So as you may know, Pokémon Day was a couple weeks back, and we covered both the pre-event rumor hype and the post-event review. Check it out when you get a chance! However, perhaps the real big news of the event was the announcement of Pokémon Legends: Z-A. For a quick refresher, here’s the trailer: […]
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This is more of a PSA than anything...
Professor Finn and the team see if $400 is worth it
On Pokemon Day 2023 (held on every 27th of February), The Pokemon Company unveiled their latest creation, the Pokemon TCG Classic. What was so special about this? They were re-launching Base Set cards as their own board game! So once again, we would have freshly-printed Base Set Charizards, Blastoises, and Venosaurs. Oh, and don’t forget […]
Let's just pretend this showed up last week!
Today’s news will cover these topics: Now that the dust has settled… Pokemon TCG Classic Language Arts in ScVi DLC And The Rest Inspired Art The Creamy Middles of the Safari Zone HD Remaster This Week’s Homework: A TCG History Lesson Now that the dust has settled… …was last week’s Pokémon Presents any […]
It's usually not a good idea to do this before I need to go to work in the morning.
Today’s news will cover these topics: WANTED: Amazing TCG History! New Galarian/Paldean Language Theory New Instagram Shows TCG Art History The Final Stage of this Safari Zone HD Remaster Surprise WANTED: Amazing TCG History! So remember two weeks ago when I talked about Matt Matoba (aka Ike_Lawliet on the PA! Discord) who has a side […]
The long lost Pokémon TCG is now revealed!
So back around March 2020, during the height of the human malware event… I get a phone call from someone who wanted to ask me a few questions about something I wrote on the site. My Midwest genes kicked in and I was all about sharing whatever I could to this complete stranger, because… y’know… […]
A small look into how these videos are made!
OK! So, now that I’m back to being able to work on regular news articles, let’s talk about some of the new stuff I missed in the last couple months. Namely: new videos about Pokémon Legends Arceus and Pokémon Brilliant Diamond/Sparkling Pearl. Oh crap, BDSP is coming out this weekend! What good timing! So to cut […]
For once 'Zoom in and enhance' actually works!
So in my last post I talked about two different times when the various stewards of the Pokémon TCG had accidentally (or maybe “”accidentally””??) revealed how Pokémon TCG cards are designed. But I also said it would be a two-parter, because this third story is pretty big. Like, seriously big. Not only did they basically give us a complete example of how a Pokémon TCG is designed and made, but it actually gives us like… a hundred other complete examples as well! …OK well, maybe not a literal hundred… maybe more closer to like… ninety-two examples. Still tho, this are some AWESOME discoveries that you’re not gonna wanna miss, and it even dovetails perfectly in the “Prototype Blastoise” story from a few months back!
I guess this updates now brings this news up to the FOREground, eh??
It’s been a few months since the last TCG Background update, but everyone at the TCG Background Investigations Department has been working hard trying to find some new TCG backgrounds which haven’t made the list! And by “TCG Background Investigations Department”, I mean “mostly the work of GC| Linkinboss over at the Research Sector channel […]