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01 Sep

Why Eevee Is the Most Realistic Pokémon Ever

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Pokémon is renowned for its eclectic superpowered creatures that gamers of all ages can collect, train, battle, and trade. While Pokémon such as Girafarig are clearly inspired by real-world animals, they all have fantastic powers that obviously don’t exist in real life (unless giraffes have psychic powers they never told us about). When it comes to realistic Pokémon, though, Eevee has long stood alone. Eevee’s is a 15-pound, foot-tall creature with brown fur, long ears, a flat face, a fluffy tail, and no readily apparent fantasy traits that allude to elemental affinities. Essentially, Eevee’s design combines the features of dogs,…
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31 Aug

What’s Pokémon TV on Nintendo Switch?

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Have you ever been watching Pokémon on TV or a streaming service and thought, “why don’t they have more Pokémon? Why must I be distracted by programs that don’t feature adorable monsters?” If that’s the case, Pokémon TV might be of interest. Now available on the Nintendo Switch, the free app is all Pokémon all day! It features a large collection of the anime, specials, web shows, and even a spotlight on the card game. Digging deeper, at the current moment Pokémon TV features 10 seasons of the anime. This includes the first two seasons (up through the Orange Islands…
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13 May

New Pokemon Snap Successfully Modernizes the Classic N64 Formula

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New Pokémon Snap takes one of the oldest, most bizarre, yet surprisingly brilliant offshoots of the Pokémon franchise and updates it for the current generation, 22 years after the launch of the original game back in 1999 on the N64. It’s a polished update to the original formula that deepens and expands the experience in many ways while preserving the core idea that made the first game so brilliant in the first place. Developers Bandai Namco did a fantastic job here, and for fans of the original like me, it’s a treat to head back out into the wild, camera…
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13 May

Pokémon Cards No Longer on Sale at Target Because Scalpers Don’t Know How to Act

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In breaking “this is why we can’t have nice things” news, Target has announced it will be suspending sales of the Pokémon Trading Card Game as well as certain sports cards. The announcement comes after reports of violent confrontations among scalpers for the products as their value continues to grow.  Social media users first noticed and reported signs in Target’s trading card sections indicating that Pokémon, NFL, MLB, and NBA cards would no longer be in stock beginning on Friday, May 14.  It’s real. No more Pokémon at target. This is insane. pic.twitter.com/n5y6ucAffX— BeardedLuke (@thebeardedluke) May 12, 2021 Similar signs…
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04 May

New Pokémon Snap: Every Illumina Pokémon Location

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While Legendary Pokémon and the cutest Pokémon understandably steal most of the attention in New Pokémon Snap, the real stars of the show from a narrative standpoint are the six Illumina Pokémon hidden throughout the game. These guardians of the Lental region play vital roles New Pokémon Snap’s plot, but just because they’ve been cast in leading roles doesn’t mean that you’ll be able to easily find them in the game. In fact, there’s a good chance you could work your way through most of New Pokémon Snap and not even know some of them exist. To help you avoid…
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03 May

New Pokémon Snap: Mythical and Legendary Pokémon Locations

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Among the 200 Pokémon featured in New Pokémon Snap are 10 Legendary and Mythical Pokémon that franchise fans will undoubtedly want to grab pictures of even if they don’t complete the rest of the game’s Pokédex. As you’ve probably guessed, though, New Pokémon Snap‘s Legendary and Mythical Pokémon are the most elusive in the game. In fact, some of these Pokémon are so hard to find that you could easily add hours to the sequel’s runtime just exploring the possibilities that eventually unlock them. If you’d rather avoid throwing Orbs at everything in the game in the hope of eventually…
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03 May

New Pokémon Snap: How to Get Behind the Waterfall in Founja Jungle

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One of the most frustrating things in a video game is clearly being able to see that there’s a secret area you can access but not knowing exactly how you’re supposed to get there. While New Pokémon Snap is filled with such instances, few of the game’s secret areas have proven to be as elusive and tantalizing as the waterfall in Founja Jungle. As a waterfall in a video game, you just know that there has to be something good behind it. Of course, New Pokémon Snap makes this area that much more appealing by clearly showing that there’s a…
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30 Apr

New Pokemon Snap: All Pokemon in the Game by Region

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New Pokemon Snap brings the ’90s N64 classic to the Nintendo Switch, this time with tons of new features and Pokemon to photograph. In fact, gamers who played the original back in 1999 will be left dumbfounded by the sheer amount of Pokemon there are to capture in this game. While the first game only featured 63 of the original 151 creatures from Pokemon Red and Blue, New Pokemon Snap has a whopping 214 pocket monsters to find across several regions. Sure, that’s just a wee bit short of the 893 total Pokemon created by Nintendo since 1996, and there…
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30 Apr

The Nintendo Fan Games That Tried to Revitalize Pokémon, Metroid, and Super Smash Bros.

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In 2016, Milton Guasti’s Metroid 2 remake (AM2R) was released online after a decade of work. One day later, Nintendo sent DMCA takedown requests to the websites that hosted it. Many fans were shocked by the decision. Guasti seems more surprised by the efficiency of it. “Throughout the years I started seeing that [a takedown] could be possible,” Guasti recalls. “What I was not expecting was that it happened so fast.” New fan-made gaming projects are developed and distributed all the time, and often embraced by studios, but as those in the creative community know, Nintendo has historically been adamant about…
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29 Apr

15 Best Pokémon Featured in New Pokémon Snap

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There are over 200 Pokémon in New Pokémon Snap, and finding all of them is going to require you to explore every possibility in the long-awaited follow-up to one of the best Pokémon spin-offs ever: 1999’s Pokémon Snap. Of course, while you may want to take pictures of some Pokémon in New Pokémon Snap because you’re trying to catch (photos of) them all, there are undoubtedly some Pokémon you’ll find yourself endlessly snapping pictures of for the simple fact that you just can’t help but fall for their looks, charms, and undeniably photogenic nature.  But which Pokémon in the upcoming…
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29 Apr

How the Pokémon Trading Card Game Boom Brought Back Pokémon Fever

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This story is presented by The popularity of the Pokémon Trading Card Game was not an accident. While some might be quick to call it an overnight sensation, that actually sells short the effort that went into the Pokémon TCG (and the games it was based on). Released in Japan in October 1996 (just 8 months after the debut of the first Pokémon games), the Pokémon TCG was one of the first major additions to what would become a vast pipeline of Pokémon merchandise. While clearly inspired by the incredible success of the Magic: The Gathering franchise, as well as…
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28 Apr

How Long is New Pokémon Snap?

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New Pokémon Snap looks to break a bit of a dry streak for major new Nintendo Switch releases this year as well as give some of us the chance to prove that our inability to stop talking about Pokémon Snap for the last 20+ years was indeed worth it. Actually, the fact that New Pokémon Snap resembles the original in so many ways stands as a testament to the quality of its predecessor and how its simple (but lovable) concepts have aged so well over the years. We may no longer be asking out parents to take us to Blockbuster to print out…
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28 Apr

How Pikachu Became Pokémon’s Mascot

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If any Nintendo character could ever replace Mario as Nintendo’s mascot, it would have to be Pikachu. For over 25 years, Pikachu has served as the face of the Pokémon franchise in a way that makes it easy to imagine someone instantly identifying the electric creature even if they’d never played a Pokémon game. In fact, Pikachu’s status as one of gaming’s greatest mascots has embedded itself so deeply into our collective pop-culture consciousness over the years that many of us probably never stopped and thought how odd it is that Pikachu earned that status in the first place. After…
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27 Apr

Pokemon Go Luminous Legends Event: How to Catch Goomy, Xerneas, and Every New Pokemon

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The Pokémon Go team has revealed the first details for the popular mobile game‘s next event: Luminous Legends. “A legend will soon illuminate our world: Xerneas, the Life Pokémon, will make its Pokémon GO debut during the Luminous Legends X event,” says the Pokémon Go team. “Some Dragon- and Fairy-type Pokémon originally discovered in the Kalos region will be coming along for the journey as well, such as Spritzee, Swirlix, and Goomy! A new item will also be coming to Pokémon GO—the Rainy Lure Module, which can be used to evolve Sliggoo (the Evolution of Goomy) into Goodra. You can…
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22 Apr

Pokémon Snap: A Perfect Snapshot of the Pokémania Craze

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This article is presented by Nintendo. There’s nothing quite like Pokémon. For over 25 years, the Pokémon franchise has remained one of gaming’s most popular and impactful series. Whether you’ve actually played the core games, can’t stop collecting Pokémon cards, or fell in love with Detective Pikachu, Pokémon is the rare franchise that has found a way to stay popular across multiple generations while constantly exploring new concepts and ways to reinvent itself. Regardless of when you started catching ’em all, there’s nothing quite like the first time you discovered Pokémon. But for fans who’ve followed this series since the…
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16 Apr

How Pokémon Snap Helped Pioneer the Photo Mode Era

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This article is presented by Nintendo. When New Pokémon Snap is released for Nintendo Switch on April 30, Nintendo fans everywhere will have a chance to experience the long-awaited follow-up to one of the company’s most fascinating and beloved experiments: 1999’s Pokémon Snap. As an on-rails FPS game where the only shooting you did was take pictures of wild Pokémon, Pokémon Snap was a true oddity. While developer HAL Laboratory elevated that premise through Metroidvania-like unlock mechanics and a fantastic photo grading system, most of Pokémon Snap‘s gameplay really was based on the thrill of capturing in-game moments with a…
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24 Mar

New Pokemon Snap Trades Blockbuster Printing Stations for Social Media

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From the moment New Pokémon Snap was revealed, fans everywhere wondered how Nintendo would revisit one of the strangest (but beloved) corners of the Pokémon franchise in a way that honors the original game while updating it in ways that will help them recapture its unique magic after all these years. Based on the reactions to an extended preview of New Pokémon Snap that Nintendo recently showcased, it seems that their plan is to recapture the magic of Pokémon Snap by not changing many of the things that made the original title work while introducing at least one major new…
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23 Mar

Can a Pikmin Mobile Game Recreate the Magic of Pokemon Go?

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In a somewhat surprising move, Nintendo and Pokemon Go Niantic have revealed that they’re teaming up to develop a new mobile AR game based on the Pikmin franchise. That game will formally mark the start of a new partnership between the companies that both sides hope will eventually result in a series of AR games based on famous Nintendo franchises. “As we continue to expand our games portfolio, it was a natural next step to team up with Nintendo,” said Niantic chief executive officer, John Hanke. “We’re looking forward to shaping the future of AR together, bringing Nintendo’s beloved game…
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26 Feb

Is Pokémon Legends: Arceus the Future of the Franchise?

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On a day designed to celebrate everything that the Pokémon series has given us in the franchise’s 25-year history, few people expected Nintendo to reveal something quite so bold as Pokémon Legends: Arceus. Billed as an open-world action-RPG, Arceus promises to take us back to the very early days of the Sinnoh region. According to a description shared by the game’s developers, Arceus will let us “catch wild pokémon” after studying their behaviors and waiting for the right moment. Furthermore, the game will let us “battle wild pokémon with our ally pokémon” as part of a new combat system that…
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22 Feb

Why Pokémon Has Endured For 25 Years

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This article is presented by: In 1996, Joseph Tobin was a professor of early education at the University of Hawaii when he decided to walk into a hobby store in Kaimuki for field research. “They had some Pokémon stuff—the Japanese versions of the cartridges,” Tobin recalls. “People could buy them in this store before they were even available elsewhere. We interviewed the owner and decided that Pokémon would be a really interesting thing to study.” Tobin had a pre-existing interest in Japanese culture from time spent in Japan as an exchange student and therefore continued his research in other hobby…
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