GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. I love Pokemon's turn-based battle mechanics. For nearly 30 years, Game Freak has tuned its rock-paper-scissors style combat to near perfection.

“Pokémon Legends: Z-A,” the first “Pokémon” game to launch on the Switch 2, is nearly here, and Nintendo has revealed a Snorlax-sized amount of information about the the game. The news comes via an ...

Even after a little under an hour of hands-on play, it's clear that Pokemon Legends: Z-A is the most interesting and unique Pokemon title since, er… the last one of these, when Game Freak and The ...

Those pesky fire dogs wouldn’t leave me alone. A pack of roving Houndour had been chasing after me, led by an alpha Houndoom — its red eyes signaling it was a cut above the rest — and, overwhelmed in ...

In Legends: Z-A, a lot of the action takes place in specific “zones” around the city. That’s the case with the Battle Royale. Every night, a special Battle Zone will pop up on the map somewhere in ...

Pokemon Legends: Arceus took players into the past. We got to see old versions of Poke Balls and even craft our own. One of the primary drivers of the game was studying Pokemon and starting to put ...

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There’s something inherently ballsy about the fact that Nintendo has never really bothered to modernize Pokémon. After nearly 30 years and nine “generations” of mainline titles — not including an ...

Pokemon Pokemon Legends: Z-A hands-on: With overhauled battles and denser exploration, I'm shocked at how fundamentally fresh this could feel Pokemon I love turn-based RPGs, but 20 minutes of Pokemon ...

Pokémon Go’s latest event is "Steel Skyline," an event that — you guessed it — boosts the spawn rates of some steel-type Pokémon (among others) from Sept. 30 until Oct. 7. Notably, Duraludon is making ...