Search
It’s Halloween, Let’s Rank The Best Ghost-Type Pokémon
30.10.2023
The end of October is nigh, which means the spooky decorations are about to make way for snow, presents, and mistletoe. But before we say goodbye to the jack-o-lanterns and trick-or-treating, we can still pay tribute to the spookiest, the scariest, the ghouliest(?) of Pokémon: the ghost types.Read...
Pokémon TCG's Paradox Rift Contains The Best Cards Ever, If You Can Find Them
20.10.2023
There certainly have been a lot of Pokémon cards in 2023. A year that began with Sword & Shield’s (SWSH) climactic celebration, Crown Zenith, has since featured four mainline sets from Scarlet & Violet, another celebration set with the enormous Pokémon 151, various reprint specials like McDonald’s...
Pokémon Has A Reseller Problem, And It’s Only Getting Worse
16.10.2023
On September 28, the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam opened its doors with an exciting new display inside. That day, visitors would delight in new, featured artwork based on Vincent Van Gogh’s iconic paintings, but with a Pokémon twist. Or at least, that was the idea. However, rather than fans happily...
The 9 Best Pokémon TCG YouTubers To Follow
13.10.2023
Anyone surprised by what manages to become popular on YouTube clearly hasn’t been paying attention. From magnet fishing for trash, to trampolining off high platforms, there’s a channel with over a million subscribers for everything. So it shouldn’t shock anyone that when it comes to watching other...
Detective Pikachu Returns: The Kotaku Review
10.10.2023
Detective Pikachu Returns, the new Switch adventure from Nintendo, is not great at a lot of things. It’s incredibly simple for an adventure game, only looks about as good as the original 3DS game did seven years ago, and even when it has its own take on things, a lot of its big twists have been...
New Pokémon Live-Action Drama Gets First Trailer
5.10.2023
A Pokémon live-action series is coming to Japan, but it’s not of the Detective Pikachu variety. No, the next Pokémon live-action project will be a drama about a woman trying to find adventure in her life through playing Pokémon, rather than it being set in the Pokémon universe.Read more
Scalpers Ruin Online Sales Of Pokémon Van Gogh Merch, Too
29.9.2023
I woke up today hoping to buy a cute plush of Pikachu wearing an outfit inspired by world-renowned artist Vincent Van Gogh, but scalpers got to it the second it went up on the Pokémon Center website. I’m frustrated, and that’s the general sentiment a lot of Pokémon fans are feeling right now,...
The First Pokémon X Hatsune Miku Song Is Intense
29.9.2023
If you’ve checked out Twitter anytime recently, you might’ve caught a glimpse of Project Voltage, The Pokémon Company’s ongoing art and music collaboration with the Vocaloid teen idol Hatsune Miku. So far Voltage has released 18 illustrations (one for every type of Pokémon) imagining Miku...
Scalpers Are Ruining A Pokémon Art Exhibit
28.9.2023
A collaboration between a Dutch Van Gogh Museum and Pokémon seemed like a lovely, if unlikely, crossover. Pikachu depicted as if painted by the Post-Impressionist artist—what’s not to love? Well, as is so often the case, the answer is: other people. Scalpers have descended upon the Amsterdam...
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...
Fans Think Latest Pokémon Go Artwork Was Made With AI
31.8.2023
Pokémon Go publisher Niantic has aroused fans’ suspicions after a promotional image showed some telltale signs of potentially being AI artwork, rather than something made by an actual human artist.Read more
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...
The Pokémon Company Finally Gives Us What We Want: Penny's Eevee Backpack
25.8.2023
Ever since Pokémon Scarlet and Violet launched last year, a subset of fans have been asking for one particular piece of merchandise: Penny’s Eevee backpack. The satchel Penny wears throughout the game is made to look like the normal-type fox Pokémon, and given that Eevee is one of the franchise’s...
The 10 Top-Selling Cards In Pokémon TCG's Obsidian Flames
22.8.2023
The Pokémon TCG’s Obsidian Flames was always going to be an awkward, middle child of a set. Released before the fuss of Paldea Evolved and its Iono frenzy was over, but also just a month ahead of the inevitable deafening noise of Pokémon 151, if it weren’t for its Charizards it might have been...
The 10 Top-Selling Cards In Pokémon TCG's Obsidian Flames
21.8.2023
The Pokémon TCG’s Obsidian Flames was always going to be an awkward, middle child of a set. Released before the fuss of Paldea Evolved and its Iono frenzy was over, but also just a month ahead of the inevitable deafening noise of Pokémon 151, if it weren’t for its Charizards it might have been...
Pokémon Company Hints That Its Game Output May Be Unsustainable
14.8.2023
Pokémon Scarlet and Violet sold phenomenally well on Switch. They also launched with tons of bugs and frustrating raid battle performance that made them some of the most busted games in the series’ long history. Fans have been debating for years now if developer Game Freak is just making too many...
New Wiglett Pokémon Plush Looks A Lot Like Something Else
10.8.2023
Good news: The Pokémon Company released a Wiglett plush on its official Pokémon Center store. Bad news: it looks like a dick. Not a human dick, but, like, the Platonic ideal of an alien dick the U.S. government doesn’t want us to know about. Read more
Pokémon Sleep: The Kotaku Review
9.8.2023
I don’t think Pokémon Sleep is for people like me. By that, I mean adults with a relatively consistent sleep schedule with things to do as soon as they wake up. Adults who don’t want to be bombarded with numbers and thoughts of collecting Pokémon the moment their eyes open. But I definitely see...
All The Announcements Packed In Pokémon's Big Event
8.8.2023
The Pokémon Company held a new Pokémon Presents showcase to talk about upcoming projects in the series. If you missed the show, you can catch the VOD right here, but if you just want to know the highlights, read on.Read more