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Current rumors have the Switch’s successor pegged for a 2025 release. Meanwhile The Pokémon Company has announced that Pokémon Legends: Z-A is due “simultaneously worldwide on Nintendo Switch in 2025.”

Playing the Pokémon Trading Card Game through the official mobile app has been a rough experience in the past. But Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket — a new game launching later this year — looks like it might be the big jump forward people have been waiting for.

You might have fallen off playing Pokémon Go and Pokémon Sleep, but — ahead of Pokémon Horizons’ premiere — Nintendo’s hoping to get some people back on the wagon with the introduction of a bunch of monsters like Charcadet, Raikou, and a special Pikachu.

Netflix has announced that new episodes of Pokémon Concierge are in production. Pokémon Concierge is a too-cute-by-half stop-motion show that lets ‘mons take a well-deserved break from all the brutal prizefighting.

The Pokémon Company apparently looked at all the Direct news and said “Me too!” On February 27th at 6:00 AM PST, TPC will host a presentation on YouTube sharing what it calls “exciting Pokémon news” just in time for Pokémon Day.

For a while now, it’s felt like Niantic was running out of novel ideas for how to keep playing Pokémon GO.

Lots of people have been catching Pals and hatching eggs, according to the game’s developer, Pocketpair. Palworld is also currently the most-played game on Steam, hitting a peak of roughly 1.5 million players.

It was a fine day when Netflix announced that PokémonHorizons’ English dub was finally set to hit Netflix this upcoming February, but it looks like we’re actually going to be waiting until March 7th to hang out with Liko and Sprigatito in Paldea.

The time for Pokémon Scarlet and Violet’s epilogue is finally here.

As delightful as all of Pokémon Concierge’s minute background details are, Dwarf Animation could probably get away with a series that was nothing but these run cycle animations playing on repeat.

Pokémon Scarlet and Violet is getting a free update on January 11th. According to the post, the update is an epilogue, closing out the story of The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero. Students from Naranja and Uva academies will return to the land of Kitakami from The Teal Mask expansion for more pokémon adventures. To participate in the epilogue, you must reach a unspecified endgame moment in Scarlet / Violet and complete the Teal Mask and Indigo Disk main stories.

The Pokémon Company recently started selling official replicas of the Luxury Balls that appear in many of Nintendo’s games.

In the early days of Pokémon games, Pikachu used to be downright rotund by design, but the electric mouse gradually became skinner because that design was easier to animate.

The Pokémon franchise has always emphasized how, in addition to being powerful brawlers, pocket monsters are intelligent beings with complex feelings. In the past, the Pokémon anime has framed trainers who don’t understand that as villains incapable of becoming true champions.

It was already bad enough how rabid scalpers ruined the launch of the Van Gogh Museum’s collaboration with The Pokémon Company. But now, the museum’s announced that — in response to the “undesirable situation” — it will no longer be passing out promo cards to visitors in order to keep them safe.

Scalpers might have ruined everyone’s chances at grabbing a piece of merch from the Pokémon Company’s collaboration with the Van Gogh Museum, collectors hoping to get their hands on one of the coveted “Pikachu with Grey Felt Hat” promo cards are in luck.

The Pokémon Company tried to make the perks (read: promo cards and merch) from its collaboration with the Van Gogh museum to be accessible to everyone. But it seems like scalpers have been swarming the exhibit in Amsterdam to snatch up cards, and forcing the museum to change its sales policy for the exclusive goodies. Good job, folks.

The Pokémon Company’s art-focused collaborations have gradually become one of the niftiest parts of the franchise over the past few years, and it seems as if there’s another one on the horizon that’ll bring trainers to Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum beginning September 28th.

Ash and Pikachu hung up their pokéballs in the Japanese version of the show earlier this year. But if you want to watch the sweet sendoff in English, the last batch of dubbed Pokémon Ultimate Journeys: The Series episodes drops today on Netflix.

That’s the name of the new live-action Pokémon series, which centers around the video game franchise itself. It tells the story of Madoka Akagi (played by Nanase Nishino) who revisits the original Pokémon Red for the first time since her childhood. The series comes out on October 19th in Japan, but there’s no word on a subtitled version just yet.