[Update: Uniqlo has disqualified a second finalist and their design from the competition. Their Mewtwo shirt will no longer be put into production.]The Grand Prize winner of a recent Pokémon Sword & Shield competition, hosted by ...

One of the best things Niantic has implemented in Pokemon Go is the "community day" concept. Originally debuting back in 2018, the idea is to offer one day a month for players to earn enhanced rewards or catch specific Pokemon. Naturally a ...

When Game Freak decided it was time to turn Pokémon into a collectathon that not only involved creatures, but human hairstyles and outfits, they struck gold. While we basically knew that the concept of customization was in for Sword ...

Wow, they even have all 28 forms of Unown. That's a lot of Pokémon plush toys! You too can open your wallet and continue collecting Pokémon plushies from the Fit line. Next up, Johto. Pre-orders have opened for the Poké...

Nintendo and the Pokemon Company have stealth released a brand new entry in the Pokemon Rumble series. Coming to mobile devices, Rumble Rush is a free-to-play title that features real-time battles against various Pokemon critters. The twist...

Japan is overflowing with mascots. I wasn't even prepared when I visited, as every activity and location, from warnings about creepy airport shadow denizens who steal your stuff to anti-littering campaigns, have creatures. Prefectures (dist...

According to the number-crunchers over at Box Office Mojo, Pokémon Detective Pikachu has beaten the record for biggest opening for a video game-licensed movie, having taken in some $58 million from North American theatres during its ...

That Pokémon train keeps rolling. Multiple projects are in the works, including Nintendo's upcoming main generation Switch entries Sword & Shield, as well as any number of projects The Pokémon Company (which again, is...

A couple years back, we had a feature known as Occamsdex. It became something of a crowdsourced community feature in which users would choose their favorite Pokémon or other video game creatures for our one-and-only Occams to describ...

Are you jazzed up for the release of Pokemon Detective Pikachu this week? Currently being heralded as the first good video game film adaptation, Niantic has decided to run an event in Pokemon Go to promote the movie. The obvious prize will...

Developer Niantic has released the results of their Earth Day 2019 efforts to improve our planet and its environment. Across April, players were encouraged to gather together and hold clean-up events, collecting trash and garbage for proper...

Yesterday due to seemingly misplaced ads at a Target store, there were rumblings of an upcoming brand new "Pokémon Pass" app that would interact with existing apps/games. Today The Pokemon Company has confirmed directly to Destructoi...

Niantic has added a few more legendary Pokémon to Pokémon Go, but they haven't been relegated to raids or research events. For the first time in the history of the title, players will be able to spot Pokémon Diamond and...

While I (and 10 million plus other people, really) dug Pokémon Let's Go, there was a general sense of dread that the series would become TV-focused, with Lét's Go's emphasis on motion controls. In a blink and you'll miss it so...

Funko figurines, all ballooned heads and lifeless eyes, rarely don't suck. Their appeal is obvious enough. Funko has its tendrils in every corner of pop culture, and people want memorabilia from things they like. It makes sense, disproporti...

I rarely watch modern trailers for movies I'm interested in. You can be shown too much, after all (and often are) but I can't help but enjoy each successive trailer for the upcoming Pokémon: Detective Pikachu movie, they're just so e...

Pokémon is a series that asks you to be the very best at all times, but for this generation, you can be the best nomenclature master. According to Serebii, CoroCoro Magazine (which frequently hosts all sorts of Pokémon&nb...

Last month Niantic "experimented" with a Pokemon Go event they called the Legendary Lunch hour, which basically beefed up the amount of five-star raids for a brief period on March 13. It's a pretty genius idea all told, as it gets people ou...

Pokemon Go is still trucking, amid huge financial returns nearly three years after its initial launch. Anecdotally almost everyone you know may have quit; but remember that Go has a big worldwide following. The United States only made ...

It's a sad day indeed. Bandai Namco has announced that Pokkén Tournament, the seminal Pokémon fighting game, will cease arcade online operations on March 25. Yes this was an online-capable arcade machine with "tutorial se...

From the earliest moments that we knew about Pokemon: Detective Pikachu, Destructoid was at the forefront trying to get Danny DeVito, the only logical choice, to voice the titular role. While ultimately we didn't get the right actor, we at ...

Legendary Comics are to release a comic-book adaptation of what is surely to be the feel-good movie of the Summer; Pokémon: Detective Pikachu. The movie, which hits theaters in May, will receive the extended one-shot comic soon after...

Pokémon Go wants you to ditch your sad office lunch and your meaningless office smalltalk. Anyone who's fortunate enough to get an hour-long break in the middle of the workday will soon find themselves with a little extra incent...

While Lyle and myself continue to question the mistake into a non-miracle that is the Sonic the Hedgehog live-action movie, here's what's been happening in video games: The upcoming Sonic live-action movie is the thing of nightmares! Trin...

There's a few different camps when it comes to Pokemon versions beyond the typical two starter kits. Some people (myself included) like to see just one final "third" copy with some extra content and super-bosses. Others have been diggi...