Pokemon Fan Designs Regional Variants for Applin and Its Evolutions

A skilled Pokemon fan artist recently designed some impressive new evolutions for Croagunk’s line, giving the Poison/Fighting hybrid Pokemon a cute baby form and a more fierce-looking final stage. The long-running Pokemon franchise has been a constant source of inspiration for artistic gamers since its conception, with legions of players showing off new versions of classic Pokemon or even creating new ones altogether.

Amazon Prime Gaming’s slate of free games for April 2024 has just been revealed. As a bonus to those who subscribe to Amazon Prime, gamers can download and keep at least one free PC title a week, and they are allowed to hold onto these games even if they cancel their subscription later. There are also Prime-exclusive in-game challenges, and subscribers can also enjoy cloud-based gaming courtesy of Amazon Luna.

A Pokemon fan has recently designed a past Paradox form for Sableye, a Dark/Ghost-type creature that first appeared in Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire. Sableye may not be among the most popular creatures in the franchise, but it has a very memorable design and is a pretty good fit for Pokemon fan art.

A Pokemon fan recently put together an impressive map of the franchise’s universe, with each region standing in for its real-life counterpart. Every new mainline Pokemon entry to date has taken players to a brand-new region filled with new creatures to collect, cities and other landmarks to explore, and various Trainers and Gym Leaders to challenge in the quest to become the reigning champion of said region’s Pokemon League.

A Pokemon fan artist created convergent forms of Magnemite and Magneton, with completely different names and inspirations for the new designs to match. The Pokemon fan artist shared their efforts with other trainers, who commented on both the convergent Pokemon designs and the names the artist chose for the project.

Matthew Mercer, the prolific voice actor who played Vincent Valentine in Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, recently discussed how he first found out who he would be voicing and how much it took him by surprise. While Vincent Valentine was an optional, missable party member in the original Final Fantasy 7, he played a major role in the backstory and larger expanded universe of the original game, quickly becoming a fan favorite that gamers couldn’t wait to see again in Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth.

A talented Pokemon fan has recently designed new Ice-type versions of Cacnea and Cacturne. Ever since the release of the first games in the franchise, the Pokemon community has spent a long time creating amazing fan art, and swapping the types of classic creatures is one of the most common ways to produce interesting pieces of artwork.

Inspired by the reveal of the next core-series Pokemon game, which will take players back to the Kalos region, one fan artist has redesigned the Cacnea family as regional variants that are exclusive to the France-themed region, while also creating a new third evolutionary stage for the species. Many creative members of the Pokemon community have been busy creating their own custom Mega Pokemon and Kalos regional variants since the reveal of Pokemon Legends: Z-A last month, with the confirmed return of mega evolution sparking a wave of creative inspiration among fans.

A Pokemon fan put pen to paper to design their version of what Mega Charizard Z could look like in the upcomingPokemon Legends: Z-A and shared their work with other trainers. The Pokemon fan artist explained why they chose the color palette they used to create their Charizard, and other fans complimented them for the effort.

A fan artist from the Pokemon community has shared two awesome new custom mega designs featuring Mega Gliscor and Mega Klefki, two potential Mega Pokemon that some fans would love to see appear in the upcoming Pokemon Legends: Z-A. The reveal of this new Pokemon Legends game has sparked a great deal of curiosity and excitement in the Pokemon community, with the confirmed return of mega Pokemon leading many artistic fans to imagine what potential new megas might look like.

The Pokemon-style RPG Cassette Beasts is getting a major new update, adding online multiplayer and a host of other interesting features later this year. UK-based developer Bytten Studio and prolific indie publisher Raw Fury released Cassette Beasts on Windows and Linux computers last April, with a wider launch on Xbox systems and the Nintendo Switch the following month. Just like Pokemon, Cassette Beasts tasks players with collecting different elementally empowered creatures, although these monsters are stored within old-fashioned audio cassette tapes and summoned using a handheld cassette player.

A Pokemon fan has created regional and convergent forms of certain Pokemon. Since the introduction of the regional and convergent forms in Game Freak's pocket monster series, fans have designed their own alternate Pokemon that have yet to be covered in the mainline games. The designs are not only unique and beautifully detailed, they also come with different types that bring new life to each form.