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 shirt in question.Image: Public Tokyo/The Pokémon Company/Cotoh Tsumi In the past few weeks, popular artist Cotoh Tsumi has been repeatedly hit with tracing allegations. On 2ch and Twitter, critics have posted examples of what they say proves these charges, which the artist has denied. The criticism has become incessant, and now, some collab goods …
Pokémon games are famous for basing regions on real-world locations. The Hisui Region in Pokémon Legends: Arceus, for example, was based on Hokkaido. But the setting is not the only thing the game appears to borrow. As noted on 2ch, Japan’s most popular bulletin board, the way that traveling merchant Volo throws a Poké Ball …
Image: Nintendo / The Pokémon Company / Kotaku A new Pokémon game means, well, new Pokémon, and Pokémon Legends: Arceus is no exception. And while the latest installment in Nintendo’s flagship role-playing franchise may skew from the series’ foundational elements in interesting ways with its fluid, open-world gameplay, some of these debuting Pokémon still come …
Screenshot: Hazelight It Takes Two won Game of the Year at the 2021 Game Awards, beating out games like Deathloop and Metroid Dread for the top spot. Though the slew of “world exclusives!” might have you think otherwise, The Game Awards—also known as E3 Part 2: Geoff Keighley’s Winter Break Edition—are ostensibly about honoring some …
Screenshot: The Pokémon Company The Pokémon Company today revealed yet another region-exclusive variant for the upcoming Pokémon Legends: Arceus in Hisuian Voltorb, a super cute spin on one of the original 151. Voltorb were introduced in the Pokémon franchise’s first generation as perfectly round, two-toned creatures that were liable to zap trainers who mistook them …
Screenshot: The Pokémon Company Of the very many Pokémon games in circulation at the moment, perhaps Pokémon Smile is the one you’re not so aware of. Announced in June last year, then released that very same day, it is an AR mobile app designed to get kids to brush their teeth properly. Oh, and it’s …
Wild sumo wrestlers appear! Photo: 株式会社ポケモン/公益財団法人日本相撲協会 Over the years, Pokémon has done an array of collabs, including New Era, Oreo, Levi’s, and Casio. Some have been more interesting than others. But finally, Pocket Monsters is teaming up with sumo wrestling . It’s about time! Think about it. This makes perfect sense. In sumo, you have …
Image: The Pokémon Company I can’t count the number of times I’ve been in the thick of a Pokémon Unite match, feeling good about my team’s chances of winning, only for the timer to countdown to zero and reveal that we actually got wrecked. According to makers TiMi Studio Group, that’s by design. Pokémon Unite …