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Some Pokémon Sun and Moon Fans Don’t Believe Hau Is The Real Rival

Hau is a nice, cheerful boy. He gives you presents. When defeated in battle, he is gracious, and tells you that he had fun. Nothing about Hau seems competitive, which might explain why Pokémon players keep theorizing that he’s not your real rival in Sun and Moon at all. Historically, Pokémon fans associate the word…

Nintendo Attractions Coming To Universal Studios Orlando And Hollywood

Announced last year for Universal Studios Japan, Nintendo-themed areas are also in the works for Universal Studios Orlando and Hollywood as well, promising massive areas filled with things to do, eat and buy. Miyamoto seems overjoyed. It’s a good fit, really. Nintendo’s spent decades building fantastic worlds for us to play it, now Universal is…

What You Need To Know About Pokémon  Sun and Moon’s First Global Event

Game Freak have issued a challenge to all Pokémon  Sun and Moon players: catch 100,000,000 critters before December 13th. If you pitch in, there’s something good in it for you. Sun and Moon make use of a mechanic known as “global events,” which are limited-time festivities where players try to meet a collective goal. Here’s…

Pokémon Sun and Moon Hide A Big Secret In The Poke Pelago Mini Game

Anyone who has played Pokémon Sun and Moon has probably visited that secluded collection of islands known as Poke Pelago. You can send your monsters to Poke Pelago to train, find items, and just chill out. Poke Pelago is also the place that quietly ties the entire story in Sun and Moon together. Maybe you…

Smash Bros. Melee Tournaments Are Shrines To Old TVs

At DreamHack Winter 2016 in Sweden this weekend, hundreds prayed at a competitive gaming altar consisting of a few dozen old cathode ray tube televisions. They were participating in a Super Smash Bros. Melee tournament, and the results were beautiful looking. Between Black Friday and Cyber Monday, a lot of people are probably buying new…

Watch Smash Bros. Melee Players Compete For One Of The Biggest Cash Prizes In The Game’s 15 Year History

This is what it looks like when one incredible Melee player shows no mercy. DreamHack Winter 2016 is going on right now at the Elmia Convention Center in Jönköping, Sweden, meaning that in addition to tournaments for everything ranging from Counter-Strike: Global Offensive to Hearthstone, you can also catch some of the best Smash Bros.…

Mimikyu Is Terrifying In The Pokémon Sun and Moon Anime

Fans felt sympathy for Mimikyu in Pokémon Sun and Moon because of a tragic backstory which claims that it dresses up in Pikachu rags because it, too, wants to be loved like the icon. That’s NOT how Mimikyu feels in the anime, though. The latest episode of the Pokémon anime aired in Japan recently, and…

Smash Bros. Mod Adds Playable Pokémon Sun and Moon Characters

Much of Sun and Moon is spent with Lillie bemoaning that she’s not strong enough to be a trainer. Yet here she is, kickin’ literal butt with the help of a little cutie called Cosmog. Over at modding community GameBanana, SunSpirit has uploaded a skin that replaces the standard Rosalina model with Lillie, of the…

In Pokémon Sun and Moon, The Swimmer Has Evolved Into A Hot Dude

You know, the Swimmer, right? Save for swapping briefs for trunks, the male version hasn’t changed so much over the years. But the one in Sun and Moon sure has! Note: This article contains spoilers. Past male Swimmers wore swimming caps and googles, and since Pokémon Red and Blue, they’ve always looked similar. But here…

Four Times Pokémon Sun and Moon Get Way Too Real

Something that really surprised me about Pokémon Sun and Moon were the random spurts of bleakness. The latest generation of Pokémon games aren’t afraid to go there, even if it leaves the player uncomfortable about the implications. I’m not just talking about the dark Pokedex entries, which make everyone reconsider their favorite monster, as well…

A Look Back At Final Fantasy VI‘s Banquet, Which Was Worse Than Any Thanksgiving Dinner

Thanksgiving is tomorrow. It is a day of stuffing, gravy, and turkey. A glorious day where we yell at each other about politics before drunkenly apologizing later in the evening. No matter how hard it gets, know that it could away get worse. This banquet in Final Fantasy VI sure did. The world of Final…

Pokémon Sun and Moon Players Busted After ‘Glitch’ Turns Out To Be A Broken Cheat

Right now there’s a scare going on within the Pokémon community. “Don’t save inside Pokémon centers,” people are warning each other. “Your save file might get borked.” Well, about that… Recently, there have been reports online of a serious Pokémon glitch that renders the game completely unplayable, as the avatar disappears and the second screen…

How To Capture Shiny Pokémon In Sun and Moon

There is about a 1 in 4,000 chance a unique color variant of a Pokémon will appear in a random encounter, making “shiny Pokémon” the rarest type of monster you can capture. Some people have played Pokémon for decades and have never seen a shiny. Here’s how you can beat those odds and get a…

People Are Finding Pokémon Sun And Moon Glitches, It Seems

Pokémon Sun and Moon hasn’t been out that long. Bugs and glitches pop up in previous Pokémon games, so they’re bound to be in Sun and Moon. These could be the first ones folks are finding. Note that while I do have a copy of the game, I haven’t been able to replicate these glitches.…

Game Awards Show Mysteriously Removes Two Nintendo Fan Games

The Game Awardswill be held next week, celebrating AAA gaming as well as smaller projects. Two fan games based on Nintendo IPs, AM2R and Pokemon Uranium, have disappeared from the “Best Fan Creation” nominees. AM2R is afan remastering of Metroid 2: The Return of Samus. Released earlier this year, the project was hit with a…

Dear Nintendo, Please Actually Make This Mini-SNES/Super Famicom 

Love, everyone. I like the idea of the Mini-NES! But not the idea of playing many of its games. Load up something like this with Link to the Past, Super Mario World, F-Zero and maybe Street Fighter II and/or Super Star Wars, though, and oh boy Especially since this box is for the timeless JP/PAL…

Slowpoke Tails Are Still Tasty 

Slowpoke tails are nutritious and delicious! We’ve known that since Pokémon Gold and Silver. And now, we get to know that some more. Note: This article contains Sun and Moon spoilers.  Previously, Slowpoke tail plushies went on sale in Japan. And in Sun and Moon, we have this… Goodness. There’s more. This is grim stuff!

The Latest Chapter In Jimmy Fallon’s Ongoing Love Affair With Mario Kart

This weekend, the Tonight Show posted a video on YouTube in which host Jimmy Fallon challenged some of NASCAR’s best drivers to a game of Mario Kart. Ahead of today’s final Sprint Cup race of the season, Jimmie Johnson, Carl Edwards, Kyle Busch and Joey Logano went head-to-head to see who would face the Fallon…

Nintendo registered a trademark for “Wave Race” in Europe on November 17. That’s according to a document filed with the European Union Intellectual Property Office. The request is class 9, meaning it’s related to computer software. The series has been dormant since Wave Race: Blue Storm was released in 2001.

How To Evolve Pokémon In Sun and Moon

While most Pokémon evolve by achieving the appropriate level, many Alolan monsters in Sun and Moon have special requirements that the game never tells you about. Here’s how to meet all the unique evolution requirements. (Spoilers!) Rattata evolves into (Alola) Raticate at level 20, at night. Pikachu evolves into (Alola) Raichu with a Thunder Stone,…