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Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed Saturday, January 18, 2025 6:29 PM
    

I don't think we've ever written about Intravenous 2, but the topdown shooter has been on my radar since its release last year. It's a blend of tactical stealth and frenetic Hotline Miami spraying, and it just got a major update to add Steam Workshop support and a map editor.

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Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed Saturday, January 18, 2025 6:06 PM
    

Sons Of The Forest is about being chased by fithy cannibals who cannot swim, so the latest update ought to be useful to players. Its major new feature is the addition of rafts, which players can construct and then float about on like a 2000s Tom Hanks.

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Rock Paper Shotgun Latest Articles Feed Saturday, January 18, 2025 5:44 PM
    

Genshin Impact's developers have agreed to pay a $20 million (around £16.4m) fine to settle charges brought by the US Federal Trade Commission. The FTC allege that HoYoverse "unfairly marketed loot boxes to children that obscured real costs and misled all players about the odds of obtaining prizes." HoYoverse will also be banned from selling lootboxes to children under 16 without parental consent.

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Siliconera Saturday, January 18, 2025 3:00 PM
    

pokemon tcg prismatic evolutions set review

If you've heard anything about the new Pokemon Trading Card Game set, it's likely these two points: that it's centered around Eevee, and that demand has wildly outstripped initial supply. The first thing's definitely true, and anecdotal evidence suggests the second is too! So given that it may be a bit before you get your hands on some Pokemon TCG Prismatic Evolutions expansion packs, why not read up on what it's all about?

So yes, the set's primarily about Eevee and its evolutions, specifically in the latest game generation's Tera variants. They're all here in both regular and gem-like forms, so there's a lot to collect! Even the base Eeveelutions are rare, though, so don't expect each pack to be chock full of them. If you're looking for Eevee stuff in particular, your best bet is through the promotional cards headlining the set's special boxes. There are collections, blister packs and surprise boxes, and each comes with at least one Eeveelution. They're separate from the ones in the set, though.

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Prismatic Evolutions also serves to collect some of Japan's other miscellaneous cards and promotional releases, leading to a few lines of things that don't really align with Eevee or the newest games. There's a batch of old Professors and Black Belts with different art for different regions. There are also cameos here from sets past! The Festival Lead users like Dipplin see reprints. Ancient and Future are here. Whether to pad out the non-rare list or perhaps as a consideration of limited play, the set has its fair share of encores.

The demand for the set suggests that maybe they didn't need help enticing collectors, but they did it anyway with some new ball-themed foil variants. It's uncommon enough to find the Poke Ball version of a card, but the Master Ball foil will be even tougher to find. We did manage to pull a Dreepy one, and it looks nice enough. The best part of both variants is the etching on the art. This is the sort of treatment we'd get for a secret rare, but that look within the conventional layout of a standard card looks nice without venturing into overkill like some of those unreadable rarities.

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With the reprints, miscellaneous promo inclusions and absurd numbers of Eevee varieties. Prismatic Evolutions is a strange set to get your mind around. It's much more of a set about chasing cool rares than it is one for opening one pack and enjoying all the inclusions, and we can't imagine it being particularly useful for limited play given how all-over-the-place its ideas are. But there are without a doubt some cool cards to pull and show off!


The latest Pokemon Trading Card Game expansion, Scarlet & Violet — Prismatic Evolutions, became available in stores starting January 17, 2025. If you're looking for it on shelves, you might need to be patient; The Pokemon Company International has acknowledged that high demand for the set may lead to shortages, but it says it's working to print more as quickly as possible. Stay tuned to Siliconera for a breakdown of the expansion's best cards.

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