Pokémon

Wwwwwhen A Twitch Stream Donation Goes Horribly Wwwwwrong

Pokemon streamer SherwoodLIVE (via Reddit) finds out the hard way why having a simulated voice announce donations is a bad idea. Dubwee dubwee dubwee dubwee.

The Best Pokémon Cosplay 

You wanna see the very best? Okay, here you go. Here is a round up of some of the most outstanding Pokémon cosplay the internet has to offer (thanks, internet!). Some pics are old. Some are new. Some are accurate recreations, while others are reworkings of Pokémon characters. They’re all wonderful. Oh! And if you…

The Most Popular Pokémon Used By Top Players, In One Image

Not all Pokémon are made equal. Some Pokémon are used more than others, and even elite Pokémon players have their favorites. Posted by Reddit user on r/Pokemon, here’s a look at the most popular Pokemon used by top players on Pokémon Showdown. For those that don’t know, Showdown is an online battle simulator used by…

Weirdness Ensues When 32 Fans Re-Animate The Pokémon Intro

You’ve got two types of animators here, basically: the ones doing straight-up recreations of the first Pokémon opening’s iconic shots, and the ones with… different ideas. Inspired by the similar Moon Animate Make-Up project, Pokémon ReAnimated comes from an Ottawa-based group of 32 animators, headed up by Spencer Moreland, who also edited the whole thing,…

Pikachu Keeps Loners Company at Pokémon Cafe

For some folks, eating alone is awful. But not at the Tokyo Pokémon Cafe, where Pikachu will watch you eat. As noted on Naver, people visiting the cafe solo get to sit across from a plush toy Pikachu. [Photo: snivylover] [Photo: future39_miku] [Photo: alpacapaca] [Photo: tetsukire] [Photo: aimia492] The Pokémon Cafe isn’t the first to…

PSA: Remember To Download The Free Rare Pokémon Available Now

Are you playing Pokémon Omega Ruby or Alpha Sapphire right now? Good news. Game Freak is giving out a few rare Pokémon that you’ll want to pick up. All you have to do is go into the game, and select ‘Mystery Gift’ from the main menu, and put in a couple of codes. The code…

The Hidden Meaning Behind the Name of One Pokémon Region

Pokémon’s current series director Junichi Masuda has been working at Game Freak on the Pokémon series since the original Ruby and Sapphire, the source material for the two newest games, Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK Back then, he was what’s known as a “planner” in Japanese game companies:…

The Most Infamous Pokémon Bootleg

There’s Pokémon Crystal, the third game in the second generation of Pokémon games. And then there’s Pokémon Vietnamese Crystal, the bootleg version of the game with mistranslations. There’s a difference. Pokémon diehards have probably heard of Vietnamese Crystal, but for those of you that haven’t, it’s worth checking out. According to Bulbanews, back in the…

The Pokémon Arcade Fighter Has a Dumb Controller

Geez. I know that Namco is trying to make Pokkén accessible to lots of players, but a control pad? For a fighting game you play in arcades? Really? Recently, Kotaku introduced this controller, along with several other new things revealed about the game. According to Namco’s Katsuhiro Harada, who heads up the Tekken team, the…

10 Cool Things We’ve Learned About The Pokémon Fighting Game Today

Much footage of Pokkén dropped last night, all of it featuring intense battles between monsters that Pokémon fans know and love. While we shared a trailer earlier today, it only scratches the surface of all the cool new things hidden inside of Pokken Let’s take a closer look, shall we? Trainers are still in the…

Bulbasaur Isn’t Neccesarily The First Pokémon

Trivia time! Which Pokémon came first? The answer may not be what you think. According to the Pokedex, the answer seems clear-cut: Bulbasaur, the cabbage-like Pokémon, is number one. So it’s gotta be the Pokemon that comes first, right? No, actually. The “first Pokémon” varies depending on how you look at it, and what criteria…

Watch Pikachu Lay The Smack Down In New Pokémon Fighter Trailer

The world got its latest look at Pokkén last night and, damn, it sure looks brutal. It’s no joke when pocket monsters rumble, yo. The fighting game version of the popular creature collection franchise got streamed last night, with a few new Pokemon characters revealed. Suicune and Gardevoir will be joining Pikachu in the martial…

You Need Quantum Physics To Explain Pokémon‘s Timeline

We already know that, thanks to alternate dimensions, the official Pokémon timeline has become ridiculous. If you break it down using science, things only get even more bonkers. The Game Theorists pull out quantum mechanics to explain the nitty gritty of how Pokémon‘s lore explains all the different versions of Pokémon that exist in the…

Eating Pokémon Food Can Be Frightening

Well, that certainly is scary. Website Omo69 visited the newly opened Pokémon Cafe Ω Ruby & α Sapphire in Tokyo, ordering the Pikachu rice omelette with blue “aqua sauce.” You can also order magma sauce, instead. This is the meal. Its official name is “Rice Omelette that Would Also Make Pikachu Smile.” And the aqua…

Everything Ridiculous About Pokémon, In Four Minutes

Despite Pokémon’s immense popularity, plenty about the series is absolutely silly, or doesn’t make much sense. If you’re a veteran player, you’re already familiar with some of the qualms that TheBlueOwlPlays brings up in this video. They include: How the only industry you can work in is Pokémon related, because EVERYthing in the Pokémon universe…

The Surprising Results of Selective Pokémon Breeding

Is that… a “Chargizard”? Concentrating on recessive genes and breeding Pokémon the Dorkly way might not get you to the end of the game, but it definitely has other advantages. This special method, you can see it below, works well with starter Pokémon, but what about the ones that are a bit weirder. Koffing? Diglett?…

Predicting Anime Characters’ Future Appearance Is Easy

Jibanyan is the most popular character in Yokai Watch, Japan’s new favorite anime and video game. The character is new, but what will it look like in ten years? As Kotaku has previously mentioned, characters change. Heck, look at how Pikachu has developed over the years. Via Japanese web forum 2ch, here’s a guess at…

The Hackers and Cheaters Who Break Pokémon 

Nearly every Pokémon player I know has, at one point during their career as a trainer, handled a hacked Pokémon. Even prominent Pokemon players have been suspected of cheating, and in a single competition, The Pokémon Company has caught thousands of cheaters at once. Pokemon’s online bank system, which stores monsters for players, has also…

Nintendo’s got a new free-to-play downloadable 3DS Pokémon puzzle game (with microtransaction support, it sounds like) coming this February. It’s called Pokémon Shuffle and might remind you of Pokémon Trozei. It was announced in this morning’s Nintendo Direct by Nintendo boss Satoru Iwata. Here’s some footage from the Direct, capped by Gamexplain….

What Pokémon Players Are Actually Trading, By The Numbers

Thanks to something called “Wonder Trade,” Pokémon players regularly put monsters up for trade blindly, without knowing what they’ll get in return. Maybe it’ll be a garbage Pokémon, or maybe it’ll be a legendary. Not knowing what you’ll get in exchange for your Pokémon is part of the fun—but even so, hardcore players are compiling…