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· Isa Peralta
A DLC for The Pokémon Company’s main series games “Pokémon Scarlet” and “Pokémon Violet” was announced on Monday, Pokémon Day. The upcoming DLC pack, titled “The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero,” comes in two parts: “Part 1: The Teal Mask” and “Part 2: The Indigo Disk.”
· Daniel Anderson
On Monday, Netflix released a teaser trailer for their upcoming stop-motion animated series titled “Pokémon Concierge,” created in collaboration with The Pokémon Company. Not much is known about the series except that it follows a concierge at the Pokémon Resort named Haru as…
· Bryan Ke
A British tattoo artist has challenged himself to tattoo all 151 1st Generation Pokémon on fans to raise money for Blue Cross, a U.K.-registered animal welfare charity. William Langford, a 30-year-old tattoo artist from Suffolk, England, became inspired after hearing that…
· Iris Jung
Images of Pokémon generated by artificial intelligence (AI) in the style of Studio Ghibli have gone viral. On Tuesday, Facebook page The Art or AI uploaded a series of AI-generated art under the description, “What if Studio Ghibli created Pokémon?”
· Ryan General
Competitive Pokémon player Wolfe Glick has taken Pokémon fandom to a whole new level by creating a real-life Pokémon gym in New York City. Glick, who won the 2016 Pokémon World Video Game Championships (VGC), transformed luxury Italian shoe store P448 into a “water-type gym” for…
· Daniel Anderson
The Pokémon Company is releasing the psychic-type Pokémon Kadabra back into the wild of its trading card game after a ban of almost two decades. Kadabra will be part of the Pokémon Card 151 set, scheduled to be released in June alongside the other Kanto classics. This would have…
· Bryan Ke
An artist has caught the attention of Reddit users with a reimagination of Poké Balls that look like the Pokémon inside them. Reddit user u/threerobots shared their work on the subreddit r/pokemon on Monday to showcase some of the Poké Balls they designed and rendered using 3D…
· Bryan Ke
Japanese gaming website Game With conducted a poll between Dec. 16 and Dec. 23 to find out which Pokémon is the most popular monster in the Paldea Region. After counting 177,829 votes, the results showed that the pink humanoid Fairy and Steel-type Pokémon Tinkaton was the crowd…
· Daniel Anderson
After 25 years in the spotlight, Pikachu and trainer Ash Ketchum will no longer be the protagonists of the “Pokémon” TV series. On Friday, the Pokémon Company shared a teaser trailer to announce a new TV series and signal the end of Ash and Pikachu’s time as the franchise’s main…
· Daniel Anderson
Character Ash Ketchum has made “Pokémon” history in the “Pokémon Journeys” anime by defeating the undefeated Galar champion Leon in a full six-on-six battle, making Ash the No. 1 ranked trainer in the world. Both trainers were in the Masters 8 tournament, which consisted of the…
· Isa Peralta
“Animal Crossing: New Horizons” has been named Japan’s best-selling game of all time. Game Data Library, a website that claims to be the internet’s largest database of Japanese game sales, shared in a tweet posted on Tuesday that 10.45 million copies of “Animal Crossing: New…
· Carl Samson
Police in Tulsa, Oklahoma, arrested local resident Michael McCoy on Tuesday for allegedly selling fake Pokémon cards across the country. Victims from five different states reported being conned out of thousands of dollars in the scam, which had been under investigation for…
· Carl Samson
Pink Gorilla Games, a 17-year-old video game store in Seattle’s Chinatown International District, fell victim to an armed robbery on Monday afternoon. Staff member Jordan Carson, who was behind the register, said he believed the suspect, whose “hands [were] in his pocket the…
· Michelle De Pacina
The Pokémon Company International and Millennium Print Group revealed how Pokémon cards are made from start to finish in an internal video released by fan site PokéBeach. It features the Western creation process, from text translations to printed drafts being delivered to…
· Daniel Anderson
Ed Sheeran and The Pokémon Company have teamed up for the singer’s latest single, “Celestial.” Sheeran, who is a longtime Pokémon fan, stars in the song’s music video, which blends real life and animated scenes of Pokémon helping him throughout his day. The video even recreates…
· Daniel Anderson
Ash Ketchum made history in the “Pokémon Journeys” anime by besting the undefeated Sinnoh champion Cynthia in a full six-on-six match up. Both trainers were in the Masters 8 tournament, which consisted of the eight strongest trainers: No. 1 ranked Galar champion Leon, Kalos…
· William Yuk
Fans are mourning the passing of Lala, a betta fish that discovered a game-breaking glitch in “Pokémon Sapphire” that had gone undiscovered for almost two decades. Lala was owned by Japanese YouTuber Mutekimaru Channel, who constructed an apparatus that translated the fish’s…
· Rebecca Moon
A Washington state man who stole $20,000 worth of Pokémon and Magic: The Gathering cards returned a month later to try and sell the stolen goods. The cards were stolen from a card store located in Whatcom County, Washington, where the suspect smashed the glass door and entered…
· Carl Samson
Nicholas Garrison, 24, has been charged with three felonies in Missouri in connection with a burglary at Yeti Gaming in Crestwood on Oct. 10, 2021. Garrison, who is originally from Tulsa, Oklahoma, allegedly broke into the gaming store and stole up to 270 Pokémon cards amounting…
· Daniel Anderson
Nintendo dropped a trailer on Wednesday revealing new “Pokémon Scarlet and Violet” themed OLED Switch consoles. The OLED Switches feature the legendaries Koraidon and Miraidon on the console dock and the starters Sprigatito, Fuecoco and Quaxly all over the Switch itself, with…
