Pocket Gamer: ''Rap artists often reveal some troubling preoccupations in their lyrics. That might include taking illegal drugs, murdering people, and spending half a mil' on a new hubcap.
But these urban poets of the street, as I like to call them, are also obsessed with Nintendo's monster-hunting RPG Pokemon. So, these lyrical professors often fill their songs with the names of these pocket-sized monsters.
And I don't just mean throwaway mentions of crowd-pleasing critters like Pikachu. No, I'm talking savvy references to the other 150 monsters. I mean, these rap dons know that Snorlax is fat, Bulbusaur is a grass type, and an episode of the anime once caused seizures in Japanese schoolchildren.
These are my favourites, and they're are all 100 percent real references to Pokemon games, cards, and monsters in rap songs.''
Pokecology is a real book based on the behavioral science and ecology of Pokemon, and it's coming (to Japan) in mid-June.
Pokemon Scarlet and Violet are set to receive upgrades for the Nintendo Switch 2 to improve performance when the new console launches later this year.
For anyone who somehow missed the news over the weekend, Pokémon developer Game Freak suffered a data leak in August which has just come to light, with various internal docs, source code to games, and other material finding its way onto the internet.
I imagine if the source code for legend ZA gets dumped online, even in an unfinished state, modders will finish it, clean it up and it would punch a hole right though the games sales numbers
I wouldn't think they'd have enough to make much more than a tech demo, obviously the game would be pretty under baked at the moment (plus that would be a lot of work for a small group of modders).
Some of the stuff from these leaks is pretty wild, particularly the human/Pokémon relations, I imagine Game Freak spends a lot of time reigning in the lore guy (supposedly it's a girl) who's totalling into that mythos. Makes me wonder if some of the stuff we see in game is toned done versions of that stuff that has been sanitised for the audience (some of that is really interesting though).
