The TV of 1998 feels more like the end of something than the beginning. Dawson’s Creek and Will & Grace were pointing to a new direction for their respective networks, but pioneering comedies like Seinfeld, The Larry Sanders Show, Living Single, and Mr. Show were closing down. Jimmy Smits was making his NYPD Blue…
It’s been a few months since Vince Staples jokingly volunteered to “shut the fuck up forever” if fans/haters would donate $2 million to him, but he might have to reactivate that campaign now that he has declared his support for one of the most controversial opinions in the history of pop culture: He prefers dubs to…
The #resistance—that loosely connected group of people ideologically opposed to the Trump administration—has had its share of strange bedfellows, from morally outraged lifelong Republicans to billion-dollar corporations willing to take a stand against human rights violations. But, as reported by The Daily Dot, it…
In honor of the O.G. Force Friday—which didn’t really happen in any significant way this year, thanks to the weird rollout for Solo merchandising—The A.V. Club decided to ask the following question in honor of all that memorabilia we’ve collected through the years:
Detective Pikachu, Legendary’s video game adaptation that still might be a weird dream we’re all sharing, found its star at the beginning of December when Ryan Reynolds signed on to provide the bizarrely human voice of the eponymous crime-solving Pokémon. Now, the logic of our reality is being called into question…
Mashups, by their very nature, are trash. The idea of forcing together two things whose only shared characteristic is the fact that you like them appeals to a primitive desire in our pop culture lizard brains and often results in a sum worse than its parts. But, what about mashups that are supposed to be bad? What…
We can now add “Sherlock Holmes-themed lightning rodent” to Ryan Reynolds’ list of celebrated roles, right alongside Green Lantern, Deadpool, and that guy who got buried in a box. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Reynolds has just signed on to star as the title character in Detective Pikachu, the upcoming…
Every Friday, A.V. Club staffers kick off our weekly open thread for the discussion of gaming plans and recent gaming glories, but of course, the real action is down in the comments, where we invite you to answer our eternal question: What Are You Playing This Weekend?
In the Book of Revelation, the end times are triggered by the sound of blowing trumpets. Each blast of sound brings forth new horrors—a rain of fire and blood, stars going dark, terrible creatures and vast armies slaughtering swaths of humanity.
Nintendo went and disappointed the whole internet last week when it held a special Pokémon-themed livestream that didn’t end up including the announcement of a new, mainline Pokémon game for the Nintendo Switch. Well, as it turns out, the company was holding onto that news for its E3 livestream, where Tsunekazu…
Nintendo disappointed the entire internet this morning when a Pokémon-focused livestream, which many hoped would bring news of a traditional Pokémon game coming to the Switch, turned out to mostly be an advertisement for Pokkén Tournament DX, a slightly expanded Switch version of the Wii U’s Pokémon fighting game.…
Last week, the World Video Game Hall Of Fame at the Strong Museum Of Play announced its 2017 inductees, and though they don’t get a star-studded ceremony like the inductees at the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame do, that doesn’t necessarily mean that this batch of historically important video games are any less worthy of…
The children cannot see Pikachu die. Pikachu is an important icon of the massively successful, decades-spanning Pokémon franchise, which has spanned many video games, TV shows, and films, not to mention plush dolls, apparel, and every other variety of merchandising sold throughout the world. Pikachu is an important…
Kong: Skull Island was a visual marvel, its aesthetic magnificence helping to distract from its uneven tone, lack of clear protagonist, and complete trivialization of ostensible stars Tom Hiddleston and Brie Larson. There might be no greater, more iconic shot this year than the first glimpses we get of King Kong cast…
Over the last several years, “alt-right” firebrand Milo Yiannopolis has mobilized a rabid fan base of noxious, mouth-breathing racists by exploiting his status as a gay man who nevertheless embraces the right’s misogyny, Islamophobia, and general lack of inclusivity. Well, now that our laughter’s dying down in the…
It may seem like it was a decade ago, but it’s only been about seven months since everyone in the smartphone-having world became obsessed with Pokémon Go (and six months since everyone got tired of it), and now the developers at Niantic are finally adding the new batch of pocket monsters they’ve been teasing for a…
This week saw the conclusion of two of our Game In Progress reviews. First, Nick Wanserski and William Hughes finished off their adventure through Pokémon Sun and Moon. (You can find all four installments here.) While it’s safe to say they enjoyed most of their time with the games, both agreed that the dozens of hours…
Apparently hoping to clean some of the extraneous “2s” and “The Sequels” out of its upcoming film roster, Legendary Entertainment issued a press release today, giving official titles to a number of movies, including Pacific Rim 2, Godzilla 2, and the live-action Pokémon movie Detective Pikachu.
Reminding us that “catching them all” is as futile a goal as anything else in our dumb, distraction-prone lives, developer Niantic has announced that it’s finally adding new monsters to Pokémon Go. Pokémon from the second generation of the long running game series—Pokémon Gold, Silver, and Crystal—will now hatch from…
Welcome to the final installment of Gameological’s Games In Progress coverage of Pokémon Sun and Moon. This week, reviewers Nick Wanserski and William Hughes will tackle the game’s final island, its grand finale, and some of the tricky end-game content that pops up after the credits roll. They’ll also give their…
