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No, Nintendo and Pokémon did not patent ‘summoning characters and making them battle’

theverge.com Kallie Plagge 2025-09-20 05:30:00

As first noted by Games Fray last week, Nintendo and The Pokémon Company were granted a US patent earlier this month involving summoning characters and making them battle. Headlines popped up with similarly vague language as concern spread on social media: That’s a thing in tons of games! Can they do that? Is that even allowed? Well, no, because that’s not exactly what they patented. And what they did patent might not stand up to any hypothetical challenges in court. The patent in question, US

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'Hades II' Is Coming to Nintendo Switch This Month

wired.com Megan Farokhmanesh 2025-09-26 01:30:47

Nintendo’s Switch and Switch 2 release calendars are bulking up. During a packed Nintendo Direct livestream on Friday, the company announced on-sale dates for several games as well as the return of the Virtual Boy, the proto VR headset Nintendo originally launched in the mid-1990s. One of the biggest of Friday’s announcements was that of the release date for the sequel to Supergiant’s wildly popular Hades. Hades II will hit Switch, Switch 2, and PC on September 25. The long-awaited new Metroid

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Pokémon Pokopia looks like Animal Crossing for Pokémon fans and I'm here for it

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-26 13:12:39

In one of the most unexpected announcements of today's Nintendo Direct, Game Freak revealed Pokémon Pokopia, a game that is clearly inspired by the Animal Crossing series. When Pokopia is released sometime next year, you'll assume the role of a Ditto determined to make a comfortable home for their friends. This Ditto has assumed the form of a human, and as they meet new Pokémon, they'll learn abilities they can use to transform their community. In turn, this work will lead to more Pokémon coming

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The next Pokémon looks a bit like Minecraft

theverge.com Andrew Webster 2025-09-26 13:08:06

A new Pokémon spinoff is on the way, and it looks very different than any other entry in the long-running franchise. In fact, it looks a little bit like Minecraft — and it’s called Pokémon Pokopia. The game has players controlling a Ditto that has taken on the form of a human, which means that it’s a little cute and also a little creepy. The goal of the game is to shape an empty landscape into a suitable home for some pokémon. That means taming the wilderness, growing crops, and also using a bu

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Pokémon Legends: Z-A’s first DLC will take you to the Mega Dimension

theverge.com Charles Pulliam-Moore 2025-09-26 13:34:49

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. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. We still don’t know all that much about Pokémon Legends Z-A’s main storyline, but Nintendo is already hyping up a big expansion for the new game. During today’s hourlong Direct showcase of upcoming games, Nintendo revealed that Pokémon Legends Z-

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This pettable Poké Ball is a Tamagotchi-style toy with over 150 Pokémon inside and I need it now

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-06 10:50:47

Japanese toymaker Takara Tomy is releasing a Poké Ball virtual pet toy so you can fulfill your dreams of carrying your favorite Pokémon around with you everywhere. I don't know how this one slid under my radar when it was announced at the end of August (perhaps because all my attention has been on Tamagotchi Paradise ) but now that I've seen it, I must have it. While it appears to be a Japan-only release, the product page shows it will have an English language option in the menu. Pre-orders are

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Pokémon Legends: Z-A feels like a strong step forward for the series

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-06 03:56:51

The Pokémon series has had staying power ever since its debut in the 1990s, but it has felt especially popular in recent years, thanks to Pokémon GO and the resurgence of the trading card game. Given that more Pokémon fans are experiencing new ways to play, it’s the right time for developer Game Freak to refresh the video game series. The upcoming Pokémon Legends: Z-A looks to do just that with a more action-oriented focus on a Pokémon trainer's journey. At a special Nintendo showcase during PA

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Pokémon looks scary again in the new Z-A trailer

theverge.com Charles Pulliam-Moore 2025-11-01 12:35:31

One of the most brilliant things about Pokémon Legends: Arceus was the way it dropped you into the wilderness to fend for yourself as wild monsters tried to kill you. It was a surprising deviation from the franchise’s typically chill vibe that complimented the game’s story about how humans once lived in constant fear of pokémon. Arceus’ mild horror elements felt like something that might not carry over to Pokémon Legends: Z-A, but the new game’s latest trailer makes it seem like Nintendo wants t

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Razer’s Gengar Edition headphones are now available in the US

theverge.com Andrew Liszewski 2025-11-06 23:00:00

is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2006, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Razer has announced that one of its most popular PC gaming peripherals from a Pokémon collaboration that was exclusive to China will soon be available in the US. The Gengar Edition of the Razer Kraken Kitty V2 headphones, which trade cute cat ears for the Pok

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For Legends: Z-A’s battle system, I rewired the Pokémon part of my brain

theverge.com Kallie Plagge 2025-11-12 08:00:00

Even if you’ve never played a Pokémon game before, you can probably figure out how the type chart works. Fire types are weak to water types, water is weak to grass, and grass is weak to fire. Type matchups are foundational to Pokémon battles, far before you get into the weeds of stats and strats. I’ve had the Pokémon type chart memorized for around 25 years. That still didn’t stop me from making a rookie error in Pokémon Legends: Z-A. I panicked and sent out my Weedle against an NPC’s Pidgeotto

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Pokémon TCG Pocket will change card art after plagiarism accusations

theverge.com Charles Pulliam-Moore 2025-12-14 17:53:53

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. While you can now start collecting Pokémon TCG Pocket’s Johto-themed Wisdom of Sea and Sky expansion, two of the set’s rarest cards are being changed in response to concerns about art theft. Soon after dataminers began posting images of Wisdom of Sea and Sky’s cards on Tuesday, Chinese artist lanjiujiu took to their X account with qu

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I returned to Pokémon Go after 4 years, and it’s just as painful to play as ever

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-21 09:00:15

Megan Ellis / Android Authority I’ve been playing Pokémon Go on and off since the day the mobile game came out in 2016. As a result, I’ve seen its changes over the years — from the introduction of new creatures to catch, the launch of community days and raids, and plenty of other new features. But there’s a reason that I would take breaks from the game, including my four-year pause between 2021 and 2025. Pokémon Go has an accessibility problem. When I started playing it again a few weeks ago,

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Aardman’s Pokémon show is a delightful-looking romp that follows Sirfetch'd and Pichu

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-29 10:59:07

We knew that Aardman, the animation studio behind Wallace & Gromit, was prepping a Pokémon show , but now we have some juicy details and actual footage. Pokémon Tales: The Misadventures of Sirfetch’d and Pichu, as the name suggests, follows the sword-wielding Sirfetch'd and the baby pre-evolution of Pikachu. It looks extremely charming, as one would expect from Aardman. The trailer is on the shorter side, but shows the dynamic duo getting involved in some cutesy shenanigans as an oblivious Wool

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A Surprise Pokémon Game Just Dropped for Switch and Mobile

wired.com Megan Farokhmanesh 2025-12-30 21:59:18

The Pokémon Company is releasing a new, unexpected game today: Pokémon Friends, a daily puzzle game you can download now for mobile devices, Switch, and Switch 2. The company revealed the game as part of a Pokémon Direct presentation that included new details on Pokémon Legends: Z-A and a Switch 2 bundle, Pokémon Champions, and more. In Pokémon Friends, players untangle yarn—essentially solving different puzzles, like freeing pokémon from a box or fixing tracks—to make and collect plush toys. O

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There's a Switch 2 bundle with Pokémon Legends: Z-A dropping on October 16

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-31 03:26:13

Now that AAA video games cost a full $70, console bundles are the way to go to save a few coins. Nintendo is dropping another Switch 2 bundle just in time for the holiday season, and it's a real treat for Pokémon fanatics. The Nintendo Switch 2 + Pokémon Legends: Z-A – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition Bundle drops on October 16 and costs $500 . As the name suggests, this bundle includes a shiny new Switch 2 console and a digital copy of the enhanced version of Pokémon Legends: Z-A. The game itself wil

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Pokémon Friends is a cute new daily puzzle game for iPhone

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-12-31 08:59:42

Daily puzzle games are on the rise, including in Apple News+. And another new game just arrived on the App Store that pairs daily puzzles with cuteness and chill vibes: Pokémon Friends is here. Complete puzzles, earn yarn, and make plushies in Pokémon Friends Puzzle games like crosswords, Wordle, and more seek to stimulate the mind while also offering users a fun reason to come back every day. Pokémon Friends is the latest such offering. If you’re at all a fan of Pokémon, the new title is a

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The Chillest ‘Pokémon’ Show Ever Made Returns This September

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-12-31 08:00:42

When Pokémon Concierge released in December 2023, we were immediately charmed by Dwarf Animation’s gorgeous, felt-covered spin on the world of Pokémon—and how the series resonated with the franchise’s older fans beyond gen-one nostalgia with its themes around work-life balance and burnout to provide the ultimate feel-good show. Now, we won’t have to wait much longer to check back into the Pokémon resort once again. During today’s Pokémon Presents livestream, the Pokémon Company and Netflix reve

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Pokémon Legends: Z-A has a detailed new trailer and Switch 2 bundle

theverge.com Ash Parrish 2025-12-31 08:48:24

is a reporter who covers the business, culture, and communities of video games, with a focus on marginalized gamers and the quirky, horny culture of video game communities. Today’s Pokémon Presents livestream was short but definitely not light on announcements. There’s a new Pokémon puzzle game out right now. Pokémon Concierge season 2 has a release date. And on top of a new story trailer for Pokémon Legends: Z-A, there’s a new Switch 2 bundle featuring the game coming, too. The – and you’re g

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Aardman’s ‘Pokémon’ Show Looks Absolutely Delightful

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-12-31 12:25:37

Late last year, the Pokémon Company revealed a surprise animation collab: it would work with the legendary British studio Aardman—the team behind Chicken Run, Wallace & Gromit, Shaun the Sheep, and more—to create a new Pokémon series. Now, we’ve had a delightful first look, and it is going to be a suitably British-feeling adventure into the world of Pocket Monsters. During today’s Pokémon Presents livestream, Aardman revealed that its series would be called Pokémon Tales: The Misadventures of S

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A daily Pokémon puzzle game is out now as part of a busy lineup

theverge.com Andrew Webster 2025-12-31 12:51:58

There’s a lot going on in the world of Pokémon — and you can play at least one of them right now. During its latest Pokémon Presents presentation, the Pokémon Company surprise launched Pokémon Friends, a puzzle game with daily challenges, an increasingly common style of game. In a cute Pokémon twist, solving puzzles earns you adorable (virtual) plushies you can use to decorate a room. It’s out today on iOS, Android, and the Nintendo Switch. Elsewhere, we also got looks at a pair of animated ada

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Razer’s new Pokémon collab is not very effective

theverge.com Cameron Faulkner 2026-01-07 08:20:58

Razer’s new Pokémon collaboration is a missed opportunity. The four PC gaming peripherals in this lineup are simply reskinned versions of products that already exist, and which cost $20 to $40 more than their all-black counterparts. You really should be getting more for your money here. For example, the themed BlackWidow V4 X keyboard should include at least one highly detailed custom keycap (switching out Alt for pokéball designs doesn’t cut it). Maybe the Kraken V4 X headset could have includ

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Predicting Competitive Pokémon VGC Leads Using Latent Semantic Analysis

news.ycombinator.com Jgs Editor 2026-01-11 14:18:50

Bruno Luvizotto Carli Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, PR, Brazil. brunolcarli (at) gmail (dot) com Download PDF Competitive Pokémon battles often hinge on the initial selection of Pokémon leads. Anticipating an opponent’s lead choice offers a tactical edge, particularly in high-stakes matches. In this paper, I explore the use of Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA), a natural language processing algorithm, applied to over 5,000 Pokémon Showdown battle logs, to predict likely lead pairs b

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Pope Leo Signed a Popplio ‘Pokémon’ Card in the Cutest Vatican Sanctioned Interaction

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2026-01-23 06:00:12

One Pokémon fan traveled across the land and searched far and wide to find Pope Leo XIV with a Popplio card in hand for a truly delightful interaction. The meeting took place at the Vatican, where recently elected Pope Leo XIV greeted visitors for blessings. The Pokémon aficionado (known as ReptileCake on Reddit) took a card of Popplio, the water starter from the 7th generation of the card game, to get signed as well as another card to be blessed by the pontiff as a memento. The interaction to

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Google’s Gemini panicked when playing Pokémon

techcrunch.com Amanda Silberling 2026-03-07 03:53:19

AI companies are battling to dominate the industry, but sometimes they’re also battling in Pokémon gyms. As Google and Anthropic both study how their latest AI models navigate early Pokémon games, the results can be as amusing as they are enlightening — and this time, Google DeepMind has written in a report that Gemini 2.5 Pro resorts to panic when its Pokémon are close to death. This can cause the AI’s performance to experience “qualitatively observable degradation in the model’s reasoning cap

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Hershey’s Kisses will feature 151 original Pokémon chocolates

venturebeat.com Dean Takahashi 2026-03-16 06:00:00

Get ready, Trainers! The Hershey’s Kisses brand and The Pokémon Company International are introducing special-edition Hershey’s Kisses wrapped in collectible Pokémon foils. With 151 unique foil designs inspired by the original Kanto region Pokémon, every unwrapping is a chance to discover, trade and collect them all. From Pikachu to Mew, each Hershey’s Kisses chocolate is wrapped like a Poké Ball unveiling the classic, melt-in-your-mouth milk chocolate that fans have loved for generations. It’s

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Shot by His Father and Left Blind—Now He's a Hardcore Gamer

wired.com Dexter Thomas 2026-03-16 02:00:00

In fact, Minor has not only figured out how to play (certain) video games. He’s trying to build a career with a singular goal: to make it so blind people can play any game they want. To the outsider, this sounds nonsensical. The “video” part of “video game” comes from the Latin for “see.” Isn’t it a bit unreasonable, expecting such a visual medium to be made blind-accessible? But Minor is making progress. He’s even becoming something of a celebrity in his field, with some impressive credits to

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There’s a Pokémon Presents livestream scheduled for February 27

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-09 09:18:13

The Pokémon Company is hosting a morning livestream on February 27 at 9AM ET to share the "latest news and updates" from Pikachu and pals. You can stream it via the official YouTube channel . This is the yearly Pokémon Presents event that typically provides info on what’s coming to empty our wallets throughout the year (and beyond.) So what can we expect this year? Both The Pokémon Company and Nintendo remain tight-lipped, but we can make some educated guesses. Pokemon Legends: Z-A, the follow-

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Latest Tech News

No, Nintendo and Pokémon did not patent ‘summoning characters and making them battle’

'Hades II' Is Coming to Nintendo Switch This Month

Pokémon Pokopia looks like Animal Crossing for Pokémon fans and I'm here for it

The next Pokémon looks a bit like Minecraft

Pokémon Legends: Z-A’s first DLC will take you to the Mega Dimension

This pettable Poké Ball is a Tamagotchi-style toy with over 150 Pokémon inside and I need it now

Pokémon Legends: Z-A feels like a strong step forward for the series

Pokémon looks scary again in the new Z-A trailer

Razer’s Gengar Edition headphones are now available in the US

For Legends: Z-A’s battle system, I rewired the Pokémon part of my brain

Pokémon TCG Pocket will change card art after plagiarism accusations

I returned to Pokémon Go after 4 years, and it’s just as painful to play as ever

Aardman’s Pokémon show is a delightful-looking romp that follows Sirfetch'd and Pichu

A Surprise Pokémon Game Just Dropped for Switch and Mobile

There's a Switch 2 bundle with Pokémon Legends: Z-A dropping on October 16

Pokémon Friends is a cute new daily puzzle game for iPhone

The Chillest ‘Pokémon’ Show Ever Made Returns This September

Pokémon Legends: Z-A has a detailed new trailer and Switch 2 bundle

Aardman’s ‘Pokémon’ Show Looks Absolutely Delightful

A daily Pokémon puzzle game is out now as part of a busy lineup

Razer’s new Pokémon collab is not very effective

Predicting Competitive Pokémon VGC Leads Using Latent Semantic Analysis

Pope Leo Signed a Popplio ‘Pokémon’ Card in the Cutest Vatican Sanctioned Interaction

Google’s Gemini panicked when playing Pokémon

Hershey’s Kisses will feature 151 original Pokémon chocolates

Shot by His Father and Left Blind—Now He's a Hardcore Gamer

There’s a Pokémon Presents livestream scheduled for February 27

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