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New Tokyo Pokémon Cafe Johto menu items require knowledge of Pokémon lore to order them【Photos】
- Casey Baseel
May 17, 2019 - Tweet
If you don’t know how to evolve one of the most popular Pokémon species, you might not get the food you want.
- Japan
- (anime • cool • cute • food • Pikachu • Pokemon • Pokémon Cafe • restaurants • themed restaurants • video games)
Pokémon hanko seals get a second generation run with 100 new characters from the Johto region
- Oona McGee
May 17, 2019
Seals can be personalised with names in kanji, hiragana, katakana or English!
- Japan
- (anime • cute • hanko • Hankos company • inkan • personal seals • Pikachu • Pokemon • video games)
New scenes of Shiba Inu walking simulator look action-packed【Video】
- Master Blaster
May 16, 2019
But does it really capture the feeling of smashing through a piece of neoclassical architecture?
- Japan
- (BitSummit Seven Spirits • dogs • Kyoto • Play Dog Play Tag • Project Pegasus • Shiba Inu • simulator • video games)
Japan’s real-world Pikachu Outbreak 2019 dates announced, so make your travel plans now!
- Casey Baseel
May 15, 2019
The Pokémon will be staying up late this year so you can bask in their adorableness while staying out of the scorching sun.
- Japan
- (anime • awesome • COK • cool • cute • Minato Mirai • Pikachu • Pikachu Outbreak • Pikachu Outbreak 2019 • Pikachu Tairyo Hasseichu • Pokemon • video games • Yokohama)
EarthBound’s creator says “Video games are a shovel” that helps you unearth life’s treasures
- Casey Baseel
May 11, 2019
Shigesato Itoi talks about the connection between real-life experience, human emotion, and video games.
- Japan
- (Earthbound • mother • nintendo • Shigesato Itoi • video games)
New Final Fantasy VII remake trailer shows off Aerith and Sephiroth【Video】
- Casey Baseel
May 10, 2019
Legendary symbols of light and dark return in Square Enix’s hugely ambitious project.
- Japan
- (Final Fantasy • Final Fantasy VII • Final Fantasy VII remake • Square Enix • video • video games)
Detective Pikachu debuts in Pokémon GO in event saluting franchise’s first live-action film
- Casey Baseel
May 9, 2019
Adorable sleuth is joined by special color-versions of his Pokémon movie co-stars.
- Japan
- (cute • Detective Pikachu • Pikachu • Pokemon • Pokémon GO • video games)
POKÉMON Detective Pikachu: Full Picture leaked online ahead of Pokémon film’s official release
- Casey Baseel
May 8, 2019
Can’t resist taking a sneak peek? OK, but don’t say we didn’t warn you.
- Japan
- (anime • awesome • Detective Pikachu • funny • Live action • movies • Pikachu • piracy • video • video games)
Detective Pikachu zaps us with mega-volts of cuteness!【Review, Pics】
- Kay
May 5, 2019
CG-generated 3D Pikachu is too adorable not to see on the big screen.
- Japan
- (anime • Detective Pikachu • live-action movie • movies • Pokemon • SNO • video games)
Sonic creator thanks fans for loving character so much that his ugly movie design will be changed
- Casey Baseel
May 3, 2019
Sonic the Hedgehog’s live-action movie design is too ugly to live, director and studio promise to make changes.
- Japan
- (Live action • movies • Sega • Sonic the Hedgehog • video games)
Pokémon GO player claims his in-game snapshot shows Japan’s new emperor and Pikachu together
- Casey Baseel
May 3, 2019
Does the emperor want to battle?
- Japan
- (anime • Emperor • Emperor Naruhito • Emperor of Japan • Pikachu • Pokemon • Pokémon GO • video games)
Final Fantasy’s Yoshitaka Amano paints awesome portrait of Japan’s prime minister
- Casey Baseel
May 3, 2019
One of these dashing samurai is actually Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
- Japan
- (anime • art • cool • Final Fantasy • government • Liberal Democratic Party • politics • prime minister • Shinzo Abe • video games • Yoshitaka Amano)
Gamer bandits steal Taiko No Tatsujin drum from Aichi arcade
- Master Blaster
May 2, 2019
Far from Tatsujin, these were a pair of straight-up Taiko No Twits.
- Japan
- (Aichi • crime • game centers • Kitanagoya • Taiko no Tatsujin • theft • video games)
Good God the live-action Sonic the Hedgehog movie trailer looks weird【Video】
- Casey Baseel
May 1, 2019
Sonic’s butt, Jim Carrey’s Snidley Whiplash mustache, and “Gangsta’s Paradise” in a preview that we’re not sure if we’re supposed to take seriously.
- Japan
- (Jim Carrey • Live action • movies • Sega • Sonic the Hedgehog • video • video games)
Brand-new line of Pokémon accessories is amazingly stylish and awesomely affordable【Photos】
- Casey Baseel
Apr 23, 2019
Earrings, bracelets, necklaces, and hairpins will have you looking great and leave your bank account sitting pretty too.
- Japan
- (accessories • anime • Eevee • fashion • Pikachu • Pokemon • video games)
Detective Pikachu makes his Pokémon Cafe debut with new menu items for the live-action sleuth
- Casey Baseel
Apr 20, 2019
The first-ever live-action Pokémon movie is getting a special salute from Tokyo’s permanent Poké-eatery.
- Japan
- (anime • Detective Pikachu • food • Pikachu • Pokemon • Pokémon Cafe • restaurants • themed restaurants • video games)
Pikachu and Eevee pay their respects to Wobbuffet with new Pokémon bags and plushies【Photos】
- Casey Baseel
Apr 17, 2019
Pocket Monster stars strike the iconic pose of an often overlooked series veteran.
Uniqlo’s awesome new line of Nintendo T-shirts features stylish Super Mario, Splatoon designs
- Dale Roll
Apr 12, 2019
Uniqlo’s UT t-shirt brand never disappoints!
- Japan
- (fashion • nintendo • Splatoon • Super Mario • t-shirts • Uniqlo • UT • video games)
VR Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Super Mario Odyssey modes coming, for free, from Nintendo
- Casey Baseel
Apr 6, 2019
The Switch’s Nintendo Labo VR Kit is going to give us new ways to play two of the company’s best-loved games ever.
- Japan
- (nintendo • Nintendo Labo • nintendo switch • Super Mario • the legend of Zelda • video games • virtual reality • VR)
The official English translation of Japan’s new era name is an anime porn game theme song
- Casey Baseel
Apr 4, 2019
Japanese government attempts to beautify the English interpretation of Reiwa, gives us an eyeful of something else entirely.
- Japan
- (anime • beautiful harmony • crazy • dating simulators • funny • imperial era name • music • new era name • otaku • Reiwa • romance games • video • video games • weird)
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