Pokémon TCG Pocket wants to be a gateway to digital card collecting
by Charles Pulliam-Moore from The Verge - All Posts on (#6QVJZ)
The Pokemon Company When Pokemon TCG Pocket was first teased a few months back, it looked like yet another mobile app meant to capitalize on the physical card game's recent wave of unexpected popularity. With Pokemon TCG Live already on the market, it was hard to suss out how The Pokemon Company envisioned Pocket fitting into the larger franchise. And while titles like Marvel Snap and Hearthstone have proven to be big hits, it wasn't clear that Pocket would be able to appeal to newcomers and hardcore Pokemon fans alike.
We're still a few weeks out from Pokemon TCG Pocket's general release. But during the hands-on time I recently spent testing the game out, it felt like a promising - if slightly daunting - attempt at reinventing the classic card collecting...