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The Pokemon Company has teamed up with GAME once again to give gamers a free downloadable character. Charizard, complete with Mega Stone (or Charizardite for those fans out there), can either be downloaded via Nintendo Zone, or gamers can ask for the character at the till. Fans will need to …
Read More »NINTENDO: Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire dated
The remakes of Pokmon Ruby and Sapphire have been dated. The titles are coming to 3DS on November 28th in Europe. The trailer showed off two new transformations of Legendary Pokemon Grouden and Kyrogre that appear on the games’ box art. These are known as Primal Groudon and Primal Kyogre. …
Read More »Game over for online play on Wii and DS
Owners of both Wii and DS will no longer be able to play their titles online from today. That’s because, as warned back in February, today’s the day when the off switch will be flicked on the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection service, bringing an end to a host of features once …
Read More »Free downloadable Pokemon game announced; Championships character giveaway confirmed
A free Pokemon game called The Band of Thieves & 1000 Pokemon is on the way to 3DS. Eurogamer reports that the game, which thus far is only confirmed for Japan, allows users to collect sticker shaped versions of Pokemon via Streetpassing with others before taking the beats into battle. …
Read More »3DS Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire remakes out this year
Nintendo and The Pokmon Company have announced two new Pokmon games will launch this Christmas. Pokmon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire will arrive in November for 3DS. They are both remakes of the 2003 Game Boy Advance games – Pokmon Ruby and Sapphire. Nintendo has been annualizing its Pokmon series …
Read More »Pokemon X & Y to star in US McDonald’s Happy Meals
Nintendo has signed another Happy Meal licensing deal, this time in the US. Having announced last month that Mario was to feature in UK Happy Meal boxes, Pokemon has now been pencilled in for a fast-food tie-up across the Atlantic. As revealed on the chain’s website, each meal includes a …
Read More »GAME to give away free Pokémon DLC and trading cards from this Friday
Owners of Pokmon X and Y can receive free new Pokmon for their game this Friday at GAME. Pokmon X owners will receive a code for Magmar, while Pokmon Y players can obtain Electabuzz. Both are monsters from the very original Pokmon games. What’s more, and while stocks last, gamers …
Read More »When Twitch Played Pokémon – MCV speaks to its creator
Last month an online game launched which took the gaming world by storm. Over 16 days, the title was played by over 1.16m gamers and watched by almost 10m people. At its peak, 121,000 people were watching it simultaneously. The game? It was the 1996 Game Boy classic, Pokmon Red. …
Read More »Over nine million people watched perplexed as Twitch Plays Pokemon beat the Elite Four
More than one million users input commands as players overcame the odds to beat the Elite Four, each other and arch nemesis Blue
Read More »‘Twitch could become a games platform in its own right’
Streaming specialist Twitch says it could become a new platform for games developers following the incredible reaction to ‘Twitch Plays Pokmon’. The social experiment has seen tens of millions of gamers tune into Twitch to play a single game of Pokmon Red. To play, users simply enter the command they …
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