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On February 27th, 2016, Nintendo rereleased the original Gen I Pokemon games for Gameboy onto the 3DS Virtual Console with a new twist: the ability to link with other players through wireless means. The feature had never been used before, and how it worked was mostly a mystery (besides the fact...

The Pokémon Build-A-Bear line is continually expanding with all sorts of creatures from the long-running franchise, and the latest one to join the range is a soft plush version of Cubone. Yes, another 'mon from the original Pokédex can now be purchased! As mentioned by Build-A-Bear, this...

A new version of the romhack Pokemon PureRGB has been released! This version comes with many new features and quite a few new areas! Download the new version here: https://github.com/Vortyne/pureRGB/releases/latest This is a purist's enhancement of Pokemon Red/Blue/Green. The goal is to...

In the years since its release Pokemon Emerald has received a lot of attention. Outside of being beloved by fans of the series, there have been people attempting to beat the game with any number of ridiculous conditions, all while sticking to the vanilla game. The creativity of the larger...

Introduction Pokémon R.O.W.E is my first published project started back in 2021 this game was made with the objective of being an open world version of Hoenn with a lot of Quality of Life changes to make teambuilding easy without having to breed for anything and a lot of replay value with a lot...

Following a release date announcement at the World Championships in August, The Pokémon Company has now released a gameplay video for its upcoming mobile title Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket. This new video takes trainers through the steps of joining in on the fun. It's as simple as opening a...

To celebrate the 20th anniversary of Pokémon Emerald for the GBA, 130 artists have collaborated on a project to redraw the sprites for all 386 Pokémon included in the game (thanks, gamesradar). Not only that, but the revised sprites have been implmented into a fully playable ROM hack called...

The Xbox and Game Pass hit Palworld is in the firing line of Nintendo and The Pokémon Company this week, with the Japanese companies filing a "patent infringement lawsuit" in Tokyo District Court against the creator Pocketpair. Here is Nintendo's statement in full: The Pokémon Company...

We've some breaking news, with Nintendo and The Pokémon Company announcing they have filed a lawsuit against Palworld developer Pocketpair. In an official statement on Nintendo's Japanese website. it's mentioned how a "patent infringement lawsuit" was filed in the Tokyo District Court this week...

The Pokémon series has spawned all sorts of questionable copycats over the years and while many projects come to an end with a quick takedown notice, sometimes these imitations end up extending their life or even profiting in some way or form. With this in mind, The Pokémon Company has this...

There's no shortage of adorable animated Pokémon content out there (heck, most of it is enough to bring a smile to our faces), but The Pokémon Company's latest effort, 'Chasing the Moon,' is one of the best-looking ones we've seen in a while. Released by TPC's official Japanese YouTube account...

Pokémon Solus RGB is a romhack of Pokémon Red/Blue with a focus on an enhanced near-vanilla solo gameplay experience. The Pokémon Solus RGB romhack makes the following four major changes to the vanilla Gen 1 games. 1. All 151 Pokémon are obtainable through normal means. Specifically, "normal...

20 years ago we saw what is to many the peak of the Pokemon series. Pokemon Emerald released as a definitive version of the series' third generation, combining the storylines of Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire before it, and adding a post-game battle area the extent of which hasn't been seen since. If...

We've seen The Pokémon Company release all sorts of life-size Pokémon plush in the past and now the latest is officially available. The catch is it is only available through the Japanese Pokémon Center (for now). It's Porygon (one of the OG Pokémon) and is available for roughly $391.20 USD...

When it comes to Pokemon spin-offs, none are more beloved than the Mystery Dungeon games. Bringing monster collection and the charm of the larger series to the random environments and natural replayability of Mystery Dungeon titles, Spike Chunsoft hit it out of the gate with the debut games Red...

Try not to get too excited, but the official Pokémon social media account has this week acknowledged North America's 20th anniversary of Pokémon FireRed Version and LeafGreen Version. These Game Boy Advance titles originally released in September 2004 in this region, and were remakes of the...

Towards the tail end of August Nintendo made four games available to Switch Online subscribers for a week as a part of their ongoing Game Trials. Three of these games I had ample experience with; Tetris Effect I've played on PS4 and on the Quest 2, PowerWash Simulator I've recently been working...

Pokémon Sleep has been pretty successful worldwide since its release in July 2023, and now that the game has been out for over a year, analysts in Japan have been looking into the figures. Over in Japan, Pokémon Sleep is currently the most downloaded mobile app in the Health & Fitness category...

Poke Transporter GB is a homebrew app for the GBA that serves to bridge the gap between the old and new games, providing a way to pull Pokemon from the Game Boy and Game Boy Color titles into the third generation. This is done using a custom Multiboot GBA ROM that genuinely could be mistaken for...

It has been 20 years since the first Pokémon World Championships took place in Orlando and in what may be a move to celebrate, the Pokémon World Championships returned to a place where it has frequently been held: Hawai'i. However, this time rather than being on the big island, it went to the...