Graphic: Julia Lee/Polygon | Source images: Game Freak/The Pokémon Company, Nintendo Just like other Pokémon games, Pokémon Violet and Scarlet uses a type system, giving each Pokémon one or two ...

For context, Violet Sorrengail is a small woman in her early 20s with brown hair that is grey on the ends. She’s tiny but mighty, and she’s a force to be reckoned with as she finds her power, builds ...

Violet Affleck took the stage at the United Nations (U.N.) to demand clean air and as her father, Hollywood star Ben Affleck, wrestles with his smoking habit. Wearing a KN95 mask, the 19-year-old Yale ...

Pokemon Scarlet and Violet reveal the final Tera Raid event of 2025, as two popular creatures return to the spotlight after a ...

James Ratcliff joined Game Rant in 2022 as a Gaming News Writer. In 2023, James was offered a chance to become an occasional feature writer for different games and then a Senior Author in 2025. He is ...

Cameron Lucas is a writer who has been dedicated to the medium for over four years, and an avid player of video games for all of his life. After the better part of a year at Game Rant as a feature ...

For all of Pokémon Scarlet and Violet’s stumbles in their attempts to usher the series into a new chapter, the most glaring among them is that a more convincing, ultimately superior blueprint was ...

It is still unbelievable to me that after 26 years of linear, straightforward RPGs, developer Game Freak really looked Pokémon players dead in the eye and said, “It’s fine, go wherever you want.” In ...

Why is the sky blue? It's a common question asked by children, and the simple answer is that blue light is scattered by our atmosphere more than red light, hence the blue sky. That's basically true, ...

Justine Bateman imagines the turbulent inner life of a high-functioning Hollywood exec doing battle with her critical inner voices. It’s awfully crowded in Violet’s head. First there’s the voice, ...