Skylanders Brings Mobile Card Battling to Life in an All-New Way Starting Today with Skylanders Battlecast
May 24 2016 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
Collect Cards, Build The Ultimate Deck, and
Battle Friends and Foes to Achieve Legendary Status!
Activision Publishing, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of
Activision Blizzard, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATVI), is ushering in a new way
for Skylanders fans and card collection enthusiasts to play with
the launch of Skylanders Battlecast. Based on Activision’s
award-winning Skylanders® videogame series, Skylanders
Battlecast is a new, free-to-play mobile card game where
players build their ultimate deck of cards, master strategic card
combinations and use them in never before seen battles! Starting
today, players can head to retail stores globally to purchase
physical card packs to begin their epic journey to become a
champion of Skylands.
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Favorite Skylanders characters battle it
out in Skylanders Battlecast with new twists, attacks and power-ups
fans will love to explore. (Graphic: Business Wire)
In honor of the worldwide launch today, Battlecasters can now
try their hand at defeating Kaos in the new Kaos Island realm. Now
available, this realm allows players to test their skills against
Skylands’ ultimate enemy, KAOS! Adding to the fun, Skylanders
Battlecast offers enthusiasts the ability to hone their skills
and keep their game in top shape by sending friends direct
challenges via an in-game friend list feature.
In Skylanders Battlecast, players simply download the
game from their mobile app store and can begin their quest to
become the ultimate Battlecaster. To enhance gameplay, players can
purchase Booster Packs and Battle Packs from local retailers or
digitally from the game. The special card packs bring Skylanders
Battlecast cards to life in a magical way as players scan their
physical cards with their mobile devices to watch cards spring to
life through augmented reality. Amplifying the experience, the game
also allows players to add cards to an in-game digital spell book.
By collecting more cards, players will have more pieces to
customize their deck for battle!
“We continue to provide a variety of fun new ways for fans to
explore Skylanders and Skylanders Battlecast is an amazing
new innovation,” says Josh Taub, senior vice president, Product
Management, Activision Publishing. “Our mobile card game offers
players not only a collectible experience but also augmented
reality, PvP and an exciting single-player campaign.”
Activision assembled a team of experts across video game design,
physical card game design, pro card players and top card artists to
develop Skylanders Battlecast. Unlike traditional trading
card and mobile battle games, Skylanders Battlecast offer
fans premium graphical fidelity in the form of a fully 3D-rendered
gameplay experience that is incredibly fun and highly strategic.
Players can collect up to 300 Character, Spell, Gear and Relic
cards, including foil variants, to fight their way through more
than 60 missions across eight elemental islands. The more
challenges completed within each mission, the more rewards are
earned.
Skylanders Battlecast will be available via the App
Store, Google Play and the Amazon Appstore. Skylanders Battlecast
Battle packs featuring 22 cards will be available for the suggested
retail price of $9.99 and the Skylanders Booster pack, which will
include a random selection of eight cards, will retail for the
suggested price of $4.99.
About the
Skylanders®
Franchise
The award-winning, $3 billion Skylanders franchise has sold
through more than 250 million toys1 since pioneering the
toys-to-life category in 2011 with the debut of Skylanders® Spyro’s
Adventure. The game originated a play pattern that seamlessly
bridged physical and virtual worlds across multiple platforms. In
2012, Skylanders® Giants further evolved the genre and added
LightCore® characters to the collection of interaction figures.
Skylanders® SWAP Force™, which launched in 2013, introduced an all
new play pattern – swapability. In 2014, Skylanders® Trap Team
reversed the magic of bringing toys to life by allowing players to
pull characters out of the digital world into the physical world
and became the number 1 kids’ console game globally2. Skylanders
SuperChargers launched on September 20, 2015 and expands upon the
franchise’s signature gameplay to introduce vehicles-to-life for
the first time.
About Activision
Publishing
Headquartered in Santa Monica, California, Activision
Publishing, Inc. is a leading global producer and publisher of
interactive entertainment. Activision maintains operations
throughout the world. More information about Activision and its
products can be found on the company's website, www.activision.com
or by following @Activision.
© 2016 Activision Publishing, Inc., SKYLANDERS, SKYLANDERS
BATTLECAST, SKYLANDERS SUPERCHARGERS, SKYLANDERS TRAP TEAM,
SKYLANDERS SWAP FORCE, SKYLANDERS GIANTS and ACTIVISION are
trademarks of Activision Publishing, Inc.
¹The NPD Group, GfK Chart-Track, Activision Blizzard internal
estimates, including toys and accessories²According to The NPD
Group, GfK Chart-Track and Activision Blizzard internal estimates,
including toys and accessories.
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