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Pokémon Players Branded Cheaters Over Paperwork Mistake
Several competitors at a European Pokémon tournament earlier this month say they were penalized by show organizers for making innocent mistakes that were flagged during an effort to round up cheaters. The players say that tournament organizers used team sheets, documents normally used as a reference for commentators, to assess the legitimacy of players’ teams…
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CulturePlush Pokémon Should Not Be $80 And Make Me Cry
I offer a picture of me during happier times, before my new best friend Popplio and I took a trip to the Toys’R’Us price scanner. We first met at the toy store on Saturday evening, as I was hunting for Christmas gifts that could survive more than an hour of play with two five-year-olds without…
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3D Printed Case Makes Your Smartphone More Like A Game Boy
Reddit user Gabbelago likes to play games on their smartphone, so they decided to 3D print a case for it that had buttons. The resulting prototype is both practical and elegant. Gabbelago documented the project, titled “EmuCase,” in a series of images uploaded to Imgur yesterday evening “As to if it was designed for Pokemon,…
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Snacktaku Drinks Starbucks’ Pokémon Go Frappuccino
Live from New York, it’s Snacktaku, featuring special guest Cecilia D’Anastasio. Watch us drink Starbucks’ Pokémon Go marketing tie-in as we ponder whether or not they skinned the Pokémon before grinding them up. The video below was filmed in front of a very small studio audience at Kotaku headquarters in New York City, and was…
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Team Skull Are The Best Villains In Any Pokémon Game
Team Skull are rapscallions who wear all black and adorn themselves with skulls. When I started Sun and Moon, I looked forward to kicking their asses repeatedly. But as the game goes on I realized that actually, Team Skull are the best characters in the entire game. The goals of Team Skull are kinda vague.…
By Gita Jackson
