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Palworld And Sony Team Up To Make The Next Pokémon Company
10.7.2024
Palworld feels like gaming’s ultimate troll. It’s a troll on the concepts of IP and copyright as it so brazenly mimics Pokémon with its creature design. And it’s a troll on Pokémon fans, given it’s really just yet another tree-bashing survival game. But oh boy, has it been a success, and...
Všichni čekali, že je právníci sedřou z kůže, největší letošní hit ale prošel
3.7.2024
Vývojáři hry Palworld, které se neoficiálně přezdívá Pokémoni se zbraněmi, se nechali slyšet, že navzdory všem očekáváním je obvykle velmi aktivní právníci Nintenda dosud ani nekontaktovali. Vypadá to tedy, že se o vydělané miliardy nebudou muset s nikým dělit
Pokémon GO Is Refusing To Let Long-Time Players Come To Its Birthday Party
28.6.2024
Mobile game mega-hit Pokémon GOnever misses a chance to make an inexplicably dreadful decision. Its latest comes with the celebration of the game’s eighth birthday, where it has made the bizarre decision to refuse to allow access to long-time players who completed one specific quest back...
Pokémon Card Contest Disqualifies Fans For Allegedly Using AI Art
25.6.2024
The Pokémon Company holds regular illustration contests for fans to submit their artwork to possibly be used as official art for Pokémon trading cards, more recently made available to artists in the U.S. However, the company’s 2024 competition has had a new, not-so-fun wrinkle of controversy...
2024 Game Pass Hit Palworld Looks Like It's Finally Coming To PlayStation
24.6.2024
Palworld, the highly controversial but mostly fine “Pokémon With Guns” monster tamer game from Pocketpair, has reached over 25 million players on PC and Xbox. That’s already a whole lot of people playing the legally distinct knock-off of Game Freak’s RPGs, but why stop there when there are other...
The Nintendo Switch Is Going Out With A Bang, Not A Whimper
18.6.2024
It’s funny that one day ago, just before Nintendo’s June Direct, we had almost no idea what the next six months would look like for the Switch. Nintendo has confirmed it will have news on its next console in the coming months, and that means the Switch is in its twilight year. But after a 40-minute...
The Big Nintendo Direct Everyone's Waiting For Is Probably Next Week
12.6.2024
It wouldn’t be Summer Game Fest and the ghost of E3 season without a big Nintendo Direct. Previously teased for June, it now looks like the big Switch showcase could happen as early as next week thanks to a suspicious early announcement from Among Us maker Innersloth. Read more
Manufactured Call Of Duty Controversies, New Dragon Age Romance Details, And More Of The Week's Gaming News
8.6.2024
It was eclectic week of gaming news, and we’ve got a diverse sampler platter for you with the week’s biggest stories, or at least, the biggest ones from before Summer Game Fest kicked off on Friday. For more on that, see our roundup of everything shown off at this year’s Keighley-fest, and our look...
This Might Be The Fyre Festival Of Pokémon Fan Conventions
4.6.2024
Pokémon has a rich history and spans across several mediums like video games, trading cards, merchandise, and more. So it would, in theory, be a perfect fit for fan conventions. The Pokémon Company hosts plenty of its own events like Go Fest for Pokémon Go fans and its World Championship...
Ex-Bank Robber's New Heist: Scamming Pokémon Card Buyers For Millions
30.5.2024
Pokémon cards and crime are intimately intertwined at this point, as the collectible cards are often wrapped up in robberies and scams due to their high resale value. Some of the stories surrounding Pokémon card sales have reached tragic ends, and the entire subculture of scalping, stealing,...
Paper Mario Translation Wins, Suicide Squad Costume Fumbles, And More Of The Week's Top News
25.5.2024
You probably haven’t thought about the phrase “Gamer Girl Bath Water” in years, and maybe you were happy about that. If so, I’m sorry, but there’s been a new development, and we’ve got the details. Also, we’ve got some insight into what it’s like to trade in your Pokémon cards at GameStop, and...
Genshin Impact’s Next Big Region Is Giving Major Pokémon Vibes
24.5.2024
With the imminent release of Genshin Impact version 4.7, which will down the story of Fontaine and its inhabitants, players are starting to look toward the future. Developer HoYoverse is doing the same, as the company gave us a surprise first look at the action RPG’s next location. Like past major...
Pokémon Fans Want Stephen A. Smith To Voice The New Pokédex
21.5.2024
The Pokédex has had plenty of different voices across the Pokémon franchise. This digital codex tells you all about the different critters you meet in the Pokémon world, and in the anime, it’s voiced. Original protagonist Ash Ketchum cycled through several variations of the Pokédex throughout...
Pokémon YouTuber Gets $157 From GameStop For $328 Worth Of Cards
20.5.2024
In a surprise twist, GameStop recently announced internally that some of its stores would begin buying and selling graded collectibles like Pokémon cards. There were immediately a bunch of questions like “how?” and “why?” One YouTuber recently tested exactly how the process works.Read more
Fans Want This Pokémon X Animal Crossing Mashup To Be Real
16.5.2024
As someone who mostly passes through Animal Crossing each time a game comes out, it’s easy to draw comparisons between why people love that series and the ways in which players connect to Pokémon. Sure, in Nintendo’s life sim you’re not “capturing” all the animal villagers, but people still collect...
$40,000 Pokémon Card Thief Thwarted By MMA Fighters
14.5.2024
Pokémon cards remain big business, even long after the excesses of 2020's price spikes. Just last week a UK collection sold for £55,270 ($69,404), more than double its auction guide price. So you can see the incentive for a Florida man who attempted to steal $40,000-worth from a Miami store, only...
GameStop Wants You To Start Trading In Your Valuable Pokémon Cards
10.5.2024
The market for high-end collectibles like rare Pokémon cards has exploded in recent years, and GameStop seems to want a piece of it. The gaming retailer told some store managers this week that it would begin testing buying Professional Sports Authenticator (PSA) graded trading cards later this...
13 Nintendo Ports, Remasters, And Remakes We’d Love While We're Waiting For The Switch 2
10.5.2024
Fans have been waiting for Nintendo to launch a Switch 2 for years now. It was reportedly due out sometime in 2024 before getting delayed to next year. And while the company recently hinted that the Switch successor will be revealed later this year, it could still be a longtime before it actually...
The 16 Biggest Haters In Video Games
7.5.2024
It is prime time to be a hater right now. The Kendrick Lamar and Drake beef has been a spectacle to watch unfold over the past few days. Lamar is dropping some of the harshest disses of his career, while Drake says “nuh uh” over a beat. I finally understand why Ancient Rome held gladiator...
Pokémon And Mario Kart Fans Fight Nintendo Network Shutdown To Beat 14-Year-Old Halo 2 Record
6.5.2024
In 2010, a group of Halo 2 diehards called “Noble 14” stayed logged into the multiplayer shooter for weeks after Microsoft turned off the online servers for the original Xbox on April 14. The service’s last player was Apache N4SIR who finally got booted just after midnight on May 11. Fourteen years...