Virtual card games. Everyone's at it these days, including [UPDATE: sort of] Sword of the Stars developers Kerberos. Not content with the 4X strategy game's first spin-off (roguelike The Pit ), the team are making a 'wargame with cards' and they've decided to call it Ground Pounders. Although it hasn't officially been announced yet - expect that sometime this week - it does have a trailer and a tantalisingly empty website , so I'm fairly confident that it's a thing.

As the following video reveals, you'll be able to "control your army", "control your cards" and "control the planet", which to be honest sounds like a lot of responsibility. There's not much to go on yet, but producer Chris Stewart has told me via email to "think sci-fi Panzer General with cards you can use to alter your combat rounds etc", so that's exactly what I'm doing. Hey, it looks pretty good in my head.

Ground Pounders is coming soon, according to that trailer, and we can expect more info (and a demo) very soon. Until then, here's a trio of alpha screenshots. I have no idea what's going on, but it looks pretty damned hexy.

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