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Pokémon is a Nintendo-affiliated media franchise spanning video games, trading cards, and anime built around collectible creatures.
Beats teased a Pokémon collaboration in a short video of its Pill speaker, regularly priced at $149.99 in the US. The Pikachu design comes from Target shelf photos, and no release date has been disclosed.
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Researchers who checked 50 trading-card packs sold in Hong Kong found that only 20% disclosed any odds of winning a rare card. They argue consumer law there, and in the EU and US, likely already requires such disclosure.
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KREAM's card transaction value grew 208-fold in seven months on 131-fold volume. That makes this a participation story rather than an appreciation one. And 77% of that value sits inside a single licensed IP.
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Back-to-school is the first full season Michael Fiddelke owns as chief executive. The work Business Insider watched in Madison was operational, down to how trailers get unloaded and whether check lanes are covered.
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A writeup from the team behind Pokemon restock app Restockd puts the engineering in the notify decision: an alert lifecycle of its own, two failure modes counted apart, and a timestamp on every claim.
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Nintendo has partnered with Elden Ring studio FromSoftware on The Duskbloods, a hardcore multiplayer vampire game. That is a different bet than the one that sold every Switch before it.
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