http://ps3.ign.com/articles/104/1041065p1.html

November 2, 2009 - DENVER, Colo. - Today, Sony Online Entertainment LLC, and Wizards of the Coast LLC announced they are developing Magic: The Gathering – Tactics, an online, 3D turn-based strategy game played within the rich Magic: The Gathering Multiverse.

"By collaborating with Wizards of the Coast, we're able to combine the strengths of both companies to develop an innovative, online, 3D game based on an extremely popular IP," said John Smedley, president, Sony Online Entertainment. "We're going to be taking the Magic: The Gathering Multiverse places players have never seen."

"The growing Magic: The Gathering community has an insatiable desire for great strategic game experiences. Sony Online Entertainment is the perfect partner to transform the best of Magic's story, strategy and competitive play into a fantastic 'Tactics' game experience for current and new Magic fans," said Greg Leeds, president, Wizards of the Coast.

Magic: The Gathering - Tactics will allow players to command forces of dramatic 3D figures and powerful spell cards pulled from the Magic: The Gathering Multiverse. Players can participate in single player scenarios or jump right into PVP action against other players worldwide, 24 hours per day. Magic: The Gathering – Tactics is expected to feature regular content expansions, a robust tournament environment, an achievement and rankings program, and original stories of the Planeswalkers of Magic: The Gathering.

Magic: The Gathering - Tactics is being developed by SOE's Denver studio and scheduled to be available for the PC in early 2010, with a version for the PlayStation 3 computer entertainment system to follow.

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That actually seems like an interesting concept. Hope it works out, though I think SOE should focus more on getting the PS3 versions of their games out at the same time as the PC versions.

Tactics? much like FF Tactics?
why not make one the same as the XBLA one?

And here is the embarrassingly bad teaser trailer for everyone's viewing pleasure:

that trailer got SOE written all over it
teh Cheesiness!

Snicker, LOLOLOLOLOLOL ROFL.

Good FN Lord. WOTC and 100% of the RPG consumer market are MORONS. This is an industry that's eating self to DEATH. This is the exact industry where Nintendo year on end shows where consumers drift away. This is the exact industry where BOS talks about a industry that's going to die.

So lately(and I have been watching) WotC is trying bad idea after bad idea. This is the company that thought you can take OpenRPG and charge $10 a month for a D&D version. This is a company where Magic has upstreamed to the point where it's not as profitable as it once was. This is a company where they think they can take a working(but personaly sucky game) D&D and turn it into WoW by copying the WoW MMO structure.

A company with MTG which caused MASSIVE disruption. TSR marketing admited to making Spell Fire to DISRUPT and stop the MTG game. WotC founded success with D&D 3.x by disrupting the current RPG industry by it's Open Gaming License. Now years later WotC is stumbling constantly over themselves trying to spark the spark. Only to end up screwing up constantly. WotC however is like Sony of the PS2 era, but the industry is in decline and no one is smart enough to pull a Nintendo to bring in new consumers.

This news is funny.

...is this like yugi oh or something? The magic game on xbl is just fine.

Whats this?

1)  Magic the Gathering lost a lot of its momentum due to large entrants in the market place like Pokemon and Yu Gi Oh which had massive exposure thanks to their anime counterparts as well as a bunch of start-up CCGs (some of which now have their own Saturday morning cartoons too).  Your Sony comparison is almost right on with MtG because while MtG was capturing the existing market, these new CCG's were taking in the children and the upcoming market.

2)  WotC's success wasn't with 3.x, it was with the d20 which has been adopted for a lot of different games.  Honestly the best things to ever see print in the last D&D era were Unearthed Arcana, Tome of Magic, and Tome of Battle (which heavily resembles D&D 4.0).  They weren't great because of d20 though, they were great because they changed the nature of the game in a direction that 4.0 has since taken.  I like 3.5 but when Tome of Battle came out I knew they had just stumbled onto something that was better in just about every way.

3)  Don't compare WotC to TSR.  TSR failed because it spent months and months printing shit no one wanted.  If anything WotC is the opposite of TSR.  WotC is actually trying to find out what people want.  It's trying experiments with this and that unlike TSR who for those last years had its head so far up its arse it could eat lunch a second time.