Search
The Highest-Priced Cards In Pokémon TCG's Journey Together
22.4.2025
Journey Together might be a reasonably interesting set for the tabletop card game, re-introducing Trainer Pokémon to the game for the first time in 25 years, but it’s a massive anticlimax for collectors. Which turns out to be just the thing the hobby desperately needed; there are no $1000+ cards...
The First Berserker: Khazan Is Great, The New Pokémon TCG Set Is Not, And More Of The Week's Takes
29.3.2025
This week, we raved about the new action-RPG The First Berserker: Khazan, voiced our critiques of the new Pokémon TCG set Journey Together, and shared some thoughts on the uselessness of game genres and the discourse around Daredevil: Born Again. Read on for these takes and more.Read more
The Pokémon Company Yet Again Promises It Will Print More TCG Cards, But...
27.3.2025
If you’ve tried to buy a pack of Pokémon TCG cards in recent times, you’ll already know what a shitshow it’s all become. As we’ve been reporting, the last six months has seen the trading card game’s explosion in popularity lead to an epidemic of scalping, leaving new cards all but unavailable...
Pokémon TCG Pocket's New Shiny Set Has A Card Locked Inside A $25 Bundle
27.3.2025
New sets are coming to Pokémon TCG Pocket at a frantic pace—Shining Revelry is the fifth collection added since the game’s launch at the end of October last year. It also marks the first time the gacha mobile game has locked a card inside one of its extremely expensive bundles: if you want...
Pokémon TCG's Latest Set Feels Like It's Designed For Deliberate Disappointment
26.3.2025
As we have reported many times already, the Pokémon Trading Card Game is in an awful lot of trouble. Since the launch of November 2024's set, Surging Sparks, the popularity of the 30-year-old collectible card game exploded, which in turn drew the attention of scalpers, which has rendered...
Pokémon TCG Pocket Is Getting Even Rarer Cards To Hunt For
21.3.2025
Across Pokémon games, Shiny Pokémon are desired for their rarity. The most dedicated players spend hundreds of hours hunting for the variants to truly max out their collections. Pokémon TCG Pocket will now let the mobile card game’s players do the same with the introduction of the Shining Revelry...
Pokémon TCG Pocket Is About To Have Some Competition
17.3.2025
Some rivalries you just can’t let go, even if one side has clearly outpaced the other. There’s Nintendo vs. Sega, Kendrick Lamar vs. Drake, and of course, Pokémon vs. Digimon. Bandai Namco’s monster tamer series hasn’t kept the vice grip on pop culture that Nintendo’s has, but Digimon has been...
Pokémon TCG Scalping Is So Bad That Official Stores Are Removing Packaging
17.3.2025
As we approach the release of Pokémon TCG’s next set, Journey Together, the card game is in a really weird place. The sealed cards, bought either for playing the table-top game or for collecting, are broadly unavailable thanks to an ever-worsening feverish demand that is seeing scalpers buying...
Pokémon TCG Pocket Promises To Nuke A Currency Players Just 'Shredded' Tons Of Rare Cards To Stock Up On
14.3.2025
The “T” in Pokémon TCG Pocket stands for “trading,” but ironically that’s been the worst part of the game ever since the feature launched earlier this year. Finally, the mobile hit’s developers have promised a major overhaul of the busted system, though the fixes could still take a long time...
The Best Pokémon TCG Pocket Darkrai ex Deck Uses... Magnezone?
14.3.2025
Space-Time Smackdown’s addition at the start of the year has significantly changed the competitive landscape of Pokémon TCG Pocket, and the new superstar on the block is Darkrai EX. We discussed this Pokémon in detail already, but in short, the new Trainer cards in Space-Time Smackdown have shifted...
Saying 'Thanks' In Pokémon TCG Pocket Can Save You The Grind
11.3.2025
If you’re fighting to stay on top of Pokemon TCG Pocket’s onslaught of card updates, then you’ll know a simple “Thanks!” goes a long way. Up to five times a day, any player that presses the “Thanks” button after a battle or a Wonder Pick will grant the recipient a shiny new Shop Ticket to use....
Pokémon TCG Pocket's Next Set Leaks Making Fans Anxious About Having Even More Cards To Collect
26.2.2025
It’s only been a month since Pokémon TCG Pocket’s Diamond and Pearl-inspired Space-Time Smackdown expansion released, and it looks like the mobile card game’s next set of cards is already here. A promo for a set called Triumphant Light, starring the god Pokémon Arceus, appeared to leak overnight....
Why Darkrai ex Is Dominating Pokémon TCG Pocket
26.2.2025
The Space-Time Smackdown expansion is a few weeks old now in Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket, and it has shifted the game’s competitive landscape by leaps and bounds. Up to this point, Psychic decks have ruled the roost. Mewtwo ex, combined with the Energy generation of Gardevoir, inflicted such...
Pokémon TCG Pocket's Abysmal Trading Is Going To Be Addressed
3.2.2025
Last week, some three months after launch, Pokémon TCG Pocket finally adding the ‘T’ from the game’s title, the trading. And it’s hard to imagine how it could have been worse. Almost impossibly “expensive” to use, what were presumably measures to prevent real-money markets and scalpers have led...
YouTube Remonetizes Dr Disrespect, The Creator Of Final Fantasy Is Making One Last RPG, And More Top Stories
1.2.2025
This week saw the return of the first 2 Sims games, the revelation that another big open-world samurai game is coming to PC alongside Assassin’s Creed Shadows, and YouTube allowing controversial streamer Guy “Dr Disrespect” Beahm remonetize his channel. Also, No Man’s Sky got a colossal update,...
Trading Is Live In Pokémon TCG Pocket And Even Worse Than Everyone Feared
29.1.2025
Good news! You can finally trade cards with friends in Pokémon TCG Pocket. Bad news! It sucks. It feels even more limited and backwards than when it was originally teased, and fans are in full revolt over the long-anticipated feature’s completely bungled rollout. Read more
Pokémon TCG Pocket Braces For Explosion In Real Money Trades
27.1.2025
The creators of Pokémon TCG Pocket have issued a warning to all players not to tamper with game data or participate in real money trades, or risk getting their accounts banned. The crackdown comes right before card trading and a new Space-Time Smackdown set are added to the mobile hit. Read more
Pokémon's New Prismatic Evolutions Cards Are Selling For Crazy Money
24.1.2025
Prismatic Evolutions has, rather sadly, broken the Pokémon TCG. Thanks to bots, scalpers, and atrocious prevention of them by the Pokémon Center, cards for this new, special set sold out, sometimes even before pre-orders were visible to the public. And it’s a shame, because it’s a cracking...
Pokémon TCG Pocket Reveals Space-Time Smackdown Set Release Date And Shows Off New Cards
23.1.2025
Pokémon TCG Pocket is closing out January with a bang. The hit mobile game is getting a much-needed content refresh later this month in the form of a new set called Space-Time Smackdown. Two separate booster packs will feature Dialga and Palkia on their covers, the legendaries from Pokémon Diamond...
This Guy Is Spending Way Too Much On Pokémon TCG Pocket
22.1.2025
As we’ve extensively covered, Pokémon TCG Pocket is a lovely mobile card game version of the 30-year-0ld trading card game, but also a wide-open doorway to gambling mechanics. It’s shocking to realize, early on in your time with the game, that it lets you pour as much as 720 Poké Gold a day into...