Pokémon Sword and Shield may be seeing the return of many series traditions after the Sun and Moon games introduced some radical overhauls, but no Pokémon game would feel complete without the introduction of a team of ne’er-do-wells to harass players. After the likes of Team Rocket and Team Skull, the next Pokémon game has its primary antagonists: Football hooligans. …

According to the same fans who presumably want to know why Game Freak can’t just do their job properly and create custom animations for each Pokémon and the attacks they can use which would result in literally thousands of unique animations, the models for this generation’s pocket monsters are lifted straight from the previous 3DS games. Not so!

The incredibly rare card was reportedly lost in the mail with the original buyer offering a reward of $1000 for any information regarding its whereabouts.

Here’s the newest look at what creatures you can expect to encounter, in the latest trailer for Pokemon Sword and Shield.

Nintendo has proven that the franchise is fluid enough to exist in multiple genres, while also placing their trust in a select few outside developers to do the brand proper justice. Pokémon Masters then, may just be the closest that the series has come towards translating the mainline games into a mobile experience.

Over 50,000 Redditors participated in the online survey to finally answer the question God himself shrugged at: Who is everyone’s’ favourite Pokemon? With over 800 of the little buggers running around, it seems that the expression “Every Pokemon is someone’s favourite,” a common phrase thrown around the community, does make a great deal of sense. We’ve been playing these games …

It's not just your pocket monsters that'll be experiencing some change in Pokemon Sword and Shield, but you the player as well as the latest game from Nintendo celebrates more than two decades of catching 'em all.

Perhaps the first thing that stuck me during my brief time with Pokémon Sword and Shield was just how familiar it felt. As someone who only recently started playing modern mainline entries such as X and Y, I was expecting Sword and Shield to immediately feel different from the formula Nintendo had established on 3DS. Not radically different, but unique in a way that made it appearance on a home console again feel special. Based on the single gym I got hands-on time with, that might not be in Sword and Shield's mission statement.