clock menu more-arrow

Pokemon

Pokémon Go is now available in India and South Asia

While many of you may have tired of the charms of Pokémon Go, a whole new group of trainers is just about to get started. Today developer Niantic Labs announced that the augmented reality mobile game is finally available in South Asia. Users in...

New, 8 comments

Pokémon Go is finally getting new pokémon today

Starting today Pokémon Go players will have to do some more work to catch ‘em all. Developer Niantic has announced that a slate of new pocket monsters are now available in the game, including the likes of Pichu, Togepi, and other pokémon pulled...

New, 20 comments

How to make a hot dog Dugtrio, as inspired by The Pokémon Cookbook

Despite the lore dating back to Pokémon Gold and Silver claiming you can make a delicious soup from Slowpoke tails, the new Pokémon Cookbook doesn’t show you how to cook your pokémon friends. To that I say: thank goodness. Instead, we get a...

New, 0 comments

Thousands of Starbucks just became Pokémon Go gyms

Ever since Pokémon Go launched this summer, businesses have recognized the potential that the game represents for foot traffic, especially if they’re located near a gym. Today, Starbucks has announced that a number of its US stores will be turned...

New, 2 comments

Pokémon Go is adding 10.5K gym and pokéstop locations at Sprint stores

Pokémon Go players jonesing for more pokéstops, gyms, and a trip to their local Sprint stores are in luck. Pokémon Go developer Niantic announced today that Sprint will be the first US partner it takes on, meaning that 10,500 Sprint, Boost Mobile,...

New, 4 comments

Pokémon Sun and Moon are Nintendo’s fastest-selling games ever in Europe and the Americas

Pokémania is in full effect: Nintendo says that the recently released Pokémon Sun and Moon are the fastest-selling games in the company’s history in both Europe and the Americas. According to Nintendo, the 3DS games sold a combined 3.7 million...

New, 4 comments

Ditto is now on Pokémon Go, but you’ll have to catch a ton of Pidgeys to find it

In a last-ditch effort to get you to open up Pokémon Go for the first time since July, Niantic is adding a new species to the lineup: Ditto. As you may recall, Ditto is the pokémon that has the ability to mimic other creatures it sees. And that’s...

New, 10 comments

Pokémon’s emphasis on collaboration turned it into a global community

When Pokémon Go hit smartphones this summer, it was an unprecedented hit. It broke records in app stores, caused floods of people to converge in public parks, and might even become a movie. The game was an impressive demonstration of the...

New, 6 comments

Nintendo Switch will reportedly get a version of Pokémon Sun and Moon

The Nintendo Switch may be the first home console to get a core Pokémon game. Eurogamer reports that the upcoming hybrid console will receive a new version of the just-released Pokémon Sun and Moon in 2017. Titled Pokémon Stars, this new title...

New, 11 comments

What does Congress want from smart helmets, HoloLens, and Pokémon Go?

Yesterday afternoon, the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation met with representatives from the world of augmented reality for the first Congressional hearing on the industry. That included general counsel from the...

New, 2 comments

Pokémon Sun and Moon are the perfect getaway

When Pokémon Go launched in July, the augmented reality app accomplished what few other games had managed before: it got millions of people out into the real world, exploring their surroundings and working together. The communal experience was...

New, 3 comments

Seven questions for Pokémon Go designer Dennis Hwang

We talked to the former Googler about the success of the app, whether we’ll all be playing Pokemon Go through face computers, and what he would change about the game.

New, 6 comments

An apology to the pokémon Popplio for all the things I said

My dearest Popplio, I write you today with guilt in my heart and forgiveness on my mind. I haven’t been nice to you lately, and I want to apologize. I was wrong — about everything. You came into my life in May, when a new trailer for Pokemon Sun...

New, 3 comments

Pokémon Go celebrates Halloween with its first in-game event

If you’re going trick-or-treating, don’t forget to bring Pikachu along. Starting October 26th through to November 1st, Pokémon Go will be running its first in-game event, which will offer special rewards during Halloween. For starters, you’ll...

New, 20 comments

Alolan Dugtrio is the latest pokémon to achieve meme stardom

The demo for Pokémon Sun and Moon dropped last night, and boy, is it full of surprises! Not only did it leak the entire pokédex, revealing that there will be 800 pokémon in Sun and Moon, it also gave us a preview of the most fabulous new pokémon...

New, 6 comments

If you can’t wait for Pokémon, you should totally play Yo-kai Watch

If you’ve heard of Yo-kai Watch before, it was likely being compared to Pokémon. The series — which began in Japan in 2013 before debuting in English last year — has much in common with Nintendo’s monster-battling phenomenon. Both series are about...

New, 2 comments

Here's the Pokémon Sun and Moon-branded New 3DS XL

There are some new Pokémon games coming out in November, and Nintendo wants to make sure you’re ready for them with a new Solgaleo Lunala Black Edition New Nintendo 3DS XL model (which is almost, but still not quite as crazy of a name as the...

New, 5 comments

The Pokémon Go Plus wearable will launch next week

The Pokémon Go Plus wearable will be released on September 16th, developer Niantic Labs has announced, almost two months after its planned launch date. The $35 device — a wrist-mounted BlueTooth sensor that vibrates when pokémon and pokéstops are...

New, 8 comments

Pokémon Sun and Moon will let you take pictures Pokémon Snap-style

Fans are still yearning for a new Pokémon Snap, but this might be the next best thing: a new feature in Pokémon Sun and Moon will let you take pictures of pocket monsters out in the wild. It’s called a “poké finder,” and will only be available in...

New, 1 comment

Playing Pokémon Go in church could send this Russian YouTuber to prison for years

A Russian YouTube star has been detained for two months and could face up to five years of prison time, reports The Guardian and many other outlets. His crime? Playing Pokémon Go in a church earlier this month. He was arrested under Article 282 of...

Pokémon Go’s next update will let you become buddies with your favorite pokémon

For its next big feature update, Pokémon Go will let you become best buds with your favorite pocket monster. Called simply "Buddy Pokémon," the features lets you choose which pokémon from your collection you like best, and you’ll then reap a...

New, 9 comments

Niantic is reversing bans for some Pokémon Go users

Pokémon Go developer Niantic is reversing some permanent account bans it mistakenly issued over the last few weeks, the company announced today in a blog post. Niantic CEO John Hanke says his team began issuing bans based on whether players were...

New, 2 comments

People are quickly losing interest in Pokémon Go

Pokémon Go is unquestionably this season's hit game. But whether it has any staying power is a very open question, and early signs suggest it's already trailing off. Bloomberg has published some charts by Axiom Capital Management that show daily...

New, 94 comments

Nintendo says Pokémon Go is driving 3DS Pokémon game sales

Nintendo may not have had a lot to do with the development of Pokémon Go — but that doesn’t mean the company isn’t reaping benefits from the mobile game’s success. Nintendo says that the awareness generated by the smash-hit augmented reality game...

Detective Pikachu will be written by Guardians of the Galaxy and Gravity Falls writers

The live-action Detective Pikachu movie has talented writers in its corner. Variety reports that Legendary Pictures is in talks with Guardians of the Galaxy co-writer Nicole Perlman to help handle screenwriting duties for the film. Gravity Falls c...

New, 5 comments

Niantic is now permanently banning Pokémon Go cheaters

Game maker Niantic, the developer behind mobile sensation Pokémon Go, is now issuing permanent bans to players who violate its terms of service. Though TOS violations vary, these bans appear to be directed at cheaters who rely on GPS spoofing,...

New, 31 comments

A petition with 28,000 signatures imagines Harambe as a pokémon

Over 28,000 people have signed a change.org petition to turn Harambe, the slain gorilla and runner-up meme of the summer, into a pokémon. Started two days ago by a man named Eric CreamyMemes, the petition asks Nintendo and The Pokémon Company to...

New, 14 comments

Pokémon Go's battery-saving feature is back, and a new pokémon-tracking mode is coming

Pokémon Go's latest update is out, and it restores the battery-saving mode that mysteriously disappeared from the previous version of the iOS app. To use it, hold your phone upside-down while playing; the screen will dim, so you can walk around...

New, 13 comments

You can’t catch Pokémon Go in Iran due to 'security concerns'

Pokémon Go might have captivated the world, but one place you won’t be allowed to play is the Islamic Republic of Iran, which banned the game due to "security concerns." The High Council of Virtual Spaces — which oversees the nation’s online...

New, 18 comments

Battery pack sales doubled after Pokémon Go's release

People really weren't joking about needing extra batteries to play Pokémon Go. Battery pack sales doubled in the US during roughly the two weeks that followed the game's release, according to The NPD Group. It reports seeing a year-over-year...

New, 3 comments

Pokémon Go owners are threatening to sue developers over third-party hacks

In the latest twist in the ongoing feud between the Pokémon Go community and the app's creators, The Pokémon Company has sent out at least one cease and desist letter to an independent developer threatening prosecution under the Computer Fraud and...

New, 39 comments

Japanese Olympic champion racks up $5,000 bill playing Pokémon Go in Brazil

A Japanese Olympics star has blamed Pokémon Go after being hit with a 500,000 yen (about $5,000) bill in roaming charges from his carrier. Artistic gymnast Kohei Uchimura, who won gold at the 2012 Games in London and is the reigning world...

New, 12 comments

Follow Lee on X/Twitter - Father, Husband, Serial builder creating AI, crypto, games & web tools. We are friends :) AI Will Come To Life!

Check out: eBank.nz (Art Generator) | Netwrck.com (AI Tools) | Text-Generator.io (AI API) | BitBank.nz (Crypto AI) | ReadingTime (Kids Reading) | RewordGame | BigMultiplayerChess | WebFiddle | How.nz | Helix AI Assistant