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

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

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Maybe the hype behind Pokémon Go has subsided in your social sphere, but according to Forbes and app-centric news…

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The success of Detective Pikachu has proven that there’s still a huge market for that electric mouse and all of his…

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Detective Pikachu’s titular mouse creature is voiced by Ryan Reynolds, which is a fine enough choice for a role…

One of the prevailing disappointments in the long, unfruitful history of adapting video games into feature films is…

Well, the folks at Nintendo have done it again this Pokémon Day! Not only have those dreamweavers given us a new…

The first trailer for Detective Pikachu was light on the Pokémon cameos, heavy on the whole Ryan Reynolds-is-voicing-…

“Ryan Reynolds will be starring as Pikachu” is never a sentence one would expect to write in earnest, but as both…

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It’s been a few months since Vince Staples jokingly volunteered to “shut the fuck up forever” if fans/haters would…

The #resistance—that loosely connected group of people ideologically opposed to the Trump administration—has had its…

In honor of the O.G. Force Friday—which didn’t really happen in any significant way this year, thanks to the weird…

Detective Pikachu, Legendary’s video game adaptation that still might be a weird dream we’re all sharing, found its…

Mashups, by their very nature, are trash. The idea of forcing together two things whose only shared characteristic…

We can now add “Sherlock Holmes-themed lightning rodent” to Ryan Reynolds’ list of celebrated roles, right alongside …