PUMP: Power UP My Pokemon - Flareon Edition

PUMP: Power UP My Pokemon - Flareon Edition

There once was a wee lad who had to borrow a Game Boy to play the latest video game craze all his friends were into. Obviously, I’m that little boy—er was that little boy. And since playing that first Pokémon game (I actually played Red and Blue equally so no preference there), I’ve had the same favorite Pokémon - Pokémon # 136 Flareon. Why?

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Mega Charizard Setting Fire to the TCG

Mega Charizard Setting Fire to the TCG

The newest addition to the Pokémon Trading Card Game, the Pokémon TCG: XYFlashfire expansion, will be available in retail stores nationwide on Wednesday, May 7, 2014. Pokémon TCG: XYFlashfire brings the fan-favorite Mega Charizard to the Pokémon Trading Card Game with two awesome Mega Charizard-EX cards. 

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Spring Regional Championships

Spring Regional Championships

The Pokémon Video Game and Trading Card Game Spring Regional Championships will be taking place across the United States in early April and competitors will be battling for Travel Awards to the Pokémon US National Championships this July in Indianapolis, Indiana. This will be the last opportunity where Pokémon video game players can earn a Travel Award to the US National Championships so I want to ensure they’re given a proper heads up to prepare and attend an event near them. 

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Fairy Friday: Klefki

Fairy Friday: Klefki

It's Fairy Friday trainers, which basically means one of us writer folk get to review a Fairy Pokémon. Fairy Pokémon are, as many of you know, a new type of Pokémon introduced in the 6th generation of Pokémon games. Fairy type were meant to balance out the Dragon type, and actually do a pretty good job at that.

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Pokémon Battle Trozei Released In North America

Pokémon Battle Trozei Released In North America

Pokemon Puzzle Fans Rejoice! The Nintendo Direct released on February 14th, revealed not only the addition of the new Rock/Fairy type Dianice, but an entirely new game, Pokemon Battle Trozei!  Battle Trozei, is a puzzle based game, where the objective is to line up three of the same Icons, similar to many other puzzle styled games!

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Diamond and Pearl Soundtrack

Diamond and Pearl Soundtrack

The digitally remastered soundtrack from the Pokémon Diamond and Pokémon Pearl can now be found in iTunes by The Pokémon Company International. Pokémon Diamond & Pokémon Pearl: Super Music Collection features beautifully re-orchestrated music originally composed by Junichi Masuda, Gō Ichinose, and Morikazu Aoki.

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New 3DSLL Models Featuring Pokémon Battle Trozei!

New 3DSLL Models Featuring Pokémon Battle Trozei!

The Pokémon Daisuki Club (the principal Japanese Pokémon fan club) website and CoroCoro Magazine (a publication noted for breaking many Pokémon-related news stories) have confirmed not one, but two new Pokémon Battle Trozei!-themed 3DS LL (the name Japan uses for the 3DS XL) models. The first model is white with 113 different Pokémon faces on the front cover. These Pokémon are mostly random and feature Mewtwo, Charizard, Xerneas, Yveltal, and Zygarde.

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Mega Monday: Heracross

Mega Monday: Heracross

It’s Mega Monday!

Hey Trainers!  I’m here with the first entry of Mega Monday, a new weekly article where we examine a specific Mega Evolution in detail.  Our first Pokémon originated in the Johto region and has been popular ever since.  It has appeared in four Pokémon movies and Ash actually caught one in the anime.  Please welcome Heracross and Mega Heracross, the Single Horn Pokémon!

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