Four Van Gogh Museum employees suspended after Pokémon exhibit chaos

It’s been 10 years since Twitch Plays Pokémon became a livestreaming phenomenon. On Monday, to celebrate the anniversary of playing Pokémon Red via Twitch chat, the channel’s producers kicked off a new playthrough of the original Game Boy game, with a twist. This time, Twitch Plays Pokémon is being played on official Nintendo hardware, not an emulator.

10 years after the launch of Twitch Plays Pokemon, the social-experiment-turned-online-phenomenon is celebrating its double-digit birthday by getting back to basics, revisiting the original games on original hardware and this time trying to beat them without any method to reign in the full chaos of Twitch chat.

Pokemon GO is going to change how Android users redeem codes in the augmented reality mobile game, forcing them to go to the Pokemon GO Web Store instead of letting them redeem through the app. While it may not be quite as popular as it was in 2016 or during the pandemic, Pokemon GO is still one of the biggest mobile games around.

Xbox will continue making consoles going forward, Xbox boss Phil Spencer has allegedly told Microsoft employees.

Hideo Kojima is reviving his ‘HideoTube’ YouTube series today with its first new video in seven years.

A report released by Statista revealed that Pokemon GO grossed $566.38 million in 2023, with a supposed revenue drop. Pokemon GO was released in 2016 and became a huge success by turning players into real-life trainers. Since then, Pokemon GO has undergone many changes, and even though it's not the success it once was, Niantic's game has an active player base and is a prominent name in the mobile games market.

A Pokemon fan managed to merge every Gen 1 Pokemon design into one massive creature. There are 151 Gen 1 Pokemon in total, so it's an impressive feat to be able to bring this weird creation to life.

A lucky Pokemon GO player recently captured a shiny Shadow Zubat, something that should not be possible, considering that this creature is not officially available at the moment. It’s possible that Shadow Zubat will debut during Pokemon GO’s Taken Treasures event, which will start on January 27, as it will bring many Shadow Pokemon to the game.

Pokemon GO has revealed the details for its upcoming Lunar New Year event, including a brand-new Shiny and increased spawn rates for a plethora of Dragon Pokemon. The massively popular monster-catching mobile game from Niantic often features limited-time events for various holidays, featuring unique Pokemon and rewards. The game's recent «Dazzling Dream» event gave players the chance to catch plenty of Fairy Pokemon, including shiny variants of Cutiefly and Ribombee. Now, Niantic is ringing in the Year of the Dragon with a new event centered around Dragon Pokemon.

Just four months after the merger with Activision-Blizzard, Microsoft has announced that it will lay off 1.900 Activision-Blizzard and Xbox employees.

Earlier this evening, The Pokémon Company issued a press release seemingly addressing the recent conversation surrounding the new Steam Early Access release Palworld and its suspiciously familiar-looking collectible creatures. 

The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam has reportedly fired four employees in the aftermath of a major controversy surrounding the museum'sPokemon exhibition from last Fall. The worldwide popularity of Nintendo's iconic monster-catching franchise has seen the series honored in a variety of different manners since the games' 1996 debut. The series has regularly featured both digital and in-person exhibitions sharing the art and history of the franchise, including last year's «Pokemon Colors» exhibit in Yokohama. However, one of the most recent exhibitions has plenty of controversy attached.