Published on: 2025-04-28 11:27:55
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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Gaming’s first big surprise hit of 2024 arrived early with the release of Palworld. Described by some as “Pokémon with guns,” the game launched in early access on Steam and Xbox in January and sold millions of copies in a matter of days. In reality, it’s more of a survival game in the Ark or Minecraft mold, with pokémon-like critters you can catch and put to work for you. (But yes, there are guns.) The game hasn’t been without controversy — including accusations of plagiarism — but that didn’t
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We wouldn’t have gone a dime over five dollars, personally, but someone out there—presumably a diehard Pokémon fan with outrageously deep pockets—just dropped $87,840 on a Cheeto that achieved viral fame thanks to being shaped like a Charizard. The resemblance is… well, if you squint, maybe? The flaming tail is at least a spot-on detail because as you can plainly tell, the Cheetozard is formed from a Flamin’ Hot Cheeto rather than the less-scorching, lighter-colored regular variety. The lucky (
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You can even watch its thought process. To prepare to take over the real world, AI models are first conquering virtual ones. On Tuesday, Anthropic kicked off its Twitch livestream titled "Claude Plays Pokémon." Without human intervention, the Google-backed startup's latest AI model, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, explores the world of Pokémon Red, doing its best to beat Nintendo's classic RPG for the Game Boy, released in the halcyon days of 1998. And it's not doing too badly, either. So far, Claude 3.7
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Game Freak dropped a surprise trailer at today’s Pokémon Presents livestream for something called Pokémon Champions. It’s a dedicated battle sim, recalling the glory days of Pokémon Stadium for the N64. This means that Champions distills the franchise's formula down to just battling, with a heavy emphasis on multiplayer. To that end, the game is cross-platform, with the developer saying that players on “Nintendo Switch and mobile” will be able to duke it out. We don’t know what kind of roster t
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Game Freak held a Pokémon Presents livestream today and we finally got a good look at Pokémon Legends: Z-A . The new trailer for the follow-up to the well-received Pokémon Legends: Arceus reveals the massive Lumiose City, which first appeared in Pokémon X and Y all the way back in 2013. It’s a bustling metropolis filled with skyscrapers, and a far cry from the serene countryside of Arceus. The trailer spotlighted the three starter Pokémon players will be able to choose from. They include the ge
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New Pokémon games, Pokémon Legends: Z-A and Pokémon Champions, are on the way, the Pokémon Company announced today during a Pokémon Presents broadcast. Z-A, the highly anticipated follow-up to the series’ first open-world game, will arrive in late 2025. The Pokémon Company announced Pokémon Legends: Z-A, a new adventure set in the Lumiose City of the Kalos region from Pokémon X and Y, last year. Today, the company revealed the game’s three starters—Chikorita, Tepig, or Totodile—as well as a loo
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It’s been exactly a year since Nintendo and the Pokémon Company revealed the next big game in the venerable series in Legends Z-A, a new continuation of the open-world roaming spinoff that began with Legends Arceus in 2022. Now, just in time for another celebration of Pokémon Day, the companies are ready to really lift the lid. As part of a special livestream this morning to celebrate Pokémon’s 29th birthday, a huge new trailer for Pokémon Legends Z-A dropped giving us our first proper look at
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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. Like its predecessor, Pokémon Legends: Z-A is bringing back three classic starter pokémon to get you started on your next adventure. Though Pokémon Legends: Z-A will likely introduce a number of new creatures, Chikorita, Tepig, and Totodile will be the first three partner pokémon you can choose between as you journey into the depths
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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. It’s technically already Pokémon Day in Japan, and while we’re still a few hours away from this year’s big Pokémon Presents showcase, there’s a new animated short film out that right now feels like the perfect way to get pumped up for whatever surprises Nintendo has in store. Many of the Pokémon Company’s animated projects outside of
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On Tuesday afternoon, Anthropic launched Claude Plays Pokémon on Twitch, a live stream of Anthropic’s newest AI model, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, playing a game of Pokémon Red. It’s become a fascinating experiment of sorts, showcasing the capabilities of today’s AI tech and people’s reactions to them. AI researchers have used all sorts of video games, from Street Fighter to Pictionary, to test new models — often more for amusement than utility. But Anthropic said that Pokémon proved to be a useful benc
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Anthropic used Pokémon to benchmark its newest AI model. Yes, really. In a blog post published Monday, Anthropic said that it tested its latest model, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, on the Game Boy classic Pokémon Red. The company equipped the model with basic memory, screen pixel input, and function calls to press buttons and navigate around the screen, allowing it to play Pokémon continuously. A unique feature of Claude 3.7 Sonnet is its ability to engage in “extended thinking.” Like OpenAI’s o3-mini an
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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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