Pokemon XD Gale of Darkness

It’s been 15 years since Pokemon took Japan’s islands by storm, and since then the numerous species of portable critters have become beloved across the globe. The franchise has become a monster of its own, laden with various product tie-ins and spin-offs. While we’re certainly all aware of the main Pokemon titles – and more likely than not, spin-offs like Pokemon Ranger, Pokemon Stadium, and the not-very-beloved Mystery Dungeon titles that somehow keep getting released – there have been a lot of Pokemon games that simply haven’t made much of a blip on players’ radars...

It was impossible to imagine that they would go on to explode in popularity,” said Nintendo president Satoru Iwata during a recent installment of Nintendo’s ‘Iwata Asks’ Q&A sessions. Chatting alongside Game Freak director Shigeki Morimoto and the president of The Pokemon Company, Tsunekazu Ishihara, Iwata described Pokemon’s gestation – a lengthy six years...

Not only at the GR offices, but all over the world Pokemon insanity is at a fever pitch. There's a new game announced, a new movie featuring new Pokemon, and we're still obsessed with HeartGold/SoulSilver. Now we share with you, gentle reader, a small taste of the Poke-infatuation to be found on the internets...

So you didn’t have a Halloween costume this year. Boo hoo. Well, GamesRadar will come to the rescue yet again. All you need is some paper and a printer (and some scissors to cut out the eye holes), and you’ve got yourself a quick last-minute Halloween costume in, well, a minute! You’ll be the star of party. Or you’ll just be laughed at

Every week we get hundreds of cheat submissions from our readers to add to CheatPlanet. Only a few of these actually survive the brutal, razor-sharp scrutiny and testing we put them through, and emerge as the fine cheat flavored paste that we put onto CheatPlanet. Most of the leftovers we just throw away, flush them down the internet tube never to be seen again. However, there are a few exceptionally stinky cheats that we feel

At around 193 million units versus Pokémons 155 million, Mario may have sold more games overall, but considering the wide variety of stuff he stars in and the length of time hes been around; Pokémon is arguably the more significant videogame phenomenon. Pikachu and the gang have enjoyed peaks and endured troughs since the original games 1996 Japanese debut, but no matter how many times people have tried to write off Pokémon, it remains hugely popular. Its a cultural