Pokémon

Popular Pokémon Fan Game Creation Tool Disappears After Nintendo Cracks Down

Pokémon Essentials, a robust resource for making Pokémon fan games, has been removed from the internet following a takedown notice from Nintendo. Losing this resource is a harsh setback for would-be makers of Pokémon fan games. Essentials takes the form of a file that works with the PC build-your-own-RPG game RPG Maker XP. But rather…

Twitch Will Stream Months-Long Pokemon Marathon Starting Next Week

Over the next several months Twitch will stream the first 932 episodes of the Pokemon anime series, as well as every movie. The livestream will begin August 27 and last into 2019, the company announced today, making it not only the longest TV-like marathon Twitch done to date but also a perfect test of the…

Ride Tokyo’s Pokémon Trains For A Limited Time

Starting this past Sunday, special Let’s Go, Pikachu! and Let’s Go, Eevee! Tokyo Metro trains have been making commutes more enjoyable. Pokémon plastered trains are running on both the Tokyo Metro Ginza Line and the Marunouchi Line. Ride ‘em while you can!

The Japanese Voice Of Pokémon‘s Professor Oak Has Died

Voice actor Unsho Ishizuka, who voiced Professor Oak and narrated the Pokémon anime in Japanese, has died. Ishizuka has been voicing Professor Oak and narrating the Pokémon TV anime since the show debuted in Japan in 1997. He also voiced some Pocket Monsters, including Onix and Steelix. Besides his Pokémon anime work, Ishizuka also voiced…

Unopened Box Of 1999 Pokémon Cards Sells For $56,000

An original, unopened box of 1999 First Edition Pokémon cards has sold at auction in the US for the staggering price of $56,000. Via Kotaku AU, Huggins & Scott Auctions sold the box last week, with bidding opening at $20,000. There’s a reason for the steep price that goes beyond nostalgia: pristine Charizard holo cards…

Pikachu Rave Held In Japan 

Every summer, Yokohama is overrun by people wearing Pikachu costumes. In year’s past, they’ve marched and danced. They did that this year. But that’s not all. For the first time, there were electro dancing Pikachus. With a rainbow afro Pikachu Called Pokémon Synchronicity, the event runs until August 16 The stage show looks especially nuts…

Venusaur’s Legs Are Freaking People Out 

Venusaur has been around since Pokémon Red and Blue. Yet, the latest footage from Pokémon: Let’s Go, Pikachu and Eevee! gives a very good look at how the character gets around. It’s freaking some people out! Have a look for yourself Its legs don’t look that strange in motion but look closely… See? They’re very…

Pokémon The Movie: The Power Of Us is an upcoming Pokémon movie starring Ash and Pikachu that’s heading to theaters for four days only. On November 24, 26 and 28 and December 1 you’ll be able to watch Ash and his buds visit a island town and summon a Lugia. If you want to find…

Unlike in Pokémon, Digimon Humans Keep Aging

In the Pokémon anime, Ash is ten years old. Eternally. But in the Digimon anime, the human characters are getting older. The upcoming Digimon movie, which marks the franchise’s 20th anniversary, stars a 22-year-old Taichi (“Tai”) and Yamato (“Matt”) When the anime started, both characters were boys and now, years later, they’re adults The fact…

Amateur Developer Says Adding Dragon Ball Z To Pokémon Helped Make Him A Better Person

Last week, a 22-year-old Frenchman who goes by the online name Z-Mack released the seventh major update to Dragon Ball Z: Team Training, a hack of an old Pokémon game where you can catch all of your favorite characters from Dragon Ball Z and have them fight against each other in the Pokémon world. Dragon…

Alleged Stalker Claimed He Was Just Playing Pokémon Go

A 51-year-old man in Kobe has been arrested for allegedly violating Japan’s stalking law. The suspect, however, said he wasn’t stalking a 33-year-old woman, but just playing Pokémon Go near her house. “I was playing Pokémon Go and just passed in front of her house,” the suspect, who works at a Kobe school, is quoted…

Report: The Next Pokémon Movie Sounds Like A Reboot Of Mewtwo Strikes Back

Back in 1998, the debut Pokémon flick premiered in Japan. That feature film’s full name is Pocket Monsters the Movie: Mewtwo Strikes Back. Today in Japan, this year’s Pokémon summer movie opened in Japan and reportedly had a preview for next year’s, Mewtwo Strikes Back Evolution Clips of the trailer haven’t yet been uploaded online and…

Not Even Pikachu And Eevee Can Pull Off Bangs

In the newest teaser trailer of Let’s Go Pikachu and Let’s Go Eevee, it was revealed that you can now give Pikachu and Eevee different haircuts. They unfortunately include blunt bangs. Eevee and Pikachu seem to be really loving it, but I am NOT. While I’d like to think of Pokémon as hair trendsetters, they’re…

This Year’s Banned Pokémon Anime Episode

Earlier this spring, the 64th episode of the Sun & Moon anime aired in Japan. Since then, the episode’s English dub has not been broadcasted in the U.S. Rather, it was skipped entirely. As Bulbapedia and Gamerant (via Yurukuyaru) explain, Ash dresses up like a Passimian in the episode. However, it’s not merely that he…

All 151 Original Pokémon Are Getting New Plush Toys In Japan

This month, a bunch of plush toys based on the first gen Pokémon plushies will go on sale. Later this fall, even more will. According to the official Pokémon site, thirty plush toys of Generation 1 Pokémon will be released this month at Pokémon Center shops in Japan. The second round will feature another 121…

Tomorrow, a new Pokémon Happy Meal will be released in Japan. Here’s a look at the toys that will be included and how they work.

Finally Appreciating Pokémon Snap

Video game fans can be an entitled bunch. When they latch onto a popular series or genre it isn’t long before they begin demanding the next iteration meet certain criteria and levels of excellence. But game companies don’t always give fans what they want, and many times the most invested players can have a difficult…

Gamers from the Class of 2018 Graduated in Style With These Graduation Caps

The practice of decorating graduation caps is often seen as a rite of passage for incoming graduates of colleges and (now, increasingly) high schools. Students often spend months contemplating what they will include on their graduation caps, which on graduation day. This year, many chose to adorn their caps with inspiring quotes, memes, and song…

Pokémon-flavored mobile game Pokémon Quest arrives on iOS today. When I played it on the Switch, I said that if it were on phones I’d play it all the time. Now to put that theory to the test.

Father And Grown Son Arrested After Pokémon Go Fight 

A 71-year-old man and his adult son were arrested for allegedly assaulting another player they claimed had stolen their Gym and threw a Gatorade bottle at their car. The father, Robert Matteuzzi, tracked down the man and then allegedly chucked back the Gatorade bottle, hitting him in the face. All three men reportedly got in…