Christopher Buffa (Prima Games): Pokemon TCG, otherwise known as Pokemon Trading Card Game, has been around as long as the video games; both it and Pokemon Blue and Red debuted in Japan in 1996. It didn’t take long for the game to explode worldwide, and millions of fans spent an untold number of hours competing against friends at school, the park or essentially anywhere featuring a flat surface. Becoming a master player consumed people’s lives as they did whatever it took (even at great cost) to build the ultimate deck.
The multiplayer gaming podcast is back and on this week's Always Online episode we run down the Job Actions trailer and Live Letter details for FFXIV, talk about Blizzard's compounding legal issues and Fortnite not coming back to iOS anytime soon, and finally the Pokemon TCG! All that and more on this week's Always Online!
A new expansion to the Pokemon card trading game- called "Shining Fates" is coming in February.
Jacob St-Amour from Link-Cable Writes: "The Pokémon franchise has continuously evolved and thrived with each and every game that is published. From the series’ staple, Pokémon games that started with the (Red/Blue) Versions to spin-off titles and even its many mobile releases all seem to continue the success of one of gamings most popular franchises to date. With all of this success and the increasing popularity of Nintendo’s hybrid console, it is surprising to see that there hasn’t been any attempt to bring over one of the Pokémon sub-series over to the device and we are left to wonder if we will see a Pokémon TCG title ever make its way to the Nintendo Switch."
