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 »
It's not just your average fan that's getting swept up in the mania of Pokémon Go . Even Yu-Gi-Oh! creator Kazuki Takahashi couldn't resist joining in with the rest of us, and he did so shortly after the Japanese launch with some tribute art. Naturally, …Read more »
Pokémon Go was finally released in Japan the other day, finally giving players in Pokémon ’s country of origin the chance to look down at their phones and bonk their heads on things like everyone else. But this being Japan, players have really taken things …Read more »
The rumors are true. Pokemon will be coming to a silver screen near you courtesy film studio Legendary, according to a report by the Hollywood Reporter. The film, announced shortly after the augmented reality game Pokemon Go exploded into a blaze of profit for Nintendo …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 »
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