If you’re old enough to remember when Pokemon the Movie 2000 came out nearly twenty years ago, then you might remember getting an Ancient Mew Pokemon trading card when you when to see the film. Well, now for this summer’s release of Detective Pikachu, it seems a similar promotion will be coming around once again. As was
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The May 2019 issue of Coro Coro Comic, releasing on April 15, has been leaked early today, as it always happens with such magazines. In it, Nintendo and Game Freak announced that a contest will be held regarding the upcoming new Pokemon games on Switch, Pokemon Sword and Shield. The contest will ask Japanese Pokemon fans
While video games films are usually horrible, Detective Pikachu has the potential to buck that tend. The upcoming films has two enjoyable trailers and a funny video featuring Ryan Reynolds under its belt so far and already looks much more stylish than any other video game movie based on a popular franchise. The production crew
While it may not be at the same level of cultural phenomenon that it was when it debuted in summer 2016, Pokemon GO still continues to deliver new events and challenges for players to take on month after month, with the next Raid battles in the game bringing the time-bending Legendary Pokemon, Dialga. Developer Niantic provided
After nearly a year of anticipation, The Pokemon Company, Game Freak, and Nintendo finally lifted the veil this morning on Generation 8 of the Pokemon franchise. Pokemon Sword and Shield, the latest entries in the series set to release later this year on Switch, will take players to the Galar region, a locale that seems to be
About an hour ago, Pokemon Sword and Shield were revealed for Nintendo Switch by The Pokemon Company, Nintendo, and Game Freak. They take place in the brand new Galar region and feature three brand new cute starter Pokemon: the Grass type Grooky, the Water type Sobble, and the Fire type Scorbunny. Following the game’s official
Generation 8 of Pokemon is here! After first being teased over a year and a half ago, Game Freak, Nintendo, and The Pokemon Company decided to unveil Pokemon Sword and Shield during a Pokemon-focused Direct. This is the first mainline Pokemon game to be developed solely for a home console and it definitely looks the part. Instead
If you’ve been waiting patiently for the opportunity to snap photos of your treasured mobile Pokémon, you can now do so if you’re an Android user. The update for Pokémon GO’s GO Snapshot mode went live earlier today, but only for Android devices. The new mode will allow you to jump to select the available Pokémon
We’ve all seen people on social media networks complaining to YouTube about their content being demonetized, taken down, or even whole accounts terminated unfairly. These people complaining are usually victim to YouTube artificial intelligence algorithm which appears, over the past few years, to have replaced the main bulk of work for human moderation. Popular Pokemon GO
It’s already 2019 in Japan, so The Pokémon Company decided to celebrate the new year by releasing the first trailer for the upcoming Pokémon the Movie: Mewtwo Strikes Back Evolution. While the trailer is quite short, it should get fans of the Pokémon movies excited. The brief trailer begins with some footage from the original premiere back in
I’ll be the first to admit I was somewhat tepid and hesitant going into Pokémon: Let’s Go, Pikachu!. I was disappointed by last year’s Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon as they made some parts of their predecessors worse. Coming into this entry, I saw the stripping away of traditional battles for something more akin to the
We knew before the release of both Pokemon Let’s Go Pikachu and Let’s Go Eevee that the newest pair of titles in the Pokemon series were likely destined to do well at market. Now that the initial sales for the games have been revealed though, their success is perhaps even greater than what was anticipated beforehand. In a new tweet from the
It’s been a particularly busy weekend for eSports with a number of large tournaments taking place across the globe spanning from games such as Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition to Halo 5. Among this slew of high-level competitive gaming was Pokémon: Ultra Sun and Pokémon: Ultra Moon for the Latin America International Championships. Streamed live
The recent trailer for the upcoming major motion picture Pokémon: Detective Pikachu marks the first big-screen outing for the Pokémon series in a live-action format. Featuring a compelling storyline and a wisecracking electric mouse voiced by Deadpool’s Ryan Reynolds, the movie looks set to be jam-packed full of wholesome family fun. However, given the “catch ’em
One of the latest trailers for the upcoming twin-releases Pokémon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! and Pokémon: Let’s Go, Eevee! struck something of a chord with me. If you haven’t seen it yet, it’s a relatively short video that depicts a group of friends meeting up in an urban setting to play the games together. On their
To celebrate the year’s spookiest day, The Pokemon Company has today released a new trailer for Pokemon: Let’s Go Pikachu! and Let’s Go Eeevee! which shows off Pokemon’s spookiest location. The iconic and chilling city of Lavender Town has been featured in this new trailer for Pokemon: Let’s Go and as you might expect, it features the town’s classic music redone
We are less than a month out from the release of Pokémon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! and Pokémon: Let’s Go, Eevee! for Nintendo Switch, and there’s still quite a bit we don’t know about. While Game Freak has spent a long time showing earlier areas off and highlighting some of the changes they have made to make the games more
The upcoming Nintendo Switch exclusive Pokémon games Pokémon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! and Pokémon: Let’s Go, Eevee! are clearly taking several steps to be more accessible like Pokémon GO in both presentation and gameplay. This was something I pointed out in my own preview of the game from E3 2018, as I came to the conclusion that these were “simple and accessible Pokémon games
After teasing their coming arrival last week, Niantic has today announced that the fourth generation of Pokemon from the Sinnoh region will begin appearing in Pokemon Go this week. The Pokemon associated with Pokemon Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum will begin appearing soon in a location near you over the coming days. Niantic says that they will be staggering out these new
I still remember my brother waking me up one morning in eighth grade because he was super excited to show me something: a reveal trailer for a new Pokémon game. Since our hearts were captured by Pokémon Sapphire and Emerald, my brother and I had followed each new entry as it came out in Japan
Niantic’s Pokémon GO is over two years old now, currently featuring Pokémon from the first three generations as wells as some newer ones like the Alolan forms and Meltan. Today, The Pokémon Company has announced on their official website that Generation IV Pokémon from Pokémon Diamond, Pokémon Pearl, and Pokémon Platinum will be available to catch in the mobile game soon. Specifically,
The Pokémon series has always been highly susceptible to leaks. With every new game or demo released, the series’ eager fans analyze every part of the game’s data in order to find new information about future content or Pokémon. The same has been the case with Pokémon Go, which has had upcoming updates leaked multiple times. That being
Pokemon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! and Eevee! are quickly approaching their November release day and with it, The Pokemon Company continues to give us new looks of what we can expect from the games. Today, a new trailer for both Pokemon: Let’s Go titles was released and with it we get some new looks at some of Kanto’s legendary
Pokemon GO has been running around the world for over two years now, and the game has shown no signs of slowing down as a new PokeStop Nomination feature is on the horizon for players to expand on the number of PokeStops available. Developer Niantic has announced that rollout has begun for the PokeStop Nomination
Today, Game Freak dropped another new trailer for Pokémon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! and Pokémon: Let’s Go, Eevee!. In addition to showing off Celadon City for the first time, it covers several new features like partner-exclusive moves, secret techniques, and befriending partner Pokémon. Celadon City is mostly intact, still prominently featuring the Department Store and Grass-type Gym Leader Erika.
The forthcoming Pokémon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! and Pokémon: Let’s Go, Eevee! will without a doubt be banking on nostalgia for the original Game Boy games, and music will be a large part of that experience. Pokémon fans will be happy to hear that these remixed tunes will come in form of a physical soundtrack—though predictably, the
As we approach the release of Nintendo Switch titles Pokémon Let’s Go, Pikachu! and Pokémon Let’s Go, Eevee! this November, the developers will continue to pull back the curtain on the games’ features. Today, Serebii was able to scan the latest issue of CoroCoro, a Japanese gaming magazine, which confirms that Mega Evolutions will return in the Pokémon: Let’s
Following this morning’s release of a new trailer for Pokemon Let’s Go, Pikachu! and Let’s Go, Eevee!, Nintendo and The Pokemon Company have also unveiled a variety of new screenshots for the games. Much in line with the new trailer, these screenshots showcase a variety of different locations from the Kanto region that longtime fans might
Pretty soon, players that enjoy venturing out into the real-world to capture Pokémon through the Pokémon GO mobile game by Niantic, will be able to try out brand new features coming to the title. In a blog post detailing the update, The Pokémon GO team announced that players will be getting a new update sometime later this week. The
Earlier today, Game Freak and The Pokémon Company announced Pokémon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! and Pokémon: Let’s Go, Eevee! for Nintendo Switch. These games are compatible with Pokémon Go, and a “Special Pokémon” that will become available in Pokémon Go when these titles are connected was teased at the end of the announcement trailer Shortly after the game’s reveal, the Official Pokémon Twitter account