Pokémon

Website Says Nintendo Threat Forced Them To Pull Hundreds Of Fan Games [UPDATE]

In a mass filing under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), Nintendo has apparently flagged over 550 titles for takedown. Focusing on the site Game Jolt, a notice said to come from Nintendo listed a total of 562 titles for removal from the site. The majority of these titles were fan made tributes or independent…

“Its super effective!”, by Guerrilla Games artist Luc de Haan.

Ash From Pokémon Is Insanely Strong

Okay, so Ashis a big loser as a Pokémon Trainer. But damn, that kid is a physical marvel. The perpetual ten year-old has showed off his muscle power in the Pokémon anime several time In the above photo, for example, you can see him hold up Fletchinder with one arm. Fletchinder weighs 16 kilograms (35…

Guy Pulls Off Pokémon Permadeath Run Only Using A Rattata

Rattata are found near the start of Pokémon games for a reason: they’re not very good fighters. Eventually, most players cycle out a Rattata on their team for something bigger, better, stronger. Not this particular Pokémon fan, though. Pokémon Challenges is a Twitch channel chronicling one German player’s grueling adventures. Earlier this year, the channel…

Pokémon Go Spawn Rates In One Convenient Fan Chart

One of Pokémon Go’s many, many mysteries is Pokémon spawn rates. What’s the chance that a Bulbasaur will appear in yonder bushes? How often will I encounter Mr. Mime? (Spoiler: .0031% of the time). This morning, Pokémon Go Hub published a Pokémon Go spawn rate chart using over 100 million data points from Poké Radar’s…

Another Pokémon Go Death Reported In Japan

In the Japanese city of Kasugai, a 29-year-old woman was fatally hit by a car as she crossed the street on her bicycle. The driver had been playing Pokémon Go. This is the second report this week of a Pokémon Go player allegedly hitting and killing a pedestrian. On Wednesday, Kotaku reported that two women…

Show Us Your Best Pokémon Go Appraisals

This week’s new update to Pokémon Go allows you to ask the game’s team leaders to appraise your Pokémon. A useful feature? We’re not sure. It has led to a lot of penis jokes–so many that that the game’s main subreddit is banning those jokes! Anyway…get any good, bad or funny appraisals? Share them in…

Woman Killed By Pokémon Go Driver

Last night at around 7:25pm in the Japanese city Tokushima, two women were hit while crossing the street, fatally injuring one of them. The driver, 39 year-old Keiji Goh, admitted he wasn’t watching the road ahead, because he was playing Pokémon Go According to ANN, one of the women, 72 year-old Sachiko Nakanishi, was transported…

Pokémon Go Stampedes in Taiwan 

Damn. This is not scene from a disaster movie. These are apparently Pokémon Go players in Taiwan. The above and below images come via Taiwan’s Eastern Broadcasting Company. They are incredible. As startling as they are, wait until you see one of these stampedes in motion. As Time and That’s Mag points out, the above…

Pokémon Go team leader cosplay by Maki Roll’s Chop Shop, Lua Suicide & Byndo Gehk. Photo by Henry Riggs

Pokémon Go’s Team Leaders Now Actually Do Something

Pokémon Go’s Team Leadershaven’t been doing much leading thus far. That’s about to change, with the game’s latest update introducing something called “Implemented Pokémon Appraisal”. Now, every time you go into battle at a gym, Candela or Blanche will tell you about your opponent’s attack and defence capabilities, and will recommend which of your Pokémon…

Those are some tasty-lookin’ Pokémon burgers. They’re from Down N’ Out burgers in Sydney (via Kotaku AU).

Designing A Better Pokémon Go

Like many of us, Wendy Borg has a few issues with Pokémon Go’s user interface and menu design. Unlike us, she went ahead and did something about it. A professional UI/UX designer, she’s gone in and redesigned almost the entire game (on paper), adding functionality where it’s needed, cleaning things up and just generally making…

These Are Your 2016 Pokémon World Champions

Each year the very best Pokémon video and trading card game players meet at the World Championships to determine who the top trainers are, and each year the Masters (oldest) Division looks really awkward on stage. This year did not disappoint. I am so used to working on the weekends that I completely missed this…

Giant Snorlax Cushions Are A Bad Idea

Make that, owning a giant Snorlax cushion is a terrible notion. The concept of them is fine. The reality is not. As Kotaku previously posted, Bandai Namco is releasing a huge Snorlax cushion that measures 130cm (4.2 feet) across and 150cm (4.9 feet) tall. It seems like a good idea. And hey, what’s 52,000 yen…

Pokémon Go Player Tries Getting A Million XP In A Day, Gets Treated Like Cheater

As far as Pokémon Go is concerned, only cheaters should be able to get massive amounts of XP in a short amount of time. Well, about that… Jimmy Derocher is a hardcore Pokémon Go player who has spent the last couple of weeks devising an ingenious plan to accrue as much XP as humanly possible.…

The New Sandcastle Pokémon Is Terrifying

It is 2016 and official Pokémon art now depicts Pikachu DYING. What a time to be alive (or not, in this case!) We’d already heard that Pokémon Sun and Moon would include a haunted sandcastle Pokémon, but today The Pokémon Company unveiled footage showing the critter in action: The official Pokémon website also updated with…

Game Freak’s Latest Non-Pokémon Joint Is This Odd Early Access Puzzle Platformer 

Releasedyesterday via Steam’s Early Access program, Giga Wrecker is a messy little puzzle platforming game with messy dialogue, questionable physics and some strange design decisions. Other than all that, it shows promise. Every once in a while the folks at Game Freak, known primarily for those pocket monsters, likes to flex its creative muscle and…

The Internet Reacts To Pokémon‘s Biggest Loser

Last night’s episode of Pokémon XYZ sure is good at eliciting opinions from the internet. [Note: The article has spoilers] As Kotaku first reported, Ash just competed to win the Kalos League in the most recent Pokémon XYZ episode. In nearly two decades, this was his best chance to win his first official league championship.…

Ash From Pokémon Just Had The Battle Of His Life  

In the latest episode of Pokémon XYZ, Ash faced off against Alain for the Kalos League Championship. Since Ash has been doing so well this season and since he’s become somewhat of a cooler character, victory seemed possible. [Note: This article has spoilers] This was Ash’s big chanceto win an official Pokémon League. Here is…