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There's A Life-Size Pikachu Statue, But It'll Cost Ya
15.7.2025
Life-size plushies are a well-established feature of Pokémon merchandise. This year has seen pre-orders open for a colossal Gardevoir cuddly, alongside a range of Eeveelutions that are bigger than your pet dog. But when it comes to the non-soft toys, the size tends to be far more modest. Until...
There's Something Very Suspicious About These New Pokémon Plushies
21.5.2025
Refreshing the Pokémon Center to see what new items have been added each day has become something of an obsession for me. The site adds new stock so incredibly frequently as to be constantly astonishing, and today is no different. The latest arrivals on the store are a new collection of plushies...
Pokémon TCG's Return Of Team Rocket Is A Triumph
16.5.2025
Oh it’s fun to have good news! The latest set from the Pokémon TCG, Scarlet & Violet Destined Rivals, is a top-notch collection of cards bursting with Team Rocket antics, which sports (in my limited experience, at least) pull rates I don’t believe we’ve seen in this era. Having torn open 55 packs...
The Hottest Cards In May's Team Rocket Pokémon TCG Set, Destined Rivals
5.5.2025
While the most recent Pokémon TCG set, Journey Together, may have been something of an anticlimax, the fervor surrounding the game has still ensured it’s close to impossible to buy. Individual cards may be more reasonably priced, but just buying the packs means pouncing on stores the moment they...
The New Cosplay Pikachu Plushies Are Far Too Cute
12.2.2025
Keeping a frequent eye on the Pokémon Center’s new releases page is often the only way to buy some of its best offerings. Sometimes, by the time the press releases have been sent out, they’re already gone. That’s true of two of the new cosplay Pikachu plushies already!Read more
Blastoise Is Finally Winning A Popularity Contest Over Charizard, And It Rules
7.2.2025
Being a Pokémon fan can sometimes feel like watching a neverending popularity contest. Pikachu is the mascot, so he gets all the attention and merch, but it’s Charizard—the original Fire-type starter from Pokémon Red and Blue on the Game Boy—who always seems to drive the most feverish fandom....
Pokémon TCG Pocket's Latest Event Might Be Its Best So Far
9.12.2024
Pokémon TCG Pocket has a very odd pattern to its “events”—there appear to be weeks when the game falls fallow with nothing extra to do, then three special challenges will happen at the same time. That’s happening again today, as the Genetic Apex SP Emblem Event 1 launches, joining the ongoing...
Pokémon TCG Pocket's New Venusaur Event Features The Most Beautiful Card
29.11.2024
After getting stale for a bit too long for a launch month, Pokémon TCG Pocket has finally launched a new event into its rather echoey corridors—the Venusaur Drop Event. And oh wow, it comes with a winnable card that’ll go straight to the top of your binder.Read more
Pokémon TCG Pocket's Mass Outbreak Event Is An Excellent Opportunity To Bolster Your Fire-Type Collection
23.11.2024
Hot on the heels of the Meowth and Chansey Wonder Pick events, Pokémon TCG Pocket has launched a new reason for you to keep opening up your phone in the relentless pursuit of more digital cards. The Fire Pokémon Mass Outbreak Event doesn’t give you new single player challenges to overcome, so don’t...
Upcoming Pokémon TCG Pocket Events Seemingly Leaked
18.11.2024
If you’re as Pokémon TCG Pocket-pilled as I am, you’re desperate for new cards to collect and new events to battle through. Fortunately, it sounds like players won’t have to wait too much longer for either one, at least according to the latest datamined leaks coming out of the mobile card game....
These Pokémon Nature Docs Are The Best Thing You'll See All Week
18.9.2024
Did everyone else already know about Pokearth? Am I the last to discover this astonishing combination of nature documentary and Pokémon? Just in case, I need to make sure you’ve seen them too, because wow. For the last few months, YouTuber EnlargedKai has been making lifelike CG-animated videos...
Pokémon Fans Pay Tribute As Original Misty Voice Actor Dies At 46
12.8.2024
After a battle with breast cancer, Rachael Lillis, the original English voice actor for some of Pokémon’s most iconic characters, has died at 46. News of this came from a social media post from Veronica Taylor, who originally voiced Pokémon anime protagonist Ash Ketchum and co-starred alongside...
Katy Perry, Stop, You're Embarrassing Pikachu
12.7.2024
Pop star Katy Perry, who you will know for one of the best pop albums of the 21st century with 2010’s Teenage Dream, has been chasing that high without replicating it ever since. In the past 14 years, Perry has been having trouble finding relevance in a pop space where she was once dominant,...
Are These The Cutest Pokémon Plushes Ever Made?
19.2.2024
If you, like me, are a child, you’ll regularly refresh the new releases on the official Pokémon store to see what madcap paraphernalia its selling today. With almost daily drops, these additions can be anything from a statue of Ditto eating Pewter Crunchies, to an entire range of wildly overpriced...
Pokémon Actor Veronica Taylor Talks 26 Glorious Years Of Ash Ketchum
2.2.2024
When Veronica Taylor was called to audition for a Japanese cartoon in 1998, she had no idea what to expect. Heavily pregnant and living in New York, the 33-year-old actor had just finished a run of commercials, soaps and theatre productions, before a chance call from her acting coach sent...
Pokémon Concierge Has The Best Vibes Of Any Show In The Series
3.1.2024
Pokémon Concierge is concentrated delight and whimsy cutting through Netflix’s rancid vibes. While the streaming service has been more than willing to cut jobs within its animation branch and has opted to use AI to fill in the gaps it’s created while raising its subscription price, Concierge...
Finally, Pokémon Have Their Own Nature Documentary Series
4.12.2023
At its core, Pokémon is a wildlife expedition. The series sends us into nature to capture these wonderful creatures to fight our battles for us. On top of that, we fill out a Pokédex and learn more about them as we capture them in Poké Balls. Over the years, the series has explored different...
An Ode To Raichu, The Best Pokémon Who Can’t Get Any Respect
13.11.2023
Here on Exp. Share, Kotaku’s weekly Pokémon column, I look back at various nonsense and cool shit from the series’ long history. But as players and fans, we all experience that history in our own way. So much of my experience of the series and so many of my own cherished memories of it over...
Is Detective Pikachu A Cop? Kotaku Investigates
6.10.2023
Detective Pikachu Returns is out October 6 on Nintendo Switch, and it brings a new mystery for the titular Pokémon investigator to solve. But it also dredges up an old mystery that has plagued the character since his debut in 2016: is Detective Pikachu a cop? Well, the only way to solve a mystery...
The Pokémon Anime’s Spookiest Episode Aired 25 Years Ago Today
2.10.2023
The Pokémon franchise doesn’t scare me that often. Sure, when I see Pikachu take a hard hit in a battle, I’m scared for his health. When Giratina shows up to fight my beaten-down team at the end of Pokémon Legends: Arceus, that’s also terrifying because I’m running low on Pokémon to fight back....