American McGee’s Spicy Horse Games launches The Gate, a ‘Pokemon in hell’ card-battle game

American McGee’s Spicy Horse Games and publisher DeNA are launching a new fast-action strategy and fantasy card-battle game called The Gate.

You can fight epic battles with The Gate.
You can fight epic battles with The Gate.

The title is a new entry in the crowded fantasy card-battle mobile game genre, but it features high-end, Diablo-style 3D graphics that give players more control over the action. You can, for instance, use your finger to direct a character to attack a certain enemy.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.