Pikachu stands in front of the Akashi Kaikyo Bridge with the newly installed Lugia manhole cover. picture: © 2021 Pokémon. © 1995-2021 Nintendo / Creatures Inc./GAME FREAK inc. In August 2020, Kotaku reported that there were 100 Pokémon manhole covers in Japan. It seemed like a lot at the time. But last year the number ...
picture: Pokémon Go Niantic, the studio behind it Pokémon Go, responded to player criticism and threats of boycott following proposed changes to some of the rules of the game in the US and New Zealand did not go down well. Here is the background if you missed it: Niantic recently removed the social distancing feature ...
Screenshot: TiMi / Kotaku Unite Pokémon explodes straight and with a new patch hits the servers in early August, many players have followed their accounts to stay up to date with MOBA news. However, the game is not managed by The Pokémon Company or Game Freak, but developed by the Chinese developer TiMi Studio Group. ...
picture: Epic games Fourteen days‘s latest event, Rainbow royale, is supposed to be a festival for the LGBTQ + community. But elsewhere, developer Epic Games decided not to suspend a popular creator for more than a few hours after discovering a story of homophobia. Although the influencer has been reinstated, the situation underscores what some ...
photo: Niantic / Kotaku This last weekend offered the world Pokémon GO Festive 2021. That year, the biggest annual mobile game event tried to create a more open-minded atmosphere, but still managed to end it all with the steamiest squib imaginable: a quest series that focused solely on Hoopa that didn’t include Hoopa in any ...
I have been told that the plural of Pikachu is Pikachu and I refuse to accept that knowledge.picture: The Pokémon Company / Kotaku There aren’t too many Pikachu out there, and The Pokémon Company will prove it. To celebrate 25 years of Pokémon and its beloved electric mouse mascot, The Pokémon Company announced a special ...
picture: Heritage Auctions / Kotaku / Mark Wilson (Getty Images) Super mario 64 is a good game. But would you pay $ 1.5 million for a copy of it? Probably not. But someone just did it. Today a highly rated and fully sealed copy of the Nintendo 64 classic Super mario 64 sold at auction ...
Shigeru Miyamto (L) and Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa (R)photo: KAZUHIRO NOGI (Getty Images) At Nintendo’s 81st annual general meeting, attendees had a question-and-answer area to ask all kinds of business-related questions. One was so obvious, however, that I can’t believe it’s never been asked: someone just wanted to know what everyone’s favorite video games are. ...
Bagram Airfield, Afghanistanphoto: Joe Raedle (Getty Images) As the last major missions by American and NATO troops prepare to leave Afghanistan, one of the most important milestones in their departure was the closure of what was once the largest US base in the country last week. In the past 20 years, Bagram was so big ...
picture: PWCC / Kotaku / Mark Wilson (Getty Images) The continued demand for rare and valuable Pokémon cards has resulted in a frenzy out thereas people spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on unopened boxes and rare cards. Celebrities and popular influencers have also committed themselves over the past two years and continued to blow ...
