DigitalLife in NYC is for the most part a tech trade show, but video games do get represented quite a bit. I played Guitar Hero 3 and to me it's just the same game with new songs and a battle mode I'm not too fond of. The game at the show that really wow'ed me was Eye of Judgement. If you are unfamiliar with the concept then where the hell have you been? Go watch Sony's E3 presser from two years ago and come back.

It is a solid card game which makes the digital aspect of it that much cooler with online play and different boards to play on. Games can go from anywhere as short as 20 minutes to 2 hours. The camera on the PS3 reads the cards amazingly well with little difficulty. What I am worried about is the price point because there is no way people will buy a PS3 just to play a card game that doesn't unnecessarily need the PS3 to play. The game comes with a deck, mat, and camera for $70 with cards costing about $3.75 per booster pack and $12 for a deck.

My primary concern was counterfeiting, what if anything was being done to combat it? From what I got at the Wizards of the Coast booth, there is a special kind of ink being used and they assured me that there were other methods being implemented and that it was very hard. Any more questions and I bet they would have to kill me. I got curious so when I got home I broke out the scanner and gave it a try.

This is the promo card being distributed at the show taken with my digital camera:

Note that the hieroglyphic looking things on the top and bottom of the card determine which card it is and the neon green arrows help determine the direction its facing. Now look what happened when I put the card through my scanner:

Colors are changing! The hieroglyphics and card background when seen with the naked eye are grey, but when seen through a consumer grade scanner the color turns to brown. Also the arrows on the side of the card go from a neon green to a lime green. I imagine the game must be programed to only read the hieroglyphics if they are of a certain color. Kudos to WotC for thinking ahead but it makes me wonder if someone out there will indeed crack these cards.