The legendary game director Masahiro Sakurai was recently awarded the “Art Encouragement Prize” from the Japanese government’s Agency for Cultural Affairs. At an acceptance speech given at the awards ceremony on March 11th, 2025, Sakurai was asked about what he feels the Japanese games industry should do to continue growing,…
With the sale of Niantic’s gaming division to Scopely, the PIF-backed gaming sector of Savvy Games, there have been concerns that the future of Pokémon GO would become wrought with new forms of invasive advertising and data collection. While we still can’t rule out some sort of biometric collection going…
You’ve likely seen the news already, but if not, I have a surprise to tell you: Lego Pokémon is official and will be hitting store shelves in 2026. Both Lego and The Pokémon Company made the announcement this morning with the official Lego site getting a landing page based on…