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Kotaku East
Ash In The New Pokémon Anime Is A Wimp
Not only does the new anime Ash look different, he’s also a weakling! Or, better yet, he now has normal ten-year old kid strength. Because in the past, Ash has lifted enormously heavy Pocket Monsters (and other objects) with ease. Remember this? The kid is carrying a tree trunk like it’s nothing and then THROWING…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 6, 2017 -
Pokémon Based On Inanimate Objects, Ranked
Some people will tell you that the worst Pokémon designs are the ones based on real-world items, rather than animals. Those people are wrong. Actually, some of the best creatures in the pocket monster roster are ones based on inanimate objects. The thing about inanimate object Pokémon is, you can tell Game Freak actually has…
By Patricia Hernandez Published January 4, 2017 -
The Adorable Story Of How Pokémon Go Helped Rescue A Kitten
On a particularly hot day last summer, Imgur poster Joelalmeidaptg was walking down the street playing Pokémon Go when they heard a kitten crying for help from behind a nearby electrical post. Months later, the cat, named Spock, is thriving in its new home thanks to an unlikely string of events. According to Joelalmeidaptg’s account,…
By Ethan Gach Published December 31, 2016 -
EsportsNebby Gets Out of The Bag, Destroys A Pokémon Team
The only two moves that Cosmog can learn are Splash and Teleport. Surely, then, a Cosmog would be useless in a Pokémon battle? Not necessarily! PIMPNITE was challenged by YouTube fans to set up a “sweep” with Cosmog, meaning, a battle in which Cosmog takes out the entire enemy team. Nobody really thought it was possible—the…
By Patricia Hernandez Published December 30, 2016 -
Pirates Leak Pokémon Prism After Nintendo Shuts It Down
Pokémon Prism is a fan-made ROM hack for Pokémon Crystal. Over the course of eight years, creator Koolboyman and his team crafted a new Pokémon experience, which they hoped to release this Christmas. Nintendo hit them with a cease and desistfour days before release. Thanks to a group of pirates, the project still made it…
By Heather Alexandra Published December 29, 2016 -
You Can Now Play Pokémon Go On An Apple Watch—But Not Catch Pokémon
Viral rat-hunting mobile game Pokémon Go is now on the Apple Watch. Starting today, you can find rats, some of which now have Christmas hats, on your $270 wrist-bound iPhone. Fans expected Niantic to release an associated Pokémon Go app closer to September, or at least, before the end of the year. A rumorrecently spread…
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published December 22, 2016 -
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…
By Gita Jackson Published December 21, 2016 -
Another Pokémon Fan Game Says Nintendo Shut Them Down
The creator of Pokémon Prism, afan made hack for Pokémon Crystal that was due to release on Christmas, says he’s received a cease-and-desist from Nintendo and will have to shut down the project for good. On Twitter early this morning, Pokémon Prism creator Koolboyman broke the news and shared a copy of the letter he…
By Heather Alexandra Published December 21, 2016 -
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…
By Mike Fahey Published December 19, 2016 -
Kotaku EastThe 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…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 16, 2016 -
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”…
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published December 13, 2016 -
Kotaku East
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…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 13, 2016 -
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…
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published December 12, 2016 -
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…
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published December 12, 2016 -
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,…
By Ethan Gach Published December 10, 2016 -
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.…
By Patricia Hernandez Published December 10, 2016 -
Culture
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…
By Mike Fahey Published December 9, 2016 -
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…
By Patricia Hernandez Published December 8, 2016
