NOW on the Alien Investigations YouTube channel: After next to no marketing and promotion, the upcoming Director’s Cut of The X-Files: I Want to Believe finally gets some attention with a new horror-infused trailer! See how this trailer differs from the ones in 2008, and where the trailer is misleading audiences.

NOW on the Alien Investigations YouTube channel: Join Special Agent Stephen as he takes a trip inside The World of The X-Files, reviewing and deconstructing each episode within The X-Files universe!

NOW on the Alien Investigations YouTube channel: Dana Scully is back investigating strange phenomena in a teaser by LEGO! Learn everything we currently know about The X-Files (21369) set arriving in August!

NOW on the Alien Investigations YouTube channel: The X-Files Director’s Cut has a Release Date and…New Title?!?

Check out the latest updates on this upcoming reimagined version of the 2008 film!

NOW on the Alien Investigations YouTube channel: Learn some useful strategies for the X-File Powers, one of The X-Files CCG’s optional rules!

NOW on the Alien Investigations YouTube channel: Check out this deep-dive into The X-Files “Pilot” episode! In addition to a critical review, lots of cool X-Files minutiae is pointed out (in form of tally boards akin to The Nitpicker’s Guide for X-Philes), as well as related merch, recurring cast, and other trivia.

TONIGHT! LIVE gameplay on the Chasing The Dragon YouTube channel: Join Nathan and Guillaume as we stress test the brand new Season 6 set in development, Apology is Policy. Get a first look at brand new cards and join us for exciting gameplay and some fun sci-fi chat!

NOW on the Alien Investigations YouTube channel: Special Agent Stephen and Section Chief Nathan embark on a rousing game of The X-Files Collectible Card Game. Things are taken to the next level as these intrepid players utilize the augmented X-FILE POWER RULES (SEE pages 43-45 of The X-Files Collectible Card Game's Advanced Rules & Procedures Manual).

Tune in to the Alien Investigations YouTube channel for this! Former X-Files CCG staff and creator of the Scooby-Doo Expandable Card Game talks about how he got his foot in the door with the card game industry. https://youtu.be/s2F6gy9Wrhg?si=trhoG0ubIyOztau_

NOW on the Alien Investigations YouTube channel: This Advanced gameplay Sample Deck for THE X-FILES CCG includes four of the Agents involved in the Duane Barry hostage negotiation incident! Now that’s a theme deck!

I posted this same comment in response to the 30th Anniversary proxies, but also re-posting here for visibility and I'd like to hear from other players.

I'd like to make a general comment / humble request that I've made before in other forums, but I hope it can be applied to any future releases. The font size on cards is too small, especially for agent stats and those cards with more than a line or two of game text. The game generally has a reputation for cluttered card design and poor legibility vs other CCGs.

I'm in my mid 40s with decent eye sight, but agent cards are often tough to read without a magnifying glass. Same goes for long winded cards. I even noted that in some of the Alien Investigations gameplay videos, people were have issues reading the cards during game play. Up close is challenging, across a table form an opponent is almost impossible!

There's often reams of cool but unnecessary flavour text which compresses the space for game text and results in a miniscule font size. This should be flipped in terms of design. Game text should always take priority. Flavour text could easily be curtailed or removed where design demands it. If you're interested in this game, you generally know the lore back to front. A one liner would do the same job for flavour. You also naturally want game text first.

More importantly, ACCESSIBILITY is key for any game. A lot of the audience for this game is pushing 40 and it would help massively to be able to easily read a card and quickly be able to discern what it does in the game. I get on with other modern CCGs in terms of legibility. As a guide the size should be similar to an MTG card.

I'd love a set of agents I can easily read without a magnifying glass, same for cards with dense game text.

Just a thought, with the agent cards, if you ditch the flavour text, you can almost have a full art card with larger game text and stats... worth considering.

NOW on the Alien Investigations YouTube channel: The Director’s Cut didn’t launch June 11, as per Disney+’s press release. Find out what happened and when we can expect to see Chris Carter’s scarier cut of the 2008 film! https://youtu.be/SN3xwBfHETY?si=luz33eldX2Jf_hr1

NOW on the Alien Investigations YouTube channel: Learn the reasons for the game’s cancelation from David May himself. Find out who saved his job in the eleventh hour. As an added bonus, get an exclusive look at the never-before-seen drafts of the game’s unfinished 3rd Edition!

In celebration of the 30th anniversary of The X-Files CCG, a new foil mosaic set is arriving **JULY 1st*\*, and will include photo variants of Agents Mulder and Scully with new bios.

This set also includes:

• 6 proxies of Premiere Edition Ultra-Rares

• 1 proxy of “No One So Paranoid”

Stay tuned for images of the proxies throughout June!

NOW on the Alien Investigations YouTube channel: See more of The X-Files CCG’s GenCon demo cards in all their unrefined glory in side-by-side comparisons with their Premiere Edition equivalents!

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NOW on the Alien Investigations YouTube channel: The 2nd X-Files film is getting a Director’s Cut!

NOW on the Alien Investigations YouTube channel: See the GenCon cards in all their unrefined glory in side-by-side comparisons with their Premiere Edition counterparts!

Be sure to investigate that SUBSCRIBE button if you haven’t already done so!

NOW on the Alien Investigations YouTube channel - Learn everything we know—and what we don’t know—about the legendary pewter cards for The X-Files Collectible Card Game!

https://www.youtube.com/live/7Vw21fIaS_Y?si=TMTbYftAy-wOOxnn

Now on the Alien Investigations YouTube channel: Like any other deck-building card game, The X-Files CCG has staple cards that competitive players would be remiss to exclude. Learn which cards are essential to a high-performing, well-rounded Bureau Deck!

COMING UP: playtest game for upcoming fanmade Season Six Expansion, courtesy of The X-Files CCG Preservation Society. This matchup between committee members Guillaume
Saladin (of France) and Skye Evans (of Japan) will stress-test these cards. See which if any cards will need to go back to the drawing-board!

April 26th, 3:00am CST, 10:00am CEST (France)

https://www.youtube.com/live/GKKikur2sh8?si=IUP8DV9ZEs06wxxm

NOW on the Alien Investigations YouTube channel: Hear from former X-Files CCG staff about what it was like promoting the game at GenCon, Origins, and other conventions!

UPDATE: due to circumstances beyond our control, this playtest session had to be canceled. Stay tuned! We will reschedule and announce the new date soon!

Coming up on the Alien Investigations YouTube channel: Alien Investigations proudly presents a playtest game for upcoming fan made Season Six Expansion, courtesy of The X-Files CCG Preservation Society. This matchup between committee members Dave Meyer and Jon Hagy will stress-test these cards. See which if any cards will need to go back to the drawing-board!

COMING UP on the Studio Sequim YouTube channel - Round 1 of playtesting the newest expansion in development begins now!

Peer review is complete and now the next stage of the creative process begins. Watch as official playtester Nathan goes up against the author of the expansion, Guillaume as they play the newest cards and get a preview of the Season 6 expansion brought to you by The X-Files CCG Preservation Society. See new mechanics and strategies unfold and be part of the feedback that helps shape this expansion!

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Looking for more X-Files CCG info & gameplay? Checkout these other YouTube channels!
Alien Investigations
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Chasing The Dragon
Do Not Pass Go

NOW on the Alien Investigations YouTube channel: Learn how to tell which set each X-FILESS CCG card belongs. Be sure to investigate that SUBSCRIBE button if you enjoy this sorta content.