One of the cooler innovations we saw as we were traveling around Japan last year was in the Japanese arcades where they seemed to have melded Collectible Card Games with video games, in the kind of synergy where they make you pay for the starter/booster packs and then make you pay to play the arcade machines that use the cards. It's ingenious, really.
They had different games, a FIFA game where moving the cards would move the players on the screen, and a fantasy RTS where the cards represented the units on the field, and another which was a 3D dungeon crawl.
This youtube video shows a new type of home console card game, in which the cards interact with a camera to give more of a feel of playing an actual card game, and not a video game.
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