How you can send your Red, Blue, and Yellow Pokémon to Sun and Moon
Nintendo is finally enabling fans to bring their favorite Pokémon from the first generation of games to the 3DS. The company revealed today that players...
Nintendo Direct livestream coming Friday for Pokémon’s 20th anniversary
Two decades ago, Nintendo unleashed the first Pokémon games in Japan. On Friday, Nintendo celebrates this milestone with fans. A Pokémon-themed Nintendo Direct livestreaming video event is...
Pikachu zaps Schwarzenegger: Pokémon’s Super Bowl ad beat Mobile Strike’s
If you ever see Arnold Schwarzenegger fighting a yellow electric rat, you shouldn’t put your money on the Governator. When it comes to games,...
Pokémon’s $5M Super Bowl ad ranks among Sunday’s big winners
The Denver Broncos are your Super Bowl 50 champions, but Pikachu had a pretty good day as well. The Pokémon Company produced one of the...
Pokémon Red, Blue, & Yellow rereleases are almost like riding a time machine back to 1996
To celebrate the anniversary, they are rereleasing the original, classic adventures that started the creature-catching phenomenon. For us here in the States, that means Pokémon Red, Blue, and Yellow, out via the 3DS Virtual Console on February 27.
Watch the Pokémon Super Bowl commercial right here
The Pokémon Company is celebrating the game’s 20th anniversary by spending a few million dollars on a commercial during the biggest sporting event in the...
Pokémon Day and Super Bowl commercial coming as franchise celebrates 20th anniversary
Two decades ago, Nintendo released Pokémon Red and Blue in Japan. Now, as the franchise continues charming people around the world, the companies responsible for...
How Satoru Iwata’s dedication brought Pokémon to the West
Without Satoru Iwata, the Pokémon phenomenon might never have left Japan. The former Nintendo president, who sadly passed away earlier this year, played a huge part in bringing the...
How Pokémon Go will benefit from Niantic’s lessons from Ingress on location-based game design
Niantic Labs was an oddball startup within Google. Conceived by John Hanke to promote exercise and an appreciation of public art, Niantic created a...
Pokkén Tournament is more Pokémon-like and skill-intensive than you’d expect
It seems like the most obvious thing in the world to make a fighting game spinoff of an role-playing game property that features monster...