It’s time for a new booster set in Pokémon TCG Pocket, and it’s introducing quite a bit to the game when it arrives. Shining Revelry, the next themed booster pack for Pokémon TCG Pocket, arrives on March 27, 2025, introducing Shiny Pokémon, ranked matches, and the Paldea region’s trainers and Pokémon.

As part of the new booster, Shining Revelry will introduce Shiny variants of popular Pokémon, including Charizard ex, Lucario ex, and Pachirisu. You can see a preview of what they’ll look like in the latest Pokémon TCG Pocket teaser below:

The Shiny variants not only add some extra sparkle and shine to these Pokémon, but also change their color schemes. For Pokémon TCG Pocket, the Shiny Pokémon cards will sparkle when tilted, adding to the effect. Fans of the Shiny look can also get a Shiny Charizard display board and binder starting on April 1.

Themed booster sets, like Mythical Island or Triumphant Light, are typically smaller sets with fewer cards compared to larger sets like Genetic Apex or Space-Time Smackdown. That doesn’t mean they aren’t making some interesting additions to the sets, though. Shining Revelry will bring the Paldea region from Pokémon Scarlet and Violet to Pokémon TCG Pocket, introducing the likes of Tatsugiri and Sprigatito, as well as the trainer Iono.

Ranked matches are also launching on March 27, letting players battle and earn emblems based on their end-of-season rank to display on their profile. The first season will run from March 27 to April 26.

Recently, the Pokemon TCG Pocket team confirmed it would be changing the trading system, which has earned the ire of players looking to exchange cards and round out their collections. The actual changes will be rolling out gradually though, so we’ll see if the suprisingly robust drop for Shining Revelry mollifies the community or not.

Eric is a freelance writer for IGN.

I expected Pokémon TCG restocks in 2025, but not this soon. While everyone scrambles for Prismatic Evolutions and floods paid Discord servers hunting for Rival Destinies, the smart move is picking up older sets from the Scarlet & Violet and Sword & Shield eras before they disappear—especially now that Amazon just got a massive restock.

You won’t find Prismatic Evolutions or much Surging Sparks stock just yet, but for collectors, this is a gold mine. ETBs, Big Boxes, Booster Bundles, and more are all here—straight from Amazon Global. That means stock has been pulled from the UK and other regions to ensure wider availability.

This is exactly what the community needs: a flood of inventory that makes botting and scalping far less appealing. I’ve dug through everything, and just to make things easier, sorted it all by category alongside a handy TL;DR just below.

Pokémon TCG: Elite Trainer Boxes

All of these ETBs are harder to come by thanks to Pokémania 2025. There’s some amazing cards to be found in these sets, from Greninja Secret Art Rare (214/167) found in Twilight Masquerade to The Loyal Three Secret Art Rare set found in Shrouded Fable.

Pokémon TCG: Booster Bundles and Blisters

Surging Sparks Booster Bundle is the biggest restock here thanks to the infamous Pikachu ex Secret Illustration Rare (238/191) and the sets other amazin cards such as Latias ex Special Illustration Rare (239/191) and Milotic ex Special Illustration Rare (237/191). It’s also a great time to snap up from Brilliant Stars boosters, with chances of pulling Charizard V Alternate Art (154/172) and the stunning trainer gallery sub-set.

Pokémon TCG: Big Box Products

Whilst these are the most awkward thing to display or store for collectors, there’s some cool promo cards and accessories for TCG players. There’s even some discounts knocking around, such as the Paradox Fury Premium collection down 12% at $60.11. This is probably one of the better boxes to buy from this restock as it’s a 2024 Amazon holiday exclusive.

Pokémon TCG: Tins

There’s a collectors scene for just the tins people, and they come in handy for storing bulk, dice, sleeves and whgatever else trainers need to their battles.

A good tip here is to buy anything with a Pokémon V card as their promo card. This means you’ll get Sword and Shield era booster packs inside, which are going to be harder and harder to find as we move into the second half of 2025.

If you looking for frequent updates on Pokémon TCG products, I’m constantly updating Where To Buy Prismatic Evolutions, Prismatic Evolutions Super Premium Collection, and Best Pokémon TCG deals.

Christian Wait is a contributing freelancer for IGN covering everything collectable and deals. Christian has over 7 years of experience in the Gaming and Tech industry with bylines at Mashable and Pocket-Tactics. Christian also makes hand-painted collectibles for Saber Miniatures. Christian is also the author of “Pokemon Ultimate Unofficial Gaming Guide by GamesWarrior”. Find Christian on X @ChrisReggieWait.

The first big update for Monster Hunter Wilds looms on the horizon, and next week, Capcom will host a showcase to spotlight what’s in store for Title Update 1 in Monster Hunter Wilds.

The Monster Hunter Wilds Showcase airs on March 25 at 7am PT / 10am ET on the Monster Hunter Twitch channel. Hosted by producer Ryozo Tsujimoto, the showcase will spotlight what’s arriving alongside returning monster Mizutsune.

Join us March 25 at 7am PT/2pm GMT for the Monster Hunter Wilds Showcase, hosted by producer Ryozo Tsujimoto! We’ll be detailing the first Free Title Update coming in early April, which includes Mizutsune and a host of other new additions.

Watch here:https://t.co/WbntyFSOZe pic.twitter.com/rTuHrT4vAw

— Monster Hunter (@monsterhunter) March 21, 2025

Currently, there’s no exact date locked in for Title Update 1 outside a general “early April” window. A firm launch date for the first big content drop of Monster Hunter Wilds would be one of the big takeaways players would likely want to see in the spotlight.

As for content, we know Mizutsune — a leviathan monster with dangerous bubbles — will return for Monster Hunter Wilds. We also know Capcom plans to add a new challenge as well as a “new place to meet, communicate, have meals together and more with other hunters,” specifically for those who have completed the main story.

What’s on players’ longer wishlist for Title Update 1? Layered weapons, or changing the appearance of your weapon without altering its stats, is a repeated ask. Additional camera options and other quality-of-life features are also sensical options.

There are also still hopes that future updates will continue to fine-tune and optimize Monster Hunter Wilds, as the PC version saw quite a few complaints and concerns in Wilds’ launch window.

Mostly, hunters seem keen on hunting a new monster, getting some new challenges, and having more to dig into with Monster Hunter Wilds. The latest in Capcom’s long-running monster-fighting series brought in some big numbers with its launch, and with Title Update 1, the company will be setting the cadence for how it moves forward.

To help get your Monster Hunter Wilds adventure started, take a look at what Monster Hunter Wilds doesn’t tell you, and a guide to all 14 weapon types in the game. We’ve also got a detailed MH Wilds walkthrough in progress, a MH Wilds multiplayer guide to explain how to play with friends, and if you’ve played one of the open betas, here’s how to transfer your MH Wilds Beta character over.

Eric is a freelance writer for IGN.

Kaiserpunk has an immediately interesting premise: rebuilding society from the ashes of an alternate timeline World War I that raged so much longer and more mercilessly that it left the survivors in a post-apocalyptic struggle for survival. When it leans into being a city builder with a roaring 20s flair, that scenario can really shine. But the diet grand strategy game playing out on its dissonant strategic map, as well as a host of technical issues that I could maybe forgive if this were an Early Access launch instead of the full thing, make me wish I’d perished in 1916.

Each game of Kaiserpunk begins with laying out a few ramshackle houses and modest farms on one of its varied but fairly flat maps based on real-world locations, which range from Seattle, Washington to Sydney, Australia. It’s neat that the lower-tier buildings look like they were made from salvaged materials, often sporting brand names of forgotten, pre-war businesses. Each lot is a quaint and stylish little diorama, and I enjoyed watching my rough-and-tumble laborers go about their days.

This continues up the social ladder as you keep adding more specialized and higher-paid citizens, with the most privileged residences creating almost idyllic early 20th Century neighborhoods that could make me forget the world fell apart for but a moment. This sense of transforming the ruined landscape into a place worth living in again is satisfying, and there’s a deep and decently entertaining web of production chains underneath it all, too.

The series Kaiserpunk is most comparable to is Anno, in that the goal is to work your way up from vegetable gardens to eventually manufacturing your own televisions and radios, supporting a growing middle and upper class with increasingly lavish and specific desires that must be maintained. Especially at smaller scales, I found a good amount of enjoyment in this urban planning. And it’s pretty cool that when I shape my society through the different settlement tiers by selecting policies, my main government building changes to reflect my values.

But while there are dozens of resources and all kinds of unlockable buildings – from schools to clinics – to better the lives of my people, those same systems fall flat in other ways that make the world less believable. Nobody minds living next to a steel mill, for example – not even the wealthiest citizens. Everyone has a desire for health and education, but this is simply dealt with by plopping public service buildings. The smog from factories never causes health to decline, from what I could tell. This encourages building hodgepodge settlements that don’t really look like or develop in the way real cities do.

The whole thing comes apart even more when you get out onto the strategic map. For one thing, Kaiserpunk seems to have no idea what scale it wants to tell stories on. In my city, I’m concerned with whether my 200 machinists have enough gramophones to fulfill their luxury needs. But then on the strategic map, “Central Europe” is a single, indivisible political region. It’s very similar to the map from the board game Risk. This really does not mesh at all.

If they wanted to have a strategic layer, they should have gone for something much more modest. A lot of the theming is already very British, so why not zoom in and spend just as much time on a post-apocalyptic UK? Why would these devastated city-states rising from the ashes be out trying to conquer the world like it’s Hearts of Iron?

And the strategic systems don’t do much for me either. For one thing, the turn-based battle animations are comical, almost slapstick, and I don’t feel like that was intentional. The mechanics are complex but cumbersome, and don’t provide a lot of information after the fact on why you won or lost. Things like terrain type and your ability to supply your armies can eventually change the course of a war, but it’s all kind of half-baked and impenetrable.

The big picture comes across like there was a strong idea for an interwar city builder that then had a second, half-finished game nailed onto it. You could lose this whole world map layer and I honestly think it would be a better experience. Maybe you could abstract the defense industry, which eventually has you building your own tanks and artillery, as something you have to do to secure your borders rather than worrying about conquest. There are diplomatic and scientific victory paths if you don’t want to focus on guns and bombs, but you can’t really ignore the world map if you want to be successful at either of them.

The AI on the default Normal difficulty setting is fairly ruthless, too. As a new player, I felt like they were always way ahead of me by the time I ran into them, which is discouraging. When I’m playing a city builder, I don’t want my life to be completely without struggle. But since I’m getting plenty of that trying to provide for my people anyway, the idea that I can be vastly outpaced by the AI if I don’t develop my industries as quickly and efficiently as possible seems excessive. It’s not tuned well, especially when you’re first learning the ropes.

And that’s all before we even get to the technical issues. Like I said, if this were an Early Access game, I might cut it a little more slack. But for what’s supposed to be a finished product, the polish simply isn’t here. There’s a lot of little technical things that come across as sloppy, like the fact that the resource counters on the strategic map don’t update in real time when the clock is going. You have to close the map and open it again.

You can’t click on different columns to sort the resource screen, which is very frustrating given how many of them there are. The tooltip for population needs fulfillment doesn’t provide enough information, so I frequently found myself having to tediously go around clicking on individual houses to figure out what people wanted more of like I was doing a door-to-door survey.

The economy balance can be quite odd at the higher levels too, where simply building a single high-rise full of specialists will print money even if they’re unhappy, but then trying to provide for their needs ends up being more expensive overall. It’s supposed to be the other way around, where happier citizens pay more taxes. But the balance doesn’t always swing that way.

Most of all, though, it’s pretty buggy. All the way up until the day before this review, I was running into multiple issues with saves suddenly deciding not to load after I’d played a given city for a long time. I’m glad this seems to have gotten a last minute fix, but that’s the ultimate vibe killer when you’ve put more than 25 hours into a run. At one point, when I hadn’t met any other factions yet, I got a notification that “the enemy” had launched a firebombing campaign on my city that resulted in more than a dozen buildings randomly bursting into flames. Who did this, exactly? Some raiders hiding out in a canyon down the road?