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Pokémon TCG Pocket's Mass Outbreak Event Is An Excellent Opportunity To Bolster Your Fire-Type Collection
23.11.2024
Hot on the heels of the Meowth and Chansey Wonder Pick events, Pokémon TCG Pocket has launched a new reason for you to keep opening up your phone in the relentless pursuit of more digital cards. The Fire Pokémon Mass Outbreak Event doesn’t give you new single player challenges to overcome, so don’t...
10 Vital Things Pokémon TCG Pocket Needs To Fix ASAP
22.11.2024
Pokémon TCG Pocket has been quite the roller coaster ride. It’s absolutely got its hooks in a lot of us at Kotaku, and we’re playing it every day. But at the same time, it’s unquestionably a predatory gacha game using a children’s IP. What a muddle. But there’s one thing that’s unambiguous: there’s...
Pokémon TCG Pocket Has A Hidden Wishlist Feature You'll Want To Use
21.11.2024
There are a whole bunch of quality-of-like changes that Pokémon TCG Pocket could stand to introduce, not least giving its UI a significant overhaul to make certain features much clearer. One of those buried features that’s genuinely useful, and yet almost no one seems to know about,...
Yellow Card’s African Push: Coinbase-Backed Platform Wins South African License
20.11.2024
Coinbase backed Yellow Card, a leading African crypto platform, has secured a crypto asset service provider (CASP) license from the Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA) in South Africa. The license allows Yellow Card, which is also licensed in Botswana, to expand its operations and cater...
New Dungeons & Dragons And G.I. Joe Games Are Coming
20.11.2024
Baldur’s Gate 3 was a huge success for both Larian Studios and Dungeons & Dragons, which is owned by Wizards of the Coast and its parent company, the massive toy conglomerate Hasbro. The two sides ended up splitting instead of pursuing Baldur’s Gate 4 together, but Hasbro’s CEO says the company...
Try Out Some New Pokémon TCG Pocket Strategies With Rental Decks
19.11.2024
Building up a strong deck in Pokémon TCG Pocket can take some time. Even if you have your eye set on creating something to crush players online, you’re still reliant on pulling the right cards. If you need help grinding out rewards against the CPU or just want some experience trying different...
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...
Get the Pokémon TCG Pocket Card You Want With The Pack Point Exchange System
18.11.2024
Opening up card packs is the progenitor of loot boxes, so we can all recognize that occasionally icky feeling while playing Pokémon TCG Pocket. Keeping track of all the game’s numerous currencies certainly doesn’t help in that regard either. Thankfully, there is a modicum of grace for bypassing...
Upcoming Pokémon TCG Pocket Events Seemingly Leaked
18.11.2024
If you’re as Pokémon TCG Pocket-pilled as I am, you’re desperate for new cards to collect and new events to battle through. Fortunately, it sounds like players won’t have to wait too much longer for either one, at least according to the latest datamined leaks coming out of the mobile card game....
The Best Cards from Pokémon TCG Pocket’s Genetic Apex Expansion
14.11.2024
Pokémon TCG Pocket has introduced a decent amount of cards through its Genetic Apex expansion. And even though all of its many currencies and systems can make for a confusing impression, it didn’t take long for players to figure out metas. And now we can share that information with you! From...
Pokémon TCG Pocket Teases New Booster Pack Release Date With Trading Coming Next Year
14.11.2024
We’re just a couple weeks into Pokémon TCG Pocket’s life out in the wild and the devs behind the hit mobile card game adaptation have already teased some big upcoming plans. Those include new booster packs before the end of the year, the arrival of trading in 2025, and other new features that...
What Pokémon TCG Pocket Needs More Than Anything Is A Dark Mode
13.11.2024
It’s midnight. The room is pitch black. I gingerly creep into bed so as not to disturb the amorphous blob of children that may be residing somewhere near its center. I’m sleep-deprived but unable to turn my brain off. I pull out my phone and see a tiny notification out of the corner of my eye that...
Pokémon TCG Pocket Devs Won't Confirm If The Pack You Pick Matters
12.11.2024
Opening up a booster pack in the newly released mobile hit game Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket involves a few steps, including having to choose which pack to open. Does the pack you pick matter and influence what cards you get? Good question! And one that the devs won’t answer. Read more
The 4 Best Decks To Dominate In Pokémon TCG Pocket
12.11.2024
As Pokémon TCG Pocket completes its second week since launch, players have found the game’s grooves and solid patterns have begun to develop. Core to these are four specific decks that are dominating in online battles, forming a meta that looks unlikely to shift until January’s delivery of a whole...
There's A Brand-New Pokémon TCG Card That's Selling For $500
11.11.2024
Every now and then, there’s a specific card in a specific set of the Pokémon TCG that absolutely blows up beyond all sense. Recent examples include last year’s Iono full-art trainer card, part of Japan’s Clay Burst set, which proved so popular that Japan sold out of all Pokémon cards! We’re...
Pokémon TCG Pocket's Next Big Set Of Cards Might Be Arriving In January
11.11.2024
If you’re a Pokémon TCG Pocket sicko like me and have already collected over half of the mobile card game’s starting Genetic Apex set, don’t worry! New datamines suggest the next set of cards isn’t far away, with a smaller update pegged for December. Read more
Here's What We Really Think Of Pokémon TCG Pocket Now That The Honeymoon Phase Is Over
10.11.2024
The new mobile card game Pokémon TCG Pocket has been with us for just over a week, which has given 20 million people time to discover its highs, lows, and utterly bewildering mess of in-game currencies. It’s also, unfortunately, long enough for most people to have left the honeymoon phasein which...
Both Nintendo And Sega Had Oddly Timed Announcements This Week
9.11.2024
Whether you think the art you consume should be a distraction from the real world or a reflection of it is up to you and your capacity for curiosity. While such a divide doesn’t exist for fans of film, music, literature, or television, for some reason, it does for people who enjoy things like...
Wise Words From Dragon Age: The Veilguard And An Unboxed PS5 Pro Got Us Through Election Week
9.11.2024
We won’t belabor the point because if you’re a normal person with normal mutuals, chances are your timeline is already doing that—this week sucked, and so will the next four years.Read more
Pokémon TCG Pocket Has A Staggering 12 Different Currencies, And Counting
8.11.2024
We’ve already very carefully been over the grimly insidious nature of Pokémon TCG Pocket’s unpleasant free-to-play model, but an aspect of this peculiar and enormously successful mobile spin-off from the long-established card game is just how many in-game currencies it has you juggle. So far, there...