Using steel types ONLY to beat Pokemon Emerald is known to be an IMPOSSIBLE run and for good reason! Steel types have pretty good base stats apart from speed but are unavailable until after the first ...

Eduardo Ariedo is a video game journalist known among friends for leading Bohemians, an Irish football club, to a Champions League title in Football Manager—just mention the game, and his eyes light ...

The Nuzlocke challenge is a fan-favorite way to play through Pokémon games. The premise is simple: You can only catch the first Pokémon you encounter in each area, and if a Pokémon faints in battle, ...

Things get wild in this episode of my Pokémon Ruby Randomizer Nuzlocke - an unexpected encounter might just change the whole run. Will we catch it, or will it slip away? With random Pokémon and ...

Mitchell Reid is a Canadian born writer hailing from Ontario. He graduated from Durham College's journalism program in 2022. There he work on projects to publish news at the Durham College chronicle, ...

Pokémon has long established itself as a family-friendly franchise. With its adorable creatures and its steady formula of turn-based combat, the games have long been accessible to a wide range of ages ...

Laurence is an avid writer, gamer, and traveller with several years of journalistic writing experience under his belt. Having helped create a student-focused magazine at university, he is keen to ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. The Pokemon Company has taken the unusual step of releasing an official statement about Nuzlocke runs, in response to reports that it removed creators ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at ...