snowfall.

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Riftbound: Radiance Rarest Cards - Riot Games Music Crossovers Dominate the Set - IGN Riot Games’ femte Riftbound-sæt, Radiance, får sjældne specialkort inspireret af musikprojekterne Heartsteel, True Damage og K/DA. Sættets Ultimate Rare-kort, Battlefield: Packed Amphitheater, forventes kun at dukke op i omkring én ud af 4.000 boosterpakker. Radiance får forpremiere i lokale spilbutikker 16. oktober, mens almindelige boosterpakker og bokse udkommer 23. oktober.

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He-Man and the Masters of the Universe: Dragon Pearl of Destruction Has a Release Date, a New Trailer, and a $100 Collector’s Edition That Includes an '80s-Style Lunchbox He-Man and the Masters of the Universe: Dragon Pearl of Destruction udkommer digitalt og fysisk den 4. februar 2027 til Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5 og Xbox Series X|S. Det retroinspirerede 2D-kampspil udvikles af Bitmap Bureau og indeholder 13 baner, fire spilbare figurer samt lokal samarbejdsfunktion for to spillere. Der udkommer også en samlerudgave med ekstra merchandise.

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Valor Mortis Is a Novel First-person Soulslike Is Packed With Interesting Ideas, Even If They Don’t Always Work Out Super Smoothly - Review IGN anmelder Valor Mortis som et ambitiøst førstepersons-soulslike, der kombinerer sværdkamp, skydevåben og magiske evner i en alternativ napoleonsk historie. Spillet har interessante idéer, platformsektioner og gode muligheder for at tilpasse sin figur, men historien er ujævn, fjenderne mangler variation, og fejl samt nedbrud forringer oplevelsen. Den omkring 20 timer lange kampagne vurderes stadig som værd at spille.

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Pokémon TCG 30th Anniversary Celebration Sealed Booster Bundles Are Back In Stock at Amazon, but You Can Find Better Prices By Shopping Around Pokémon TCG’s 30th Celebration Booster Bundles er igen på lager hos Amazon, men prisen er steget til 99 dollar mod 45 dollar i september. På TCGplayer kan sættet købes for omkring 74 dollar, efter markedsprisen er faldet 35,43 procent på en måned. Artiklen gennemgår også priserne på udvalgte værdifulde kort og vurderer, at det kan betale sig at vente på yderligere prisfald.

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'It's for the People in Stardew Valley That Go Into the Mines' — ConcernedApe Says Haunted Chocolatier Is 'More of an Action RPG' Eric Barone, kendt som ConcernedApe, beskriver Haunted Chocolatier som et mere actionpræget rollespil end Stardew Valley. Spillet vil fokusere mere på eventyr, udstyr, monstre og bosskampe, men beholder strukturen som et såkaldt byspil. Udviklingen fortsætter uden en fast udgivelsesdato, og Barone holder igen med at vise mere frem, fordi flere dele stadig kan ændre sig.

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Pokémon Card Prices Are Still Out of Control, but Here's Why "Market Price" Isn’t the Real Problem Efterspørgslen på Pokémon-kort er steget så kraftigt, at det ofte er næsten umuligt at købe nye sæt til den vejledende udsalgspris. Artiklen forklarer, hvordan sjældne kort, opkøb fra scalpers og automatiserede bots har presset priserne op. For mange samlere er markedspriser fra platforme som TCGplayer derfor blevet et mere realistisk alternativ til både MSRP og ekstreme videresalgspriser.

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Warhammer 40,000 Maker Games Workshop Hits the Headlines for Its Falling Share Price, but Should Fans Be Worried? Games Workshops aktiekurs er faldet 13,76 procent på seks måneder, selv om selskabet rapporterer rekordhøje overskud. Investorer er bekymrede for stigende produktions- og logistikomkostninger samt mulig aftagende vækst i Warhammer-spillene. Artiklen finder dog ingen konkrete tegn på, at virksomheden er i alvorlige problemer, og fremhæver kommende videospil og andre projekter, der kan udvide Warhammer-universets appel.

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Gears of War: E-Day Online Services Hit by DDoS Attack Gears of War: E-Day blev ramt af et DDoS-angreb i weekenden, hvilket gav spillere forbindelses- og loginproblemer på Xbox Series X|S og pc. Udvikleren The Coalition overvåger fortsat situationen og har meldt, at spillets onlinetjenester igen fungerer. Angrebet kommer efter en angiveligt blød salgsstart og bekymringer om fyringer i Microsofts spildivision.

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Latest Leaked GTA 6 Video Shows Lucia Fully Naked, but Some Are Casting Doubt on the Footage as Cyberleek Doubles Down on Crypto Scheme Et nyt uautoriseret videolæk hævdes at vise GTA 6-figuren Lucia nøgen. Fans betvivler dog materialets ægthed, blandt andet fordi figurer og omgivelser ikke reagerer normalt, hvilket kan tyde på brug af udviklerværktøjer eller snydekoder. Lækket forbindes med Cyberleek, som forsøger at skabe opmærksomhed om en kryptovaluta og har truet med flere videoer.

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Riftbound: Radiance Hands-On Preview and Interview - Riftbound Embraces Complexity - IGN IGN har prøvespillet Radiance, det femte sæt til League of Legends-kortspillet Riftbound, i både Pre-Rift- og sealed-formater. Sættet introducerer blandt andet mekanikkerne Disarm, Show Off og Deploy, som ifølge spillets executive producer kan ændre defensive strategier og metaspillet. Artiklen indeholder også et interview om sættets design samt vurderinger af nye kort og figurer.

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Doom 2016 Composer Mick Gordon Says "F##k AI" Doom-komponisten Mick Gordon afviser at bruge generativ AI i sit kreative arbejde og siger, at teknologien grundlæggende bygger på allerede eksisterende menneskeskabt materiale. Han mener, at AI derfor vil være begrænset af sine træningsdata, mens publikum fortsat vil søge menneskelig kontakt og originalitet. Gordon har bidraget til musikken i Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun 2 og arbejder også på Defect.

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Doom 2016 Composer Mick Gordon Says He'd Return to the Doom Series "In a Heartbeat" Komponisten Mick Gordon siger, at han gerne vender tilbage til Doom-serien, hvis en række uafklarede forhold falder på plads. Gordon og id Software havde en offentlig konflikt efter Doom Eternal, blandt andet om betaling og arbejdsforhold. Han arbejder fortsat på andre spilprojekter og skal i 2027 optræde med musik fra Doom og Doom Eternal ved en britisk musikfestival.

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The Best Deals Today: Doom: The Dark Ages, Star Wars Zero Company, 007 4K Blu-ray, and More - IGN IGN samler dagens tilbud på spil, film og LEGO-produkter. Blandt tilbuddene er Doom: The Dark Ages til 30,09 dollar, Star Wars Zero Company til 47,97 dollar og Metroid Prime 4: Beyond til 49,99 dollar. Der er også rabat på Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter, Shuten Order, 007-samlingen på 4K Blu-ray samt fysiske eksemplarer af Ocarina of Time-remaket til Nintendo Switch 2.

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Call of Duty Fans Torn After New NetEase Game Launches Debate About 'Rip-Off' FPS That Might Actually Make Warzone Players Happy NetEase har annonceret ECC: Redline, et kommende free-to-play-skydespil til pc og mobil. Spillet bliver af mange spillere beskyldt for at ligne Call of Duty: Warzone næsten én til én, blandt andet på grund af våben, brugerflade, lydeffekter og kamerabevægelser. Andre mener dog, at det kan udfylde tomrummet for frustrerede Warzone-spillere. Der er endnu ingen udgivelsesdato.

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Tekken 8 DLC Trailer Reveals First Look at Yujiro's Uncanny In-Game Render, First Roger Jr. Gameplay Bandai Namco har vist de første glimt af Yujiro Hanma fra Baki, som bliver en kommende DLC-kæmper i Tekken 8. Traileren fokuserer primært på Roger Jr., der får tidlig adgang 11. november og fuld udgivelse 16. november. En ny Yujiro-trailer vises ved Tekken World Tour Finals den 17. januar 2027, men hans udgivelsesdato er endnu ikke bekræftet.

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‘It’s Going To Solidify as One of the Greatest Games in History’ – Developers, Players, and Analysts Reveal How GTA 5 Took Over the World IGN ser tilbage på, hvordan Grand Theft Auto 5 udviklede sig fra en efterfølger i 2013 til et globalt kulturfænomen. Spillet har solgt over 230 millioner eksemplarer, været aktivt på tre konsolgenerationer og skabt et stort fællesskab omkring især GTA Online. Artiklen undersøger også spillets fortælling, satire og betydning for spillerne frem mod GTA 6.

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Marvel Tokon DLC Roadmap Reveals First Look at Jane Foster Thor, Venom and Jubilee Coming in 2027 Arc System Works har offentliggjort den første DLC-plan for kampspillet Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls. Thor i Jane Fosters version kommer vinteren 2027, mens Venom og Jubilee føjes til spillet i henholdsvis foråret og sommeren. Indholdet er en del af Year 1 Character and Stage Pass, der koster 34,99 dollar. Spillet har samtidig mødt kritik for tekniske problemer og få aktive PC-spillere.

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'I Was Flat Out Wrong About These Devs' — Arc Raiders 2.0 Update Triggers 7-Month High in Player Count as Fans Show Up for 'Spider-Man' Grappling Hook, Free Weekend, and More Arc Raiders har oplevet en markant stigning i antallet af samtidige Steam-spillere efter lanceringen af opdateringen Frozen Trail. Spillet nåede over 166.000 spillere, det højeste niveau i syv måneder, hjulpet af en ny snedækket region, nye fjender, en grappling hook og en gratis weekend. Det er dog endnu for tidligt at afgøre, om fremgangen bliver varig.

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En af de værste film nogensinde får nu et remake, som absolut ingen har bedt om - Filmz Uwe Boll vender tilbage til spilfilmatiseringer med et remake af Alone in the Dark, der oprindeligt udkom som film i 2005. Boll og Michael Roesch vil ifølge planerne følge historien fra det nyeste spil og finde en ny skuespiller til rollen som Edward Carnby. Duoen overvejer desuden en mulig efterfølger til House of the Dead.

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'Anyone Who Puts Money Into This Deserves to Lose It All' — GTA 6 Leaker Doubles Down on Crypto Scheme, Threatens to Release Entire Story En GTA 6-lækker hævder, at en komplet spilbygning med hele historien vil blive frigivet, hvis Cyberleeks memecoin når en markedsværdi på 30 millioner dollar. Lækkeren kobler også yderligere gameplaymateriale til forskellige kursmål og Lucias påklædning. Fans beskylder Cyberleek for at drive et kryptosvindelnummer, mens Take-Two fortsat undersøger tidligere lækager.

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It Looks Like Star Citizen Spinoff Squadron 42 Is Actually, Really Going to Come Out Next Year as Steam Wishlists Go Live 12 Years After Development Began Cloud Imperium Games har genintroduceret singleplayer-spillet Squadron 42 med en ny trailer, Steam-ønskelister og en bekræftelse af det omfattende skuespillerensemble. Spillet kombinerer rumkamp, førstepersonsaction og en historiedrevet kampagne med blandt andre Mark Hamill, Gary Oldman og Henry Cavill. Udgivelsen er udskudt til andet kvartal 2027, mens Star Citizen fortsat mangler en fast lanceringsdato.

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Riftbound: Radiance Hands-On Preview and Interview - Riftbound Embraces Complexity - IGN

IGN har prøvespillet Radiance, det femte sæt til League of Legends-kortspillet Riftbound, i både Pre-Rift- og sealed-formater. Sættet introducerer blandt andet mekanikkerne Disarm, Show Off og Deploy, som ifølge spillets executive producer kan ændre defensive strategier og metaspillet. Artiklen indeholder også et interview om sættets design samt vurderinger af nye kort og figurer.

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Riftbound’s final set of the year, Radiance, is finally upon us, and I went hands-on with the cards at a very early Pre-Rift tournament. This marks the League of Legends TCG’s fifth set, and features musically-inspired designs and brand new mechanics poised to disrupt the meta.

I also had the chance to talk with Chengran Chai, the executive producer of Riftbound, to get some insight about the set straight from the source in a joint interview with Temple of Geek’s Myles Obenza.

First, a quick recap of the new mechanics being introduced in Radiance, with some of Chai’s commentary:

New Radiance Keywords: Disarm, Show Off, Deploy

Disarm is the simplest of the new mechanics: When your unit with Disarm attacks, it reduces the might of an enemy unit at that battlefield, usually by one. It immediately made me think of Ahri’s original abilities, which is fitting, since the new green (Calm) Ahri, Confident, comes with Disarm. Her unit has a built-in buff when you reduce the Might of an enemy unit, gaining +1 Might herself. The promising new blue (Mind) Kai’sa, Rebel, has both Disarm and gives spells Reaction speed when in a showdown.

Show Off is a mechanic that might be familiar to you if you’ve played other popular TCGs. Cards with Show Off gain an additional effect if you “Show Off” a qualifying card to your opponent as you play it. We’ve only seen four cards in Radiance with Show Off so far–two units and two spells–and they each grant totally different effects. The 5-cost yellow (Order) Spell Rousing Display (clearly part of the Legend Seraphine’s kit) plays four 1-Might Recruit Tokens to your base instead of just one if you Show Off a card with Energy cost 7 or more.

Chai said that Show Off is a trade off–you’re giving away information in exchange for something, but TCGs are very much a game of information. “If I’m planning a spell heavy deck, whether you have Defy or not in your hand matters a great deal to me,” Chai explained. “Show Off basically opens up another dimension to the kind of like, 3D, 4D chess–that’s 5D.”
Maybe you show your opponent something you have on purpose to throw them off, pushing them into a play you have the perfect counter-play for. Show Off has the possibility of granting great effects, but it opens the game up for more mind games, too.

Deploy is a keyword specifically for Gear, allowing you to deploy that Gear straight to a Battlefield. While there, it’ll provide an effect, but will be killed if your opponent holds the Battlefield it’s at.

Token Gear - Bomb

There’s also a new Token Gear as well, called Bomb. This Token Gear has Deploy, and when it “dies,” it explodes, dealing two damage and triggering the other Bombs at the battlefield. Like other deployable gear, Bombs “die” when an opponent holds the battlefield they’re at, but you can always kill it yourself in various ways to trigger the effects.

“I think Deploy is probably the one that will disrupt [the meta], because historically, you don't think of just going straight to a battlefield,” Chai said. “And now you have, like, Jarvan IV’s E-Q, you have Ziggs just tossing bombs onto battlefields, and it's going to change the way people think about Defending quite a bit.” Jarvan IV’s “E-Q” that Chai references is the move combo in League of Legends where he throws his flag and then pulls himself there–pretty 1-to-1 with Jarvan IV’s Legend ability in Riftbound, which lets you move a friendly unit to a Battlefield when you play a Gear with Deploy there (and pay 1 Power).

Orianna's Legend ability allows you to turn a friendly Gear into a Gear Unit at the start of your Main Phase, a pretty tricky and cool thing you can do to steal some points with Deployable Gear! Her Signature Gear, The Ball, is especially interesting as it also gains Ganking, allowing it to roll back and forth between battlefields each turn. Chai seemed to be especially high on Orianna along with Deploy, noting her Legend and The Ball as playable cards he'd want to showcase from this set.

Both Show Off and Deploy up the complexity of Riftbound. But, Deploy and Disarm seem to be mechanics that will absolutely disrupt defensive Hold strategies the most, which is especially scary for me as someone who’s playing Akali and Vex with Astral Heron hold strategies!

Radiance Pre-Rift and Sealed Hands-On

Last time I got to play with a set early, it was strictly with a preconstructed showcase deck behind closed doors, and I didn’t have more than thirty minutes to actually play with the cards. This time, however, we got a Pre-Rift tournament plus packs to take home to tinker with. So, I played Radiance with one seeded Pre-Rift deck and built two “Sealed” decks to test out–some of which were more successful than others!

What is a Pre-Rift?
Some quick background: A Pre-Rift is a casual prerelease tournament at local game stores. For a fee, usually $35 USD, you get a Pre-Rift Player Kit that includes a promo card, five booster packs, and a 15-card Seeded deck with a Legend and matching Champion Unit. The idea is to build a 25-ish-card deck on the fly with the seeded deck and the boosters, leading to a unique and fun format where people may play cards that might not see the light of day in a competitive Constructed deck. This is especially made possible because you can throw in a third color, enabling combos that couldn’t exist outside of the sealed format.

In my Radiance Pre-Rift Kit, I got the orange (Body) and yellow (Order) Jarvan IV, Exemplar of Demacia Legend. Jarvan’s Legend ability makes use of the new Deploy keyword: “When you play a gear with [Deploy], you may exhaust me and pay [1 Power] to move a friendly unit to that battlefield.”

I threw in plenty of Gears with Deploy, cards with Gear synergies, plus a couple purple (Chaos) cards that made Bombs, drew cards, and generated Gold so I’d have a decent supply of Power to activate Jarvan IV’s Legend Ability. I removed the 7-cost Jarvan IV, Royal Heir as my chosen Champion Unit, though, and replaced it with the K’Sante, Courageous I pulled. High-cost chosen champions aren’t generally the best move, especially in the speedy Pre-Rift format, and though K’sante still costs a pretty hefty 5 runes, having a Unit with Accelerate at my fingertips in the late game proved to be invaluable.

I can’t say I was thrilled at opening Jarvan IV at first (I was hoping for Riven or Evelynn), but after playing just a few turns, the deck strategy clicked spectacularly for me. I was also lucky enough to get a new battlefield called Hunter’s Circle, which reads, “For each player, the first unit or gear they play here on their turn costs 1 less,” which goes super well with Deployable Gear, since you can play them to the battlefield whenever you want on your turn!

In my first game, a test match, I went second. I played Concert Poster to Hunter’s Circle for free, allowing me to then play Skystrike Squadron for a reduced cost of 3 for returning Concert Poster to my hand. A 4-Might Unit with Reflect on my first turn: Not bad! On my next turn, I was able to create two Recruits with Concert Poster and Buff a Recruit and my Skystrike Squadron with Pillaged Armory. Maybe some godlike luck allowed for this to happen, but it felt pretty dang nifty!

With this build, I have to shoutout Portable Portal, a 2-cost orange (Body) Gear with Deploy. When I showed this card to someone, they said they knew it’d be a menace just because Teemo is on it. When you play it, you can pay one orange (Body) power to ready a Unit. Friendly units at that battlefield with Portable Portal also have Ganking. These abilities paired with the Jarvan IV Legend allowed for double conquering in one turn, or allowing for a Gank and then a retreat with Jarvan’s ability, protecting my Unit. It’s a rare card, though, so pulling it in a Pre-Rift isn’t exactly guaranteed!

What is Sealed?

Sealed is a format where each player opens six 14-card booster packs and builds a 25-card deck with the cards they pull from those packs and nothing else–a great activity to do if four friends want to split a booster box! This format is way less consistent than Pre-Rift without a pre-seeded deck, but is still quite fun. If you don’t get a Legend or Chosen Champion you want to use, you get the bonus of drawing an extra card for each on your first turn, which is true in Pre-Rift, too.

In my two Sealed games, one of the decks had no discernible theme besides trying to make Seraphine work (I did not). In the other, I tried for a Ziggs / Bomb build because I happened to pull his Legend and his Epic-rarity red (Fury) Unit, Ziggs, Short-Fused. Let me tell you, the Bomb strategy is pretty tricky to hold together if you don’t have a very reliable way to detonate them on your opponent’s turn. Usually, they explode, dealing two damage per bomb when your opponent holds the battlefield they’re deployed at.

I found it fairly difficult to get enough bombs on a battlefield to matter in one turn unless I held with Explosimian, which lets you play three Bomb gear tokens to a single battlefield. Of course, this still does nothing for protecting you if you’re trying to hold your bomb-ridden battlefield. However, the Pre-Rift Seeded decks with the Ziggs Legend includes the 4-might purple (Chaos) Champion Unit Ziggs, Explosive, which allows you to kill a friendly gear when he defends! If you have enough Bombs, you could potentially wipe your opponent before they can even touch you. And if they can, well, Ziggs, Explosive gets +2 Might if he killed a friendly gear that turn!

Unfortunately, I did not have this Ziggs Unit in my Sealed game, so a different strategy was in order. We determined it’s likely best to load Bombs up one battlefield, leave them alone, and then build a strong Hold at the other Battlefield, forcing your opponent to choose to deal with either a battlefield fortified with Units or fortified with Bombs.

The Unit Reckless Innovator and Gear The Good Stuff, both The purple (Chaos) cards, also proved to be very useful in just about every thrown together deck I or my opponent played. I have a lot more opinions, but it’d be absurd to expect you to read my ramblings, so we’ll end it at that.

Overall, the Sealed and Pre-Rift formats for Radiance were very fun, and the new ideas this set brings to Riftbound add an even higher level of complexity to the existing pool. As for Radiance in a vacuum for Sealed, it seemed to allow for a good variety of unique deck-building options. This is of course by design.

“We want the base set to have a rich enough playing set,” Chai said. “Such that Sealed events are fun… all by itself.”

Radiance’s Rarest Cards

With the playing set determined, that’s when the Riftbound team layers collectibility on top of it with Alt Art, Overnumbered, and SP cards. Some of the rare standouts for Radiance are Riot Games Music crossovers, including the Overnumbered Heartsteel cards, SP K/DA cards, and Overnumbered Ekko, Revolutionary, which features Ekko’s original True Damage skin. The Overnumbered cards also come in the Signature variety, which are the rarest pulls besides the single Ultimate Rare in this set.

“We knew Riot as a whole would have a music moment towards the end of the year, so very early on, we said we would lean into that,” Chai said. However, as a physical game, the Riftbound team needed to finalize many card details before the songs were even composed and the new character designs were finished. “That is why you see… for the K/DA and Heartsteel cards, it is very much their K/DA All Out and Heartsteel 1.0 versions, because the 2.0 versions just weren’t quite ready,” Chai said. “But we thought it would be a great way to showcase Riftbound’s participation… and leverage the broader music moment to allow more fans to see and experience Riftbound as well.”

This original plan didn’t even include teasing Heartsteel’s Riftbound cards in Heartsteel’s new Live My Life music video–the Riot Music Team actually initiated that easter egg, asking the Riftbound team if they wanted the cards in the music video. Of course, they said yes.

Though Riftbound has been very supported from within Riot since the beginning, the somewhat unexpected explosion of its popularity has given Riftbound even more opportunities to be a part of Riot-wide moments. Another example of this is the Riftbound easter egg in Valorant’s Aeris Flex cosmetic.

The Heartsteel Overnumbered cards feature a very unique design, akin to K-pop photo cards, complete with bright motifs, stickers, and Y2K elements. Playing into the photo card inspiration even more, the Heartsteel Overnumbered Signature cards are "signed" by the characters themselves--not the artists like on other Signature cards! Riot Games’ senior Manager of creative development Michelle Mauk spoke about the design process during the Radiance panel at the Riftbound Regional Qualifier (RQ) in Los Angeles, which I highly recommend you watch if you’re interested.

I always feel like renders of Overnumbered cards don’t do them justice, and that’s certainly the case for the Heartsteel cards, too. The texturing and foiling on Riftbound’s most coveted cards are always so impressive to behold in person.

Radiance’s Ultimate Rare ties well into the heavy music theme but is, shockingly, a Battlefield: Packed Amphitheater. This card will be the rarest card in all of Riftbound’s main sets, only appearing in about 0.025% of booster packs. That’s a huge rarity uptick from the only other Ultimate Rare, Baron Nasher from Unleashed, with a 0.1% pack rate. The in-person foiling and texturing you can't see in a render does a lot a lot of heavy lifting for this one–and you can get a better look at it, and see some creators’ reactions, in this official PlayRiftbound reel.

There are other Overnumbers and Alt Art cards to chase that aren’t musically inclined, too, like the Overnumbererd Mordekaiser Legend IGN exclusively revealed last week.

Radiance Pre-Rifts start at local game stores near you on Oct. 16, and I really can’t wait to play some more. With the complexity Radiance introduces, this might not be the best first set to get into, but it’s great for existing players craving more variety and creativity in their deck building. That being said, the Riftbound community has always been nothing but welcoming and helpful at every store I’ve played at, too, so don’t be shy. Otherwise, Radiance booster boxes, packs, and vaults will be available to purchase on Oct. 23.

Casey DeFreitas is the deputy editor of guides at IGN and is playing three more Riftbound Radiance Pre-Rifts this weekend at a local game store, because they're just that much fun. Catch her on socials @ShinyCaseyD.

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