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Pokemon Red's One Million Dollar Bicycle Made Real
30.7.2021
To celebrate reaching a million Twitter followers, The Pokémon Company has now recreated the sweet bicycle from the first generation games, Red and Blue, and their remakes. Someone will actually get this thing!In-game, the bicycle is priced at a cool one million Pokémon dollars. It wasn’t possible...
Pokémon GO Really Needs To Stop Fixing Raid Captures
28.7.2021
There’s certainly a lot wrong with Pokémon GO. The extraordinarily popular mobile AR game has just celebrated its fifth birthday, five years during which it’s routinely brought in more than a billion dollars for creators Niantic. I’d like to imagine would be enough money for them to fix a bunch...
Saying Goodbye To Friends, In-Game And Otherwise, Sucks
24.7.2021
No one likes goodbyes, whether it be saying farewell to the characters in your favorite video game as the final credits roll, or saying goodbye to two of the three voices who made this incarnation of the Splitscreen podcast so damn special. Bring some tissues, kids.Read more
Are You Intrigued By The Steam Deck?
19.7.2021
It’s Monday and time for Ask Kotaku, the weekly feature in which Kotaku-ites deliberate on a single burning question. Then, we ask your take.Read more
Pokémon Go Fest 2021 Ended In A Total Anticlimax
19.7.2021
This last weekend offered the world Pokémon GO Fest 2021. This year, the mobile game’s biggest annual event attempted a more outgoing vibe yet still managed to end everything on the dampest squib imaginable: a quest line entirely focused on Hoopa, that absolutely in no way included Hoopa.Read more
Pokémon Go's Okinawan Pikachu Delayed 'Due To Recent Developments'
13.7.2021
Niantic was planning to do a promotional collaboration with the Pokémon Air Adventures campaign by having a special Okinawan kariyushi shirt-wearing Pikachu appear in Pokémon Go. That has now been delayed. Below is the following update Niantic added to the original announcement:Read more
Video Games Are Part Of Climate Change, Too
9.7.2021
It’s hot! I don’t just mean in the sense that I am sweating while my window AC unit does its best to gasp cool air into my apartment; I mean that it’s historically hot. Last month was the warmest June ever in North America. In honor of the increasingly agonizing heat death of the planet, this...
Charizard Millionare Fiasco Turns Ugly As Pokémon Critics Get Attacked
8.7.2021
In late July, Pokémon card collector Gary Haase drew the ire of fans who believed he was disrespectful to Mitsuhiro Arita, the artist who drew the iconic Charizard that has made Haase rich.Read more
Charizard Millionaire's Disrespect Triggers Outpouring For OG Pokémon Artist
6.7.2021
You’ve probably heard all about the Pokémon card frenzy unfolding within the last few years, and the high prices that some old-school cards from the original run can command on the market. Possibly, you’ve also heard that this fervor was driven in part by influencers like Logan Paul, who have taken...
'Vagina Bones,' Kirby's Eyebrows, And Other Bizarre American Video Game Changes
3.7.2021
America’s birthday is nearly upon us, and you know what that means: It’s time to loudly blow stuff up so that we can drown out the self-conscious voices in our heads that remind us how weird and bad America can be. In honor of All Of That, this week’s Splitscreen is about how games from other...
Goodbye Riley MacLeod, We Never Deserved You
26.6.2021
When Riley Macleod told me he was quitting the first thing he said was, “I’m sorry.” The second was, “Please roast me.”Read more
Goodbye And TKTK
25.6.2021
After almost five and a half years, today’s my last day at Kotaku. A good number of you are now probably scrolling to the bottom of this post to remember what I do here, since my articles aren’t a daily feature of the site. My job, mostly, was to hide out in the background and help. It was a pretty...
PSA: Sonic Mania Is Free Right Now
24.6.2021
In case the kick-ass concert didn’t make it clear, it’s Sonic the Hedgehog’s 30th birthday, and how better to celebrate than with a copy of the game that Kotaku ranked the second-best Sonic game of all time? The Epic Games Store is giving away copies of Sonic Mania for free but you gotta...
All-Digital E3 Was A Mess
18.6.2021
Another E3 has come and gone. This year’s multi-day commercial for upcoming video games sure...happened. Was it terribly exciting? No, not that we were expecting it to be. Was it downright terrible? Also no. But in failing to find its footing on an all-digital stage, E3 2021 ended up being...
In Japan, Demon Slayer Just Sold Over A Million Blu-Rays And DVDs In Three Days
18.6.2021
Physical media is not dead! That is, if it plays Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba The Movie: Mugen Train. In Japan, the movie’s disc release is drumming up some serious business.Read more
E3 2021: 20 Games Missing From The Show
16.6.2021
Silence screams volumes. Over the past five days, video game publishers have shouted announcements for the biggest games from the rooftops. But that chorus has been drowned out by the far more deafening din of what wasn’t announced at E3 2021.Read more
Ratchet & Clank Is The Best Mascot Platformer In Ages, But It Doesn't Have Much Competition
11.6.2021
The prehistoric 1990s were a different time for video games. Mascot platformers roamed the untamed jungles, with Mario and Sonic eternally duking it out while Crash Bandicoot, Spyro, Croc, Rayman, and countless imitators scattered underfoot. Fast forward to now, and “mascot platformer” is barely...
New Pokémon Cards Might Complicate Things For Players And Collectors
11.6.2021
After a trademark was spotted last December, the new V-Union cards have been officially unveiled. The new cards are scheduled for release this August in Japan, and it’s unclear how their introduction will impact the game.Read more
We're Not Expecting Much From This Year's E3
5.6.2021
Somehow it’s June again, which means it’s almost time for E3 to start—and also, depending on who you ask (Sony, Sega, Blizzard), it’s already started. Still though, this must mean that several volcano bursts of white-hot excitement are just around the corner, right? You’d think, but after the year...
Pokémon Products Don't Get Much Better Than This
1.6.2021
Over the years, there have been oodles of Pokémon branded products. For example, I bought Pikachu toothpaste earlier today in Japan for my youngest son, but if you really think about it, that doesn’t have much to do with Pocket Monsters. This product, though, definitely does.Read more