If you're unfamiliar with Adi Shankar's Bootleg Universe, allow me to welcome you to it: It's a fan-first, artistic take on some of the world's most famous properties, an indie approach to parody, ...

Anyone who’s pondered Pokémon long enough has likely come to the realization, “Wait, isn’t this whole thing basically cute dogfighting/cockfighting?” While ...

This time, it is Pokemon that is getting raunchy, and fans will have to see the explicit video to believe. As you can see above, the short is titled “The End of Pokemon”, and it gets real dark real ...

If a franchise is popular enough, it is bound to have mountains of knock-off merchandise. These bootleg toys and collectibles often attract online mockery for their poor quality, production mistakes, ...

Bootleg Pokemon vending machines selling unlicensed game cartridges have surfaced in California malls. Despite Nintendo's litigious reputation, they haven't dealt with this copyright infringement. The ...

Let’s Go Pokemon Mobile is not an official pocket monsters game, but you wouldn’t know that from the amount of attention it’s been receiving lately. The knockoff has been a huge conversation piece for ...

GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. Retro gaming is bigger than ever, and so is the market for bootlegs.

At the annual nerdy masquerade ball of a shopping mall that is San Diego Comic-Con, where vendors gather to sell rare, exclusive, and fully licensed pop culture totems to rabid fans, the hottest craze ...