2026-03-30 03:29 UTC · Community Announcements · cygames
Greetings from the Shadowverse Team! The time has come for us to announce that we will be ending service for Shadowverse at 7:00 p.m., June 30, 2026 (PT). All of us on the Shadowverse Team would like to take a moment to express our heartfelt gratitude to everyone who has supported us throughout the years. Shadowverse launched on June 17, 2016, as a spin-off of Rage of Bahamut, but quickly took on a life of its own. Over the course of a decade, the game grew and evolved in countless ways, from the introduction of Portalcraft and the Rotation and Unlimited formats, to the addition of the Take Tw
2018-07-06 14:42 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun · contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Alec Meer)
We’ve just passed the half-way point of 2018, so Ian Gatekeeper and all his fabulously wealthy chums over at Valve have revealed which hundred games have sold best on Steam over the past six months. It’s a list dominated by pre-2018 names, to be frank, a great many of which you’ll be expected, but there are a few surprises in there. 2018 releases Jurassic World Evolution, Far Cry 5 Kingdom Come: Deliverance and Warhammer: Vermintide II are wearing some spectacular money-hats, for example, while the relatively lesser-known likes of Raft, Eco and Deep Rock Galactic have made th
2018-06-08 18:00 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun · contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Austin Wood)
The crappiest common cards in Shadowverse look better than the best legendary cards in most of the collectible card games I’ve played, so you can imagine what Shadowverse’s legendaries look like. They are stupidly, irresponsibly beautiful. Dragons with uncountable glistening scales, angels clad in impossibly pearlescent metal, musclebound demons flanked by swirling tongues of raven-black flame, to say nothing of all the hunky anime boys and cute anime girls. The legendaries are also stupidly, irresponsibly powerful, which pretty much sums the whole game up. Shadowverse is a game of
2018-05-08 18:00 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun · contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Austin Wood)
Collectible card games have been around for decades, but they’ve really been running hot ever since Blizzard unleashed Hearthstone four years ago. Since then, we’ve seen Shadowverse, Gwent, The Elder Scrolls: Legends, Duelyst, Faeria – there are a lot of these things, if you haven’t heard. They all put their own spin on rectangles with numbers on ’em, but they also universally take cues from Hearthstone and, just as often, each other, and as a result they regularly run into similar problems, the biggest two being how to balance a competitive system and how to pric
2018-05-03 18:00 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun · contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Brendan Caldwell)
Welcome to Spawn Point, where we take something wonderful from the world of gaming and explain what it is, why it s worth your time and how to get involved. This time: collectible card games (or at least, the videogame kind). Hello, I would like to collect some cards please. Of course, friend. We have a wide variety of fantasy themed cards, ranging from hostile dragon to raving ghoul to Hang on, what are these numbers? Oh, ignore those, they re nothing to worry about. Look at this wizard! (more…)
2018-03-29 02:59 UTC · Community Announcements · Shadowverse Official
28 MARCH, 2018 - SHADOWVERSE OFFICIAL Version 2.1.0 was released at 5:00 p.m., March 28 (PT). This update includes: - New Dawnbreak, Nightedge card set added In the Dawnbreak, Nightedge card set, 97 new cards will be added. - New leader cards added In addition to the 97 cards in Dawnbreak, Nightedge, the following leader cards will be included: Aria, Guiding Fairy Ramina, Moon Al-mi'raj Drawing these cards will allow you to use the above leaders in matches, as well as the corresponding emblems and sleeves. Notes about Leader Cards: - Aria, Guiding Fairy will be treated the same as the Aria, Gu
2018-03-29 02:59 UTC · Community Announcements · Shadowverse Official
28 MARCH, 2018 - SHADOWVERSE OFFICIAL Version 2.1.0 was released at 5:00 p.m., March 28 (PT). This update includes: - New Dawnbreak, Nightedge card set added In the Dawnbreak, Nightedge card set, 97 new cards will be added. - New leader cards added In addition to the 97 cards in Dawnbreak, Nightedge, the following leader cards will be included: Aria, Guiding Fairy Ramina, Moon Al-mi'raj Drawing these cards will allow you to use the above leaders in matches, as well as the corresponding emblems and sleeves. Notes about Leader Cards: - Aria, Guiding Fairy will be treated the same as the Aria, Gu
2018-03-08 19:22 UTC · PC Gamer
 A new expansion is coming to the free-to-play fantasy CCG Shadowverse at the end of the month called Dawnbreak, Nightedge. The eighth new card set will add a new "Choose" keyword that enables the use of special abilities or effects when certain cards are played, a twist that publisher Cygames said will enable "unprecedented levels of strategic depth." And once again, we've got an exclusive look at three of the new cards that are on the way.  We begin our reveals with a Gold rarity card by the name of Suttungr. It's  a 3/2 unevolved. 5/4 evolved Neu
2018-01-02 19:00 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun · contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Alec Meer)
Another year over, a new one just begun, which means, impossibly, even more games. But what about last year? Which were the games that most people were buying and, more importantly, playing? As is now something of a tradition, Valve have let slip a big ol’ breakdown of the most successful titles released on Steam over the past twelve months. Below is the full, hundred-strong roster, complete with links to our coverage if you want to find out more about any of the games, or simply to marvel at how much seemed to happen in the space of 52 short weeks. (more…)
2017-12-31 16:51 UTC · PC Gamer
Shadowverse is a great alternative to Hearthstone. Fans of Blizzard's mammoth CCG will find its mechanics familiar, but it's set apart by its distinct Japanese flavour and a neat 'Evolve' mechanic, which lets you buff and transform any of your minions. It's free-to-play and receives a constant stream of updates, the latest of which, Chronogenesis, came out this week. As well as adding 138 new cards—some of which Andy took a peek at last week—Chronogenesis adds a new class called Portalcraft, led by Yuwan. His trademark mechanic is Resonance, which activat
2017-12-29 05:33 UTC · Community Announcements · Shadowverse Official
28 DECEMBER, 2017 - SHADOWVERSE OFFICIAL Version 2.0.0 was released at 5:00 p.m., December 27 (PT). This update includes: - New Chronogenesis card set In the Chronogenesis card set, 138 new cards will be added. - New Portalcraft class Portalcraft, the new class lead by Yuwan, will also make its debut. - New Rotation format Rotation, a new deck construction format, will be playable. Rotation will include all cards released in the five latest card sets, as well as basic cards. After Rotation is added, it still will be possible to play with all available cards in the Unlimited format. - New chapt
2017-12-29 05:33 UTC · Community Announcements · Shadowverse Official
28 DECEMBER, 2017 - SHADOWVERSE OFFICIAL Version 2.0.0 was released at 5:00 p.m., December 27 (PT). This update includes: - New Chronogenesis card set In the Chronogenesis card set, 138 new cards will be added. - New Portalcraft class Portalcraft, the new class lead by Yuwan, will also make its debut. - New Rotation format Rotation, a new deck construction format, will be playable. Rotation will include all cards released in the five latest card sets, as well as basic cards. After Rotation is added, it still will be possible to play with all available cards in the Unlimited format. - New chapt
2017-12-18 22:17 UTC · PC Gamer
Card games that aren't named Hearthstone tend not to get nearly as much coverage as those that are, but there's a lot of exciting stuff going on in the digital CCG scene. The free-to-play Shadowverse is one of the leading alternatives to Blizzard's licence to print money: It's similar enough to Hearthstone that it shouldn't be scary for fans, but nonetheless has enough of its own (boisterous, anime-flavored) identity to stand out. A new expansion called Chronogenesis is on the way that will add a new Portalcraft class and introduce limited rotations, which allows only
2017-09-28 06:11 UTC · Community Announcements · Shadowverse Official
28 JUNE, 2017 - SHADOWVERSE OFFICIAL Version 1.7.0 was released at 8:00 p.m., September 27 (PT). This update includes: - Starforged Legends card pack added This expansion includes 104 new cards. - Specially illustrated cards with new leaders Two new specially illustrated leader cards will be added with the release of Starforged Legends. Daria, Dimensional Witch Aldos, Imperial Dragoon When obtaining a specially illustrated leader card, you will also receive the card's leader, emblem and card sleeve. These cards share the same costs and abilities as the respective cards they are based on, but c
2017-09-28 06:11 UTC · Community Announcements · Shadowverse Official
28 JUNE, 2017 - SHADOWVERSE OFFICIAL Version 1.7.0 was released at 8:00 p.m., September 27 (PT). This update includes: - Starforged Legends card pack added This expansion includes 104 new cards. - Specially illustrated cards with new leaders Two new specially illustrated leader cards will be added with the release of Starforged Legends. Daria, Dimensional Witch Aldos, Imperial Dragoon When obtaining a specially illustrated leader card, you will also receive the card's leader, emblem and card sleeve. These cards share the same costs and abilities as the respective cards they are based on, but c
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