Andrea is an editor at Game Rant, where she has been writing professionally about video games for nearly five years. She became a gamer for life at 8, thanks to a copy of Pokemon Red and her Game Boy.

The simple joy of catching and battling pocket monsters has always been enough for Pokemon to sell like gangbusters, but each new iteration still has some type of novel gimmick to shake up the ...

Drew Swanson is a Features Article Editor from the Pacific Northwest of the United States. Being a gamer all his life and enjoying everything from ARPGs like Diablo to JRPGs like Pokemon and Persona, ...

When it comes to catching and evolving Pokemon in Pokemon Go, this is most often done through Candy. Each time you catch a Pokemon, you'll earn Candy for that specific Pokemon. Once you have the ...

Mega Evolution is getting a big focus in the Pokemon franchise in 2025. After years of being largely ignored, the feature is making a big comeback in the video games and TCG, and The Pokemon Company ...

The Pokemon TCG craze has been burning white hot since the release of Surging Sparks in early 2025. After a few years of relative quiet, a new round of shortages, upselling, and collector hype has ...

The Mega Dimension DLC for Pokémon Legends: Z-A is adding a brand new form of Mega Evolution to the series, and while its mechanics perfectly match the new combat system introduced in the spin-off, it ...

Pokémon Legends: Z-A has sparked a familiar fandom response, as each new Mega Evolution reveal has elicited criticisms over its design. The question that we have to ask is whether these criticisms are ...

Pokemon Legends: Z-A will soon arrive on Nintendo Switch consoles. Here are all of the new mega evolutions we know about right now. Tyler is a writer under CNET's home energy and utilities category.