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New Streamer Awards Show Designs Trophy After Pepe The Frog For Some Reason
14.3.2022
The Streamer Awards, an awards ceremony dedicated to livestreaming (and not to be confused with The Streamy Awards), hosted its first-ever show on March 12. Founded and organized by cooking streamer QTCinderella, the celebration pulled in 380,000 concurrent viewers, as big-name broadcasters like...
South Korea Really Loves Pokémon Bread
9.3.2022
For the first time in about twenty years, Pokémon bread has gone back on sale in South Korea. And the snacks are flying off the shelves. Read more
Pokémon Presents: All The Big News You Need To Know
27.2.2022
It’s exactly 26 years since the first Pokémon games released in Japan and the developers of the series lived up to the hype of this year’s international Pokémon Day by offering up a ton of updates on current games and one major surprise reveal: new mainline entries Pokémon Scarlet and Violet...
Incredibly Rare Pokémon Card Auctioned Off For Record-Breaking $900,000
26.2.2022
The market around children’s cardboard continues rocketing into uncharted territory. Earlier this week, auction outfit Goldin announced a holographic “Illustrator” Pikachu Pokémon card from 1998 sold for $900,000. No one knows who bought it for that much, or why, but the winning bid shattered...
Shop Owner Arrested After Selling A Fake Pokémon Card And Displaying Three Phony Games
24.2.2022
The proprietor of retro game shop Alive Yokkaichi Tokiwa Store in Mie, Japan was put into police custody for allegedly selling a fake Pokémon card for around 2,200 yen ($19). The store’s 48-year-old owner Yukinori Harada was arrested for allegedly violating Japanese copyright law. As you can see...
Brilliant Diamond And Shining Pearl Crack Down On ‘Illicit’ Clone Pokémon
22.2.2022
Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl had a ton of glitches when they came out. Some were funny, most were harmless, but a few made it extremely easy for players to clone rare and powerful Pokémon en masse. It was an absolute feeding frenzy. Now the developers behind the Gen 4 remakes...
Thief Breaks Through Card Shop Wall And Steals $250,000 Worth Of Pokémon Cards
20.2.2022
A locally-owned game and card shop in Forest Lake, Minnesota was robbed by a lone thief in the middle of the night on February 10. The man escaped with $250,000 worth of rare Pokémon cards and cash.Read more
This AI Generates Fake New Pokémon, And It's Actually Pretty Good
14.2.2022
A machine-learning engineer has harnessed a powerful machine-learning technology to develop a web application that lets you create images of fake pocket monsters. The results are hilarious, and I love how simple the tool is.Read more
Sheet Of Uncut 1998 Pokémon Cards Found, Up For Auction
14.2.2022
While there have been many expensive, individual Pokémon cards going up for sale lately, and even some boxes of cards, an upcoming auction is going to be listing something far more interesting: a whole sheet of Pokémon cards that never made it to a packet in the first place.Read more
Artist Hit With Tracing Allegations, But Pokémon Company Says Collab Shirt Is Original
10.2.2022
In the past few weeks, popular artist Cotoh Tsumi has been repeatedly hit with tracing allegations. On 2ch and Twitter, critics have posted examples of what they say proves these charges, which the artist has denied. The criticism has become incessant, and now, some collab goods are being pulled....
Legends: Arceus Players Are Begging For Better Ways To Organize Their Pokémon
9.2.2022
Like so many Pokémon games, Pokémon Legends: Arceus encourages players to catch lots and lots of Pokémon. It even incentivizes you to catch tons of the same creature, in order to obtain shinies and to fully complete its enhanced Pokédex. And this time around, instead of storing all those Pokémon...
Pokémon Legends: Arceus Players Find Glitch To Clone Shinies
8.2.2022
Pokémon Legends: Arceus hasn’t launched with nearly as many exploits as last year’s Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl remakes, but players have still managed to discover one particular glitch with huge consequences for Shiny hunting. Want to start raking in Shinies and dish them out...
People Won’t Stop Arguing About Pokémon Legends: Arceus’ Graphics
7.2.2022
Pokémon Legends: Arceus has sold like gangbusters, received largely positive reviews, and achieved the highest user score of any game in the series in years. That hasn’t stopped it from being mired in controversy when it comes to its graphics, however. A week after the game’s release, the debate...
Pokemon Legends: Arceus Fans Agree: Paras Is Satan
4.2.2022
You’ve probably been trying to catch ‘em all in Pokémon Legends: Arceus, but sometimes the Pokémon just want to catch you. And kill you. It’s probably fair, since I’m trying to put their friends and family in Pokéballs. But in the heat of running away from a weirdly aggressive Paras, I just want...
Can We Talk About Pokémon Legends: Arceus' Shockingly Dark Tone For A Second
4.2.2022
For years now, Pokémon fans have been begging Game Freak for a more “mature” monster-collecting video game, ideally one that’s more difficult than the mainline games in the franchise. With Pokémon Legends: Arceus, it seems that folks might have finally gotten what they wanted–and it’s kinda...
Tips For Playing Pokémon Legends: Arceus
1.2.2022
Pokémon Legends: Arceus is the biggest Pokémon installment in quite some time, and as such, it can be a little daunting, even for experienced players. There’s a ton of stuff to track from new items and Pokéballs to Pokédex entries and updated Pokémon forms.Read more
To Get Shinies In Pokémon Legends: Arceus, You Need To Exploit Mass Outbreaks
28.1.2022
Any number of things can serve as personal distractions in Pokémon Legends: Arceus, but one I’m sure a lot of folks will enjoy is shiny hunting. Searching out with these alternately colored pocket monsters is half the fun of these games for many hardcore fans, and Arceus offers up an interesting...
Pokémon Legends: Arceus: Easy Pokedex Tips That Will Make A Huge Difference
28.1.2022
Pokémon Legends: Arceus does a lot of things differently from the mainline Pokémon games, and that includes completing your Pokédex. Where before the games tasked you with collecting the entire monster compendium to fill out the encyclopedia within the device, Arceus takes place in the past...
Pokémon Legends: Arceus Gives You A Shiny Ponyta With A Special Legacy
28.1.2022
Even if shiny hunting in Pokémon games isn’t your cup of tea, it’s always exciting to randomly happen upon one of these uber-rare, alternately colored pocket monsters. Fortunately, Pokémon Legends: Arceus makes achieving this feat easy by reviving an old series tradition and giving players...
Pokémon Go Trading Halted After Player Gets Extremely Lucky
20.1.2022
Niantic, makers of Pokémon Go, recently disabled trading in its popular augmented-reality game after the discovery of a bug that gave one player a bunch of “lucky” Pokémon via trade (h/t Nintendo Life).Read more