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Many Pokémon have an affinity to natural elements, a trope that they share with other superheroes. Singapore-based shirt designer Barefists figured it would be nice to mashup the critters to famous heroines that share their elemental strengths in what he’s calling PokePinups.

Barefists currently has four PokePinups designs: Poison Ivy riding a Venusaur, Danaerys with three Charmanders, the Waterbender Katara on a Blastoise and the X-man Storm with Pikachu.

You can get the t-shirts from Barefists’ shop Xmashed Gear for about $22 (USD) each, but if you can get them for just $14 each, $30 for two or $55 for all four plus four A3 prints on his Indiegogo fundraiser. He’s planning to make more PokePinups in the future, but I hope that doesn’t depend on the success of his fundraiser because he’s still quite a ways from hitting his goal of $2,800.

With hundreds of Pokémon this series has a lot of potential. You can have Carrie and Mew, Chell and Abra, Sasha Blouse and Snorlax… man I need to play Pokémon X/Y. I’m way behind on Pokémon.

It is important to make sure that games are tested thoroughly before they are released so that the end user, a gamer in this case, would not have many (or any) issues with it. Of course, from time to time, there are some games that do end up horribly wrong for the gamer just like how GTA Online saw characters go missing permanently, which has led to Rockstar compensating such gamers with up to $500,000 in GTA currency. Well, one of the hottest and most popular game franchises to date, Pokemon, experienced a worldwide launch over the weekend for Pokemon X and Pokemon Y, which means all should be hunky dory. Apparently, it is not, as some gamers found a save bug in both titles that would render the game unplayable.

That happens when you decide to save your game in the outskirts of Lumiose City, at least according to a “small number” of Pokemon X and Y gamers as reported by VentureBeat. This particular bug is said to have caused the game to freeze when “saving in the outside streets area of Lumiose City”, requiring gamers to resort to a hard reset of the Nintendo 3DS. However, while that might be the solution for most other games freezing, resetting the console does not seem to work as the game allegedly freezes right after the save is reloaded. Nintendo has remained mum on the situation at the moment, so you know what NOT to do whenever you are outside of Lumiose City now.

Pokemon X And Pokemon Y Has Game-Breaking Save Bug (Rumor) original content from Ubergizmo.

Way back in early January, Nintendo teased 3DS owners with some teaser content for Pokemon X and Pokemon Y, promising that it would arrive for the console later this autumn. Such a time has come around, with the Japanese company updating their announcement with a solid date — this coming Saturday, October 12. The installments […]

When artist Olly Moss first posted images of his video game-themed dinnerware, the Internet exploded with so much want. If you’re one of those people who coveted his geeky take on the Willow pattern, you’re in luck. The plates are on sale, but only for a very short time.

In case this is the first time you’ve heard of these plates, they look like something your grandparents would use from afar. But if you look closer you’ll see that the plates feature scenes from either Pokémon or The Legend of Zelda.

You can order the 8-bit Willow Plates from Olly Moss’ online shop for $60 (USD) each or $200 for four plates. But they’ll only be on sale until tomorrow (10/7/13 at 12pm GMT) so act quickly.

[via it8bit]

Redditor Paramorgue found an extraordinary tombstone in his hometown in Lund, Sweden. He says it’s dedicated to a boy who died when he was just five years old. The statue immortalizes the child enjoying perhaps what was one of his favorite pastimes: playing Pokémon.

In the statue, the child is holding a Game Boy Advance SP with a Graveler etched on the screen. The same Pokémon is also shown hiding under the Game Boy.

Rest in peace, kid. You can see a few more images of the tombstone on Paramorgue’s Imgur album.

[via Reddit via Destructoid]