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Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket

2024 mobile video game

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 20, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket is a free-to-play mobile adaptation of the Pokémon Trading Card Game (TCG), developed by Creatures Inc. and DeNA, and published by The Pokémon Company. The game was revealed on February 27, 2024 during a Pokémon Presents presentation, had a soft-launch in New Zealand on September 26, 2024, and officially released on October 30, 2024 on both iOS and Android devices. Pokémon TCG Pocket serves as a mobile adaptation of the traditional trading card game, allowing players to collect cards, trade with friends, and build decks to engage in battles against other players. The game incorporates features designed for mobile gameplay, including daily rewards, while maintaining the core mechanics of the original TCG.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2024—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Pokémon, Trading and Card can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.