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Pokémon Black 2, Pokémon White 2 Coming This Summer

As promised, Junichi Masuda, the director of Pokemon Black and White appeared on Japanese TV show Pokémon Sunday today to announce the next entries in the Pokémon series. They are Pokémon Black 2 and Pokémon White 2 The games are scheduled to release in June for Nintendo DS systems, in Japan. DSi and 3DS players…

By Owen Good Published February 25, 2012

Pokémon Director Teases New Game Announcement This Weekend

News of the next Pokémon game could come as soon as this Sunday. Junichi Masuda, one of the original minds behind the popular role-playing game series and the director of Pokémon Black and White, the series’ most recent entries, will appear on TV Tokyo’s Pokémon Smash Sunday morning to make “a very important announcement,” he…

By Jason Schreier Published February 24, 2012

This Pokémon Rap Is Hot Like Charmander

I know. You’re skeptical. “Another Pokémon rap? This is going to be terrible,” you’re thinking. But this video, released yesterday by game TV channel The Game Station, is surprisingly awesome. (Except for that last line about masturbation. That part is super-awkward.) It’s worth watching, if only so you can go up to people and say…

By Jason Schreier Published February 22, 2012

Pokémon Company Responds to Fake iPhone Pokémon Game

In the wake of a rather high-profile App Store scam involving a Pokémon game (or at least its title screen), the Pokémon Company has issued a statement saying it’s on the hunt for the bad guys. “We continue to combat the unauthorised release of games, applications and merchandise that trick our fans into purchasing something…

By Luke Plunkett Published February 22, 2012

The iPhone’s Pokémon is Gone. Here’s How to Get Your Money Back.

Despite the fact we warned you, the lure of playing Pokémon Yellow on an iPhone proved too much for many, who sent the scam to second spot on Apple’s App Store charts Well, it’s gone now. And thousands of people paid $0.99 for something that shows a title screen and then crashes. If that’s you,…

By Luke Plunkett Published February 20, 2012

The Dorkly Weekly: The Horrible Fate of the Leftover Pokémon

The folks at Dorkly pride themselves on the ability to solve gaming’s great unsolved mysteries. For example, if Ash chooses Charmander and Gary chooses Squirtle, what happens to Bulbasaur? Oh. Oh. That happens to Bulbasaur. I always suspected, but I guess I didn’t really want to know. At least it’s not animal cruelty; Bulbasaur is…

By Mike Fahey Published February 20, 2012

Bogus Pokémon Yellow Game Is Now Number Two on the Apple App Store

Early this morning, we wrote about the surprise appearance of a Pokémon game on Apple’s iOS storefront. Y’know, the one that’s apparently a broken scam? Despite that, developer QEAB’s Pokemon Yellow is sitting at #2 on the App Store’s Paid Apps chart, right behind the fully-functional and actually-pretty-good Grand Theft Auto III When downloaded on…

By Evan Narcisse Published February 20, 2012

Can You Catch All the Puns in This Adorable Pokémon Love Song?

“I wrote a love song using only Pokémon puns,” reads the Reddit entry for YouTube user HelloIamDanica’s pocket monster-stuffed ukulele ballad. There are several words in that sentence I would normally avoid, but her music has moved me, and I think it could move Mewtwo. Oh god, it’s infectious! Sure it’s incredibly corny, but there’s…

By Mike Fahey Published February 20, 2012

Kotaku East

Weirdo Pikachus in Tokyo, Taking Trains and Eating Burgers

Tokyo is pretty normal. Though, sometimes, there’s the occasional oddness. In year’s past, people would simply mutter to themselves, “Boy that was strange.” Now they take photos and paste them on the internet. Progress! This weekend, a group of individual dressed as Pikachu, along with a sole Ash cosplayer, took to the Tokyo streets, popping…

By Brian Ashcraft Published February 20, 2012

Pokémon on iTunes. Hello Scam!

While Pocket Monsters company GameFreak brought its monsters to iTunes last summer with Pokémon Say Tap?, this is not that app. Rather, this app is from “The House of Anime” and Daniel Burford. The hell? A quick iTunes search shows that this is the same outfit responsible for app versions of Digimon and Yu-Gi-Oh, including…

By Brian Ashcraft Published February 20, 2012

The Quality of Life in Virtual Worlds

They say that in life, nothing is certain but death and taxes. The cost of living in the real world seems to get harder each year as prices go up and the rich get richer. We, the little people, just have to deal with it. Virtual worlds don’t have troubles like ours, though. Sure, they…

Patrick Davidson Published February 20, 2012

What Pokémon Would Look Like as Classic Disney Characters

Canadian artist Beth Turnsek is the one to thank for these amazing Pokémon images which reimagine the Japanese series in her own charming style, which resembles classic animated films. What’s cool about this series is that she’s gone through and drawn her favourite pocket monster from each variety, so you’ll find a single Earth Pokémon,…

By Luke Plunkett Published February 10, 2012

Turns Out Pokémon‘s Diglett is a Cthuloid Hell-Monster

Ignorance is bliss—an adage worth keeping in mind for any Pokémon trainer. If you’ve subdued, captured, and are now deploying a faithful Diglett, just don’t ask questions. Picture its subterranean sections being identical to the cute upper-torso you see sprouting above the earth so cutely. Of course, for you trainers who simply cannot bear to…

By Pierre Bienaimé Published February 9, 2012

It’s Dangerous Out There. Catch One of These.

A popular Zelda meme gets reworked for Pocket Monsters Wait! [Guilty Filthy Soul]

By Brian Ashcraft Published February 8, 2012

Truly Nerdy Snow Sculptures

The Taj Mahal built in snow? Aizuwakamatsu Castle? Taiwan’s National Palace Museum in ice? Meh! (Okay, all these are pretty cool, but stick with me.) The Sapporo Snow Festival isn’t only frozen famous landmarks, it also showcases some of the geekiest snow sculptures on Earth. When statues aren’t falling on visitors—a rare occurrence—the Sapporo Snow…

By Brian Ashcraft Published February 8, 2012

Is This the Most Daring Pokémon Rip-Off Japan Has Seen?

In years past, whenever Pokémon knock-offs appeared in other countries, Japanese netizens would post them online to laugh and point. This time, it’s not a foreign rip-off. It’s homegrown. Dubbed Pokedan Monsters (yes, really), the social game features over 1,000 monsters, monster rearing, and monster battles. Sound familiar? If the title was not enough, the…

By Brian Ashcraft Published February 1, 2012

Yes, More footage of the Bootleg Pokémon Fighting Game!

Remember Pokémon: Type Wild, the fan-made fighting game that took Pocket Monsters and made a 2D fighter for them? Here’s some more gameplay footage. This looks…well, it looks amazing. I would not expect an actual Nintendo product to look this slick. The game isn’t quite finished, but it is playable, so if you want to…

By Luke Plunkett Published February 1, 2012

The Most Popular Pokémon of All Time Goes Black and White Next Month

Pikachu is cute and all, but when it comes to battling Pokémon it doesn’t get much better than Mewtwo. Players of Pokémon Black and White can witness this power first-hand starting February 12. Starting February 12 Pokémon Black and White players with access to a wireless connection will be able to download Mewtwo for a…

By Mike Fahey Published January 26, 2012

A Very Pokémon Marriage Proposal

The text is a little corny, sure, but the overall presentation was surely super effective. Diamond [California, Here We Come, via Fashionably Geek]

By Luke Plunkett Published January 25, 2012

These Real PokéBalls Will Set Your Hands On Fire

Aussie artist Barry Wazzy, who floored us with his photoshopped PokéBalls earlier in the month, is flooring us again this week with another helping. This time many of the balls are themed, so for instance we’ve got a PokéBall based on The Dark Knight, one on Harry Potter and another on Dragonball Z! wazzy88 [DeviantArt,…

By Luke Plunkett Published January 25, 2012