Chris Littlechild (He/Him) is an Editor and Writer Trainer from the United Kingdom. He has been gaming since receiving an original Game Boy and copies of Super Mario Land and Super Mario Land 2: Six ...

Tristan Jurkovich began his career as a journalist in 2011. His childhood love of video games and writing fuel his passion for archiving this great medium’s history. He dabbles in every genre, but ...

What are Mega Stones in Pokemon Champions? Mega Stones are held items in the Pokemon video games that allow specific Pokemon to Mega Evolve. This temporary transformation physically alters the Pokemon ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Pokemon's turn-based combat can be best described as an inch wide and a mile deep. Its rock-paper-scissors style is easy to understand, but below the ...

This article was updated by Andrea Trama on April 29, 2026, with a list of FireRed exclusives and ways to get the Pokemon used in this article. It was first published on April 21. A Pokemon LeafGreen ...

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So, you wanna be a master? Do you have the skills to be Number 1? Pokemon Champions is now available on the Nintendo Switch and coming to mobile devices later this year, and it shall serve as the ...

Global innovators can learn from Japan’s pop-culture playbook, which shows that breakthrough products succeed by reducing ...

The survival crafting game formerly known as Pickmon, which aesthetically rips off Pokémon and The Legend of Zelda, already faces some significant troubles ahead of launch. Surprisingly, it's not ...

Pokemon FireRed and LeafGreen on Switch followed by Pokemon Pokopia and then Pokemon Champions was not something I expected going into 2026, but here we are, and I'm very happy with all these Pokemon ...

After swapping ‘games’ for ‘experiences’ during the Epic v. Apple trial, Roblox is now more comfortable with ‘games’ again. After swapping ‘games’ for ‘experiences’ during the Epic v. Apple trial, ...

The idea of a battle-centric Pokémon game that lets trainers duke it out without all the breeding and badge collecting has been around since the early days with Pokémon Stadium, so it’s exciting that ...