Wikipedia Reveals An Official Online Collectible Card Game

After WikiGacha, Wikipedia Is Releasing Its Own Official Collectible Card Game Published Sep 1, 2026, 4:05 AM EDT Sam Woods is TheGamer’s Senior Reporter. He’s been in games journalism since 2020 and has undertaken a variety of roles in that time. These have included roles such as SEO Editor, Managing Editor at DualShockers, and Global Head of Gaming, and he's also been seen on the BBC. He was promoted to the Senior Reporter position in 2025 following a series of high-quality reports and exclusives for TheGamer. Since 2020, Sam has written over 2,500 articles and specializes in telling the stories of the people behind the games. He’s interviewed the biggest game directors, some of the industry’s top talents, told the stories of how indie games came to be, and spoken to players about what really makes them tick. He’s also interviewed some of the world’s biggest musical artists to find out how the medium has inspired their work, and TV and Film actors about their roles in video game adaptations. He even hosted a PAX panel in 2021 and made a documentary in 2024 surrounding the creation of a Disney game. Alongside this, Sam focuses on breaking news. He got the scoop on Perfect Dark’s cancellation, got context around some AI drama, and revealed how Lady Dimitrescu’s actress would love to step back into the character’s giant shoes. These articles have been picked up by the biggest gaming sites, including IGN, GameSpot, and PC Gamer. He also loves to dive into the numbers behind the games. Sam’s journey in games journalism has taken him all over the world. He’s covered Gamescom in Germany, Summer Game Fest in Los Angeles, and Tokyo Game Show in Japan, each on more than one occasion. He’s been learning Japanese since 2024 with the intention of identifying and translating Japanese-language news and bringing it to English-language audiences first, something he’s done countless times. Sam’s first review was 2020’s Battletoads reboot, and he’s since reviewed games in The Legend of Zelda, Super Mario, and Pokemon franchises. Earlier this year, we reported on Wikipedia Gacha, a trading card game where you opened packs to receive Wikipedia articles like they are Pokemon cards. These cards could then be battled, like any good TCG, in a head-to-head with other WikiGacha players. Clearly enamored with WikiGacha, the Wikimedia Foundation (the organization that runs Wikipedia) has created its own spin on a collectible card game called World of Wikipedia, where players sort fact from fiction to build their card library. World of Wikipedia is a game "built around Wikipedia's own strength — its facts," according to an email to TheGamer. It's created by the website's Future Audience Team, a team designed to bring Wikipedia to a Gen Z audience. The game offers a simple premise: players pick one of 11 categories (Films, Television, Music, Video Games, Entertainment, Sports, People and Culture, Media, Earth, History and Society, and Physical Science) and are presented with ten cards. Each of these cards contains a fact that players must discern as right or wrong. For every card a player gets correct, they add it to their library. Get three wrong, though, and the game is over. It does seem unfinished, as I played five games in the "Video Games" category and every single answer was false and every card entirely unrelated to any game. It's a simple premise, but one that aims to capitalize on the current popularity of trading card games around the globe. The Pokemon Trading Card Game is currently at unprecedented levels of vogue right now, with products selling out instantly, scalpers lining their pockets, and the prices of individual cards going through the roof. A rising tide lifts all boats, as they say, and Magic: The Gathering remains as popular as ever, with Lorcana, One Piece, Gundam, Riftbound, Yu-Gi-Oh, and Digimon all having a place in the growing scene. This isn't the first time Wikipedia's Future Audience Team has tried to leverage a popular trend to drive awareness of the website. Last year, it released Wikispeedia on Roblox, a game in which players race from one Wikipedia article to another. That game has received over 44,000 visits since April 2025. It also released a second game, Which Came First?, on the official Wikipedia app.