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is a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years. Though the first Nintendo Switch era of Pokémon games was undeniably rocky at times, it brought the series’ trading and organization systems into a new level of maturity. It wasn’t always easy to complete Pokédexes in remakes like Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl and new entries like Sword and Shield. But those games helped The Pok
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An enhanced Nintendo Switch 2 version of the game will also be available at launch. Pokémon Legends: Z-A, the follow-up to 2022’s Pokémon Legends: Arceus , now has a release date of October 16. Along with the release date announcement, The Pokémon Company also confirmed that a new Pokémon Presents presentation will broadcast on July 22. Presumably we'll see more of the monsters we’re going to be catching and battling with in Lumiose City, including the Mega-Evolved Pokémon featured on the newl
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Today, Nintendo announced that Pokémon Legends: Z-A and Pokémon Legends: Z-A – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition are scheduled to debut on October 16th. Per The Pokémon Company International’s press release , preorders for digital versions of the games will begin June 5th on the Nintendo eShop. And according to a post on the company’s official Japanese X profile , preorders for physical editions of the games start July 23rd. On July 22nd, TCPi is also putting on another Pokémon Presents streaming prese
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Anthropic announced two new models, Claude 4 Opus and Claude Sonnet 4, during its first developer conference in San Francisco on Thursday. Claude 4 Opus will be immediately available to paying Claude subscribers, while Claude Sonnet 4 will be available to free and paid users. The new models, which jump the naming convention from 3.7 straight to 4, have a number of strengths, including their ability to reason, plan, and remember the context of conversations over extended periods of time, the com
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Anthropic announced two new models, Claude 4 Opus and Claude Sonnet 4, during its first developer conference in San Francisco on Thursday. The pair will be immediately available to paying Claude subscribers. The new models, which jump the naming convention from 3.7 straight to 4, have a number of strengths, including their ability to reason, plan, and remember the context of conversations over extended periods of time, the company says. Claude 4 Opus is also even better at playing Pokémon than
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Everybody loves Pokémon, whether that’s playing with (and as) them, watching them, and collecting ’em all. Nintendo’s never not ready to trot them out, and for those in the U.S., you’ll be able to visit them at a museum next year. On May 22, 2026, Nintendo will bring its Pokémon Fossil Museum to the Chicago’s Field Museum. The exhibit will feature fabricated “fossils” of the monsters compared with “ancient lifeforms found in real-world fossils. […] Trainers of all ages are invited to visit and
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Nintendo's lawyers have killed another Palworld gameplay mechanic. Pocketpair issued a patch on Thursday that changes how gliding works in the cheeky "Pokémon with guns" satire. You can still glide in Palworld, but you can no longer use your Pal to do so. Starting with patch v0.5.5, you can only soar with a boring, inanimate glider in your inventory. Although Glider Pals can still passively buff gliding, it's no longer as fun as flinging out the creature and using their aerodynamics to cross a
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The ongoing lawsuit between Nintendo and Palworld developer Pocketpair has forced the studio to make some changes to its Pokémon-like game. In a new blog post, Pocketpair explained that a patch in November removed certain gameplay features, and that an upcoming update will cull even more. “We have had to make certain compromises in order to avoid disruptions to the development and distribution of Palworld,” the studio says. This started with a patch on November 30th, which most notably removed
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That’s not a misprint. Goldin‘s recently concluded “Pop Culture Elite Auction” did indeed proffer a number of elite items, but none so gloriously extravagant as a 1999 Pokémon Charizard card in a condition so flawless, it could not be graded any higher. For that, a collector dug six figures deep, paying $213,500—more than double what someone paid for that viral Charizard-shaped Cheeto back in March. According to Goldin, “ever since the release of the first Pokémon trading cards in 1996, Chariza
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Earlier this year, we took a look at how and why Anthropic's Claude large language model was struggling to beat Pokémon Red (a game, let's remember, designed for young children). But while Claude 3.7 is still struggling to make consistent progress at the game weeks later, a similar Twitch-streamed effort using Google's Gemini 2.5 model managed to finally complete Pokémon Blue this weekend across over 106,000 in-game actions, earning accolades from followers, including Google CEO Sundar Pichai.
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Google’s most expensive AI model seems to have crossed a major milestone: Beating a 29-year-old video game. Last night, Google CEO Sundar Pichai posted triumphantly on X, “What a finish! Gemini 2.5 Pro just completed Pokémon Blue!” To be clear, the Gemini Plays Pokemon livestream was created by (in his own words) “a 30 year old software engineer unaffiliated with Google” who goes by Joel Z. But Google executives have been cheering the effort on. For example, Logan Kilpatrick, the product lead
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is a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years. The next set of Pokémon TCG Pocket cards feels like a reminder that spring and summertime is almost here. Today, The Pokémon Company announced that Celestial Guardians, Pokémon TCG Pocket’s next expansion, is set to release next week on April 30th. The new set will feature a number of monsters from the Pokémon Sun and Moon games on t
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What just happened? Nintendo, probably the most litigious games company in the world, has requested a DMCA subpoena ordering Discord to reveal the identity of the person behind last year's Pokémon "Teraleak." The leaker allegedly hacked Pokémon developer Game Freak and posted a slew of data covering not only unreleased and upcoming work, but also personal information about employees. In October 2024, Discord user GameFreakOUT posted 1 terabyte of data to a Discord server called FeakLeak that in
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What just happened? Nintendo, probably the most litigious games company in the world, has requested a DMCA subpoena ordering Discord to reveal the identity of the person behind last year's Pokémon "Teraleak." The leaker allegedly hacked Pokémon developer Game Freak and posted a slew of data covering not only unreleased and upcoming work, but also personal information about employees. In October 2024, Discord user GameFreakOUT posted 1 terabyte of data to a Discord server called FeakLeak that in
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Nintendo is going after the leaker behind last year’s massive Pokémon data breach , according to a report by Polygon . The company has asked a California court to force Discord to give up the identity of the person behind the leak, who goes by the name "GameFreakOUT" on the platform. Nintendo wants Discord to release the name, address, phone number and email address of the leaker. It said in a subpoena that the person uploaded "confidential materials not released to the public" to a Discord ser
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Not even Pokémon is safe from AI benchmarking controversy. Last week, a post on X went viral, claiming that Google’s latest Gemini model surpassed Anthropic’s flagship Claude model in the original Pokémon video game trilogy. Reportedly, Gemini had reached Lavendar Town in a developer’s Twitch stream; Claude was stuck at Mount Moon as of late February. But what the post failed to mention is that Gemini had an advantage. As users on Reddit pointed out, the developer who maintains the Gemini str
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The project shows how far AI systems have come and how much further they still have to go. If Claude Plays Pokémon is supposed to offer a glimpse of AI's future, it's not a very convincing showcase. For the past month and counting, Twitch has watched Anthropic's chatbot struggle to play Pokémon Red. Across multiple runs, Claude has failed to beat the nearly 30 year old game. And yet for David Hershey, the project's lead developer, the showcase has been a success. "I wanted some place where I c
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Google TL;DR Google Search has a new Pokémon-themed Easter egg. You can catch the original 151 Pokémon by searching their names. Each Pokémon you catch will get you closer to earning Master Balls that can be used to catch legendary or mythical Pokémon. It’s not uncommon for Google to occasionally inject a little fun into the Search experience. For example, around the time the movie Wicked came out, the company had an Easter egg where the search results floated upward like bubbles rising from
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is a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years. Real time day / night cycles have been featured in a lot of Pokémon titles since the Gold and Silver era, but Pokémon Legends: Z-A is going to take the classic mechanic in a wild new direction. During today’s March Direct presentation, Nintendo dropped a new Pokémon Legends: Z-A trailer showcasing a few of the game’s returning monster
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In case you haven't heard, Anthropic has been livestreaming its AI model, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, attempting to complete a playthrough of Pokémon Red. The experiment, dubbed "Claude Plays Pokémon," is intended to be a demonstration of "AI agents," the industry's ongoing race to create AI models that are capable of operating autonomously by interacting with their environment. Claude has managed to get surprisingly far into the game, clinching three Gym badges and reaching, as of this week, Cerulean
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is a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years. The popularity of Pokémon cards depicting shiny monsters is one of the reasons that physical packs have become so much harder to find in the wild these days. The Pokémon Company has been trying to figure out ways to solve the real world scarcity / scalping problem for a while now, but that shouldn’t be an issue for Pokémon TCG Pocket’
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Brick-building and monster-catching are about to converge, and parents' wallets aren't ready. The Lego Group and The Pokémon Company said on Tuesday that their collaboration will bear (plastic) fruit starting next year. It sounds like the ideal companion for the upcoming Lego Game Boy. The companies haven't yet announced any Lego Pokémon sets — or, for that matter, anything beyond the fact that there is now a partnership and that they're targeting a 2026 release date. But the tease will likely
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Clear some space on the table, grab your brick separator and get ready to build your very own Lego Pikachu. Lego and Pokémon have announced a multi-year partnership to officially bring trainers and builders together for the first time. The upcoming Lego Pokémon sets will hit shelves in 2026. Lego hasn't provided details on whether we'll get minifigure-scaled Pokémon, larger brick-built models like the Super Mario Kart or a combination of both. We can see a brick-built Pikachu tail in Lego's tea
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Pokémon and Lego officially announced their first-ever collab, which will release sometime in 2026. Earlier today, the announcement leaked on the Lego Mexico Facebook page, which posted a short video teasing the collaboration. The footage included a Lego brick of Pikachu’s tail and the sounds of sparks of lightning. Although the teaser was quickly removed from the Facebook page, grainy screengrabs of the clip found their way onto the Lego Leak subreddit before migrating to X/Twitter. Seeing tha
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is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2011, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. Lego has announced that another popular gaming franchise is getting the plastic brick treatment. On its website, the company has teased that Lego Pokémon sets are “coming soon,” but also says the sets won’t arrive until 2026 — which isn’t as soon as we’d hoped. There are no details yet on specific sets or which characters will be available in Leg
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Saudi Investment Fund pays $3.5bn to capture Pokémon Go 3 hours ago Share Save Tom Gerken Technology reporter Share Save Getty Images Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF) will pay $3.5bn (£2.7bn) to buy the gaming division of developer Niantic, whose titles include the hit mobile game Pokémon Go. The game involves players walking around in the real world to hunt the collectable creatures, which appear on their phone screens using augmented reality. Despite launching almost a decade ago
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What just happened? Niantic, the company that enjoyed global success with Pokémon Go in 2016, is selling its gaming division to Scopely for $3.5 billion. In addition to Pokémon Go, the deal will see Monster Hunter Now and Pikmin Bloom become the property of the Saudi Arabia-owned mobile developer. Scopely is also acquiring Niantic's internal development teams and companion apps for Pokémon Go – Campfire and Wayfarer. Peridot and Ingress, which also use the Wayfarer mapping app, will continue to
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Monopoly Go maker Scopely has agreed to acquire Niantic‘s games business, which includes Pokémon Go, in a deal valued at $3.5 billion. The acquisition will bring Niantic’s entire game development teams as well as its games such as Pokémon Go, Pikmin Bloom, and Monster Hunter Now to Scopely. And Scopely is also picking up companion apps and services Campfire and Wayfarer to Scopely’s diverse video game portfolio. The companies said the move highlights Scopely’s ongoing commitment to community-dr
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Niantic Labs has announced that it’s selling its video game division to Saudi Arabia-owned mobile developer Scopely for $3.5 billion after struggling to replicate the success of Pokémon Go across its other AR games. The newly inked agreement includes Niantic’s Pokémon Go, Monster Hunter Now, and Pikmin Bloom mobile gaming titles. “Niantic games have always been a bridge to connect people and inspire exploration, and I am confident they will continue to do both as part of Scopely,” said Niantic
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Hi! Since 2020, we’ve been developing a reinforcement learning (RL) agent to beat the 1996 game Pokémon Red. As of February 2025, we are able to beat Pokémon Red with Reinforcement Learning using a <10 million parameter policy (60500x smaller than DeepSeekV3) and with minimal simplifications. The output is not a policy capable of beating Pokémon, but a technique for producing solutions to Pokémon. This website describes the system’s current state. All code is open sourced and available for you,
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