2020 Pokémon Championship Series Canceled
The Pokémon Company announced today that the 2020 Pokémon Championship Series has been canceled. All invitations to the 2020 Pokémon World Championships will be honored for the 2021 World Championships. Our list of COVID-19 canceled Pokémon Events has been updated with this announcement. 2020...
Daniel Arsham × Pokémon First Art Collaboration Project
The Pokémon Company announced that they are teaming up with Daniel Arsham, an American artist to create sculptures of Iconic Pokémon. Additional details about the collaboration will be announced later this spring. POKÉMON AND DANIEL ARSHAM TEAM UP FOR ART COLLABORATION Daniel Arsham × Pokém...
COVID-19 Cancels Pokémon Events in Japan, Korea, Italy, USA, Canada, UK, Singapore
The Pokémon Company and Pokémon Centers have announced they have canceled various events scheduled to be held after February 29th, 2020 in order to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus (COVID-19) and to consider customer safety. They will inform customers on the official site when they plan...
Pokémon Sword and Shield Information and Picture Leaks Joint Statement
In a joint statement released today by Nintendo and The Pokémon Company, they announced that an employee for the Portuguese website FNintendo was responsible for posting information and pictures of Pokémon Sword and Shield to the Internet before its release date. Joint statement from Nintendo...
Pocket Monsters Sword and Shield Official Guide Book Second Edition
The official Japanese Pokémon website has announced that the Pocket Monsters Sword and Shield Official Guide Book Complete Story Guide + Galar Zukan (ポケットモンスター ソード・シールド 公式ガイドブック 完全ストーリー攻略＋ガラル図鑑) produced by The Pokémon Company and Overlap Inc. and released on December 7th, 2019 has some errors a...
The Pokémon Company debuts new games exclusively on Facebook Gaming
The Pokémon Company and Facebook Gaming announced that they have debuted two new Pokémon games that are exclusively available on Facebook Gaming called: Pokémon Tower Battle, developed by Bombay Play, and Pokémon Medallion Battle, developed by GCTurbo. The Pokémon Company debuts new games exc...
National Steps Challenge celebrates its 5th year with Pokémon
The National Steps Challenge™ is a physical activity initiative by the Health Promotion Board (HPB) to encourage Singapore residents to be more physically active every day, anytime and anywhere. They have announced that they have partnered with Pokémon to help promote Season 5. National Steps...
Catch Pokémon at Causeway Point
The official Pokémon website for Singapore has announced that an event will be held at Causeway Point from September 27th, 2019 until October 31st, 2019 where people can go down to the mall and if they spend $160, they can get a Pokémon Plushie. There are 5 different plushies to collect. Other e...
Dynamax Camera
The Pokémon Company has created a new website called the Dynamax Camera which explains that users can take a photo and it adds one of 50 Dynamax variants to the photo. Pokémon will be adding to the service including new Pokémon. Photo Examples: Source: https://dmaxcamera.pokemon.co.jp/j...
Pokémon & Japan Summer Festival 2019!
The official Singapore Pokémon website has announced that on September 7th and 8th, 2019, the Pokémon & Japan Summer Festival 2019! will take place at the Singapore National Stadium. Pokémon & Japan Summer Festival 2019! From 7 to 8 September, Pokémon will be at Singapore's National Stadium...
Pokémon Sword and Pokémon Shield: The Official Galar Region Strategy Guide
Various retailers have posted details of the Pokémon Sword and Pokémon Shield: The Official Galar Region Strategy Guide which will be released on November 22nd, 2019 for $24.99 USD / £15.99. Pokémon Sword and Pokémon Shield: The Official Galar Region Strategy Guide The official strategy guid...
Poké-lun TV Beta
The Pokémon Company and UUUM announced today that they are collaborating together to work on a new YouTube Channel called Poké-lun TV Beta (ポケるんTV β). The channel will create Pokémon videos targeted at children. The channels hosts are: Moe-chan (も えちゃん), Takkun (たっくん) and Hono-chan (ほのちゃ...
The Pokémon Company Reaches 300 Million Cumulative Games Shipped
The Pokémon Company announced via a press release on November 24th, 2017, that cumulative shipments of 76 Pokémon games over multiple systems has now reached a total of 300 million copies worldwide. Source: http://www.pokemon.co.jp/corporate/press/objects/pdf/poke_171124.pdf TOTAL POKÉMON...
The Future of Pokémon Video Games - Bloomberg Technology Interviews CEO Tsunekazu Ishihara
Yuji Nakamura of Bloomberg Technology interviewed The Pokémon Company CEO Tsunekazu Ishihara and talked about the future of Pokémon video games. Below are excerpts from that interview. Pokémon GO: The interview confirmed once again that Trading and one-on-one battles are coming to Pokémon GO. ...
Nintendo Spotlight: E3 2017 - Game Freak developing a "core RPG" Pokémon game for Switch
Nintendo, The Pokémon Company and Game Freak revealed during the Nintendo Spotlight: E3 2017 that Game Freak is developing a "core" Pokémon game for the Nintendo Switch. Tsunekazu Ishihara of The Pokémon Company announced the game during the broadcast. YouTube Clip - Nintendo Spotlight: E3 2017 -...
Niantic Raises $20M From Google, The Pokémon Company and Nintendo
Niantic announced on October 15th, 2015 that they received a $20 Million dollars in a round of Series A funding with investments from The Pokémon Company, Google and Nintendo. Niantic Inc. Raises $20 Million in Financing from The Pokémon Company, Google and Nintendo Back in August, we announced...
