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A 35-year-old man in Sapporo, Japan was arrested this weekend for a bout of Pokemon Go-induced rage, it was reported today. The story goes like this: the man was walking down the street, playing Pokemon Go, when he spotted a car parked facing traffic and, …Read more »
Are you still playing Pokemon Go? Better make sure your iPhone is running iOS 11. Starting February 28, Pokemon Go will only be playable on the latest version of iOS, meaning some older iPhones and iPads will be left out. That includes the iPhone 5 …Read more »
Feeling a little burnt out on Pokemon Go ? Already caught ‘em all? Have you Pokemon… Stopped? The latest update to the smartphone game might get you Go ing again: developer Niantic are adding more than 80 new Pokemon to the game. The new Pokemon …Read more »
Pop culture magazine Nikkei Entertainment, published by Japanese media conglomerate Nikkei, has released its list of the best entertainment of 2016. The list is made to resemble rankings of sumo wrestlers, and like the sumo world, has separate “east” and “west” divisions (in sumo, east …Read more »
Get this: if you are enrolled at Fresno City College, you can, starting from October, take a class in Pokemon Go . A strange and wonderful time we live in, guys. What kind of class is it, exactly? A gym class, as it turns out, …Read more »
What do The Da Vinci Code , satellite TV and Pokemon Go have in common? If you answered “a waste of time,” you might not technically be wrong , but the answer I was looking for is: they’re all banned in Iran. The Iranian government …Read more »
Saw this coming a mile away. Over 700 players of Pokemon Go in Japan have been cited by police for traffic violations since the launch of the game last month, according to Tokyo Reporter. Pokemon Go? More like Pokemon Stop, amirite? The total number of …Read more »
Scattered among the hundreds of headlines about Pokemon Go over the last few weeks: stories about people ending up in various states of injury while attempting to catch ‘em all. In Japan, where the game is ( still! ) not out, the government is taking …Read more »
Okay, imagine this, but with no Pikachu. Japan: 9 times out of 10, a pretty darn cool place to live if you’re into anime, manga and video games. An anime film is in theaters practically every week, manga is cheap as chips, and Japanese games …Read more »
Gotta wear ‘em all. A new line of business shirts with customizable designs featuring all 151 original Pokemon is coming soon. They’re tie-in between The Pokemon Company and custom shirt maker Original Stitch, who’ve revealed a website that, so far, offers 20 Pokemon designs up …Read more »
Back in July, we reported Legendary Pictures had struck a deal to create a live-action Pokemon film. Now we’ve got some more details, including the film’s director and title, which, believe it or not, involves everyone’s favorite electric-type Pokemon and his sleuthing skills. According to …Read more »
Who’s got Pokemon fever? If you answered “the entirety of America,” you would be correct. But if you answered “ Warcraft producers Legendary Pictures,” you would also be correct. That’s the word, at least, according to Deadline, who claim the studio has thrown a Pokeball …Read more »
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is an agency inside of the United States Department of Commerce, and its website spotlighted someone who got into science thanks to Pokémon. The person in question is Samuel Márquez González, and he is currently undertaking research …Read more »
Late last month, Otaku USA reported that Amsterdam’s Vincent van Gogh Museum was teaming up with Pokémon for a limited-time collaboration that included Pokémon exhibits at the museum. This is related to van Gogh’s love of Japanese art, so the idea was to get people …Read more »
A Japanese person who goes by Kota online inadvertently started something by tweeting an image of their friend’s old Pokémon Piplup toy. “My friend’s Piplup is really gross,” Kota commented with the image. It could have ended there, but it turns out so many fans …Read more »
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