VIRLAN TechThe Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game is a Japanese collectible card game developed and published by Konami.
It is based on the fictional game of Duel Monsters created by manga artist Kazuki Takahashi, which appears in portions of the manga franchise Yu-Gi-Oh! (under the name of “Magic and Wizards”), and is the central plot device throughout its various anime adaptations and spinoff series.
The trading card game was launched by Konami in 1999 in Japan and March 2002 in North America.
It was named the top selling trading card game in the world by Guinness World Records on July 7, 2009, having sold over 22 billion cards worldwide.
As of March 31, 2011, Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd. Japan sold 25.2 billion cards globally since 1999.
As of January 2021, the game is estimated to have sold about 35 billion cards worldwide and grossed over ¥1 trillion ($9.64 billion).
Yu-Gi-Oh! Speed Duel, a faster and simplified version of the game, was launched worldwide in January 2019. Another faster-paced variation, Yu-Gi-Oh! Rush Duel, launched in Japan in April 2020.
At the most basic level, the Yu-Gi-Oh!
The Yu-Gi-Oh! TRADING CARD GAME is designed for kids ages 6+. As long as your child can do basic addition and subtraction calculations and read the text on his or her cards, your child will be able to play the game.
Keeping up to date with the latest YuGiOh banlist is as much key to success in this trading card game as it is in Magic: The Gathering or the Pokémon TCG. While it’s more of a wild west than some other TCGs, YuGiOh cards are still banned, limited, or semi limited on a (somewhat) regular […]
Free-to-play digital card game, Yu-Gi-Oh! MASTER DUEL, peaked third on Steam’s concurrent player count. Now sitting in fourth (still above Apex Legends and GTA V) the game has so far received 147,857 concurrent players since its launch yesterday, with today’s player peak also sitting at 159,158. Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel and the details of all its […]
Provided by Konami Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel features almost every card in the game’s history, as well as a ranked ladder for serious players to compete on. Everything to know about Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel The highly anticipated, free-to-play Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel game released on Thursday, finally bringing Konami’s answer to Wizards of the Coast’s Magic the […]