

| Xeko trading-card game entertains and teaches about ecology (Seattle Times) Large booksellers Barnes & Noble and Borders have signed national distribution deals with Xeko, expanding the trading-card game's retail presence. |
| Phelps' trading card now $500 (Pioneer Press) Chalk up another remarkable feat for Michael Phelps: somehow making swimming trading cards popular. |
| MapleStory iTrading Card Game to Release NPC Heroes in the Fourth Set (Anime News Network) August 12, 2008 (Renton, Wash.) ? In a continuation of Wizards of the Coast's trading card game legacy, the company has announced a fourth set of the MapleStory iTCG. The new card set, NPC Heroes, is scheduled to hit store shelves this August. |
| Pokemon to Host International Video Game and Trading Card Game Championships August 16-17 (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance) Pokemon USA, Inc., the worldwide leader in trading card games and video games, today announced details for both the 2008 PokemonŽ Trading Card Game World Championships as well as the first-ever Pokemon Video Game Showdown, which will pit the most skilled Pokemon video game players from the U.S. and Japan against one another in a battle to determine the ultimate champion. |
| Fox Point's Weber-Gale happy with medley efforts (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) Beijing - After Michael Phelps made the 2000 U.S. Olympic team at the tender age of 15, Donna de Varona, the winner of two swimming gold medals at the 1960 Rome Games, was asked if the gangly kid from Baltimore would be overwhelmed by the moment. |
