With Pokémon Worlds around the corner, we learn how to actually play the Legends Z-A demo early!

We go back over the Pokémon Legends Z-A trailer and talk about more details from that Pokémon Presents.

Recapping the entire July Pokémon Presents from Pokémon Champions, PokéPark, and Legends Z-A.

We learn that there will be a demo of Pokémon Z-A at Gamescom 2025 this year.

We are moving on from the Pokémon Scarlet and Violet era of the TCG into the Mega Evolution era.

Since TCG Player was purchased by eBay, 200 people got laid off.

[Featuring JoeUX9] The 2026 rules are now out with some updates and changes, but it also hints that Mega Pokémon are coming back to VGC? We talk about Pokémon Champions and how it can go really well or really bad depending on how they launch it. Pokémon TCG is also getting Mega news on July 10th. Pokémon did a gameshow and $20 seems too much for a single Golden Bottle Cap in GO. TIMESTAMPS 00:00:00-Introduction 00:02:40-2026 Championship Series 00:25:30-Pokémon Champions Talk 00:49:30-Mega Pokémon TCG Announcement 00:52:00-Pokémon Game Show 00:58:50-Golden Bottle Caps 01:17:20-Credits LINKS 🌐 www.pkmncast.com 👾 www.twitch.tv/pkmncast 📸 www.instagram.com/pkmncast 📝 www.reddit.com/r/supereffective 🐦 www.twitter.com/pkmncast 🎥 www.youtube.com/pkmncast 📀 www.tiktok.com/@pkmncast 💰 Support on Patreon EPISODE CREDITS Hosted, edited, and produced by Steve Sarumi Theme songs and segment jingles by Nicholas Burgess  Ad music comes from Evanto Elements  Podcast artwork by Steve Sarumi See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Pokémon Legends Z-A has a release date, price details, upgrades, and official box art.

We finally get our hands on a 60 FPS version of Pokémon Scarlet and Violet for Switch 2 and have first impressions.

Scarlet and Violet does get a 60FPS bump on the Switch 2 with some other added bonuses and to celebrate the Switch 2 launch, Porygon2 has some events.

This week we pick and choose which games we'd want to survive with. No news this episode as we focused on this challenge together.

The Pokémon Fossil Museum is leaving Japan for the first time and coming to Chicago, IL in May of 2026.

The Scarlet & Violet Switch 2 Update will arrive on launch day and we get two new photos which shows more Pokémon on the Nintendo Switch 2 version of the game.

Niantic has upped the amount of Remote Raid passes you can use and turned on the ability to remote into both Shadow Raids and Dynamax Raids.

Pokémon Black Bolt & White Flare TCG will feature every Pokémon from Gen 5 like Pokémon 151 did for Kanto.

We get GlitchxCity's thoughts on Legends Z-A. Pokémon TCG Pocket announces a set focused on Alola and we finally get Rare Candy added to the game too!

We talk Pokémon fatigue with 7-Star Raids and how we hope the games perform on Switch 2.

Serebii shares his thoughts on Pokémon Legends Z-A and the Nintendo Switch 2.

Pokémon Colosseum and Pokémon Gale of Darkness is coming to the Switch 2 with some other GameCube games (but not at launch).

Pokémon tells us that they are working hard to reprint current Pokémon TCG set and future sets to meet the demand of their audience.