Magic XBLA game heads to PC, PS3

By Robert Purchese Published 10 November, 2009

Wizards have more up their sleeves.

Hold on to your pointy hats as Wizards of the Coast plans to bring The Gathering - Duels of the Planeswalkers to PC and PS3.

There will be rather a long wait, however: summer 2010 on PC and autumn 2010 on PS3. But to make up for this there will be "extra content". Maybe a robe to go with your wizard hat.

Magic: The Gathering - Duels of the Planeswalkers - a card battler of the purest kind - was released on Xbox 360 in June, scoring well across the board.

And to stop Xbox 360 owners feeling left out, WOTC will release two expansions next year - the first in spring and the second in summer.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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  • Kremlik Verified Co-Founder, Crash To Desktop #1 2 years ago

    Duels is one of the few XBLA games that should be on most players HDDs it's a great stepping stone into the godfather of TCGs irronically it's better presented then it's bigger bother MTG:online, i'm glad it's comming to the other formats it's one of the few games I'd miss having Live for

  • NorUraeus #2 2 years ago

    Weird that its taking so long, I mean this is not a graphically intensive game and thus porting it should be fairly straightforward job.

  • giant_frying_pan #3 2 years ago

    Would be nice that, even if they won't allow full deck customisation (I fully accept that's a major draw they need to reserve for Magic: The Gathering Online) they could at least let you *remove* cards from the pre-constructed decks, to make them leaner and meaner.

  • bloke #4 2 years ago

    Still in the top 3 in the US XBLA chart too..........

  • AccidentProne #5 2 years ago

    This is a great game, the recent expansion added some pretty good decks and additional cards. There's still a few AI issues though. Still seems pretty easy to find someone to play online though and I've had less of a problem with quitters lately too.

    Deck customisation would be nice though, as would the option to play co-op online. Regardless, I've certainly clocked up more hours on this than any other arcade title this year. Probably spent more time on it than most full price releases to be honest.

  • SeesThroughAll #6 2 years ago

    Deck customization is an essential part of playing Magic. Designing a deck is as much fun as playing the game itself.
    I'm surprised to read that the XBLA version had this portion so limited in the first place. Hopefully it will be patched or added as DLC.

  • giant_frying_pan #7 2 years ago

    We're not going to get full deck customisation unless a full pay-per card/booster model is introduced alongside it.

    MTG:o is the place to be for authentic virtual Magic.

  • mingster #8 2 years ago

    lol at wizard sleeve

  • MrChuckles #9 2 years ago

    You get the decks for free when you signup to MTGO and you can customise them all in teh casual room. Why you then can't do that for the xbox 360 version? i dunno....

    If they allowed the customisation, i'd buy the extra DLC tomorrow.

  • Rack #10 2 years ago

    Because MTGO is about 70 billion pounds a month?

  • Murton #11 2 years ago

    So somewhere in the region of 15 months for a port to the PS3? And for an XBLA game which surely can't be THAT complex. Something tells me that they haven't even started on this yet and are concentrating on those expansions, maybe the version coming to PC and PS3 next year will have both of those expansions built in and that's our extra content? Not sure but that'd be my guess anyway