Pokemon Sword and Shield came out in November of 2019, and my how time flies. I mean, adding two very spread out DLC campaigns will extend the life of your game fairly well, and I think at this point I prefer that single SKU additive approa...

In 2020 The Pokemon Company debuted its first "Poketoon," which managed to draw inspiration from classic cartoons of the Chuck Jones and Fleischer eras. It was a hit, and as expected, it takes time to prep more. Well, here we are! This...

It's still a bit jarring that there has been two decades between Pokémon Snap games. The first was a highlight in any Nintendo 64 collection; it was a quick, fast, instantly understandable game. Hop in a buggy, roll through the wilds...

There are plenty of hidden events in New Pokemon Snap. Some of them are pretty intricate, requiring the same sort of timing and positioning that the original Nintendo 64 game did. Blastoise, by contrast, is not so secretive. The game essent...

Detective Pikachu is a really strange subseries for The Pokemon Company. Beginning life as a 3DS game, it spun off into a film that did fairly well, and it even got a giant amiibo! It's on their radar to an extent, but only just. Is there r...

A new Pokémon Snap game is out today, a sentence I am still honestly surprised I'm typing in the year 2021. The first was a one-off spin-off on the Nintendo 64, a quirky game that let you photograph Pokémon instead of capturin...

My Nintendo is at it again, and it seems like "roughly a day or so before a first-party launch" is going to be the cadence for new rewards. In case you missed all the fanfare, New Pokemon Snap is out this Friday on Switch, and My Ninte...

I've just gone from barely keeping tabs on New Pokémon Snap to seeing the entire list of featured Pokémon in a single image. Talk about whiplash! I hadn't really thought about the potential for this photo-hunt adventure to be ...

New Pokemon Snap is coming very soon to Switch, and in case people didn't know about it, Nintendo just put up a new series of Platinum Point quests. Here's a quick explainer on how to earn 200 Platinum.

Artist Daniel Cortes (@Dannycortoons) has completed a painstaking project to depict the entire roster of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate in an aesthetic reminiscent of 1930s animation, perhaps more commonly known as the "Rubber Hose" style, and ...

Over the weekend Nintendo held a Pokemon Sword and Shield Players Cup III tournament, and you can reap the benefits. As is the case with these sorts of events, folks can grab a free reward: a Dream Ball. Wait, is that a big deal? Well,...

It's been 22 years... Pokemon Snap came out in 1999. Feel old yet? The weird little project that could from HAL Laboratory has withstood the test of time, spurring myriad think pieces about how great the game is and how there should eventua...

I'm always itching to jump back into Pokemon Sword and Shield, even though I've pretty much exhausted everything I can do at this point. Whether it's messing around with expeditions or hopping into new Max Raid Battles, the call of get...

It's April Fools', which means I should be laughing and smiling more. But I'm not! The "holiday" has become somewhat of a farce in recent years, with publishers trying to get in on the "fun" by marketing real games that end up disappointing...

If you played the Pokemon Trading Card Game as a kid, you remember those classic backgrounds. You know, the plains, or the trees? The things that looked like they were straight out of Digital Blasphemy? Well, they kind of wer...

Periodically, the powers that be share out Pokemon Sword and Shield codes and events in lieu of more expansion content. I mean, we could still get that! We had a season pass already and two expansions, but for now, players are relying ...

Pokemon Go has been around since mid-2016, and it's been aggressively selling a number of microtransactions ever since. One of the most contentious elements is the egg system, which is like a pseudo loot box; and has managed to evade legisl...

[Update: The Pokemon pens are gone! But Nintendo has also added two Mario 35 rewards into the mix: a "three year journal" and a pencil case. You can find them here.] In what is becoming a biweekly event, there are now new physical My Ninten...

So! The Pokemon Company showed off a lot of new franchise news recently, and confirmed two new games. Well, one brand new game and one set of remakes for Diamond and Pearl. Although each generation has its fans, Diamond and Pearl ...

Cblogs of 2/27 to 3/5/2021 -RedHeadPeak misses Dead Space like many of us. -LaTerry shares the March Band of Bloggers prompt about what pulls you back into games. -Gamingnerd looks at the history of Pokemon throughout the ages. -Virtua Kaz...

For several years, Pokemon Go existed in this sort of phantom zone; where it didn't really connect with any mainline games at all. The Pokemon Company was clearly trying to gauge whether or not it was a hit and worth the effort to brin...

Since the November 2019 launch of Pokemon Sword and Shield, Game Freak has done a decent job of running various max raid events, as well as doling out items for random celebrations. Some of them require a "community goal" of sorts (a modern...

[Narrated by Josh Picard] Growing up, I had a friend who was very into the Star Wars Customizable Card Game. He carried two binders with him throughout the fifth grade: one for his school work and one for all of his cards. I don't know...

Cblogs Recap: Week 8 -Gamingnerd takes an in-depth look at the many generations of Pokémon for its 25th anniversary. -Gamingnerd writes about The Legend of Zelda series in celebration of its 35th anniversary. -Kerrik52 deep dives i...

In the 25 years since its original inception, the Pokémon universe has grown from just a handful of lead critters to a ridiculous menagerie of monsters. The designs tend to get a little weirder and more abstract as the developers run...