Pokémon was just as ubiquitous to my childhood as were dinosaurs or George Washington. The entity known as Pikachu seemed to have always existed in my subconscious, its yellow body transcending both...

I put a drinking glass on the table, grabbed the Pepsi out of the fridge and poured it into the cup at the halfway mark. I grabbed the milk out of the fridge and filled the remaining half of the cup,...

For a time, it seemed as if finding people glued to their phones catching virtual monsters in Niantic Labs’ Pokémon Go would be as common a sight as any. Pokémon Go, released July 7, allows players...