Pokémon TCG: Prismatic Evolutions is hands down the most in-demand set of the Scarlet and Violet era, and scalpers know it. Everyone should have a shot at buying Pokémon cards, so treat this guide as a bible of where to find Prismatic Evolutions for retail pricing. Here are some quick tips before you dive into the links below to keep you safe from overpriced products:

– Note the price I’ve given: If it’s considerably higher, it’s a rip-off.

– No Stock? Be patient, more stock will be on its way throughout the year (Pokémon Company confirmed this)

– Buy direct from retailers, not third party: Some retail spaces have other sellers, such as Amazon and Walmart, buy direct for the best prices.

– Check In-Store: Some online retailers, such as Best Buy, offer stock updates for store pickups, but you can bet this won’t be live. Head to your local GameStop, Target, Walmart, or Best Buy if you’re striking out online.

Prismatic Evolution Boxed Products

These will be the most popular prismatic Evolution products, specifically the Elite Trainer Box for the stunning Eevee full art promo. Speaking of promo cards, there’s a complete set of Eeveelution ex cards with a Prismatic Evolution stamp to be found in the Suprise Boxes.

Whilst plenty of trainers will want the Prismatic Evolutions binder, the poster collection has standard holo promos for the first three Eeveelutions: Flareon, Jolteon, and Vaporeon. The stock has been jumping in and out of stock at the retailers below, so keep checking back.

Prismatic Evolutions Booster Tins and Bundles

Don’t think cheaper products won’t be popular. Everyone wants to open Prismatic Evolution packs right now, and there are some cool bits to grab out of the blisters and booster pack collections below.

There are the tech blisters featuring Leafeon, Sylveon, and Glaceon, with tins featuring colored Eevee coins and a fact card for one of nine Eeveelutions. There’s even a four-pack booster box with a lovely Eevee-themed soft pouch. The best value here is the six-pack booster bundle when you can find them. Check the links below and pop into the relevant stores to snag yours.

We’ll also keep up to date with stock refreshes for Prismatic Evolutions, older sets such as Surging Sparks, and upcoming sets like Journey Together. Just fight the FOMO and make sure not to pay extortionate prices for Pokémon cards if it’s still in print. Keep checking the above links; more stock will be available throughout 2025.

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.

We may have only seen 17 or so seconds of the new Mario Kart in the Nintendo Switch 2 reveal trailer, but that isn’t going to stop me from digging deep down the rabbit hole and over-analysing each and every frame of it. There are plenty of familiar vehicles and faces, but also a new track and some interesting details to get stuck into.

Rumoured to have started development back in 2022 and designed “with a new twist”, fans finally have some new Mario Kart footage to look at in the hope that it backs up their wild theories on what that twist might be – and you can count me among them. So, please indulge me as I present the three twists that are foremost taking up the theory-crafting part of my brain, and watch as I try to decipher what’s next for the karting king and his little red hat.

Open World Mario Kart

The most prominent theory posed by the community so far is that this may be the Mario Kart entry that finally takes the series “open world”. We’ve had Super Mario World, after all, so why not Mario Kart World? But is this just people’s hopes and dreams projecting what they want to see onto this teaser? Well, maybe. But there are a few details that point to this being a possibility.

The starting line reveals the location to be “Mario Bros. Circuit”, but could this be a misdirection? Rather than an actual race track, this area could instead be part of a hub world where 24 racers (double the number seen in Mario Kart 8, incidentally) can pull up to the starting line. The reason I say this is because there are, intriguingly, zero item boxes in sight during this (admittedly small) slice of gameplay. It would be a stretch to think that items and weapons have been removed from Mario Kart completely, so maybe what we’re seeing here isn’t an official race setting, but instead drivers speeding through a lobby-like open world.

What we do see, though, is a glowing yellow object underneath the giant burger of Yoshi’s drive-thru. I’m presuming this isn’t a traditional item box as it would be against well-established tradition for just one item to be available for everyone racing by, so what could it be? There’s been the suggestion that it could be a fuel pickup, and that buildings like this and Fire Flower Gas Station (seen at the starting line) could act as pit stops that refill a manual speed boost, or perhaps repairs damage (if that’s an element added to this entry.) Think of something not too dissimilar to how driving through a garage in Burnout Paradise automatically fixes your car.

The fuel theory is further supported by a closer look at Mario’s kart. At first glance, it’s an evolution of his standard kart, but zoom in on the side, and you’ll find a “1-Up Fuel” logo. This may point to the addition of a fuel tank that houses some manual speed boost juice, or perhaps just greater car customisation in general. That customisation in and of itself would work with an open-world design, as you could hunt around a large hub in search of unlockables, collectibles, and upgrades to your ever-expanding garage of vehicles. It’s something the Forza Horizon series does fantastically with its barn find missions. Would I love to roam the Mushroom Kingdom in search of a hidden vintage Toad wagon? Yes. Yes, I would.

And, perhaps most tenuously of all, could that final camera zoom out at the end of the gameplay, which reveals a vast desert setting, be hinting at an open world to explore? The road certainly seems to be stretching off into the horizon with no tight turn onto itself in sight. There’s no suggestion at all that this is a closed-loop circuit.

Off-Roading Mario Kart

Of course, all of that desert could instead be pointing toward circuits including a variety of off-road sections, rather than races predominantly taking place on narrow tracks. This is further supported by a few other details that can be spotted in the gameplay. In the final shot, to the left of the track, we see a lack of barriers to keep players on the road, as well as a conspicuously placed ramp ready for someone to leap off of – such a pathway would naturally encourage drivers to take the off-road route, rally style.

Earlier in the teaser we also see that Rosalina is returning for another round of Mario Kart, having been ever-present since her introduction in Mario Kart Wii. More interesting, though, is her vehicle of choice, which appears to be a version of the Snow Skimmer from Mario Kart Tour. This snowmobile-like kart is equipped with skis on its front axle and would be the perfect vehicle to tackle snowy conditions (obviously), but also sandy dunes. Could this Mario Bros. Circuit take us further off the beaten path later on in its laps, making off-road kart customisation and preparation vital this time around?

Bowser’s also got some meaty ol’ tires on his kart, but that’s something he’d do anyway, so maybe I really am reading far too much into it here. But you’re reading it, so who’s really the one losing their mind?

Super Mario Bros. 40th Anniversary Celebration Mario Kart

A lot of us looked into the haunted eyes of Donkey Kong in the Mario Kart 9 teaser and wondered what had happened to the big monkey man. Is this redesign simply a move to align his look with that seen in the recent Super Mario Bros movie? It’s admittedly blurry once zoomed in, so is this in fact a more retro-leaning style that points to an aspect of this new Mario Kart that’s aiming to celebrate Nintendo, and maybe more specifically, Mario’s history? 2025 marks the 40th anniversary of the release of the original Super Mario Bros., so could Nintendo be using this new MK as an opportunity to mark it?

It’s admittedly a stretch, but with no Link from The Legend of Zelda or Animal Crossing villagers in sight so far, perhaps the focus is purely on Mario and the legacy cast of characters from his games. The fact that the track is named “Mario Bros. Circuit”, and the cactus-littered desert setting reminding me of World 6-1 from Super Mario Bros. 2, certainly backs that up a little bit. There’s even a glowing sign displaying the words Shine Sprite – the collectible from Super Mario Sunshine.

Tracks based on different Mario games would definitely be cool. The one seen here is clearly American-set, not only because they’re driving on the right-hand side of the road, but due to its general aesthetic. Who wants to bet that highway leads to New Donk City from Super Mario Odyssey? I’m probably wrong, but it would be a lovely way to celebrate a little plumber’s birthday, wouldn’t it?

What do you think the new Mario Kart game twist will be? Have I lost the plot after watching the same looping 17 seconds of gameplay for too long? Let us know in the comments below.

The very first moments of the Nintendo Switch 2 announcement trailer reveal that the new console is bigger than its predecessor. As the old Joy-Con unhook themselves from the original Switch, we see the tablet section grow and morph into its upgraded form. It’s a substantial size increase – one that suggests Nintendo is moving even further away from the pocket-friendly handhelds of its past and embracing the era of big portable devices such as the Steam Deck and iPad.

But how much bigger is the Switch 2 than its predecessor? While no exact size dimensions have been provided by Nintendo officially, we can work out a rough estimate based on what we see in the trailer… with a little help from a recent leak. At CES 2025, the consumer electronics convention held earlier this month, we were able to go hands-on with a Switch 2 mock-up created by peripheral designer Genki. At the time we had no way to verify how accurate the design was, but Nintendo’s new trailer showcases a console that’s near enough the exact same system down to the smallest details. And so the measurements we took at CES are likely very close to the final dimensions of the Switch 2.

So how big is the Switch 2? Let us be your (rough, estimated) guide.

Are you on the hunt for a new tabletop adventure to bring to your next game night? Look no further than Target where you can pick up the brand new HeroQuest First Light board game. It’s a Target exclusive, and it comes with a price tag of $49.99. Check it out at the link below, along with more information about what’s all included in the box.

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This article contains spoilers for Silo on Apple TV+.

Well, that is how you deliver an adrenaline-fueled finale, providing answers and a tantalizing cliffhanger. It is a delicate balance that Silo achieves for the second season in a row. The climatic moments of Season 1 showed Juliette Nichols (Rebecca Ferguson) walking out into a barren wasteland—not the lush green vista displayed on her helmet screen—and the engineer and former sheriff quickly discovered that her underground community was far from alone. Juliette returns to the outside world again this time, but it doesn’t end there. Instead, a triple whammy in the final 10 minutes includes an existential threat, a potential major character death, and a glimpse at a world before living underground. While some of the season has progressed at a slower pace, “Into the Fire” doesn’t hold everything back for the climax, and the whole hour is Silo at its best, mixing heartfelt interactions with high-stakes scenarios.

Silo Season 2 Ending Explained

It is conceivable that “Into the Fire” could’ve cut to black after Juliette’s conversation with a now-nihilistic Bernard and the subsequent life-or-death cliffhanger. That still would’ve been a solid way to end the season. Thankfully, Silo doesn’t settle for satisfactory. An enticing flashback to a Washington D.C. resembling our current landscape (with a radioactive twist) gives insight into what led humankind to survive below ground for apparently the last 352 years (Bernard mentions this as the number of years humans have lived in silos, and I don’t know if I can trust him or his sources).

Let’s unpack Juliette finally making it back to Silo 18 in a full circle moment after she first left at the end of Season 1. Ferguson’s character has spent the majority of the 10 episodes of Season 2 opposite Steve Zahn’s sole survivor, Solo, in neighboring Silo 17. Of course, he isn’t actually the only person inhabiting this now-dilapidated structure, and his name isn’t even Solo. Early on, I guessed that Solo’s childlike behavior pointed to him being alone since a young age, which is finally confirmed in the penultimate episode. Solo is actually Jimmy, and the finale uncovers his parents’ integral role in saving thousands of lives (even if almost everyone would later perish). Opposite the hardened Juliette, Zahn’s Jimmy offers sweet naivety and even some much-needed whimsy. Juliette’s edges soften further when Jimmy’s life is threatened by a young family led by young mom Audrey (Georgina Sadler) trying to gain access to the vault Jimmy is protecting. By the end of the penultimate episode, Jimmy opens up the vault to all, but this still doesn’t completely quell Audrey’s rage.

“Be angry at the motherfuckers who built this place and put us in it!” is Juliette’s sage advice in the finale. Pointing the finger of blame at each other is futile. Because Juliette has zero time to deal with anyone’s BS (petty or serious), the finale delivers a speedy resolution to Audrey’s incessant complaining. Juliette’s lecture taps into Jack Shephard’s mantra of “live together, die alone” on Lost, and telling Audrey, “Be angry with each other, not at each other,” does the trick. Maybe stitch that advice on a few cushions, as bumper stickers have no place in this car-less world. Of course, they can’t yell at the architects of the 51 subterranean structures built 352 years ago, but there is a chance we just met one in the flashback.

Before Juliette leaves her temporary home, she voices her fears that the “people I love might be killing each other.” Little does she know that her father has already laid down his life to save others. Inside Silo 18, it is chaos, but the moment Juliette appears on the horizon, the fighting stops, and the cheer that erupts when she starts to clean is electric. Emotions are already running high, and hearing the cry of “Juliette Lives!” now they know this sentiment matches reality is a stirring moment. The cloth the former sheriff uses to clean also bears a vital message: “not safe do not come out.” Juliette never minces words.

Just because Juliette has beat the odds doesn’t mean she has it easy, as she now contends with a despondent Bernard pointing a gun at her in the tunnel into the silo. Juliette radiates with impatience and annoyance at yet another obstacle blocking her path. Bernard is very ‘wah wah poor me,’ telling Juliette there is no point in trying to save the people of Silo 18 because it has never been in their hands. It is impossible not to read Bernard’s complaints as anything but self-pity because he justified his crimes for the greater good. His petulance is a reaction to being manipulated. Until now, he thought he knew all the answers but is equally in the dark about why an Algorithm has been programmed to poison the 10,000 inhabitants if word of the AI’s existence is shared. Robbins makes the mayor sound sniveling and small even as he towers over Ferguson’s Juliette.

When the door started shutting on Juliette and Bernard, potentially leaving them stranded in the tunnel to the outside world, Juliette instinctively jumped into the small room. “You can’t go in there! You’ll burn to death,” Bernard yells. Bernard tries to yank Juliette out, but the door closes before he can. The fire that cleanses this space (which we saw in the pilot) ignites, which is not great for Juliette or Bernard. Juliette dies? But this is not the end of the episode.

It’s on the heels of Juliette’s apparent death, that the flashback begins. Cutting from Juliette and Bernard’s perilous conditions to rain in a pre-dystopia Washington D.C. is incredibly disorientating because everything looks different from the environment we have spent two seasons experiencing. It takes a few beats to adjust to the familiar symbols of our present-day or the not-too-distant future—there are no wacky clothes or technology to suggest it isn’t 2025. One major difference is that patrons are scanned for radiation before they can enter a bar, which is part of the norm. An unnamed congressman (played by Ashley Zukerman) thinks he is going on a first date but quickly learns that Helen (Jessica Henwick) is gathering information for a story she is working on for The Washington Post.

We then see a dirty bomb detonated in the nation’s capital that is blamed on Iran, but Helen thinks a bigger conspiracy is at play and wants to know what caused this catastrophic event if there wasn’t a radiological attack. Now, that is an exposé I want to read.

A couple of other pertinent facts indicate the congressman could be one of the Founders—or at least helped build the silos. He is from Georgia (the tourism guide relic is about this state), has a master’s in engineering, and served in the Army Corps of Engineers. It might be tenuous, but does being an engineer run in the family? Is this Congressman Nichols? Not revealing his name suggests we will recognize a connection, and while an ancestor link might be a stretch, there is a direct nod between the convenience store-bought gift the politician gives Helen and an item in Silo 18. Helen finds it a curious choice, but the duck Pez is an icebreaker—even if he gives it to the reporter when departing. Notably, this is another relic from Season 1 that opened a can of worms, and seeing it in its original context is equally intriguing and mind-blowing.

Are Juliette and Bernard Dead?

One reason it took Juliette so long to get back to the silo is she didn’t have anything to wear! Okay, this isn’t a fashion concern but a practical one—though Juliette is rocking her limited wardrobe. When she returns, Juliette is wearing a firefighter suit from Silo 17, as her original standard issue is no longer usable, and the replacement from Jimmy is equally damaged. This likely saved her life, as the material will be fire retardant. Bernad probably isn’t so lucky, and it doesn’t help that the best doctor in the silo (Juliette’s dad) is also dead. But why did the door start to shut? It can’t be a coincidence that it begins to close after Juliette says she has “figured something out” about the “Safety Procedure.” The Algorithm likely heard this comment and is taking measures to protect its failsafe. But Juliette has beaten the odds before and will likely do so again.

What is the Algorithm?

After solving Salvador Quinn’s (who was the head of I.T. and helped suppress the rebellion 140 years ago) message, Lukas converses with the Algorithm at the door in the depths of the silo at the end of the penultimate episode. The Algorithm warns that if he tells anyone about what he saw or heard, the disembodied voice (aka the Algorithm) “will have no choice but to initiate the Safeguard.” Quinn understood that the founders haven’t been entirely truthful, and Lukas has learned the same. The Algorithm appears to be an AI-voiced machine that has ultimate control over the lives (and deaths) of everyone in the silo. In fact, no one has referred to this entity as the Algorithm out loud yet, but this is the name given in the Apple TV+ closed captions. While we have the answers about what the safeguard does, many questions remain. One of the biggest mysteries going forward centers on the Algorithm’s true purpose, exactly who programmed it, and whether anyone else in the other silos knows the inner workings of this machine.

How Can They Stop the “Safeguard Procedure?”

If a safeguard is meant to protect, then the Safeguard Procedure takes this to an extreme and has little regard for human life. Thanks to her time with Jimmy, Juliette knows where the pipe is that can pump in enough poison to kill everyone. If anyone can challenge the Algorithm that controls the means to wipe out the world, it is Juliette and the Mechanical team. First, Juliet will have to get into the silo and make sure the Safeguard Procedure isn’t implemented. If this season was about toppling Bernard and finding out the truth, then Season 3 could be about dismantling an even more insidious system. While Bernard says he doesn’t care why the Founders created this failsafe,I know I am not alone in wanting to know the motives behind this choice.

Will Juliette Return to Silo 17?

Jimmy asks Juliette to come back to Silo 17, and Juliette smartly doesn’t make a promise beyond telling Jimmy, “Nothing’s gonna stop me from trying.” Given how much Jimmy and Juliette bonded—culminating in Jimmy embracing his new friend—it would be fantastic to see Zahn as Jimmy return in Season 3 as Juliette’s new friend. Considering Jimmy’s parents already solved this deadly mystery, it doesn’t stretch logic that Juliette will have to return to Silo 17 to gather more intel on stopping the “Safeguard Procedure.”

Who Is in Charge Now?

With Bernard presumed dead, a new mayor is needed. Even if he survives, Bernard has eroded all trust and should be in jail for his crimes (including killing Judge Meadows earlier this season). Mechanical has managed to literally divide the silo by blowing up the stairs between levels 90 and 92 (RIP Dr. Nicholls, who sacrificed his life for the cause). While the rebellion has been quelled, a new leader must be anointed. Juliette is the obvious choice, even if she doesn’t want the role. Camille Sims (Alexandria Riley) is currently holed up in the vault, and her husband, Robert Sims (Common), is Bernard’s “shadow” and will likely see himself as the natural successor. The Sims are a formidable couple and surprised us this season by helping the rebels, but a taste of the vault and being at the beck and call of the Algorithm will change the landscape. Round two of Juliette vs. Robert Sim is incoming, and I foresee Silo 18 will still be divided, with actual facts and knowledge being a powerful commodity in this fight for survival.

Will We See More From the Past?

Of course, there is much more to tell about the dirty bomb in the past and the potential conspiracy. Ending the season with this revelation suggests we will see more of the congressman representing Georgia’s 15th district and Washington Post journalist Helen—especially as both actors are recognizable from projects including Succession and Glass Onion. One of Silo’s strengths is how it plays with time, refusing to date when events take place with a handy screen graphic and instead letting us solve the puzzle. From the pilot that acted as a prologue to the Season 2 premiere opening with the rebellion in Silo 17, Yost likes to keep the audience on its toes. There is plenty of opportunity to reveal flashbacks of the early days of the silos (including the conception and construction), and the challenge for the writers will be to balance the present-day struggles with everything that led to this point. The finale proves that this community is desperate to discover the truth behind their living conditions, and drip-feeding a few revelations makes us hungry for more.

Dracula. The Frankenstein Monster. The Invisible Man. The Mummy.

And oh yes, don’t forget the Wolf Man.

These classic monsters have grown and morphed over the decades to transcend any single interpretation of them, even while they’ve scared audiences again and again across multiple generations. Heck, we just got another Dracula – albeit in Nosferatu form – from Robert Eggers, Guillermo del Toro is making a new Frankenstein, and now we have writer-director Leigh Whannell’s take on the Wolf Man.

But just how does a filmmaker like Whannell make modern audiences care about another werewolf movie, let alone the Wolf Man as a character? How do any of these filmmakers, as Whannell says, make the classic monsters scary and relevant again?

Well, grab your torches, pick your wolfsbane, and ready your stakes – and your ability to read into the metaphors behind monster stories – because we spoke to Whannell about the influences of classic monster movies on his work, how to revive beloved creatures like the Wolf Man in 2025, and why you should care!

While werewolf movies go back as far as the Silent Era, the first cinematic werewolf film as we know the genre today came with 1934’s Werewolf of London. Starring Henry Hull as a botanist turned lycanthrope, the Universal Pictures production features a fairly human-like werewolf, or at least a less hairy Wolf Man than Lon Chaney, Jr.’s version of the monster which would follow in 1941’s The Wolf Man.

Chaney, Jr. stars as Lawrence “Larry” Talbot, a big old lovable lug of a guy who has the misfortune of being bitten by Bela Lugosi and turning into a werewolf. This more sympathetic take on the Wolf Man character was a hit, and Talbot would return for several monster mash sequels alongside his fellow creatures. Indeed, it was this version of the traditional Wolf Man character that has proved to be the most enduring in the decades since.

But still, Leigh Whannell knew that he needed more than just a guy covered in fur if he was going to update this particular monster.

“I watched that original movie,” recalls the filmmaker. “I had seen it a long time ago, but I re-watched it, and I was thinking, ‘I don’t want to adapt this story to the letter. I need to think about where my film sits in that pantheon.’ It’s a long history of this character. And what I needed to figure out was, ‘What is the approach I can take that recontextualizes this character?’ It’s not that I want to wildly change it. I want to give fans of this character what they’re looking for.”

Getting Back to the (Hairy) Core

Whannell does have a track record when it comes to figuring out not just what audiences want, but also how to bring something new to an age-old tale. His big Hollywood breakthrough was as the writer and creator of the first Saw film along with his friend James Wan. That of course led to a series of horror outings, including writing and directing 2020’s The Invisible Man, which starred Elisabeth Moss and brought a modern edge of thematic relevance to the classic tale.

So when it came to updating the Wolf Man, the filmmaker knew he needed not just a fright factor to the film, but he also had to give audiences a reason to care about yet another version of this story.

“The biggest service I can do to fans of the Wolf Man, or any monster, is to make it scary and relevant,” says Whannell. “That’s what they want, right? You’re not there for a history lesson, you’re not there to see someone pay homage to your favorite character. That’s all window dressing.”

And with that window dressing comes the danger of the character becoming a bit too familiar, and therefore a bit too safe. The next thing you know, you’re in Leslie Nielsen/Dracula: Dead and Loving It territory. These are monsters, after all.

“To me, what you need to do is go back to that core, core thing, because these characters have been around so long, they’ve been diluted by pop culture,” he says. “Dracula is a campy character in some ways, the approach. ‘I want to drink your blood,’ right? Until you see a filmmaker like Robert Eggers come along, or Francis Coppola. These people, they don’t approach it that way. They take the source material very seriously. That’s what you need to do, I think, for modern audiences if you want people to resonate with the movie.”

Look no further than Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu, a remake of a Silent Era film which became one of the buzziest movies of this past holiday season and has turned out to be a big box office success for Focus Features.