Veil Entertainment and Spore Productions today announced that Rise & Ruin has reached the open beta phase. Rise & Ruin is an online, card-based, fantasy combat game featuring 600 attack, defense, and specialty cards building on 4 core combat skills, 4 unique defense skills, 5 diverse magic skills, and 12 specialty categories (press 'read more' for details). Rise & Ruin is being produced through the financial support of Telefilm Canada, Administrator of The Canada New Media Fund, funded by the Department of Canadian Heritage, Government of Canada.