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All the biggest video games (still) coming out in the second half of 2022

Saints Row, God Of War, and Pokémon are all waiting for you in the coming months

William Hughes

7/29/22 5:00AM

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Here's everything coming to and leaving Hulu in April 2022

The Kardashians are back to reality TV, and The Dropout series finale airs on April 7

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Nintendo announces new Pokémon games with a weed cat, an apple dinosaur, and a hat duck

Pokémon Scarlet and Violet will be coming to Nintendo Switch later this year

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Here's what's coming to and leaving Netflix in March 2022

Bridgerton's second season, The Weekend Away, Bad Vegan: Fame. Fraud. Fugitives all arrive on the streamer next month

Savannah Olson

2/23/22 3:56PM

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<i>Pokémon Legends: Arceus </i>is great—when it shuts up and lets you catch some damn Pokémon

GamesWhat Are You Playing This Weekend?

Pokémon Legends: Arceus is great—when it shuts up and lets you catch some damn Pokémon

The first “open world” Pokémon should let its amazing creatures and wide open spaces do the talking

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The 11 most anticipated video games of 2022

From God Of War to an adorable, drone-piloting kitty cat, here are the games we can't wait to play this year

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1/14/22 11:00AM

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Dutch thieves execute daring <i>Pokémon </i>card heist

GamesGreat Job Internet

Dutch thieves execute daring Pokémon card heist

The criminals—who smashed a van into a Dutch toy store—also stole Legos, apparently

William Hughes

9/16/21 6:55PM

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It’s so nice to play a MOBA game where no one tells you to go have sex with your mom

Pokémon Unite offers many kid-friendly refinements on MOBA dogma, but the hoops it implements before you can talk to…

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Lucifer's Joe Henderson is making a live-action Pokémon show for Netflix

Much like Detective Pikachu, it sounds like this will combine real people with CG monsters

Sam Barsanti

7/26/21 6:48PM

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So, the <i>Witcher Pokémon Go </i>game is pretty weird

GamesWhat Are You Playing This Weekend?

So, the Witcher Pokémon Go game is pretty weird

The Witcher: Monster Slayer takes the basic Pokémon Go mechanics and tries to give them a more brutal spin

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Not quite the very best: 13 Pokémon imitators and rip-offs that didn’t make the cut

When Pokémon first landed, 25 years ago this fall, it broke a lot of fundamental assumptions about video game…

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Get to know King Pokémon, the obsessive collector with more than $10 million in cartoon animal cards

Gary “King Pokémon” Haase is, despite his lofty title, just a 67-year-old guy from Las Vegas who has a hard time…

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Gird yourself for battle by revisiting 2000's "Pokémon Combat Rap"

During the first great Pokéwave of the late ‘90s, Martin “Ztorm” Culpepper accepted the grave responsibility of…

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Pokémon announces Switch remakes, open-world "pre-makes," all the e-makes you could want

Big news in the world of Pocket Monsters today, as The Pokémon Company announced ambitious new plans for its…

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A box of Pokémon cards just sold for over $400,000

In a moment of great validation for every anxious, lonely child out there who refuses to open the toys their parents…

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Unexpected nightmares: The scariest enemies in un-scary games

Horror—on-purpose horror, leastways—was a late arrival to the world of video games. Sure, there were opening salvos…

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It only took 4 years and a pandemic, but Pokémon Go finally has "remote" gameplay

Since its launch in the summer of 2016 (in the Before Times before the Before Times), Pokémon Go has never exactly be…

Britt Hayes

5/18/20 12:21PM

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<i>Pokémon’s </i>journey to the DLC Region was a long time coming

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Pokémon’s journey to the DLC Region was a long time coming

Every Friday, A.V. Club staffers kick off our weekly open thread for the discussion of gaming plans and recent…

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Pokémon Sword and Shield sell sports star mystique better than any Madden game

There’s no shortage of video games falling all over themselves to tell you how special you are. As a medium built,…

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Just Norm MacDonald, having a Pokémon battle on his old sitcom

The turn of the millennium was a heady time. There was the Y2K bug and a change in American presidents to worry…

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8/22/19 11:58AM

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All the biggest video games (still) coming out in the second half of 2022

Here's everything coming to and leaving Hulu in April 2022

Nintendo announces new Pokémon games with a weed cat, an apple dinosaur, and a hat duck

Here's what's coming to and leaving Netflix in March 2022

Pokémon Legends: Arceus is great—when it shuts up and lets you catch some damn Pokémon

The 11 most anticipated video games of 2022

Dutch thieves execute daring Pokémon card heist

It’s so nice to play a MOBA game where no one tells you to go have sex with your mom

Lucifer's Joe Henderson is making a live-action Pokémon show for Netflix

So, the Witcher Pokémon Go game is pretty weird

Not quite the very best: 13 Pokémon imitators and rip-offs that didn’t make the cut

Get to know King Pokémon, the obsessive collector with more than $10 million in cartoon animal cards

Gird yourself for battle by revisiting 2000's "Pokémon Combat Rap"

Pokémon announces Switch remakes, open-world "pre-makes," all the e-makes you could want

A box of Pokémon cards just sold for over $400,000

Unexpected nightmares: The scariest enemies in un-scary games

It only took 4 years and a pandemic, but Pokémon Go finally has "remote" gameplay

Pokémon’s journey to the DLC Region was a long time coming

Pokémon Sword and Shield sell sports star mystique better than any Madden game

Just Norm MacDonald, having a Pokémon battle on his old sitcom