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Pokémon Scarlet & Violet's Final TCG Packs Have Some Stunning Art
14.7.2025
The era of Pokémon Scarlet & Violet is about to draw to a close. While the mainline video game series may have broken from its traditional three-year cycle, the trading card game has not, and the run of Gen-IX-led packs comes to an end with this month’s release of Black Bolt and White Flare. Oddly...
Sliding In Monster Hunter Wilds Can Be Clunky, But Mastering It Is Worth The Trouble
1.7.2025
I love using Dual Blades in Monster Hunter Wilds; its attacks are satisfyingly fast and hectic. Being able to enter a powered-up demon mode while spinning around like a Beyblade is something I’d like to do in every game from now on, please. Unfortunately, my biggest grievance with the weapon...
Enhance Your Monster Hunter Wilds Builds With The Best Weapon And Mantle Pairings
27.5.2025
Bringing your best gear is a fundamental part of playing Monster Hunter Wilds. No enemy is too tough when you have the appropriate mix of weapons, armor, and mantles. While your hunter will always bring the sneaking Ghillie Mantle with them, they’re able to choose one more to aid in combat.Read more
Mastering This Complex Monster Hunter Wilds Mechanic Will Make You Look Like A Badass
11.4.2025
The Wounds System in Monster Hunter Wilds is certainly a standout among the new mechanics introduced. The most flashy one, however, has to be Power Clash. Going toe-to-toe and counterattacking a giant beast is sure to inject some hype into any hunt. However, this is yet another feature that isn’t...
The Makers Of Pokémon Are About To Break A 15-Year Cycle
27.2.2025
Today’s Pokémon Presents was more notable for what it didn’t include than for what it did. While news of Legends: Z-A was very welcome, what was not mentioned—nor ever rumored to be mentioned—was Pokémon’s next mainline entry. And yet, based on the pattern of the last decade-and-a-half, this should...
The Most Expensive Cards In Pokémon TCG's Surging Sparks
19.11.2024
While the Pikachu ex might be making all the headlines and drawing all the wider attention, Pokémon TCG’s Surging Sparks set is pulling in resale prices on multiple cards like the game hasn’t seen in years. And although the opening fortnight’s craziness is beginning to calm down, it’s still...
The Highest Value Pokémon TCG Cards In Stellar Crown
7.11.2024
Stellar Crown felt like a return to form for the Pokémon TCG, after a fair few sets that have had disappointing pull rates—albeit this time by being an incredibly small set, with many fewer cards to collect. Now, on the verge of the next set Surging Sparks’ release, it’s a good moment to look...
Throne And Liberty Has A Unique Class System, And We've Mastered It
7.10.2024
New hit Throne and Liberty gives players quite a few unique spins on traditional MMO mechanics, but its most compelling is the weapon combo system. Instead of choosing a player class, by equipping two different types of weapons you earn both the active and passive skills of each, letting you create...
Get Your Best Possible Start At Smash Hit MMO Throne And Liberty
4.10.2024
Throne and Liberty is a feature-rich MMO with potentially hundreds of hours of content and character progression to enjoy. So if you’re the type of person who gets a kick out of running dungeons, farming for loot, and beating down other folks in PVP, this massive Steam hit may just be right up your...
Pokemon Go's Sword Or Shield Quest Is A Colossal Waste Of Your Time
27.9.2024
Pokémon Go has made a lot of big changes in the last month, to the degree that if you’ve not logged in for a while, you’ll find yourself bemused by what look like new, pink Poké Stops, Dynamaxing Pokémon, and at long last, the starters from 2019's Pokémon Sword and Shield. Continuing this trend...
New Shiny Pokémon TCG Set May Have The Best Pull Rates Of All Time
25.1.2024
One of the great laments of the Pokémon TCG in 2023 was its return to brutal, unforgiving pull rates. After 2022’s Sword & Shield big finish, Crown Zenith, the Scarlet & Violet era ushered in the guarantee of a holo, but a vast diminishing in the chances of scoring anything better. Sets like...
Pokémon Spoiled The TCG By Making One Set Far Too Good
19.6.2023
When it comes to buying Pokémon trading card packs, there’s pretty much one thing that people care about the most: pull rates. What are the chances of getting a special card in any given foil-wrapped packet? And with early 2023's Crown Zenith set, they suddenly got a whole lot better. Then...
The Best Pokémon Cards Art Sets That Tell Amazing Stories
8.3.2023
The majority of Pokémon cards are primarily functional. Designed to be played in the table-top game, the small illustration on a card helps to distinguish it, with far more space given to the details of its attacks, HP, restrictions, and retreat costs. Then there are the special cards,...
Last Ever Pokémon Sword & Shield TCG Cards Are A Spectacular Finish
4.11.2022
With Pokémon Scarlet and Violet due out in just two weeks, the era of Sword and Shield is drawing to a close. But with the Pokémon TCG always operating about three months behind the video games, we’ve still got room for one last hurrah before February’s big changeover. That final special release...
Oh Wow, The Most Captivating Pokémon Card Game Art All Comes From The Same Person
30.9.2022
Over the years, the Pokémon Trading Card Game has seen a huge number of artists come and go. Approximately 175 different people have contributed art to the cards, some only ever designing one, others contributing hundreds. Heck, Ken Sugimori has created 966 of them, beginning with the very first...
The Pokémon Card Game's New Expansion Dramatically Changes Everything
9.9.2022
Today is the official launch of the Pokémon Trading Card Game’s Lost Origin expansion, which might be the penultimate set for the Sword and Shield (SWSH) era before next year sees new packs based on Scarlet and Violet. And it marks the return of the Lost Zone, the very occasional mechanic that...
Pokémon Sword And Shield Is Giving Out Free Rare Victini Mythicals
18.8.2022
The Pokémon World Championships, taking place in London this week, just unveiled a special freebie for those of us who are watching the tournament at home. From now until August 21, you can use a Mystery Gift code to redeem a Victini in Pokémon Sword And Shield. Read more
Competitive Pokémon Now Allows Mythicals, And It Changes Everything
2.8.2022
Competitive Pokémon trainers are both excited and terrified at the recent rule changes in the video game championships (VGC), where players compete against one another via Pokémon Sword and Shield in an array of leagues. Mythical Pokémon are now allowed for official tournament play for the first...
Five Things You Should Know Before Starting Tunic
21.3.2022
For a little game, Tunic musters an imposing presence. The isometric action-adventure romp, which casts you as a tiny fox with a big heart, is relentlessly difficult. It can be frustrating at first. But if you stick with it, you’ll find yourself playing one of the most striking games of...
Incredibly Rare Pokémon Card Auctioned Off For Record-Breaking $900,000
26.2.2022
The market around children’s cardboard continues rocketing into uncharted territory. Earlier this week, auction outfit Goldin announced a holographic “Illustrator” Pikachu Pokémon card from 1998 sold for $900,000. No one knows who bought it for that much, or why, but the winning bid shattered...