Pokémon

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…

Pokémon Go Will Finally Get A ‘Friends’ Feature And Trading

Two years after release, publisher Niantic finally announced that trading and friends lists will be coming to Pokémon Go. It’s a feature players sorely missed from the main Pokémon series, which has traditionally let two players exchange Pokémon. Back in July, 2016, Niantic CEO John Hanke told Business Insider that “it’s kind of a core element.”…

Pikachu and friends want the World Expo to come to Osaka in 2025. Here is the concept video pitch for Osaka’s bid to host the expo.

Pokémon Art Made From Rubik’s Cubes

To make this Pokémon art, you need lots and lots of Rubik’s Cubes. I mean, lots. Twitter user Epee bought a whole bunch of Rubik’s Cubes to make these creations But look at what you can do with them Each one took about 900 Rubik’s Cubes to complete. This one, however, needed around one thousand…

K-pop Superstar Dresses Up As Squirtle To Check Out Fans’ Birthday Wishes

JR from the Korean boy group Nu’est recently had a birthday. According to SBS, fans rented out subway billboards with birthday wishes. JR wanted to go see the ads for himself and dressed up as Squirtle as he ventured out in public. Below are images of JR, apparently dressed as Squirtle, checking out the birthday…

Japan Now Has Pokémon Vending Machines

Japan loves Pokémon, and it loves vending machines. It was only a matter of time before they merged. Behold, the Pokémon Stand. These vending machines sell Pokémon Center merchandise and are located at Narita Airport, Aqua City Odaiba, Ebina service area in Kanagawa and Ashigara service area in Shizuoka. As you can see in these images…

The Pokémon Anime Just Referenced Pop Team Epic, It Seems

The latest episode of the Pokémon Sun Moon anime was something else! It featured a couple different goofy expressions, one of which looked straight out of Pop Team Epic This has to be on purpose. See? Ha! Fitting because Pop Team Epic previously referenced Pokémon Kotaku East is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing…

Here’s a small Pikachu voice recognition toy that will look in your direction and babble “Pika Pika.” According to Takara Tomy’s YouTube description, everyone from small kids to foreigners can play with it. No word of an international release.

One Unused Pokémon Concept Was Just A Gun

There’s still a lot to sort through in the big leak of a demo for Pokémon Gold and Silver from yesterday. But let’s talk about this early version of Remoraid, who used to look like a gun. In the release version of Gold and Silver, Remoraid is basically just a fish. Remoraid evolves into Octillery,…

The Internet Reacts To Those Unused Pokémon Designs

Nintendo recently announced two new Pokémon games coming to Switch later this year and one that’s out now called Pokémon Quest. There’s also a bigger Pokémon RPG coming in 2019. The real news this week though is that there actually used to be a ton of weird and adorable Pokémon that were planned for Pokémon…