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Pokémon TCG Pocket will let you open digital card packs via your smartphone in October

A flurry of Pokémon news has confirmed a launch date for the long-awaited Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket, and a look …

Pokémon TCG Pocket, a digital version of the phenomenally-popular trading card game, will go live via the iPhone App Store and Google Play for Android worldwide on 30th October. As previously announced, you can open two packs of Pokémon cards for free per day - just enough to get you hooked - and it's interesting to see the pack-opening mechanic front and centre in the game's trailer below. "We've definitely been thinking a lot about Gen 8 for a while in Pokémon Go," the game's director Michael Steranka told me back in June.

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