I find the difficulty of playing Pokémon Gold in 2025 strange, but not surprising, considering developer Game Freak’s methods in recent years. The company has seemingly been slow to adapt to the ...

Andrea is an editor at Game Rant, where she has been writing professionally about video games for nearly three years. She became a gamer for life at 7, thanks to a copy of Pokemon Red and her Game Boy ...

Pokémon is a phenomenon unlike anything video games has ever seen. Pikachu is every bit as recognizable these days as Mickey Mouse or Snoopy, if not arguably more so. It feels like Pokémon is too big ...

Gold was the official protagonist of the first two Generation 2 games. Image credit: Game Freak Being a true 90s kid, I was all-in on the Pokémon hype the moment it started. The games, the anime, the ...

In the quarter-century that Game Freak and Nintendo have been churning out Pokémon games, there have been 39 installments in the mainline series. There are now over 1,000 unique Pokémon, over 64 gyms ...