In Real Life

The New Pokémon Movie Looks Like This

Like clockwork, every summer there’s a new Pocket Monsters movie in Japan. This year’s flick is Pocket Monsters Best Wishes! The Movie: Kyurem vs. the Sacred Swordsman: Keldeo.


July 26, 2011
In Real Life

Pokémon, Japanese Icon

Pocket Monsters first launched in Japan back in early 1996 on the Game Boy. Later that year, a card game followed. By the late 1990s, the series was supposed to be a fad, a passing fancy.


May 19, 2011
Mobile

Monster Hunter Stalks The Mighty IPhone

The race to bag the biggest game of all gets small in Japan this June, when Capcom launches Monster Hunter Dynamic Fighting, the furiously popular franchises first foray onto the iPhone.


May 9, 2011
News

Will They Ever Run Out Of Pokémon?

There are 650 Pocket Monsters. That’s a lot. So Game Freak, the studio behind Pokémon, should be running out of ideas for new Pocket Monsters any day now, right?


March 4, 2011
Nintendo

Talented Musicians Choose Pokémon

This past weekend marked 15 years of Pokémon. Fifteen years! And what better way to say that than with a free album of Pok&eacut;mon chiptunes.


November 23, 2010
In Real Life

Smugleaf Is A Better Name Than Snivy

When Pokémon: Black and White was released in Japan, the three “starter” Pocket Monsters were called “Tsutaaja”, “Pokabu”, and “Mijumaru”. Tsutaaja doesn’t quite roll off the tongue. What the internet came up with did.


April 30, 2010
News

New Pokemons You Can Cuddle

This summer, like every summer in Japan, will see a new Pokémon movie. So let’s snuggle.


February 8, 2010
News

Silhouette Of New Pokemon Series

Over the weekend, Pokémon morning variety show Pokémon showed the outline of the upcoming Pokemon series – that is, the “entirely new” series.


December 11, 2009

Pokemon Teaches Your Children To Worship Satan

Pok´mon, plural, turn kids into devil. They are monsters. And there’s stabbing and shootings, too! Maybe it has something to do with the dark realm?