Countingdown.com has posted an article from the Daily Mail that looks at the controversy of Warner Bros. allowing huge toy rivals Hasbro and Mattel create their own trading card games. Hasbro, of course, owns Wizards of the Coast while Mattel has started distributing Casting Stones for their card game with their action figures. From a …read more!

This is London has a great article about the recent launch of the Harry Potter Trading Card Game.

Pojo.com has posted a Harry Potter CCG patch for the virtual Card Game program Apprentice. They’ve also set up a league for playing games and have setup a channel on IRC. So download and install the programs, and when you’re ready to play some games, come to irc.mediadriven.com and join #PoJoHP.

Reader Jeff Bassett sent us these tips about the Harry Potter Trading Card Game: Just thought I would pass along a word on the HP card game. I purchased two of the starter decks and two full boxes of the booster cards. I was able to complete a full set of the cards. I believe …read more!

Majandriah Giabelha reports the following on Harry Potter Connection: I agree with Mike on the Quidditch game… anyway, i have found out who else was up to play Oliver Wood. His name is Marc Pickering (my favourite actor, by the way), and he was in the movie “Sleepy Hollow” with Johnny Depp. He played the …read more!

The Wizards of the Coast OFFICIAL Harry Potter Trading Card Game Web site went live. (Thanks to Gary from The Snitch)

Dark Horizons has 3 new still shots – Hogwarts Express, the Flying Lesson, and Harry in his robes.

A reader sent us this URL – a link to a message board post at John Williams Fan site JWFan.net. It contains an MP3 recording of John Williams conducting “Hedwig’s Theme” at a recent performance at Tanglewood. You can pick out bits and pieces from the trailer but this is a full 4 minutes of …read more!

Dennis from Hogwarts Connection sent us this URL this morning for the “Play the Keeper” Quidditch Flash game on the Official Harry Potter site.

Pojo.com has published a full spoiler of what’s on the cards contained in the Base Set for the Harry Potter Trading Card Game.