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Random Oh No, You Can Buy A Life-Sized Gardevoir Plush From Pokémon Center

Update: Now available in America

[Fri 31st Jan, 2025 16:45 GMT] We've seen lots of life-sized Pokémon plushies over the years — Larvesta, Lucario, Arcanine, multiple starter 'mons, and Spheal. So really, it was only a matter of time before Gardevoir joined the ranks, right? Brought to our attention by Joe Merrick (of Serebii) on Bluesky, The...

• Fri 7th Feb 2025
• Random
• Pokemon
• Merchandise

Talking Point What Are You Playing This Weekend? (25th January)

Swing, king

This week might not have brought us the Switch 2 bonanza that dominated the last, but there was still plenty to talk about in the world of Nintendo. We got a teeny, tiny development update from the Silksong team (turns out, the game is still real) and chatted all things space with Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector

• Sat 25th Jan 2025
• Features
• Talking Point
• Nintendo Switch
• What Are You Playing

Talking Point What Are You Playing This Weekend? (4th January)

I have fury!

Hello folks, and welcome to the year 2025! It's cold, rainy, and there's still no sign of flying cars. Still, it's the year that Nintendo's new hardware will finally be revealed (and hopefully released), so we're inclined to believe that it's going to be a good one. It's been a bit quiet in terms of news, but there have been a couple...

• Sat 4th Jan 2025
• Features
• Talking Point
• Nintendo Switch
• What Are You Playing

Random This Guy Found A Lost Pokémon Emerald Cartridge And Flew To Japan To 'Heal' It

And he documented the full journey on TikTok

If you cast your mind back a couple of years, you might recall a rather heartwarming story about a guy who stumbled across an "abandoned" copy of Nintendogs on a late-night train home and set out trying to find the lost pups' owner. It was a sweet tale told in five parts by content creator and Nintendo...

• Fri 1st Nov 2024
• Random
• Pokemon
• GBA

News Pokémon Emerald ROM Hack Contains Redrawn Sprites From 130 Artists

Gotta redraw 'em all

To celebrate the 20th anniversary of Pokémon Emerald for the GBA, 130 artists have collabrated on a project to redraw the sprites for all 386 Pokémon included in the game (thanks, gamesradar). Not only that, but the revised sprites have been implmented into a fully playable ROM hack called Pokémon Emerald: Respirited, so you...

• Thu 19th Sep 2024
• Pokemon
• Rom
• GBA
• Nintendo

Random Did You Know That Pokémon's HM 'Cut' Could Be Used On Tall Grass?

Only from generations one to three

For the most part, people seem pretty clued up on Pokémon facts. The franchise has grown so large, in fact, that whenever you think that you know a piece of information so obscure that it is bound to astonish those around you, there's always somebody there to say "well obviously, duh!" We have found ourselves in...

• Wed 25th Jan 2023
• Random
• Nintendo
• Pokemon
• Polls

Talking Point What Are You Playing This Weekend? (January 14th)

Game on

With the Christmas chocolates finally dwindling in number, we think it's fair to say that 2023 is well under way. And as the year kicks off, so too do we see the return of gaming news — nature is healing, people! This week at Nintendo Life, we have been welcoming in the new year with open arms, looking to the months ahead and talking...

• Sat 14th Jan 2023
• Talking Point
• Nintendo Switch
• What Are You Playing
• Features

Random Step Aside Twitter, Discord Is Now Playing Pokémon Emerald

From the creator of Twitter Plays Pokémon

Remember the social media experiment Twitch Plays Pokémon? Last year it was followed up by Twitter playing Pokémon Red inside someone's avatar on Twitter. Now, the same mastermind behind the Twitter experiment is back, this time with a Discord bot that allows Pokémon fans from around the world to play...

• Tue 18th May 2021
• Random
• Pokemon
• Game Boy Advance
• Discord

Random Pokémon Fan Finishes Challenge To Play Every Game Without Using Pokémon Twice

It took two and a half years to complete the series

Pokémon fans love making things harder for themselves. There's the Nuzlocke Challenge, in which you can only catch the first Pokémon you meet in every area, and fainted Pokémon are considered "dead" and must be released. There's the original Twitch Plays Pokémon, which keeps popping up with...

• Mon 25th Jan 2021
• Random
• Pokémon

Feature A Pokémon Retrospective: Generation 3 - 2002 To 2006

A period of evolution

As we build up to the 20th anniversary of Pokémon in February 2016, and look hotly ahead towards brand new things including the new Zygarde forms, we're continuing our monthly journey through each generation of Pokémon, this month we cover the generation that many ignored, the one that came after the Pokémon "fad" ended, but...

• Thu 5th Nov 2015
• Retro
• Features
• Pokemon