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 …
Screenshot: The Pokémon Company Earlier today, The Pokémon Company officially unveiled the Hisui-region forms of Zorua and Zoroark, set to appear in Pokémon Legends: Arceus next year. Unlike their original Dark typing, however, these regional variants are a dual Normal and Ghost typing, a unique combination that’s never been seen in the Pokémon series before …
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 …
Screenshot: Pokémon Vinath Oudomsine, from Dublin, Georgia, has been accused by federal prosecutors of fraudulently applying for a an Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL). The man claimed to be running a business, but reportedly spent most of the money on a rare Pokémon card instead. As The Telegraph report, Oudomsine is accused by authorities of …
Oh crap, sorry, I should have told you about the splash zone.Gif: Square Enix / Kotaku The hype for Endwalker’s impending launch recently pushed me back into the arms of Final Fantasy XIV. Instead of doing the smart thing and working my way through the massively multiplayer role-playing game’s litany of main story quests so …
Screenshot: Cococucumber / Kotaku I’m not normally a fan of turn-based RPGs, but Echo Generation’s voxel-based visuals caught my attention, so I decided to give it a shot. I’m very glad I did. While it’s a sometimes frustrating game, it has enough charm and style that I enjoyed it even when I got stuck. It …
Image: Ubisoft In May, Ubisoft took down some DRM servers that accidentally broke Might & Magic X – Legacy, to the point where the game had to be removed from shopfronts. A few months later, and probably after some folks had long assumed the game was simply dead, it’s back. In a statement tweeted out …
That’s too creepy a smile when you’re about to get nerfed, Blastoise.Screenshot: TiMi Studio Group / Kotaku Pokémon Unite is poised to get a substantial update on October 20, which will kick off the Halloween event on mobile devices and Nintendo Switch. Though TiMi Studio Group has yet to drop the official patch notes, what’s …
Illustration: Craig Mullins There are probably some readers out there young enough to not even know what Games For Windows Live even was, but for those of us who lived through it, we remember: how pointless it was, how broken. Launched in 2007, it was Microsoft’s first attempt to bridge the gap between console players …
Image: Konami Thanks to a recent fan translation of a nine-year-old PlayStation Portable game, every installment of the Suikoden role-playing franchise is now playable in English. Genso Suikoden: Tsumugareshi Hyakunen no Toki, or roughly Suikoden: Woven Web of the Centuries, arrived on PlayStation Portable in early 2012. It’s both the last game released in the …