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This Hisuian Growlithe Card is Peak Pokémon TCG Storytelling
15.3.2024
One of the coolest things The Pokémon Company sometimes does in its trading card game is make multiple cards whose images tell a story. It’s happened several times over the years, such as a set of Tepig, Pignite, and Emboar cards showing a Pokémon growing up alongside its family, or a Quaxly...
An Ode To Pokémon’s Ash Ketchum
5.9.2023
On September 8, Ash Ketchum’s final Pokémon episodes will premiere on Netflix. After 25 years and over 1,200 episodes, the anime has retired its long-time protagonist and is moving on to new main characters Liko and Roy as they embark on a journey throughout the Pokémon world. Depending on who...
An Ode To Pokémon’s Ash Ketchum
5.9.2023
On September 8, Ash Ketchum’s final Pokémon episodes will premiere on Netflix. After 25 years and over 1,200 episodes, the anime has retired its long-time protagonist and is moving on to new main characters Liko and Roy as they embark on a journey throughout the Pokémon world. Depending on who...
Someone At The Pokémon Company Hates Regigigas, And It's Actually Hilarious
28.8.2023
Regigigas, one of the many Legendary Pokémon introduced in Generation IV, doesn’t need me to feel sorry for it. But the normal-type titan monster has been getting the short end of the stick thanks to its signature Ability Slow Start since it debuted in 2006, and I can’t help but pity the poor...
This Pokémon Quest About A Dying Man Still Has Fans Shook Years Later
19.6.2023
Pokémon games have dealt with death before, but it’s often in subtext. This goes as far back as the original Pokémon Red and Blue, as fans have long speculated that your rival Blue’s Raticate passed away after a rough battle. In recent years, mortality has become a more common theme in Pokémon...
This ‘90s Pokémon Ad Was Nightmare Fuel
15.5.2023
Over the years I’ve caught many a Pokémon memory. From my first glimpse of the poster for Pokémon: The First Movie in a movie theater as a young child, to facing the final boss of last year’s Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, my nearly lifelong experience with Game Freak’s multimedia franchise forms...
Pokémon Devs Are Working On A Mysterious New Action-Adventure Codenamed Project Bloom
9.5.2023
What in the world? Longtime Pokémon maker GameFreak just announced something completely unrelated that will be published by Take-Two’s Private Division label. Codenamed Project Bloom, it’s in early development and billed as an action adventure game and…that’s basically all we know about it.Read more
A Year Later, Pokémon Legends: Arceus’ Incomplete Story Remains The Series’ Most Compelling
8.5.2023
Are you ever playing a Pokémon game like Scarlet and Violet, happily running around the open world catching critters and having a good ol’ time, when you suddenly remember Game Freak stranded the protagonists of Pokémon Diamond and Pearl in the ancient past with no means of returning to their...
When A Beloved Pet Dies, Sometimes Pokémon Lets Us Immortalize Them
1.5.2023
I’ve played a lot of Pokémon games, but Pokémon Black and White were never really standouts to me. And yet, after over two decades of love for the monster-collecting franchise, the only tattoo I have of a Pokémon is Herdier, the normal-type “loyal dog” Pokémon that debuted in the DS games. But...
Pokémon Scarlet And Violet's First DLC Leaves Paldea, Includes New Monsters
27.2.2023
Pokémon Scarlet and Violet are getting paid DLC and the first wave of the upcoming expansion pass is coming in fall 2023. Called The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero, the new adventure is seperated into two parts and will take players beyond the existing Paldea Region as well as let them encounter...
The Best And Worst Parts Of Each Pokémon Game
7.2.2023
If you’ve played any of the Pokémon games, you know the series is a heavily iterative one. Each new game makes some notable (or not so notable) strides over the last. But while each of these games builds upon what came before, they’re also full of differentiation that gives them all their...
The Pokémon Tier List Everyone Is Waiting On For Scarlet And Violet
18.1.2023
Pokémon Scarlet and Violet are about two months old at this point, but the quest to find out which Pokémon are the very best like no one ever was is an ongoing conversation among the competitive community. Smogon, one of the biggest hubs for competitive Pokémon on the internet, has been trying...
Pokémon Fans Think This Elden Ring Mod Looks Better Than Scarlet And Violet
3.1.2023
Pokémon Scarlet and Violet is a very ugly game, a fact that has gone universally uncontested since the game came out in November. One modder solved this problem in an unusual way: by turning Pokémon into Elden Ring summons in The Lands Between.Read more
Kenneth Shepard's Top Five Games Of 2022
30.12.2022
When it comes time to write these year-end lists, I usually slim them down to my top five favorite games I played because, despite what this job entails, I usually only have passionate feelings about a handful of games by the time we reach December.Read more
In 2022 The Pokémon Franchise Finally Began To Evolve Beyond Nostalgia
21.12.2022
Pokémon is in the midst of a generational shift, and no, I don’t mean how Pokémon Scarlet and Violet just kickstarted the franchise’s ninth generation. Looking back on the monster capturing series’ last 12 months, it’s impossible to overlook the shift in how Pokémon is presenting its world...
The State Of The Nintendo Switch In 2022
20.12.2022
Pokémon saved the Switch in 2022, which was also the year that the console officially started to feel old.Read more
The Best RPGs Of 2022
14.12.2022
It was another banner year for role-playing games. Even as the genre beloved for dialogue choices, skill trees, and making the numbers go up gets slowly subsumed into every major blockbuster from Dying Light 2 to God of War Ragnarök, there were still plenty of standouts, both big and small.Read more
Welp, Pokémon Scarlet And Violet Players Found A Way To Kiss Their Monsters
28.11.2022
Pokémon Scarlet and Violet may be plagued by a bevy of technical exploits and glitches, but fans of the monster-collecting RPG are still enjoying Paldea’s open world. You can hang out with your monsters in a variety of ways across the new region,, including having a picnic. Some players, however...
Pokémon Scarlet And Violet Are The Fastest-Selling Games In The History Of Nintendo
23.11.2022
Where there’s cute and lovable Pokémon, there’s always a way. Despite less-than-stellar reviews and tons of performance hitches and bugs, Pokémon Scarlet and Violet just broke sales records on the Nintendo Switch and beyond, moving 10 million copies in their opening weekend alone. Read more
Forget The Trees, Everything In Pokémon Scarlet And Violet Looks Jank
18.11.2022
The reviews are in for Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, with many critics noting that the Nintendo Switch clearly struggles to run the game properly. But it’s one thing to read about performance issues in the abstract. It’s much funnier to see how badly the character models clip through each other...