Pokémon

So…after watching Fennekin, one of the starters in Pokemon X & Y, use the move “Glow Punch” in the latest Pokemon trailer, any bets on whether it is (or evolves into) a fire/fighting type…just like the last few fire starters? I’m sure that for many, the mere idea elicits a reaction much like the end…

Being An Adult Pokemon Trainer Must Suck

Imagine you’re an adult in the Pokemon world. You have a family, you have bills to pay, and you have a love for Pokemon. So you battle, even though it might not be the most “responsible” thing to do. You can swing it, right? Not when there’s a bunch of young punks going around who…

Pokemon’s Legendary Problem

News is that next month, select GameStops across the US will distribute shiny rare Pokemon: Dialga, Palkia, and Giratina according to Siliconera.The idea, in a way, is cool and yet indicative of an absurd problem Pokemon has when it comes to legendaries. Let me put this into context: every generation, a new set of legendaries…

Nervous Girl Fumbles Easy Pokémon Jeopardy Question

And the award for Video On The Web Most Likely To Make You Say ‘Aww’ Today goes to This Video, featuring a young girl who clearly knows the answer to a Jeopardy question, but gets nervous and fumbles it away. Sorry, Erin. If I were in charge, you’d get the money anyway, and so would…

A Most Unusual Pokemon Peripheral for the 3DS

This is Pokemon Tretta Lab for Nintendo 3DS. The app is a free download, but the hardware costs 3,800 yen (around $38). In Japan, there are coin-operated Pokemon games that use chipped plastic pucks. Players put the pucks on a mat on the machine, and the mat “reads” the pucks. So, for example, if you…

Boy Does Pokemon’s Professor Oak Have Some Messed Up Nightmares

What would Pokemon’s Professor Oak dream of? Having a complete Pokedex, perhaps? According to jaxamoto, he’d have slightly NSFW dreams of adventure with none other than terrible explorer Ash Ketchum. Also, Oak would have an accent. Listen, it’s a nightmare. Just go with it…stick till the end, too, there’s one final joke in there. Pokemon…

Robin Thicke’s ‘Blurred Lines’ + Pokemon = Oh God, This Parody Song

Frankly, I’m surprised it took this long for someone to do a superbly nerdy take on the ever-catchy Blurred Lines. Don’t we have likea billion nerdy takes on Call Me Maybe? Thankfully (?) NateWantsToBattle brings us this rendition of popular pop song Blurred Lines, and it’s all about competitive Pokemon battling. I can’t decide if…

Level One Bidoof Defeats A Pokemon Champion In A Most Humiliating Way

Did you think defeating the Elite Four with a Magikarp was impressive? That Magikarp was level 100. At that level, you can tank through most things. This Bidoof owned by ImEpicToast is level one, and yet it manages to defeat one of Pokemon‘s fiercest foes, Cynthia—who is the champion of the Elite Four in Diamond,…

This Ridiculous Pokémon Load Time Is Fake

There’s a new Pokémon game. It’s called Pokémon X/Y and recently gameplay was showed off on Japanese television. Don’t worry; the game doesn’t appear to have ridiculously long load times. The above GIF is a fake! This is gameplay footage that has been given a long “Now Loading…” screen. As several Kotaku commenters have pointed…

Catch This Trailer for the Newest Pokémon Anime

Debuting on Japanese TV in 1996, the Pokémon anime keeps going and going! Here’s the trailer for the upcoming Pokémon X/Y animated series. Once again the series features Ash Ketchum, but of course, the Pokémon X/Y Pocket Monsters are new. Of course! The Pokémon X/Y anime debuts this October in Japan. Pokemon X & Y…

Pokémon developer Game Freak is teasing something. On their official website, there’s a glowing silhouette surrounded by Japanese text: “That popular game that is played around the world, will be reborn in a surprising collaboration!” This collaboration is, apparently, coming “soon.” [via Siliconera]

With This Amazing Mod, Your Cube World Pets Can Become Pokemon

One of Cube World’s neat features is that it lets you collect as many pets as you’d like. Under normal circumstances, you might already be tempted to catch ’em all—they’re so cute! I imagine that if you install this Pokemon mod, which changes the models of mobs in Cube World to Pokemon, that inclination will…

The Everyday Life of a Pokemon Trainer, In Heartwarming Comic Form

One of the things the Pokemon games aren’t particularly good at is showing the small, everyday moments a Pokemon trainer must experience while on their journey to become the very best. Enter The Link Cable Series by Brian Wolf, which is “a small series of small stories about small moments between Pokemon trainers and their…

Summer’s Here, So Cover Yourself with Bugs!

This is Shoko Nakagawa. In Japan, she’s a famous popstar and TV personality. She appears in Nintendo commercials and voices Pokémon characters. She also likes putting cicadas on her hair and face. Note: This article has content some readers might find objectionable—especially after they’ve eaten. Nothing quite says summer in Japan like the inescapable cicada…

League of Legends As A Pokémon Game Is One Big Headache

xChinnNin takes the gameplay mechanics of Pokémon and blends them with some intense MOBA action to form what looks to be a nerve-wracking nightmare. Interesting concept though, since both League of Legends and Pokémon are about summoning creatures to fight against others — just in a slightly different way. If League of Legends was a…

Pokemon Trainer Goes Through Entire Elite Four With Just A Magikarp

It’s not uncommon to find playthroughs where a player decides to go through an entire game of Pokemon with something silly, like Bidoof. But Magikarp, a fish Pokemon that’s largely taken as the most useless Pokemon ever? That’s a whole other level of insanity. Still, it can be done. This (sometimes sped-up) video shows Meikachuchu…

Pokémon Modded to Skyrim for Some Reason

Just because you can do something, that doesn’t necessarily mean you should. That didn’t stop Steam user DJSuperGenius from adding Pocket Monsters to The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim The mod’s description might explain better. No, wait, strike that. Nothing can explain this. Pokémon? In Skyrim? Yes, you read that correctly. You now can Battle Pokemon,…

Professor Sycamore Introduces Five New Pokemon And More For X And Y

Who are those five Pokemon? Let’s ask Professor Augustine Sycamore, the latest in a long line of tree-named Professors, making his debut in Pokemon X and Pokemon Y this October. Hit the jump for new gym leaders, Team Flare, and an all-new gameplay vid. He speaks for the trees, the good Professor Sycamore, the mentor…

The Smelliest, Stickiest Pokémon Food Money Can Buy

In Japanese supermarkets, it’s not uncommon to see Pokémon branded food. Usually, it’s regular food, but with a Pocket Monster label slapped on it. There’s one Pokémon food, however, that currently stands out. And boy, it stinks. This is Pokémon branded nattou. Nattou (納豆) is made from fermented beans. It’s a slimy food that, if…

The Original Starter Pokemon, Bickering Over Being Chosen

If (most) Pokemon could talk, I imagine that the start of all games would go down a little like this video by Shippiddge. Lobbying, arguing, childish fights, silliness—all so that you’ll pick one specific Pokemon over the other one. Charmander all the way, FYI. I’m a fire Pokemon kind of woman. The rock gym is…