GameQbator Labs & Metatwo
Partnership Announcement
Letter to the MetaZoo Community
I was lucky enough to join Wizards of the Coast under the guidance of Peter Adkinson at the dawn of Magic: the Gathering. Through tournaments, conventions, magazines, and more, Magic found thousands of people who loved it. Some of those people are still playing today–and they have millions of new people to play with. Together, we popularized the Trading Card Game as it is known today by believing in The Gathering, the meeting of gamers in hobby spaces. In 2002, I joined The Pokémon Company where I was blessed to spend nearly two decades as Executive Vice President working with some of the best to deliver another beloved Trading Card Game, Pokémon TCG. I watched Pokémon TCG take the world by storm when it hit the US, pull back in the mid-2000s, and then find its footing and grow to become the most beloved entertainment property in the world. For me, Pokémon has always been about fun, incredible quality, and a never-ending dedication to the TCG industry and its growth globally.
From my experiences, I learned the importance of several things. But above all, I learned the power of humanity to deliver games that matter. At GameQbator Labs, humanity is not just an influence: it’s our whole objective.
In many ways, we are new. Our name is likely new to you, our team is working in this combination for the first time, and today we are announcing that MetaZoo TCG will be our first product to come to market. But in many more ways, we are familiar. Our game designers have built many of the most beloved TCG properties in the world. Our team members have spent hundreds of years collectively living and breathing cards and games alongside you. We have piloted card concepts through every stage of production and every phase of the developing trading card culture so far.
We are looking forward to taking everything we’ve learned and putting it behind a property that we believe in: MetaZoo. Cryptids are a global presence with deep regional ties. Billions of people have heard the stories and some purport to have experienced them firsthand. The power of their stories is at the heart of human story-telling.
We are happy to announce that our first MetaZoo product will be a new, original trading card game available in Q1 2025. This base set will be the first of several planned expansions that begin to develop the world of MetaZoo.
Join the community on Discord: https://discord.gg/metazoogames
Rick Arons
CEO/Caster
GameQbator Labs