Opinions & Observations

<p>These posts are a bit more off-topic and cover our personal opinions and observations about the news or what-have-you. However, it’s all definitely a step below straight-up politics talk in terms of seriousness.</p>

Weekly Roundup #8 – Presenting a Pokémon Presents Present!

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…. (…keep reading!)

Weekly Roundup #5 – Return of the Kadabra

Five down, 47 more roundups to go!

Today’s news will cover these topics: Return of Kadabra (and the Spirit of 2002) Stolen Blanks for Sale Pokemon TCG Online Will Go Silent… Fish Goes on a Pokémon Streamer’s Shopping Spree Recently Updated Pages The Last Safari Zone HD Remaster Card….     Return of Kadabra (and the Spirit of 2002) When I saw…. (…keep reading!)

Pokémon BrilliantDiamond/ShiningPearl Review

These games are perfectly fine. Why all the hub-bub?

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…. (…keep reading!)

Hidden Secrets of Pokémon TCG Card Design… Revealed! [Part 1/2]

Oooh I'm a regular Indiana Jones! Except I'm not fighting anyone. Or going anywhere.

When it comes to making fake Pokémon TCG cards, I’ve learned that there are two main design goals that pretty much every faker aims for. But in both cases it’s about creating something you wish you could see happen in the game itself. Now most of the time we fakers have to do things on our own because… well, it’s not like TPCI and its franchisees will ever give us the tools we need to make the cards we want, right? Well, what if they manage to accidentally reveal those tools to us in plain sight??

Hashtag Pokémon Day Review!

Did you see this yet?! Of course you did! What Pokémon fan didn't know about this until 8 hours after its initial release?

While it’s not officially “Pokémon Day” in the US, it IS “Pokémon Day” in Korea! … and I guess Japan as well. This means that a new Pokémon Presents has been released worldwide! So it gives me a chance to take a look and review what was announced today! HUZZAH! First off, here is the Pokémon…. (…keep reading!)

Moar McDonald’s Thoughts and Stuff!

God if you start squeezing me, I'll start dripping fry grease all over the place.

I’m not gonna say it’s been a slow news day, only because… well, PA! isn’t in the Daily Pokémon News business much anymore… BUT we still are in the “Pokémon Data Agregation” business, which is why I’m gung-ho on this McDonald’s Pokémon stuff. It might also be spurred on by the whole “no one can…. (…keep reading!)