Maybe this is a BuzzFeed-worthy article, but that's exactly where this post originated from. Max Woolf, Data Scientist at Buzzfeed, started playing with AI in order to create some memes, he was testing a script to read all existing Pokémon and then create new Pokémon with the collected data.

Before I came to work at Engadget, I worked as an Associate Editor for The Pokémon Company for five years. It was always a bit weird trying to explain what I did back then, because I’d always get “oh, is that still around, I thought that was just a fad” comments, and I’d have to explain that no, it was still very much a thing.

For those familiar with Japan's oldest religion, Pokémon is more than a cartoon fantasy — it takes place in a universe full of Shinto elements, where the natural and the supernatural meld together.

Tech companies have big plans for augmented reality, but all of them involve huge amounts of surveillance of our everyday lives.

For all the Classic game lovers, check out these gamecube emulators to play Nintendo games on your PC.

We hope you're prepared for trouble, because you can now fight Team Rocket grunts in Pokémon Go. Niantic has started rolling out the update it promised a week ago, adding dark-colored PokéStops with the Team Rocket logo at various locations in the game. Just spin the stop to fight a grunt's shadow Pokémon and capture the poor, abandoned monster with a Poké ball after you beat its heartless trainer.

The digital overlays of Pokémon Go reinvented Sofia’s everyday experiences of mundane spaces. And she became an outstandingly super-cool grandmother in the eyes of her grandson, Diego.

Dominic Rushe has caught over 11,000 Pokémon, walked 1,841km in Poké-land, and doesn’t plan to stop anytime soon

Kids who grew up obsessively playing handheld Pokémon games have a vast neurological Pokédex in the middle of their brains, according to a new study. Scientists led by Jesse Gomez, a researcher at UC Berkeley, used the popular franchise to examine how visual stimulation drives brain development. The team published the results on Monday in Nature Human Behavior.

“GameCube” one of the Nintendo's best video game console, released in 2001 a long time ago, But just because of its distinctiveness, quality &

Pokemon, also known as Pocket Monsters, is a Japanese series of video games that was first released in 1996.

For many of us former kids who grew up mostly indoors in the 1990s, hearing the familiar chirps, buzzes, and pika pikas! of a first-generation Pokémon game can really rattle up some memories. Like that family vacation to Niagara Falls when I missed the entirety of Earth’s greatest natural wonder because I was too busy trying to evolve my Wartortle. Or that summer when my older brother stole my copy of Pokémon Blue, took it to band camp, and returned with all my Pokémon leveled up to 100 and creatively renamed after genitals (Blastoise was simply “Penis”).

Promos range from incredibly revealing to incredibly vague—but we're excited by each.

I imagine "real" Jigglypuff offal tastes like cake, too.

One of my favorite places to visit in Disney World is the main store at Epcot's Japan Pavilion. It's a lovely place filled with food, toys, and plenty of video game/anime paraphernalia -- with a micro history museum to boot. Oh, and it's always packed with Pokemon (and Dragon Ball) merch year after year.

Pokemon Go players in some western parts of the United States may have spotty service thanks to a major military operation. The US Air Force has launched its largest-ever version of the annual aerial war games known as "Red Flag." The war games are based out of the Nellis Air Force Base near Las Vegas, but most of the tests will take place over the huge Nevada Test and Training Range, a huge 4,500 square foot track of land in the Nevada desert.

The Nintendo Switch has continued to absolutely shatter expectations since its launch earlier this year. With more third party support than ever before, and the constant updates keeping the portable console fresh, there is a lot to love about the latest platform from the Big N. According to one market analyst, if Nintendo were to release a Pokemon game for the Switch next year, that market value could go through the roof!

The biggest update to Pokémon GO is nearly here! Very soon, Trainers around the world will be able to participate in a revamped Gym gameplay experience, including the opportunity to join together with others to battle against powerful Pokémon in the new Raid Battle feature!

There’s a mainline Pokémon role-playing game in development for Nintendo Switch right now. The Pokémon Company’s president and CEO Tsunekazu Ishihara revealed that the system will receive a main entry in the series during Nintendo’s E3 2017 Direct presentation.

NOW THAT THE generalized Pokémon Go craze has subsided, the more captivating effort to catch ‘em all may be game developer Niantic’s ongoing battle against cheaters. Its latest evolution: Not banning bad actors, but banishing them to poké-purgatory. As detailed by Pokémon Go enthusiast subreddit The Silph Road, a recent Pokémon Go update targets players who use bots to trawl the globe for valuable Pokémon...