Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. In an interview for Japanese newspaper Yomiuri-- translated by Siliconera-- key Pokémon designers Ken Sugimori, Atsuko ...

Gotta catch 'em all, indeed. We learned something new and kind of disturbing this week from the original Pokémon developers and designers Ken Sugimori and Atsuko Nishida — they revealed a secret about ...

Last year, news broke that Game Freak originally intended for Pikachu to have a second evolution after Raichu. Gorochu was intended to be a menacing monster, complete with a pair of horns and fangs.

According to a Yomiuri interview (translated by SiliconEra), Pikachu’s third evolution was called Gorochu, and compared to the cuddly creature we all know and love, Gorochu is described as a menacing ...

Pikachu is probably the most popular Pokémon, but apparently, there are some things that we do not know about the cute and cuddly electric mouse. It is well known that Pikachu evolves into Raichu, ...

Pokémon Legends Z-A is getting a DLC expansion post launch, dubbed Mega Dimension - and it features not one but two Mega Raichu evolutions. There's very little to go on from the trailer - a ...

With the sheer number of new Pokemon Game Freak regularly introduces to the series, there are inevitably some that get left on the cutting room floor. We recently got a glimpse at a handful of unused ...