{"id":28695,"date":"2019-03-04T09:41:55","date_gmt":"2019-03-04T14:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/?p=28695"},"modified":"2019-03-04T09:41:55","modified_gmt":"2019-03-04T14:41:55","slug":"newspaper-accidentally-reports-that-pokemon-sword-shield-and-gun-have-been-announced-ign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/?p=28695","title":{"rendered":"Newspaper Accidentally Reports That Pokemon Sword, Shield and Gun Have Been Announced &#8211; IGN"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-content\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div>\n<p>\n                    Number one meme with a bullet.                <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>                                    <span itemprop=\"author\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Person\"><br \/>\n                        <span content=\"Joe Skrebels\" itemprop=\"name\"><br \/>\n                            By <a href=\"http:\/\/people.ign.com\/2plus2isjoe\">Joe Skrebels<\/a>                        <\/span><br \/>\n                    <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Of the many, many memes spawned by the <a href=\"https:\/\/uk.ign.com\/articles\/2019\/03\/01\/pokemon-sword-and-shield-announced-for-nintendo-switch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announcement of <\/a><a data-legacy-id=\"\" data-locale=\"us\" data-object-relation-ids=\"20070198,20094033\" data-object-type=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ign.com\/games\/pokemon-sword\" title=\"Pokemon Sword\">Pokemon Sword<\/a> and Shield, perhaps the most popular (or at least the one I saw stolen and reposted the most) was the logo for a third version \u2013 Pokemon Gun. As it turns out, some didn&#8217;t notice the joke.<\/p>\n<p>As posted by Twitter user <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cin_ceja\/status\/1102256127784431616\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Cin Ceja<\/a>, Mexican newspaper La Voz de\u00a0Michoac\u00e1n printed logos for Sword, Shield and Gun alongside its news piece about the new games:<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cin_ceja\/status\/1102306750374600705\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">full article<\/a>\u00a0actually doesn&#8217;t mention Gun, so it seems someone in the picture department may have some explaining to do.<\/p>\n<p>To be fair, it is a very good fake. The original image, by Twitter user <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Sir5000\/status\/1100761812050501632\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Sir5000<\/a>\u00a0nails the imagery and stylised fonts of the real logos:<\/p>\n<p>If you want some real Pokemon Sword and Shield news, we have you covered \u2013 from the <a href=\"https:\/\/uk.ign.com\/articles\/2019\/02\/27\/pokemon-sword-and-shield-every-pokemon-confirmed-so-far\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">two dozen Pokemon already announced<\/a>\u00a0to <a href=\"https:\/\/uk.ign.com\/wikis\/pokemon-sword-shield\/Starter_Pokemon_and_Evolutions#Grookey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">everything we know about the starters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, we&#8217;ve <a href=\"https:\/\/uk.ign.com\/articles\/2019\/02\/28\/pokemon-sword-and-shield-trailer-breakdown-gen-8-starters-legendary-hints-and-easter-eggs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">broken down the game&#8217;s first trailer for clues<\/a>\u00a0and pulled apart the game&#8217;s map to <a href=\"https:\/\/uk.ign.com\/wikis\/pokemon-sword-shield\/Galar_Region_Map\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">find out more about the new Galar region<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Joe Skrebels is IGN&#8217;s UK Deputy Editor, and he wants Pokemon Warhammer \u2013 game name or actual product, he doesn&#8217;t care which. Follow him on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/2plus2isjoe\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a style=\"white-space: nowrap\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/2019\/03\/04\/newspaper-accidentally-reports-that-pokemon-sword-shield-and-gun-have-been-announced\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Number one meme with a bullet. By Joe Skrebels Of the many, many memes spawned by the announcement of Pokemon Sword and Shield, perhaps the most popular (or at least the one I saw stolen and reposted the most) was the logo for a third version \u2013 Pokemon Gun. As it turns out, some didn&#8217;t&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28696,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[188],"tags":[2366,4406],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28695"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28695"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fyst_prominent_words&post=28695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}