Pokémon

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…

Player Uses A Pokémon Red Glitch To Quickly Beat Completely Different Game

Fun fact: the Game Boy Color’s memory doesn’t disappear when you turn it off. Players are taking advantage of this quirk in 2016, and using it to bend and break games in entirely new ways. MrCheeze recently uploaded a video showcasing what’s being called a “new kind of credits warp.” You might know the credit…

Some Pokémon Sun and Moon Fans Don’t Believe Hau Is The Real Rival

Hau is a nice, cheerful boy. He gives you presents. When defeated in battle, he is gracious, and tells you that he had fun. Nothing about Hau seems competitive, which might explain why Pokémon players keep theorizing that he’s not your real rival in Sun and Moon at all. Historically, Pokémon fans associate the word…

What You Need To Know About Pokémon  Sun and Moon’s First Global Event

Game Freak have issued a challenge to all Pokémon  Sun and Moon players: catch 100,000,000 critters before December 13th. If you pitch in, there’s something good in it for you. Sun and Moon make use of a mechanic known as “global events,” which are limited-time festivities where players try to meet a collective goal. Here’s…

Pokémon Go’s New Tracking System Still Bad For Rural Players

Pokémon Go will not stop fumbling its tracking system. With each new update has come a slew of problems so damning that it’s a wonder people are still out there, tracking the little beasts with their phones. Last week, Niantic expanded Pokémon Go’s newly-updated “Nearby” feature to areas outside of San Francisco, where the company…

Pokémon Sun And Moon Player Beats Elite Four With Just A Magikarp

It’s an accepted fact that Magikarp is a useless Pokémon until you evolve them into Gyrados. But one player managed to beat Sun and Moon Elite Four with nothing but the flailing fish. How did Japanese twitter user Nanako_Official accomplish this feat? Patience, grinding and a deep knowledge of Pokémon mechanics. While the Magikarp was…

Pokémon Sun and Moon Hide A Big Secret In The Poke Pelago Mini Game

Anyone who has played Pokémon Sun and Moon has probably visited that secluded collection of islands known as Poke Pelago. You can send your monsters to Poke Pelago to train, find items, and just chill out. Poke Pelago is also the place that quietly ties the entire story in Sun and Moon together. Maybe you…

The Theory That Connects A Banned Pokémon Episode And Scary Mimikyu 

As Kotaku previously reported, Mimikyu is terrifying in the new Pokémon Sun Moon anime. But, we thought Mimikyu was so cute! The hell is going on? Japanese fans think they’ve figured it out. Note: This article has Sun and Moon game spoilers. When Mimikyu shows up in the new Pokémon Sun Moon anime, the character…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Watch Pokémon

What will happen when Pokémon discover how to hack our Roombas, our security systems, or the means of production? Why would these adorable little pocket monsters even try to? Perhaps this week’s Photoshop contest can shed some light on the matter. Update 11/25/16 — We’ve got just inside of 24 hours to see how much…

Mimikyu Is Terrifying In The Pokémon Sun and Moon Anime

Fans felt sympathy for Mimikyu in Pokémon Sun and Moon because of a tragic backstory which claims that it dresses up in Pikachu rags because it, too, wants to be loved like the icon. That’s NOT how Mimikyu feels in the anime, though. The latest episode of the Pokémon anime aired in Japan recently, and…

Work Better With Meowth From Pokémon

If you spend lots of time working on the computer, you might wish you had a cushion for your wrists. You might wish you had this. This Meowth computer cushion is designed for desk work, hopefully improving posture and helping to reduce wrist strain. Or maybe you can put Meowth to work. Like so. Type,…

Smash Bros. Mod Adds Playable Pokémon Sun and Moon Characters

Much of Sun and Moon is spent with Lillie bemoaning that she’s not strong enough to be a trainer. Yet here she is, kickin’ literal butt with the help of a little cutie called Cosmog. Over at modding community GameBanana, SunSpirit has uploaded a skin that replaces the standard Rosalina model with Lillie, of the…