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Get Your Old Pokémon Cards Back In New Table Top Spin-Off

Screenshot: The Pokémon Company / Kotaku Ready to spend potentially a lot of money on a nostalgia-fueled trip down Pokémon Trading Card Game memory lane? A new “Classic” boxset was just announced on Monday that includes pre-made decks featuring Charizard and the rest of the gang in a sleek new table top package. Why? Because

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After Foiur Years, The Pokémon Sleep App Is Finally Real

Image: Nintendo / Kotaku During today’s Pokemon Presents, we finally got a close look at the upcoming and highly anticipated Pokemon sleep app. It was accompanied with an adorable live-action promo and some actual in-app footage. Not only is the app out later in 2023, Pikachu can sing you a lullaby and you can check

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Pokémon Scarlet And Violet’s First DLC Leaves Paldea, Includes New Monsters

Image: The Pokémon Company Pokémon Scarlet and Violet are getting paid DLC and the first wave of the upcoming expansion is coming in fall 2023. Called The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero, the new adventure is separated into two parts and will take players beyond the existing Paldea Region as well as let them encounter

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Netflix Is Making A New Pokémon Show

Screenshot: The Pokémon Company Netflix and The Pokémon Company have announced a new original series set in the Pokémon universe called Pokémon Concierge, though it doesn’t seem to be the previously reported live-action series that was said to be in the works back in 2021. Pokémon Concierge | Official Teaser | Netflix News of this

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A Great Left Behind Adaptation

Screenshot: HBO The release of The Last of Us in 2013 already marked a remarkable shift in narrative tone for big-budget, so-called “AAA” games. However, for some of us, 2014’s DLC chapter, The Last of Us: Left Behind, proved to be even more remarkable. It took mechanics that, in the game proper, had been used

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The Last of Us Show Made One Of The Best Game Moments Worse

Screenshot: HBO / Kotaku In retrospect, it was pretty clear HBO’s take on The Last of Us was going to do away with one of the source material’s best moments. Back in episode three, Joel and Ellie find a defunct Mortal Kombat II arcade cabinet, prompting the young girl to excitedly tell her grumpy guardian

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Illegal Crypto Mining Operation Found Hidden Under School Floor

Photo: Cohasset Police A man has been arrested and is facing charges in a small town outside of Boston after local authorities discovered “an illegal cryptocurrency mining operation” tucked away under a school’s floor. As the BBC report, the accused—39-year-old Nadeam Nahas—was previously the assistant facilities director for the small town of Cohasset, which is

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Zombie Shooter The Day Before Is In The Weirdest Legal Battle

Screenshot: The Day Before For a while now—or at least until last month, when it was delisted—The Day Before was one of the most hotly-anticipated games on Steam. That was until the wheels started falling off the project, with a delay announced, doubts raised over whether its gameplay footage was even real and now a

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The Internet Reacts To Street Fighter 6’s New Cammy

Image: Capcom / Kotaku Yesterday during Sony’s State of Play showcase, the fighting game community witnessed three character reveal trailers for Street Fighter 6. I say three, but if we’re being honest with ourselves, the only street fighter who’s on anyone’s mind is one Cammy White. So let’s count the many ways that Cammy’s reveal

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The Yakuza Devs Are Stunting On The Entire Gaming Industry

We here at Kotaku get plenty of tips via email. Some are spam, others are error-filled hate messages, and a few are serious allegations that require serious investigation. So it’s refreshing when something comes in that just points us toward something breezy and cool, as was the case with a recent tip regarding the slay-the-house-down-boots

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