Pokémon

You Can Now Request New Pokestops and Gyms In Pokémon Go [Update]

Live in a place with crappy Pokémon Go landmarks? Don’t have enough Pokestops near you? Have a good idea for something that would make for a great meeting ground for Pokémon Go players? Good news. You can now lobby Niantic with Pokémon Go requests. Requesting new Pokestops and gyms is easy. Just visit the official…

Desperate To Play Pokémon Go, Korean Gamers Travel North

There’s apparently only one place to play Pokémon Go in South Korea. This is it. While it’s not officially out in the country, Inven (via tipster Sang) reports that it can be played in Sokcho and sent reporters there to make sure. Elsewhere in the country it cannot be played, even through unofficial downloads, because…

Oh, did somebody find a Squirtle?

A Dark Theory On What Happens To Transferred Pokémon

I love Pokémon Go. It’s fun for the whole family. Cute, cute, cute. I hear that Pidgey is popular with the kids. Well, kids, Pidgey is cute, but Pidgeotto is fierce. It’s probably because he subsists off the recycled, ground-up appendages of Pidgeys past. But don’t worry about that! To evolve Pidgey into Pidgeotto, you…

Pokémon Go Can Be Depressing For Fans With Physical Disabilities

Pokémon Go is getting gamers outside, but not all gamers. Tales of trespassing, fence-jumping and brave jaunts through tough terrain to catch Pokémon have bolstered the hit mobile game’s popularity among able-bodied players. Physically handicapped fans of the Pokémon franchise, however, are struggling to love a Pokémon game in which movement is a crucial mechanic.…

The Internet Has Fallen In Love With Pokémon Sun and Moon’s Pikachu Imposter

Meet Mimicyu, a ghost type Pokémon that should look pretty damn familiar to you. There’s actually a good reason for that. As Serebii explains, Mimicyu was recently revealed on Japanese magazine CoroCoro. Serebii’s translation of the unveil states that Mimicyu is wearing a cloth costume based on popular Pikachu merchandise. “It wants to be loved…

Nobody Actually Knows How Pokémon Go’s ‘Nearby’ Feature Works [UPDATE]

Ask ten different people how to track down monsters in Pokémon Go, and you’ll likely get ten different answers. That’s because finding Pokémon is rather convoluted and confusing in Pokémon Go. I’ve been playing Pokémon Go non-stop over the last week, and the most frustrating feature by far has to be the “Nearby” function. Ostensibly,…

DurMan667 did this “quick mock-up” of an idea for a new battery saver mode for Pokémon Go. Rough edges aside I would use something like this 100% of the time.

Go Easy On The Pokémon Go, Texas A&M

The Texas A&M University Police Department has a Twitter feed which dumps little reports on every incident they’ve attended. It will not surprise you to learn that Pokémon Go has been keeping them busy this week. That last one sounds like it could have actually been a little dangerous! Kids, that warning screen when you…

Report: Hollywood Scrambling To Make Live-Action Pokémon Movie

Deadline is reporting that, in the wake of Pokémon Go’s instant and massive success, “all Hollywood has renewed the chase for a deal to turn Pokémon into a feature film.” Seems that attempts to make a live-action Pokémon movie have been humming in the background for a while now, but these have now gone into…

Pokémon Go Update Fixes Crashes, Google Security Concerns

An iOS update that went live for Pokémon Go this afternoon fixes some bugs and will stop the popular app from requesting access to your entire Google account. Now the game will only ask for basic information like your name and email—and now it’ll give you a warning first. The update also promises added stability…

Pokémon Go Players Are Waging War Over The White House

For the last week, Pokémon Go players have been taking part in a secret battle to gain control of the most visible and coveted gym in the entire country: the White House. As you probably already know, Pokémon Go is an augmented reality game that makes use of real-world locations. Most locales are flagged as…

A Quick Pokémon Go Tip: Keep Catching Weak Monsters

Those of you playing Pokémon Go are probably sick to death of seeing the same crappy monsters no matter where you go. Pokémon Go doesn’t tell you this, but even those shitty critters can still be mega useful. Pokémon encounters are somewhat tied to location, yes, but they also take into account your level. The…

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CBS, what are you doing. “Quick, get us some Pokemon graphics” “Sir, these say 11-07-98 on them.” “I said get us those graphics.”

Pokémon Go Nudes Are A Thing Now

Welp. Everyone knew this would happen, right? Pokémon Go makes use of your camera, and you can take a picture of whatever you’d like while playing, after all. (NSFW content ahead!) Actually, right now the internet has a number of different kinds of Pokémon Go nudes floating around, with at least a couple of people…

PSA: Pokémon Go Gets Full Access To Your Google Account On iOS [UPDATE]

Watch out: if you’re using your Google Account to sign into Pokémon Go on iOS, you may have allowed the developers at Niantic to have access to your e-mail, documents, and anything else attached to that account. Unlike other applications that link to Google, which typically ask for your basic account info, Pokémon Go gets…

Pokémon Go Is Missing Features Promised In The First Trailer

When Pokémon Go was announced last September, the amazing trailer promised a game more ambitious than what launched last week. Here’s that trailer, which has been watched a whopping 28 million times: The Pokémon Go that just launched delivers on the basic premise of going into the world and catching pokémon . What’s missing are…

Pokémon Go Fan Trolls Westboro Baptist Church, Church Fires Back

It is 2016, and at least one religious institution hasn’t let go of the idea that Pokémon is somehow sinful. What a time to be alive. Late last week, a certain Pokémon started making headlines… For the two of you that don’t play Pokémon Go, what this picture is relaying is that Westboro Baptist Church…

Team Mystic Is The Pokémon Go Faction Of Choice

Over the weekend we asked Pokémon Go players which of the game’s three factions they were backing—Team Instinct, Team Mystic or Team Valor. With more than 100,000 responses recorded the big blue bird of Team Mystic reigns supreme. I’ve been watching results since the poll opened on Saturday evening, and the results have been pretty…

The Japanese Pokémon Go website has changed its release date from “July 2016″ to simply 2016, Kotaku reader Joey points out.