Sizzling on the heels of the information that Lazarus Rising Video games had initiated its marketing campaign to return the legendary Nineteen Nineties collectible card recreation OverPower to its unique glory, signing licensing offers with High Cow Productions, the corporate launched an OverPower Kickstarter marketing campaign that was totally funded in below ten minutes.
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Lazarus Rising Video games’ resurrection of the legendary Nineteen Nineties collectible card recreation OverPower has loved a robust October in its march to a proper relaunch in late 2024, initiating a kickstarter that rapidly funded and is quickly rising, and experiencing a wholesome surge of curiosity from each avid followers and new-to-the-game gamers at OverPower’s heavily-trafficked sales space on the ground of New York Comedian Con.
The OverPower kickstarter, which opened two days previous to New York Comedian Con on October 15, formally funded its preliminary aim of $50,000 in simply 10 minutes and, to this point, has already raised almost one quarter of one million {dollars} on the backing of simply over 500 people. Whereas some reward tiers have already bought out, there’s a numerous array of tiers nonetheless accessible, and that includes a formidable vary of rewards that embrace starter decks, booster packs/bins, foil unlocks, energy card stations, restricted version 2023 & 2024 promo playing cards, particular playmats, uncut sheet commons, a number of uncommon playing cards and bundles, and way more.
“Having the kickstarter fund simply moments after we posted was inspiring to the Lazarus Rising Video games workforce, and undoubtedly validated our personal private love for the sport,” stated CEO & co-founder Joseph Gagnepain. “The prolonged assist has supplied a transparent sign that there’s a true starvation for CCGs and, specifically, the brand new strategy and enhanced paintings and gameplay that we’re pioneering for OverPower.”
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Completely positioned for prime visitors and designed to seize the wonder and pleasure of the sport’s paintings, the OverPower sales space at New York Comedian Con featured each recreation play demonstrations and extremely common giveaways, together with two restricted version, NYCC-exclusive playing cards (Witchblade & Leonidas) and play-ready starter decks that includes Edgar Rice Burroughs and the World Legends IPs. The sales space was manned by the vast majority of Lazarus Rising Video games (LRG) management: Gagnepain, co-founder & President Ronald Pozzi, Chief Technical Officer Keith Bursack, Chief Operations Officer David McMillan, Artwork Director Shawn Sawyer, and LRG’s latest affiliate Tyler Bertrand.
“The sheer enthusiasm for OverPower was overwhelming at New York Comedian Con,” stated Pozzi, “It was a captivating, fantastic mixture of followers coming to the sales space who had been both passionate gamers from the Nineteen Nineties – and a few, like our LRG workforce, who’ve by no means stopped taking part in – and an unimaginable array of latest people with a straightforward understanding and immediate ardour for the sport. We all know we’ve bought an unimaginable recreation in each approach doable, and it was extraordinarily encouraging to satisfy such a wide selection of people that share our love for OverPower.”
A part of that enthusiasm for the relaunch of OverPower has been fueled by LRG’s dogged pursuit of latest IP licenses and notable artists. LRG not too long ago signed licensing offers with High Cow Productions, Inc. and Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. that embrace the likes of High Cow’s Witchblade, Darkness and Cyberforce, in addition to Burroughs’ iconic Tarzan of the Apes® and John Carter of Mars®. LRG has additionally added famend comedian ebook & CCG artists Philip Tan, Jim Chung and Jae Lee, with further new artist offers anticipated to be introduced within the coming weeks, and is at the moment in negotiation with a number of distinguished corporations so as to add their beloved characters to the OverPower secure.
Previously often called BMG & Associates, Lazarus Rising Video games’ core possession is comprised of a bunch of profitable professionals who spent their youth taking part in OverPower – and proceed to today. Their ardour for the sport is the driving power of the corporate, and their expertise ensures the sport’s authenticity to its roots whereas relentlessly in search of new property to infuse the sport’s resurgence. Because the collectible card recreation market has continued to as soon as once more blossom, the LRG workforce has sought to place OverPower on the heart of that revival by interesting to the sport’s loyal followers – and potential new gamers – with the acquisition of latest IPs, an inclusive, artistic algorithm for clean, thrilling gameplay, and completely beautiful paintings from a few of the high illustrators within the video games and comics industries. Additional establishing OverPower’s CCG footprint, LRG has entrusted manufacturing of its playing cards to legendary Cartamundi.
LRG has already begun a mushy rollout of the sport’s new elements and playing cards, initially providing two new units earlier this yr – which bought out instantly – for test-playing the brand new mechanics of the sport. A brand new full core set is now in manufacturing with deliveries anticipated in early 2025, and extra expansions are within the works for This autumn of 2025.
About Lazarus Rising Video games
Previously BMG & Associates, Lazarus Rising Video games was shaped by 5 OverPower gamers – Ronald Pozzi, Joseph Gagnepain, Shawn Sawyer, David McMillan and Keith Bursack – who’ve liked the sport since its inception and bought the corporate to make sure the sport might survive and thrive for immediately and the long run. From visionary designers and expert builders to meticulous artists and strategic thinkers, the Lazarus Rising Video games workforce brings a wealth of expertise and experiences to the desk. LRG is united by a passionate dedication to crafting participating gaming experiences for the prevailing OverPower neighborhood and past, and fostered by a collaborative work tradition that encourages particular person progress and celebrates collective achievements. In the end, LRG is pushing the gaming envelope, actively participating with companies and people who share the corporate’s imaginative and prescient of a extra fascinating gaming world. LRG is pushed by the potential of know-how and creativity in writing the subsequent chapter of the OverPower saga.
