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Best Pokemon TCG Pocket Mega Sceptile ex deck
This guide details a powerful Mega Sceptile ex deck build for Pokemon Trading Card Game Pocket, focusing on its Grass-type abilities and poison infliction. While expensive to sustain attacks, the deck offers strong damage output and good card draw, making Mega Sceptile ex a potent force in the current meta.
Best Pokemon TCG Pocket Mega Manectric ex deck
This guide details the best Mega Manectric ex deck build for Pokemon Trading Card Game Pocket, focusing on rapid energy generation and aggressive play. The deck utilizes cards like Zeraora and Electric Generator for quick setup, making it a powerful glass cannon strategy despite its reliance on evolution and lower health pools.
Best Pokemon TCG Pocket Zoroark ex deck
This guide details how to build a powerful Zoroark ex deck in Pokemon Trading Card Game Pocket, focusing on Dark-type Pokemon and rapid early-game setup. The deck utilizes cards like Absol and Nihilego to support Zoroark ex as the primary damage dealer, offering versatile options and a strong early game despite lacking a decisive late-game finisher.
Best Pokemon TCG Pocket Mega Scizor ex deck
This guide details a Mega Scizor ex deck build for Pokemon Trading Card Game Pocket, focusing on low retreat costs and the Bullet Slugger attack for maximum damage. It outlines the strategy, key cards like Revravroom and Orthworm, and discusses the deck's pros and cons, including its energy needs and vulnerability if Scyther is KO'd.
Best Pokemon TCG Pocket Meowscarada ex deck
This guide details a disruptive Meowscarada ex deck build for Pokemon Trading Card Game Pocket, focusing on low energy costs and control play. The deck utilizes Meowscarada ex's ability to hit the enemy bench and force switches, making it effective against inflexible strategies, though it has lower damage output and requires Stage 2 evolution.
Best Pokemon TCG Pocket Suicune ex and Chien-Pao ex deck
This guide details a strong Water-type deck build for Pokemon Trading Card Game Pocket featuring Suicune ex, Baxcalibur, and Chien-Pao ex. The deck focuses on Suicune ex for opening plays and Baxcalibur for energy generation to power Chien-Pao ex's bench-targeting damage.
Best Pokemon TCG Pocket Giratina ex deck
This guide details the best Giratina ex deck build for Pokemon Trading Card Game Pocket, featuring Darkrai ex and Greninja. The deck focuses on empowering Giratina ex with Dark energy and using Greninja for chip damage, aiming for a strong late game despite a weaker early phase. The article also briefly mentions the author, Joel Franey, and his background in games journalism.
Best Pokemon TCG Pocket Mega Blaziken ex deck
This guide details the Mega Blaziken ex deck build for Pokemon TCG Pocket, highlighting its powerful fire damage and burn capabilities. It outlines the card list, strategy for energy management, and pros and cons of the deck, suggesting Castform for early game burns and Mesagoza for card draw.
Best Pokemon TCG Pocket Miraidon ex deck
This guide details how to build and operate a powerful Miraidon ex deck in Pokemon Trading Card Game Pocket, utilizing Magneton and Magnezone for strong mid-game offense. It explores the core strategy, card synergies like Professor Turo for deck shuffling, and potential build flexibilities, while also noting the deck's pros and cons regarding Miraidon's health and early-game vulnerability.
Best Pokemon TCG Pocket Mega Absol ex and Hydreigon deck
This guide details a powerful deck build for Pokemon TCG Pocket featuring Mega Absol ex and Hydreigon. The deck focuses on aggressive dark-type attacks and disruption to overwhelm opponents early in the game.
Best Pokemon TCG Pocket Iron Valiant and Iron Crown deck
This guide details the best deck build for Iron Valiant and Iron Crown in Pokemon Trading Card Game Pocket, focusing on an aggressive early game strategy. The build is a modification of the Mega Altaria ex deck, leveraging the advantages of the Future tag for direct damage and overt aggression.
Best Pokemon TCG Pocket Oricorio deck
This guide details how to build the best Oricorio deck in Pokemon TCG Pocket, focusing on the Pom-Pom variant's Safeguard ability for immunity to Ex type Pokemon. The deck combines Oricorio with Magnezone and Teal Mask Ogerpon ex for a resilient, defensive strategy that disrupts opponents by leveraging immunities to status effects and Ex Pokemon attacks.
Hacker Group Steals Nintendo Employee Data, Posts $2 Million Ransom
A hacking group named ShadowByt3$ claims to have stolen 859MB of Nintendo employee data, including personal information and financial statements, via the third-party HR service TinyPulse. The group is demanding a $2 million ransom. Nintendo of America confirmed a limited breach of internal survey data from several years ago, stating that no customer or financial data was compromised and that they are working with the service provider to address the issue.
Hacker Group Claims To Have Stolen Nintendo Data, Posts $2 Million Ransom
A hacking group named ShadowByt3$ claims to have stolen 859MB of Nintendo employee data, including personal and financial information, and is demanding a $2 million ransom. The group alleges the data was accessed through a third-party HR program used by Nintendo. The company has not yet commented on the unverified breach.
Pokemon Winds and Waves is apparently targeting a September release on Switch 2
Pokemon Winds and Pokemon Waves are reportedly targeting a September 2027 release on the Nintendo Switch 2. This information comes from the Pokemon leak account Centro Leaks, indicating that The Pokemon Company and Game Freak are aiming for this launch window.
New Details Revealed for PokémonXP and 2026 Pokémon World Championships, and Pokémon North America International Championships Move to Chicago in 2027
The Pokémon Company International announced that the 2027 Pokémon North America International Championships will be held in Chicago, Illinois. New details were also revealed for PokémonXP and the 2026 Pokémon World Championships, which will take place in San Francisco. The article also recaps the winners of the 2026 North America International Championships held in New Orleans.
Nintendo’s Palworld lawsuit is falling apart as full release nears
Nintendo and The Pokémon Company's patent infringement lawsuit against Palworld developer Pocketpair is weakening as the game nears its full release. Setbacks in patent office rejections and Pocketpair's proactive changes to gameplay mechanics have narrowed the dispute primarily to older versions of the game, diminishing the likelihood of impacting Palworld's upcoming 1.0 launch. While Nintendo may still pursue damages, the core objective of halting the game's trajectory appears unlikely, with many players viewing the situation as an underdog story against a large corporation.
Pokemon Japanese Game Covers Turned Into Merchandise
The Pokemon Company is releasing new merchandise in Japan on June 18, 2026, featuring the Japanese game covers from the franchise's mainline and Legends titles released between 1996 and 2025. The collection will include items like pins, magnets, keychains, T-shirts, and bags, with a special framed collection of all game package cover pins. This merchandise is part of the 30th-anniversary celebrations for the Pokemon franchise.
Gotta Fetch 'Em All! Your Pet Will Love Pokémon's Latest Merch Line
The Pokémon Company has launched a new 'Pokémon Playful Partners' collection featuring merchandise for pets, including bowls, harnesses, beds, and toys. The range, designed by artist James Turner, is available on The Pokémon Center website with prices varying from $9.99 for can covers to $229.99 for a Snorlax bed.
Nintendo and The Pokemon Company update Palworld lawsuit, limited to older versions only
Nintendo and The Pokemon Company have narrowed the scope of their lawsuit against Palworld, now focusing only on older versions of the game that allegedly infringed on patents. The legal battle will not involve current or upcoming versions of Palworld, and the potential damages are limited. Evidence presentation is scheduled for October 1, 2026.
