Pokémon

Magikarp 3DS Is The Most Glorious 3DS: check out the sweet Pokemon decal on cheezus_christ_‘s 3DS. Jealous much? (Via r/pokemon)

One of the Rarest Pokémon Cards on Earth

This is the Pokémon Illustrator. The card is incredibly rare and valuable. If you have a hundred grand, it can be yours. According to Bulbapedia, there were apparently only six Pokémon Illustrator cards printed and awarded to winners of the Pokémon Card Game Illustration Contest, which began in late 1997 in Japan. The card was…

If Only Modern Pokemon Games Looked Like This

Yes, Pokemon X & Y looks excellent, visually. But even so, looking at the photoshop handiwork of Justin—Bieber, it’s hard not to fantasize about an entire Pokemon game in this particular style, with backgrounds like these. I mean, it’s gorgeous! So much detail. Take a look: Granted, we don’t have to leave the sprites to…

One Great Pokémon Illustration Per Day. Here Are The First Seven.

The intimidatingly-talented Kotaku reader Stormborn (Bonny John on Tumblr and Deviant Art) has been drawing one Pokémon per day for the past week. You can find each of these entries over at our reader-run sister site, TAY. But for your viewing convenience, here are the first seven for you to cycle through. Bulbasaur! Ivysaur! Venusaur!…

Watch Today’s Special Pokemon X/Y Nintendo Direct Right Here

Satoru Iwata and Junichi Masuda in the same room, talking about Pokemon. A paid online Pokemon storage. New mega Pokemon. There’s even a few neat retrospectives—a great deal of fascinating stuff for any Pokemon fan. You can watch it all above, and make sure to chime in with your favorite parts below. Pokemon Direct 9.4.2013…

Charizard, Venusaur and Blastoise Will Have Mega Evolutions

In today’s Pokemon-themed Nintendo Direct, it was announced that not only will players receive the original starters from Red and Blue in Pokemon X & Y—Bulbasaur, Charmander Squirtle—but these Pokemon, once fully raised, will be able to Mega evolve. Take a look: Additional info, from the Pokemon website: when mega evolved, Venusaur’s ability becomes “Thick…

Pokemon X and Y Lets You Store Pokemon Online… For an Annual Fee

Today, Nintendo announced a new downloadable 3DS companion app for their upcoming Pokemon X and Y versions. It’s called Pokemon Bank, and it’s used to store in-game Pokemon in the cloud. Pokemon Bank allows you to store Pokemon in online boxes—100 boxes, meaning 3000 Pokemon in total, which is far more than the game’s in-built…

Pokémon Rumble U Is Much Better With NFC Toys. Weird.

The coolest feature of Pokémon Rumble U only works with the $3.99 collectible figures purchased separately from the $17.99 downloadable title, making it a mediocre game with optional improvement. Interesting idea. In Pokémon Rumble U, players can collect and battle up to 649 different Pokémon by picking up capsules in the game’s various story arenas.…

The Original 151 Pokemon, Redone As Monster Hunter Icons

Why did Gryphon-Shifter combine Monster Hunter and Pokemon? Heck, why not? The distinct icon style works fantastically with the Pokemon from Red and Blue—so much so that I kind of want to see all Pokemon in this style! Alas, for now, the first 151 will have to do: You can see more of the artist’s…

Maybe A Dark and Gritty Pokemon Wouldn’t Work

Oh, sure, many of us would love to see Game Freak try for a more mature Pokemon, just to see what it’s like. But could it even work? Or would it just seem ridiculous to take the elements of Pokemon and try to make them dark? I’m starting to have my doubts after looking at…

Watch Me Play The New Pokémon Game

Want to see some Mega Pokémon? Watch me play some five minutes of this special Pokémon X/Y demo, made just for PAX. The game comes out on October 12 for 3DS.

More Pokemon Drawn From Memory, Without Erasing

First blayzeon proved that a faulty memory could be a funny thing by showing us what the Pokemon from the first two generations look like if drawn without looking at a reference. Now they’re back with third gen Pokemon drawn from memory, and it’s just as silly as the first time we saw the project.…

Let’s Open Up Some Pokémon Rumble U Figures

Pokémon Rumble U is available for the Wii U today, capitalizing on the Game Pad’s near-field communications feature to give players the ability to import special toys directly into the game. I purchased seven of these special blind bagged toys. Let’s see who we got. Note that I don’t have access to the game yet,…

The Original 151 Pokemon, Drawn From Memory, Without Erasing

Normally having gaps in your memory is a bad thing, but in the case of blayzeon‘s sometimes-faulty memory? It’s pure entertainment. You can see that in action in this Pokemon project, where blayzeon drew up all the original 151 Pokemon from memory—which we’ve seen before—but this time, there was no erasing. Whatever was drawn out…

Five Life Lessons I’ve Learned From Pokémon

I’ve grown up — rather fondly, I might add — with Pokémon. Over the years the several different hundreds of pocket monsters have become my dear friends. Simply settling into a new game (like I’ve recently done with Black) is a comfort to me. In a tumultuous, changing world, I find solace in the fact…

Polygonal Pokémon Are The Best Pokémon

Artist Jan Carlos Garcia made these great Pokemon, stripping their designs back into a low-poly design that would have made the best early-90s virtual reality game ever made. Or, now that I think about it, the best low-poly fan update of Pokémon Snap for the Oculus Rift that nobody’s actually made yet. Low Poly Pokemon…

The Pokémon Theme Song Is The Right Choice For An Adorable Proposal

Things can go easily wrong when you’re using the Pokémon theme song at a convention to propose to your girlfriend, but in this case it was absolutely just the opposite. A young guy named Michael surprised his girlfriend Rebecca, and the cameras of GeekBomb were lucky enough to capture it. Pokemon Proposal at PAX Australia…

These Fake Pokemon Ads Will Make You Wish You Could Buy Rare Candy

First, there were Pokemon travel posters that advertised vacation locales around Kanto. Now Chuz0r adds to that through a variety of ads for items as well as locations we visit in the games—from antidotes to the Pokemon center itself. Almost makes you wish you could spend money or visit some of these places, eh? For…

Oh Wow, This Is The Snazziest Pokémon Game Yet

Straight outta Germany, here’s nine minutes of adorable new footage from Pokémon X, the latest entry in Nintendo’s longrunning animal abuse simulator series. Shot by the folks at NTower, this footage shows how we’ll prod and poke and battle creatures in Pokémon X, which comes out for 3DS in October alongside Pokémon Y. And for…

For Japan’s Nerd Heroine, Pokémon is a Bridge Between Strangers

Shoko Nakagawa, Japan’s own nerd heroine and queen of Pokémonhasn’t exactly had an easy upbringing. Her school life after elementary school was mostly filled with rejection and alienation from classmates due to her being different. But staying true to her love of Pokémon has paid off in spades as she recalls in her new book,…