Tag Archives: Pokemon

Open the Pokemon Battle Academy board game and you’ll be whisked back to childhood. Designed as an entry-point to the Pokemon Trading Card Game, it’s crammed with nostalgia for a hobby that’s been going strong since 1996. However, I don’t know if it’s ever been this accessible. That’s because Pokemon …

To the unschooled, Pokémon hasn’t changed a bit since its Game Boy debut in 1999. Animé-eyed kid adopts one of three elemental monsters from a short-sighted professor (“Are you a boy or a girl?”), sets out to battle trainers at the merest meeting of eyes, prevents a criminal corporation from …

An earlier version of this article originally appeared on this site on October 14, 2012. Welcome to the world of Pokmon! We’re entering the era of Pokemon X and Y–just check out our Pokemon X and Y review and video series if you doubt us. To help spread the Pok-excitement, …

If you’re eager to transfer all your trusty Pokemon from Black and White to Pokemon X and Y when it releases on Oct. 12, you’ll have to wait a bit. Nintendo today announced when Pokemon Bank and Poke Transporter will launch on the eShop in North America. .@Pokemon Bank and …

Gotta catch ’em all! Its been more than 15 years since Pokmon took Japans islands by storm, and since then the numerous species of portable critters have become beloved across the globe. The RPG is a monster of its own, laden with copious product tie-ins and spin-offs. Pokmon Black/White 2 …

When the (so far) Japanese-only Pokemon + Nobunaga’s Ambition was announced (opens in new tab) we were initially confused by the new Pokemon game before us. Not only was it a strategy RPG teaming pocket monsters with Japanese history, it was coming to the nearly dead DS. Now we know …

Pokemon Black and White were some of this year’s best titles and a great farewell to our DS’s before the 3DS took center stage. After Pokemon Rumble Blast hit the 3DS a few months back, things had been quiet on the monster-collecting front, but rumors of incoming announcements are in …