Pokémon

Plush 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…

The New Pokémon Animated Movie Looks Like A Reboot

Next year marks the 20th anniversary of Pokémon anime. And next summer’s big Pokémon movie looks like it will celebrate that milestone by going back to the beginning. The first Pokémon TV anime aired in Japan in 1997, and the following year, the first feature hit theaters. To date, there have been nineteen Pokémon animated…

Pokémon Go‘s New Update Just Isn’t Enough

Pokémon Go’s latest update isn’t what players were expecting. For weeks, fans hoped for a whole batch of 2nd generation Pokémon—bright, adorable Chikoritas or Espeons, and over 90 more little monsters. Or, at least, a few new Pokémon that players could encounter in the wild. Nope. No. Nope. Yesterday, Pokémon Go released seven new “baby”…

The First Global Mission For Pokémon Sun and Moon Was A Failure

The goal was for players around the world to catch 100 million Pokémon in Sun and Moon. They missed that mark by a lot. Thefirst global mission kicked off on November 29 and ended on December 12. Here’s how the English language Pokémon page portrayed it: Just missed! So you’d think they caught like 85…

Nurse Joy & Officer Jenny, Just Chillin’

This is Pokemon’s Nurse Joy (Aline) and Officer Jenny (Odinia). Photos by Pedro G Fuentes

How To Get Pokémon Go’s New Baby Pokémon

Pokémon Go today rolled out at least seven new baby Pokémon, which spawn from eggs. All day, players have been dutifully hatching the new little guys from two, five and ten-kilometer eggs. It’s tiers below players’ hopes for an entire second generation, but hey, at this point, they take what they can get. Here’s how…

Pokémon Go Gets New Egg Monsters Starting Today

New Pokémon have finally come to Pokémon Go, Niantic announced today. Players can now hatch Pichu, Togepi and other previously unavailable Gen II Pokémon from eggs. The mobile game initially launched with most of the original 151 Pokémon. However, players could not catch Mewtwo, Mew, Articuno, Zapdos, Moltres and Ditto, who recently became available last…

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,…

Pokémon Go Bug Is Turning Buddy Monsters Into Giants

Pokémon games tend to scale monsters down, so you don’t get a good sense of a creature’s true size (according to the lore.) A recent glitch within Pokémon Go presents the opposite problem: it is making Pokémon ENORMOUS. The glitch, which allegedly appears only to buddy Pokémon, makes monsters appear as big as the map itself.…

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…

Pokémon Fans Will Improve The Trashcan That Is Wonder Trade For Christmas

They say you never know what you’re going to get when you put up a monster for a blind trade within Wonder Trade, but let’s be real, nine times out of ten, you’ll be sent low-level garbage. For the holiday season, benevolent Pokémon fans want to make sure Wonder Trade ups its game, though. All…

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.…

Pokémon Go Makes Sending Monsters To The Meat Grinder Easier

Pokémon Go’s much-requested “mass transfer” feature is dropping shortly. Players can now “transfer” Pokémon to Professor Willow in batches. So you won’t be sending your little pocket monsters to the meat grinder one by one anymore. Seriously, where did you think “Pokémon candy” even came from? To do this, press and hold a Pokémon. The…

Brutal Pokémon Sun and Moon Hack Makes The Game Way Harder

Pokémon Sun and Moon are among hardest games in franchise, meaning that for some, fainting is a real danger. Others, however, don’t think the challenge is enough. Enter ROM hacks. GTA Temp user Kobazco has developed an edit of Pokémon Sun and Moon that amps the difficulty nearly to the extreme.Dubbed Pokémon Rising Sun and…

Pokémon Sun and Moon Players Find Cut Walking Feature That Fans Have Wanted For Years

For years, Pokémon fans have begged developers Game Freak to let monsters follow the player around in the overworld, as Heart Gold and Soul Silver once did. Well, it looks like that feature is actually contained within the files of Pokémon Sun and Moon. Hacker @KazoWAR discovered the latest Pokémon games hide something very interesting:…

Rural And Urban Pokémon Go Players Are Playing Different Games

Pokémon Go’s latest tracking update did not please everyone. Urban and rural players have access one of two Pokémon tracking features, but neither has both—what players say is the ideal solution. Fans have some theories why. Players near PokéStops can only trackPokémon around those PokéStops with the “Nearby” feature, which players far from PokéStops cannot…

How To Use Pokémon Go’s Latest Tracker

After months of testing, Pokémon Go’s new tracker is finally available. And calling its reception “controversial” would be an understatement—but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t work! Complaints are so ubiquitous that moderators on the mobile game’s subreddit are forced to delete them. Many think the new tracker, which launched yesterday, is confusing because the “Sightings”…

The New Pokémon Anime Masters The Art Of Silly Faces 

Pokémon Sun Moon is a silly TV show, but some of the facial expressions it has been unloading are nothing short of art Online in Japan, some people are calling the new Sun Moon show a “kaogei anime” (顔芸アニメ), which means being skilled at making silly faces. It’s often used in Japanese comedy, with some…

The recent changes made to Pokémon Go’s ‘Nearby’ feature, originally only live in certain areas of the US, Canada and Australia, are now rolling out to “the rest of the continental United States and large parts of Europe”.

Pokémon Sun and Moon Have An Incredible Elite Four Rematch Battle

Once you beat the Elite Four in Pokémon Sun and Moon, you can go back and defend the championship against new challengers. Some opponents, you can probably guess. But there’s one Elite Four challenger in particular that is completely unexpected. (SPOILERS AHEAD!) The very first trainer that you meet on your journey through Alola is…