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March 7, 2024

Check Out Toyota’s Rad Rideable Pokemon

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When Pokemon Scarlet and Violet came out for the Nintendo Switch last year, they introduced a new concept: Pokemon as motorcycles. Sure, it was possible to ride Pokemon in previous games dating all the way back to the beginning, but these were usually short trips meant to cross bodies of water or similar obstacles. There hadn’t been a Pokemon you could just hop on, ride the countryside and call your “hawg” until Scarlet and Violet’s Miriadon and Koraidon. These two are the mascots of their respective games, which traditionally meant you wouldn’t meet them or get the chance to fight / capture them until close to the end of the game, and only after climbing a mountain or braving a huge cave filled with Zubats or….Scarlet and Violet broke with tradition by giving you Miriadon or Koraidon at the start of the game, for the reason that you’d need it to get around. These guys are some of the coolest ideas Pokemon ever had, even if the game itself had

August 14, 2023

Pokemon Games May Slow Down Their Release Schedule

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I’ve noticed Pokemon seems to be the only major franchise that still puts out games at the same pace it did 20 years ago. It took six years to get another Zelda, and the last time Rockstar put out a GTA game dinosaurs roamed the earth, but Pokemon still reliably pushes out another mainline title every two years or so, like it’s 2002 or something. Pokemon is also receiving constant complaints lately about halfhearted graphics and glitches. And as I suspected, the two are related. New quotes from The Pokémon Company COO Takato Utsunomiya seems to hint the reason Scarlet and Violet turned out so half-baked was because the games were rushed. “I think in general, if you look at the past, the path we’ve taken up until now has been this constant release, always regularly releasing products on a fairly fixed kind of a cadence, you might say,” Utsunomiya told Comicbook.com. “Always having these products able to be introduced and new experiences for our customers, and that’s how we’ve

August 8, 2023

Big Announcements From Pokemon Presents Livestream

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Nintendo promised a new live video full of Pokemon-related announcements this morning, and that is what we got. It’s off-season to announce anything really huge, so this set of trailers was mostly spinoffs or expansions for existing games. Don’t expect the moon this time. Detective Pikachu returns, as the title says! The gruff, talking rat in a hat has a new case to solve, and plenty of new friends to do it with. Yes, the graphics could probably be done on a Gamecube but is that really important? It’s about how the game plays. Detective Pikachu Returns launches October 6 on Switch. In a move that might be a little controversial, Pokemon Scarlet and Violet are getting two separate DLC chapters with completely different content in each. The only way to experience it all is to own both games, which few people will. Scarlet’s The Teal Mask takes you to the Land of Kitakami where you meet new Pokemon Okidogi, Munkidori, and Fezandipiti. The Indigo Disk takes place in a

February 27, 2022

Next Pokemon Generation Officially Announced

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When Nintendo said there would be a Pokemon Direct this weekend, the most popular wish was for some kind of update to Pokemon Arceus. They got that wish, but no one expected an official announcement for the next generation so soon. It happened, and with one of the best trailers they’ve ever put together to boot. Check it out: Pokemon Scarlet and Pokemon Violet are the names, and though there were no shots of the game in action, there were plenty of aerial shots of the environments, Pokemon and buildings in the world. The three starters were also revealed: Sprigatito (the green cat), Fuecoco (the red crocodile) and Quaxly (the duck in the blue hat). The biggest surprise was the release window, which GF promises to hit within this year. Of course, if you cut a lot of corners on the graphics anything is possible. For those of you hoping the open-world mechanics of Arceus would be adopted into the next mainline set of games, that probably isn’t likely. The