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Every Friday, A.V. Club staffers kick off our weekly open thread for the discussion of gaming plans and recent gaming…
Russia used Pokémon Go and Black Lives Matter to meddle in the election
At this point, it’s abundantly clear that Russia—or at least people in Russia—organized an endlessly elaborate scheme…
This Pokémon Go-inspired Walking Dead game should make you look really silly
Watching someone play Pokémon Go is a bit silly, since it really just looks like walking around while focusing on your…
Chicago’s Pokémon Go Fest sounds like it was a shitshow
Even at the height of its popularity, Pokémon Go wasn’t exactly known for its stability. For a lot of people, it was a…
Pokémon Go is finally adding those new monsters, so you might as well reinstall it
It may seem like it was a decade ago, but it’s only been about seven months since everyone in the smartphone-having…
Our favorite games of 2016, part 2
Every December, instead of searching for a group consensus, Gameological looks back at the year in games through…
The year that broke: 16 ways 2016 let us down
The “Fuck 2016” meme didn’t emerge from a void (although it could have, given the current media climate), but rather…
Pokémon Go is finally adding new Pokémon
Reminding us that “catching them all” is as futile a goal as anything else in our dumb, distraction-prone lives,…
Impressive Pokémon Go costume harks back to when people played Pokémon Go
For a couple of glorious weeks in July, Pokémon Go was a global cultural phenomenon, inspiring think pieces, Parliamenta…
Pokémon Go users might add years to their lives along with virtual creatures
It seems like the halcyon days of Pokémon Go have come and gone. No longer do you see street corners filled with people…
This artist imagines what Pikachu’s internal organs might look like
The life of a Pokémon is not easy, essentially a gauntlet of fear, indentured servitude, and violence that only ends…
Pokémon Go meets hardcore parkour
Parkour is kind of insufferable and Pokémon Go is kind of insufferable. But put them together and they’re, well, that’s…
These Pokémon burgers are too terrifying to eat
Pokémon Go is ubiquitous. And now instead of just catching Pokémon, you can eat them, too. According to Mashable, the…
Pokémon Go players love Little Caesars, apparently
Shocking nobody who’s ever cleaned the distinctive leavings of grease-stained fingers flicking a Pokéball off of their…
This 24-hour Pokémon Go channel is weirdly hypnotic
For those who’ve decided to go whole hog on the game, Pokémon Go can be fairly time-consuming. After all, those Dratini…
This Pokemon Go helmet is safe, convenient, and sexy
Oliver Stone has warned that Pokémon Go paves the way to a totalitarian state. Rihanna and Iran banned it. Russia is…
Iran becomes the first country to ban Pokémon Go
The Guardian reports that Iran has become the first country to ban Pokémon Go, in part because the app developers…
A giant Pikachu shows off some surprising snowboarding skills
What does a champion-level British snowboarder do during the dog days of summer in a year with no Winter Olympics to…
This baby neither needs nor wants help playing a mobile game
Playing a game on one’s phone, be it Candy Crush or Angry Birds, has become a classic method for disengaging from…
Twitter gets another MRA (Magikarp Rights Activist)
There’s a lot of competition when it comes to the most useless Pokémon. Pidgeys and Rattata are overpopulated, Metapod…