It is rare for Pikachu to change. For nearly three decades, the electric mouse has served as the visual shorthand for Pokémon ...

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“I won’t show those illustrations to anyone as long as I live,” Pokémon Company CEO Tsunekazu Ishihara said. It’s one of those stories you wish were urban legend; something overheard while queueing at ...

Dominik Bošnjak is a freelance writer from Croatia. He has been writing about games for as long as he can remember and is sure he began doing so professionally in 2010 or thereabouts. If he was forced ...