pokemon
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Pokémon to Re-Offer Van Gogh Pikachu Card After Disastrous Collaboration Launch
Late last month, what should’ve been a cutesy, even educational collaboration between Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum and Pokémon flared up into an absurd disaster as scalpers hungry to continue turning a profit on rare Pokémon merchandise raced to get their hands on as many behatted Pikachus as humanly possible. Now after a period of silence,…
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Fans Think Latest Pokémon Go Artwork Was Made With AI
Pokémon Go publisher Niantic has aroused fans’ suspicions after a promotional image showed some telltale signs of potentially being AI artwork, rather than something made by an actual human artist. The image in question appears in promotional material for Adventures Abound, the next season of the mobile collectathon game, set to run from September 1…
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Pokémon Sleep Users Quickly Find Way to Exploit Peripheral to Access Cute Nightcap Snorlax
If you start gamifying app features, no matter how ostensibly beneficial, then you should expect players to abuse them. Pokémon Sleep is supposed to help people focus on achieving a better night’s sleep, but players have already figured out the oldest trick in the book as a means of grabbing the app’s most sought creatures,…
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Wrap Your Earbuds in Dittos, Jigglypuffs, and Snorlaxes With Samsung’s New Collab
Twenty-seven years after the first Game Boy title was released, and over 1,000 different pocket monsters later, Pokémon is, somehow, still incredibly popular the world over, and Samsung is once again capitalising on the franchise’s rabid fandom by wrapping its wireless earbuds in three new Poké-themed charging cases.