Wizards Of The Coast Tries Star Sisterz, Duel Masters

Thanks to OgreCave for its article pointing out that Wizards Of The Coast, the Hasbro gaming division best known for the Magic: The Gathering CCG, is now trying a collectible charm-bracelet game called Star Sisterz. Apparently, the game "combines the popular beaded trinkets with truth-or-dare-style questions on cards" in order to target the difficult-to-reach female demographic, and "girls might be charged with going to the mall with their clothes on inside-out or reading a page from their diary aloud to all of their friends - how embarrassing!" The official site has more information on this 'game', although OgreCave notes the more interactive Duel Masters CCG, the current Japanese collectible card game of choice, will launch around the same time, with comics, videogames, action figures, and a TV show on Toonami/Cartoon Network all contributing to the Pokemon/Yu-Gi-Oh styled media blitz.

Comments

Truth or dare for geeks!

[Leffe]

"geeks might be charged with going to the mall or reading a page of code from their extreme programming experiment aloud to all of their friends - how embarrassing!"

Re:best known game?

[Kleedrac2]

Though you are correct, I would say Magic is their best known game as it was invented by Richard Garfeild and developed exclusively at WOTC. D&D however was started by Dave Arneson and Gary Gygax at their small TSR company before it went belly up about 6 years ago! Although I really like the direction WOTC took the game with 3.0 and to a lesser extent 3.5, I'd still give the majority of the credit back to TSR where it belongs!

Kleedrac

This is stupid, even for girls

[DrDoombender]

STAR SISTERZ enables tween girls to develop interpersonal skills through communication and trust exercises with friends. More importantly, STAR SISTERZ fosters a heightened sense of self as girls discover and define their own unique interests and talents."

yeah, cause you know how girls can't develop communication skillz and trust with friends through IM, the phone, normal conversation, and good games (IMHO, this is a stupid game idea). Here's how I see it....

Girl1: "Like OMG, you look so like Britney spears!"

Girl2: "OMG! I was gonna say the same about you."

girl1: "Okay, so its like my turn. Truth or dare, do you like Will Farrell?"

girl2: "Dare! *giggle"

Girl1: "okay, so like, my bracelet compells you to be like an anorexic for a week."

girl2: "OMG! I already am."

girl1: "OMG! I am too!" *both girls giggle.

maybe, I'm outta touch, maybe I got karma to burn, but that's my thoughts on this.

Negative branding?

[GonzoDave]

Is ANY teenage girl going to buy something by the people who bought you Magic:The Gathering, Dungeon and Dragons and the Lifelong Virginity expansion packs?

Re:Negative branding?

[NonSequor]

YOu're forgetting Beanie Babies.

Girl Challenges

[TwistedSquare]

As I read this: "girls might be charged with going to the mall with their clothes on inside-out" I had a horrible feeling it was about to dare girls to go commando... After all what do you expect if you let a geeky company dream up these things ;-)

Where to buy it?

[WebGangsta]

I'm so happy that Hasbro/Wizards of the Coast is releasing this exciting new game! I can't wait to go to my local mall and buy it while browsing other great games that are available! (Settlers of Catan! Casino items! 136 different versions of Monopoly! Apples to Apples expansion pack #1802! A chess set shaped like the Simpsons!)

Oh wait, Hasbro is closing all their Wizards of the Coast stores, making it near impossible to find decent games locally anymore. Never mind.