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Video streaming service Netflix will this weekend welcome Pokmon into its ranks. Two movies – Pokmon the Movie: Black and Pokmon the Movie: White – as well as two full series – Pokmon: Black & White and Pokmon: Indigo League – will all be available as of March 1st. The …
Read More »GAME and Nintendo on the hunt for UK’s best Pokemon player
The Nintendo Pokemon X and Pokemon Y Battle Tournament 2014 has been officially announced. It kicks off on March 1st and takes place at a number of UK shopping centres – beginning in Birmingham’s Bullring and at GAME Brighton. The winners of both Expert (13 years and over) and Junior …
Read More »VIDEO: New Snoop Dogg video is a Pokemon homage
It’s not hard to see the inspiration provided by Nintendo’s Pokemon in the latest video from hip hop star Snoop Lion. As spotted by Kotaku, the video for Get Away is a direct homage to Nintendo’s handheld Pokemon series, although it also goes on to ape the graphical style popularised …
Read More »GTA V UK sales bigger than Battlefield, FIFA, Call of Duty, Batman, Pokemon and Assassin’s Creed combined
We all know Grand Theft Auto V was bigger than anything ever. Made more money than any entertainment property, and sold 2m units in the UK alone in just a week. But sometimes we must acknowledge that numbers and statements like that are hard to truly understand. What does ‘biggest …
Read More »More Western success in Japan as Battlefield 4 knocks Pokemon from No.1
EA’s military shooter Battlefield 4 has become the surprise game to knock Nintendo’s Pokemon X & Y from the top of the Media Create charts. The 3DS RPG pair had been in the top spot for four weeks. However, 121,699 sales of the PS3 version of EA’s game was enough …
Read More »Pokemon X and Y – The real UK No.1
Pokemon X and Y would have been the real UK No.1, if sales of the games were combined. UK stat tracker Chart-Track lists both games separately, with Pokemon Y at No.3 and Pokemon X at No.4, behind FIFA 14 in second place and GTA V at No.1. But if both …
Read More »PETA uses Pokemon to promote veganism
Not one shy of using video games hype to promote its own campaigns, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has leapt upon Nintendo’s recently released Pokemon X & Y. However, rather than attack the game directly as it has done in the past PETA has instead launched its own …
Read More »X-Factor’s Union J teams up with Pokémon
In what is an early contender for ‘vague press release of the day’, X-Factor’s Union J has teamed up withPokmon X and Y. What does that mean? Well we have to wait until October 4th for the full details. But judging by Pokmon’s last boyband partnership (with the now global …
Read More »GAME handing out Shiny Pokemons from the end of August
Pokemon fans are being offered the chance to grab some rare digital versions of three in-game creatures from GAME stores. From August 30th participating GAME stores will be offering fans the chance to obtain ‘Shiny’ versions of Legendary Pokemon – Dialga, Palkia, and Giratina. Being ‘Shiny’ means they’ll be a …
Read More »Shelf space concerns as toy games go to war
Angry Birds and Pokmon are the latest big name franchise to take on Skylanders as the toy war heats up, but is there enough space to stock them all? The lucrative ‘toys to life’ genre has been dominated by Activision’s Skylanders series, which has generated well over $1bn since its …
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