Twitch Plays Pokémon Through Chat Commands

Twitch, the popular game streaming site, has a new channel that which has managed to connected an emulator running Pokémon Red/Blue to the stream’s chat in order to take commands from those watching. TwitchPlaysPokémon allows for simple commands such as A, B, directions, START and SELECT which control the game. The game has been running … Read more

Diancie Officially Revealed in CoroCoro Leak! [UPD]

Although fans have known about it for awhile, #719 Diancie has finally been revealed! This Fairy/Rock-type Pokémon will star in this summer’s movie. Its title has been updated to Cocoon of Destruction & Diancie.   UPD: Clearer scans confirm that Diancie has the ability Clear Body. Corocoro will also give out one time use serial codes to … Read more

Pokémon Bank Live in, North America, Europe and Australia

Pokémon Bank has finally gone live in Europe, Australia and New Zealand. As of downloading, the version is at 1.1 and will allow players to use the free trial until March 14th, 2014.  The Celebi event for Bank is active as well and will run until September 30th, 2014. There is yet to be any … Read more

Lucario to Return to Smash Bros

Lucario was announced today as a returning character in Super Smash Bros: Wii U / 3DS. This is a great surprise with the recent release of Pokémon X and Y. I personally thought Lucario would have been up for removal for a generation six Pokemon (not to say that they won’t add another one, though), … Read more

New Pokémon Bank Details Revealed

Details about Pokémon Bank’s operation have finally come to light. Nintendo posted the above trailer with a brand new Pokémon Bank website. Bridgette, the “creator” of Pokémon Box: Ruby & Sapphire has returned to host the new Bank service. It launches on the Nintendo 3DS eShop on December 27th. Some new details: Multiple games can … Read more