Hey so one of our partners, Matoba Design—which you might remember as the guy who made the most comprehensive video about the lost Pokémon TCG set Jamboree (see video below)—is looking for a new personal assistant… and that person might be you! To give a bit of background: Matoba Design—a hybrid graphic design and detective agency […]
Category: Generally Geeky


On February 27th, 1996, the first Pokémon games were released in Japan, called Pocket Monsters Red and Pocket Monsters Green. Why is this important? Well, Nintendo loves their dates, so when it was Pokémon’s 20th anniversary in 2016 they officially named February 27th as Pokémon Day, and on the day announced a ton of stuff. […]

Just gonna keep things simple this week, as I haven’t been feeling very well over the last few days. Fortunately I have just enough energy for this episode (albeit a day late) but I hope to be back to normal by next weekend. Thank you for your understanding! As such, this week I just want […]

Hello everyone, and welcome to a new idea I have planned for the site: the PA! Weekly Roundup! This is where, instead of writing up a bespoke post every time I do something, I’ll instead just pull everything cool that I found, or that others share with me, and just stick them into a single […]

The latest Pokémon video game—Pokémon BrilliantDiamond/ShiningPearl (“BDSP”)—was released worldwide this past November 19th. And just like almost every single Pokémon game released since Pokémon Yellow in 1999, I bought it on Day One and have been playing it as much as I can since then. And, well… it’s everything I expected it to be, and […]

Hey everyone! Sorry for not updating earlier… BDSP has kinda… well,… absorbed my time. Plus I’m still getting used to my new work/sleep schedule; like, in the past I usually would start working on an article around 9pm my time, but that was because I could go to bed any time I want. Now my […]

Take a look at my indepth analysis on how fake… or real… this recent leak is. And I should know, I’ve made a TON of fake cards over the years!

So yesterday Pokémon UNITE was released and I got a few good rounds in… and I’m kinda… meh about it. I doubt that’ll be a surprise to anyone because, well, let’s be honest: Pokémon UNITE has a bit of a frosty reception in the gaming community. Why? Well, as PA! Staff member Teslalyte—habitual League of […]