Words by Sam Desatoff
EXPANDABLE CARD GAMES
In June, Fantasy Flight announced the end of Android: Netrunner, its highly successful and popular living card game. The announcement took the Netrunner community by surprise, and has spawned several groups dedicated to keeping the game alive. There even exists an online petition – signed by nearly 600 people as of this writing – imploring Fantasy Flight to cease Netrunner’s discontinuation. A fandom this enthusiastic did not crop up overnight, and neither did the popularity of the living card game series. In fact, there is an entire legacy of card games to which Netrunner owes its success.