August2017

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  News Game Freak Director Discusses Evolution of Pokémon Designs

  "Treating them like living creatures"

  Game Freak Director and Pokémon series developer Junichi Masuda has been speaking about the design process in creating Pokémon, and how this has changed over the years since the games' inception.  Pokémon has always been praised for its wide variety of designs, taking things as...

  • Fri 11th Aug 2017
  • Pokémon
  • Game Freak

December2016

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  34

  Feature The Nindie Christmas Celebration - Pocket Card Jockey

  Giddyup

  If there was ever a game to represent this most cruel, brilliant, and baffling of years, Pocket Card Jockey is it. Game Freak's most recent non-Pokémon venture makes little sense: You're a horseracing jockey, but really you're a Solitaire player... but really you're an animal husbandry novice. That this strange brew of strategy, quick...

  • Sat 24th Dec 2016
  • 3DS eShop
  • Features
  • Game Freak

November2016

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  28

  Video Get Comfy for this Hour-Long Pokémon Sun & Moon Discussion with GameXplain

  Alex gets to flex his talking muscles for once

  We at Nintendo Life are very typical gamers in the sense that we love to talk the hind legs off anyone who'll listen when it comes to video games, so naturally when the lovely chaps over at GameXplain invited this floppy-haired video diva over to their channel to natter about Pokémon Sun & Moon, we...

  • Sun 20th Nov 2016
  • Pokémon
  • Discussion
  • 3DS
  • New 3DS
  • Sun and Moon

August2016

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  43

  News Check Out Giga Wrecker, a New Puzzle Platformer from Game Freak

  Just on Steam for now

  Though Game Freak is obviously most well-known for the work it's done on the Pokémon series, the company occasionally likes to dabble in making something else, with games such Drill Dozer, HarmoKnight, and Tembo the Badass Elephant. That last one bizarrely never saw a release on Nintendo platforms, and it seems that could...

  • Fri 19th Aug 2016
  • Upcoming Releases
  • Game Freak
  • Giga Wrecker

October2015

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  23

  News Pokémon Developer Game Freak Acquires Smartphone Development Studio Koa Games

  Game Freak evolves again

  There can be a perception that Game Freak = Pokémon and not much else, but that's certainly not the case. It may be the core developer of an IP prized by Nintendo and The Pokémon Company, but Game Freak is a business that has become increasingly independent in recent years. The company self-published HarmoKnight on the...

  • Tue 27th Oct 2015
  • Game Freak

July2015

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  22

  Video Take A Drip Down Memory Lane With Game Freak's Second Game, Jerry Boy

  Or Smart Ball, if you had the misfortune of playing the American version

  Game Freak may be most famous for the Pokémon series, but the company's history goes back a little further than that. Back when the firm was still learning the ropes, it released the platform title Jerry Boy on the Super Famicom. A cute and cuddly romp through a colourful...

  • Thu 9th Jul 2015
  • Videos
  • SNES
  • Game Freak
  • Super Famicom
  • Retro

March2015

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  101

  News Game Freak’s Director Explains Why TEMBO THE BADASS ELEPHANT Isn’t Coming to Nintendo's Digital Platforms

  At least for now

  It's fair to say, the recent announcement of TEMBO THE BADASS ELEPHANT for every digital platform but the eShop has outraged Nintendo fans. When the SEGA and Game Freak collaboration was teased last week, we even alluded to the idea that Nintendo systems were in with a chance of receiving this latest title given the close...

  • Thu 12th Mar 2015
  • News
  • Game Freak
  • SEGA
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  51

  News Game Freak and Sega Tease a Collaboration, with a Reveal Due on 11th March

  Be prepared for it to be a smartphone game

  When Nintendo fans hear the developer name Game Freak, they likely think of Pokémon; yet while that iconic brand is under the ownership of Nintendo, Game Freak itself is an independent company. Its continual focus is undoubtedly on the next mainline 'mon title, but the studio has also worked on other...

  • Wed 4th Mar 2015
  • Game Freak
  • Sega

November2014

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  45

  News Announcement Of "Delta Episode" Brings More Legendaries & Additional Story Arc To Pokémon Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire

  Adventuring beyond the Pokémon League

  The more we hear about Pokémon Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire, the more this latest entry to the series seems to be bursting with all kinds of content. Developer Game Freak has committed to going more "in depth" with the game world this time around, and the surprise announcement of additional story elements...

  • Thu 13th Nov 2014
  • 3DS
  • Upcoming Releases
  • Pokémon
  • ORAS
  • Game Freak

February2014

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  22

  News "Phantom Gate" Trademark By Nintendo, Game Freak and Creatures Inc. Brings Pokémon to Mind

  It's a phantom gate, not some sort of gate to infinity...

  What do you get when there's a trademark placed by Nintendo, Game Freak and Creatures Inc.? A whole load of Pokémon speculation, of course, as they are three parties that — combined or individually — bring you various 'mon-related games. So that's what we have, with Siliconera spotting...

  • Tue 11th Feb 2014
  • 3DS
  • Pokémon
  • Game Freak
  • Creatures Inc

August2013

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  8

  News Game Freak Devs Explain the Origins of Soliti Horse

  Just horsing around

  When Game Freak teased a new game that featured a franchise popular worldwide, it's safe to say that no-one really thought "that looks like a horse silhouette, so it'll be a horse racing and Solitaire mashup". Yet that's what it is and, perhaps oddly, Soliti Horse looks like a lot of fun. Already released in Japan, its odds for...

  • Sat 17th Aug 2013
  • 3DS eShop
  • Game Freak
  • Japan
  • Development

July2013

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  72

  News Game Freak Uses a Silhouette to Tease a New Collaboration Project

  Those cheeky scamps

  Game Freak should be fairly busy right now, presumably putting the finishing touches to Pokémon X & Y, yet it's found the time to tease a new title with a mysterious website, adorned with a silhouette that looks Pokémon-esque — our tipster reckons it doesn't look like any current 'mon, except possibly a Munna. In any...

  • Fri 19th Jul 2013
  • Game Freak
  • Mystery

September2012

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  33

  News Rhythm Hunter: HarmoKnight May Get Groovy in the West

  Gotta catch the beats

  There are a good numbers of gamers in the West that love Japanese culture and look on with envy at some of the creative, and occasionally wacky, delights that are released in Nintendo's homeland. One of these we may not have expected to see was Rhythm Hunter: HarmoKnight, a rhythm game on the 3DS eShop from Pokémon developer...

  • Tue 25th Sep 2012
  • eShop
  • 3DS
  • Game Freak

February2011

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  11

  News Pokemon Director Talks Translations, Names and 3DS Ideas

  Ahead of new title

  The DS console's time is nearly over, but it's certainly going out on a high, with Pokémon Black & White sure to sweep all before it in the sales stakes this year. GameFreak director Junichi Masuda spoke to Eurogamer about the title's Western appearance and where the series might go from here. Masuda revealed that the...

  • Wed 23rd Feb 2011
  • DS
  • 3DS
  • Pokemon
  • GameFreak