Pokken Tournament is a Tekken-like beat 'em up but with Pokemon, that was released in mid-July in Japanese arcades only. It's expected to head over to the west eventually though and it may bring with it something that has the potential to be a huge earner for Bandai Namco and …
Read More »‘Twitch Plays’ crowd powered gaming takes on Dark Souls
Two heads are better than one, or so the old saying goes. The point is that when great minds think alike, they can achieve more than their respective parts ever could. Unfortunately though, as much as team-based superhero movies would have us believe, that doesn't scale up linearly. In fact, …
Read More »Moonrise wants to be a PC Pokemon MMO
Even though Nintendo and Game Freak want to keep hitting new, successive generations of gamers with each Pokemon title, whilst still offering a few developments for long time players, the fact that neither company has ever put out a multi-platform MMO experience has always felt like leaving a fortune on …
Read More »Apple kills ‘date trick’ for installing emulators on iOS
Apple has decided to quietly close a loop hole in the next version of iOS that allowed users to install console emulators via the Safari browser. The new iOS 8.1 beta was pushed out to developers a couple of days ago and it was confirmed that changing the date and …
Read More »Pokemon TCG now available on iOS
Trading and collectible card games have shown impressive growth over the past few years, thanks to the expansion of Magic The Gathering on consoles and PCs, the birth of Hex and its contemporaries through crowd funding and perhaps most of all, the explosion in popularity of Blizzard's recently released Hearthstone …
Read More »Tekken developer making a Pokemon fighting game
Bandai Namco's Tekken development team is making a new fighting game based on the Pokemon series for Japanese arcades. The game is called Pokken and there is currently no word on whether or not the game will make its way to the Wii U or 3DS in Japan or the …
Read More »Excited for Pokemon Omega Ruby? Here’s the first footage
With the first generation of Pokemon fans well out of the original targeted age group for the series, it's not surprising that Nintendo and Game Freak would want to try and draw them back by harkening back to the past, instead of just pushing forward into the future. It's also …
Read More »Pokemon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire coming to 3DS
Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire are getting the re-make treatment, the game is going to come out on the 3DS and will hopefully bring back some old Pokemon fans to the series. Nintendo has had a difficult time with the series in recent years, the DS iterations of the games weren't …
Read More »Don’t let Pokemon and Zelda Monopoly tempt you into buying
Despite being an ancient game with outdated game mechanics, Monopoly sets are pumped out year after year and you'll find a copy of some sort stuffed in the back of every household's cupboard. However the creators want you to buy yet another version of the same game, this time by …
Read More »Pokemon will never have DLC, according to devs
Whether you're a fan of DLC, or simply remember the day when they were free and called “patches,” they're part of a trend in modern gaming that doesn't appear to be going away any time soon. The second a new game is given a release date, we're told about special …
Read More »Nintendo bosses aren’t happy about the Pokemon X leak
Yesterday images of the new Pokemon game were leaked on this user's Instagram account, showing off some in-game features and environments. After a few hours the news hit Nintendo HQ, the pictures were seen and the Nintendogs were released. The leaker, Kostdin Manolov, had to remove all of the images from his …
Read More »Get motivational… with pokemon
Pokemon is many things to many people: a time sink, a passionate hobby, a competitive series of RPGs, but to one person it seems, the pocket monsters are inspirational. While a lot of the messages might be quite hokey, there's something a little more meaningful about them, when juxtaposed with …
Read More »Pokédex app makes the iPad seem worth it
Almost. While it doesn't go quite as far as to slap a pokéball in your hand and send you off on your journey to fame and fortune, the official pokédex application comes about as close to it as is possible. Available now outside of Japan for the first time, on …
Read More »PETA vs Pokemon
If you put Pokemon in the context of the real world, it would be a horribly cruel place to live: capturing animals and forcing them to fight till they pass out. Of course thankfully we can differentiate that it's a game and that just because Pikachu can take a few …
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