Internet personality, boxer, and Pokémon investor Logan Paul recently spent $6 million dollars on a very rare Pokémon card and then wore that card during his WrestleMania 38 appearance. Why? Because the internet and speculators have destroyed reality. 27-year old Paul first teased his Pokémon card accessory on April 2 when he revealed he was …
Image: Epic / Kotaku Yesterday, Epic launched the next season of Fortnite, and announced that for the following two weeks all the money it makes from in-game purchases in the popular battle royale will be donated to charities supporting humanitarian efforts in Ukraine. Now, just 24 hours later, and with 13 days remaining, Epic has …
The Pokémon card craze isn’t slowing down anytime soon, it appears. Case in point: Someone recently spent $125,000 at auction on a single, extremely rare Magikarp card that was part of a Japanese Pokémon Snap promotion back in the 90s. As spotted by NintendoLife and first reported by Ludkins Media, a very rare Magikarp Pokémon …
Feels bad, man. Feels real bad.Image: Matt Furie / The Streamer Awards / Kotaku The Streamer Awards, an awards ceremony dedicated to livestreaming (and not to be confused with The Streamy Awards), hosted its first-ever show on March 12. Founded and organized by cooking streamer QTCinderella, the celebration pulled in 380,000 concurrent viewers, as big-name …
My kids ate a bunch of Pokémon bread. Screenshot: 김용녀/YouTube/Kotaku For the first time in about twenty years, Pokémon bread has gone back on sale in South Korea. And the snacks are flying off the shelves. The Pokémon anime didn’t debut in South Korea until 1999 due to the country’s ban on Japanese goods. The …
Screenshot: The Pokémon Company / Kotaku Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, the next two games in the mainline Pokémon series, are coming to Nintendo Switch later this year, The Pokémon Company announced during today’s Pokémon Presents. The reveal came at the very end of the 14-minute livestream that showcased news for a variety of different games, …
Image: The Pokémon Company It’s exactly 26 years since the first Pokémon games released in Japan and the developers of the series lived up to the hype of this year’s international Pokémon Day by offering up a ton of updates on current games and one major surprise reveal: new mainline entries Pokémon Scarlet and Violet …
The market around children’s cardboard continues rocketing into uncharted territory. Earlier this week, auction outfit Goldin announced a holographic “Illustrator” Pikachu Pokémon card from 1998 sold for $900,000. No one knows who bought it for that much, or why, but the winning bid shattered the previous record of$375,000 that a similar card went for exactly …
Screenshot: Punch Out Gaming / Forest Lake Police / Kotaku A locally-owned game and card shop in Forest Lake, Minnesota was robbed by a lone thief in the middle of the night on February 10. The man escaped with $250,000 worth of rare Pokémon cards and cash. As reported by KARE 11, Punch Out Gaming …
Photo: Goldin While there have been many expensive, individual Pokémon cards going up for sale lately, and even some boxes of cards, an upcoming auction is going to be listing something far more interesting: a whole sheet of Pokémon cards that never made it to a packet in the first place. As Dicebreaker report, the …