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Fresh Pokémon Card Madness Has GameStop Limiting Collectors To One Box Each
20.5.2025
The Pokémon card scene is getting out of control again. Things appeared to die down for a bit following a pandemic-fueled collecting frenzy, but new sets in 2025 are selling out and prices on the secondhand market are skyrocketing. And it’s coming to a head at GameStop, the unlikely new epicenter...
Here's What Cyberpunk 2077, Pokémon Scarlet And Violet, And More Look Like On Switch 2
19.5.2025
Notoriously, Cyberpunk 2077 looked so bad on PlayStation when it launched back in 2020 that Sony took the unprecedented step of completely removing it from their store until it was better optimized. That might imply an uphill battle for getting a port to look and play well on Switch 2, but recent...
Smash Bros. Melee Player Loses $2,000 To Rare Pokémon Stadium Glitch
19.5.2025
I can think of a lot of ways to lose a major Smash Bros. Melee tournament with $2,000 on the line, but this might be one of the strangest. Fourth-ranked Kurtis “moky” Pratt was in the Full House 2025 finals, but idly wavedashing in-between level transformations on the Pokémon Stadium stage sent...
Police Arrest Man Found With More Than $300K Worth Of Stolen Pokémon Cards
16.5.2025
Every day, I get sad that Pokémon aren’t real, but sometimes we get real-world amalgamations of their world in ours. Team Rocket and all their monster-stealing ways may not be an actual organization, but we’ve got plenty of people committing pocket monster crimes here on Earth. A recent example...
Pokémon TCG's Return Of Team Rocket Is A Triumph
16.5.2025
Oh it’s fun to have good news! The latest set from the Pokémon TCG, Scarlet & Violet Destined Rivals, is a top-notch collection of cards bursting with Team Rocket antics, which sports (in my limited experience, at least) pull rates I don’t believe we’ve seen in this era. Having torn open 55 packs...
11 Nintendo Games Are Getting Free Upgrades To Look And Run Better On Switch 2
16.5.2025
Super Mario Odyssey, Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, and a bunch of other popular Nintendo games are getting upgrades to help them run better on Switch 2. And unlike some other Switch 2 versions, these improvements won’t require fans to spend more money. Read more
Switch 2 Will Launch With Almost Twice As Many Profile Icons, Including Every Pokémon Starter
6.5.2025
For most of the original Nintendo Switch’s lifetime, I think I had a Mario profile icon for my personal account. I don’t have anything against the fireball-throwing plumber, but he’s hardly my favorite character in Nintendo’s stable of mascots. Pokémon is my go-to Nintendo series, but it weirdly...
The Hottest Cards In May's Team Rocket Pokémon TCG Set, Destined Rivals
5.5.2025
While the most recent Pokémon TCG set, Journey Together, may have been something of an anticlimax, the fervor surrounding the game has still ensured it’s close to impossible to buy. Individual cards may be more reasonably priced, but just buying the packs means pouncing on stores the moment they...
The Internet Reacts To GTA 6's Big Delay
2.5.2025
Whelp, Grand Theft Auto VI isn’t coming out in 2025 after all. Many are shocked but not surprised. Big games often get delayed, though GTA VI is the biggest of them all and had executives promising it wouldn’t slip its fall launch as recently as February. It’s a terrible bait and switch for fans...
Man Beaten And Robbed For $5k Pokémon Card
29.4.2025
As the value of Pokémon TCG cards hits its highest point in the game’s 30-year history, new cards are increasingly difficult to get hold of, and some classic cards have become worth vastly more by weight than gold. This inevitably attracts criminal acts, but few as violent and frightening as that...
Pokémon Games Are On Sale And The Timing Couldn't Be Better
28.4.2025
The Pokémon series is currently in the midst of an unprecedented drought. The franchise recently broke its previous record for the longest gap between new entries, and Pokémon Legends: Z-A isn’t due out on Switch until “late 2025.” Fortunately, a bunch of existing Pokémon games are currently...
Pokémon Is About To Make So Much Money On Life-Sized Eeveelution Plushies
25.4.2025
Due to some questionable picks, the Pokémon Company’s life-size plush line has often been the subject of meme fodder. The helpful Lucario plush is here to steal your wife by doing the household chores you neglect. The Porygon is big enough to be a piece of furniture. And, well, what do you need...
I Haven't Played Pokémon TCG Pocket In Months But Celestial Guardians' Alolan Raichu Might Finally Bring Me Back
24.4.2025
I could not even tell you the last time I touched Pokémon TCG Pocket. I went from opening the mobile card-hunting game every day to hardly ever thinking about it. However, the upcoming new set Celestial Guardians might change that. The Pokémon Sun and Moon-based expansion includes an Alolan Raichu...
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...
Nintendo Ratchets Up Hunt For Mysterious User Behind Massive Pokémon Leak
21.4.2025
All hell broke loose in the Pokémon community last October when leaked internal documents, game builds, and more from developer Game Freak appeared online. Fans got a front row seat to everything from upcoming project codenames to a rapidly meme-ified Typhlosion backstory. It may have been...
Pokémon's New Keychain Starter Plushies Are Almost Too Cute
14.4.2025
The Pokémon Company may be absolutely terrible at keeping Pokémon TCG cards in stock, but one thing it’s great at is making me want to buy more plushies. The Pokémon Center online stores add new ranges on an almost weekly basis, while updating current ranges with ever more obscure inclusions....
Metroid Prime 4 And Pokémon Legends: Z-A Will Be Cross-Gen On Switch 2
2.4.2025
We’re about 30 minutes into Nintendo’s hour-long Switch 2 Direct, and one of the big announcements the company made is that some old Switch games are getting “Switch 2 Editions” that will have improved performance on the beefier system. However, while some games like The Legend of Zelda: Breath...
Palworld Devs Re-Reveal Degenerate High School Dating Sim That Might Actually Be Real This Time
31.3.2025
The developers behind Palworld have re-revealed their furry high school dating sim (almost) nobody asked for. It’s called Pal♡world! ~More Than Just Pals~ and was almost certainly an April Fools’ joke the first time it was teased in 2024, but might actually be a real thing now?Read more
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...