Some brand new sales numbers made their debut thanks to The NPD Group, and so far Pokemon Sword and Shield is continuing to break its franchise global sales records. According to the Twitter thread from Mat Piscatella, a video game industry analyst at The NPD Group, the latest installment in the long running series has
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While they released only a few weeks ago, Pokemon Sword & Shield have already proven themselves as a hit with the series breaking records for both the Pokemon series and Switch titles as a whole. With the new titles introducing the region of Galar, a new animated series debuting early next year will give viewers a closer look
Co-owner of The Pokemon Company, Creatures Inc., has recently been removed from Game Freak’s profile page on its official website. As reported by the Japanese website Pokemon Matome (via Video Games Chronicle), on Game Freak’s “Company Profile” page on its official website, there is a section named “Main Client” which showed Creatures Inc. as recently
The Pokemon Center in Shibuya, Tokyo has new lines of merchandise coming to their storefront. The first line of merch is branded as Pokemon GO Lab (based off the popular mobile game of course) and includes shirts, hats, ID Card Case, and other little goodies: Also Pokémon Center Mega Tokyo is adding some Pokémon GO
Pokemon Sword and Shield gets a pretty nifty new event for all players: because it’s the first day of December, all sections of the massive Wild Area are currently locked into snowy weather. This means that the Pokemon encountered in the grassy areas will be primarily Ice types such as Sneasel, Cubchoo, Vanillite, and Vanillish
Pokemon Sword and Shield feel like the middle evolution of most Pokemon lines. It’s pretty charming and has a solid base but looks and feels a bit off in some way, like Quilladin or Drizzile. This has been a title rife with pre-release controversy and shows the clear growing plains Game Freak has experienced in
Pokemon Center Shibuya, which just opened its door a couple days ago, has one of the coolest displays I have ever seen: a full blown giant Mewtwo inside an incubation chamber. The display is absolutely gorgeous, with cool steel and blue futuristic aesthetics which are somewhat based off the chamber’s design in the first Pokemon
In a report from GameSpot, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate will be getting new Pokemon Sword and Shield themed Spirits. From November 21 to the 26th, players can catch Grookey, Scorbunny, Sobble, Corviknight, Morpeko, and Zacian & Zamazenta. While the Spirits will be added to your collection once you beat them, you’ll also earn more Spirit
Things have been a bit rocky for Pokémon Sword and Shield. Originally, Game Freak found fans getting upset about the fact the new game wouldn’t include all Pokémon from previous games. Things escalated when players who got hands on the game early started leaking character models that appeared to be reused assets from Pokémon Sun and Moon
Pokémon Sword and Shield came out last week, giving fans the weekend to jump into the idyllic British-inspired setting. While the build-up to launch found Game Freak wading through the controversy surrounding the leaked character models, it seems there’s a new and odd annoyance that has been discovered within the game. No, this isn’t more
Pokemon Sword and Shield, the latest installment in the wildly popular franchise, launched just this weekend. And at Nintendo NYC, it released in style with tons of merchandise and brand new displays at the official Nintendo store. For those who couldn’t be there in person, however, new photographs of the launch event were released by
Update: Many Japanese players reported that they lost saves with this bug, so I initially got confused, my bad. Technically, it shouldn’t be possible because the Switch only stores game saves on the console’s internal memory. And you normally can’t copy saves from the internal memory to your SD card and then delete the saves
Pokémon Sword and Shield is due to launch this week, but ahead of launch, there’s already an angry hashtag trending within the walls of Twitter. The hashtag has sparked a large number of tweets calling developer Game Freak liars after leaks surfaced apparently confirming that the game reuses Pokémon models from previous games. It’s worth noting,
So you already know the next-gen of Pokemon is starting later this week with Pokemon Sword and Shield on Switch. And you might have noticed how the trailers released for the game are pretty different in Japan than in the rest of the world. As such, the Japanese Official Pokémon YouTube channel published on November 11
The Pokemon Company released this pretty cool online journey tool on their official website, which allows you to recreate moments from your own personal Pokemon journey. You start by choosing from one of several regions — ranging from Red and Blue version’s Kanto all the way to Alola region of Sun and Moon. Then you
In a new interview with The Verge, Nintendo of America President Doug Bowser comments on how the company has dealt with Joy-Con drift, the future of the Nintendo 3DS, and more. “Our goal is always, always to create quality products, and products that ensure gamers are having a great experience,” says Bowser. “We are continuously
In a new trailer for Pokemon Sword and Shield, we get details on new items, changes to special supplements, and more. The first new item shown off are mints, which can increase a certain stat for your Pokemon. For example, a modest mint is used in the trailer which increases a Pokemon’s special attack skill.
Toby Fox announced on his Twitter account on November 1 that he contributed to Pokemon Sword and Shield‘s development: he made a track for the game. Hey, I'm finally allowed to announce this: I was asked to compose a track for Pokémon Sword & Shield! It's a huge honor to be asked to be part
Nintendo published the Japanese overview trailer for Pokemon Sword and Shield. Other versions of the trailer have yet to be published, but this is Pokemon we’re talking about, a series which didn’t change that much after two decades, so you won’t miss anything even if you don’t understand the language. Plus I’m here to summarize
Just under one year ago, Nintendo introduced us to a brand new IP from Game Freak called Town. Unfortunately, we have barely heard anything about the title since then outside of the fact that it was still slated for 2019. Town finally reemerged during today’s Nintendo Direct, and we got to see more gameplay and
Nintendo has held some kind of Nintendo Direct in September nearly every year since the program’s inception, and 2019 will be no different. People have been speculating about a new Nintendo Direct ever since an officially licensed Overwatch Nintendo Switch case leaked on Amazon, and today Nintendo finally confirmed on Twitter that one is coming
It’s not every day we wake up to some fun Pokemon news—this Wednesday morning, the Pokemon Company and Game Freak revealed a number of new tidbits for Pokemon Sword and Pokemon Shield on Nintendo Switch through a Direct presentation. Among the biggest pieces of news were four-player raids, a “Wild Area,” and the new Legendary
Ever since Pokemon Sword and Shield were revealed in February, Pokemon fans have been dying for more information and a release date. Fortunately, today’s Nintendo Direct focused on just that, and ended with the confirmation that Pokemon Sword and Shield will release for Nintendo Switch on November 15, 2019. For those of you who aren’t
While Pokemon Sword and Shield are finally bringing a new generation of Pokemon to Nintendo Switch sometime in 2019, they are not the only Pokemon games arriving on the hybrid console this year. During today’s Pokemon 2019 Press Conference, a new Pokemon Detective Pikachu game was confirmed for Nintendo Switch. Announcement 1⃣ Can’t wait to
Recently, with Pokemon being a part of Earth Day, Pokemon Adidas, and the latest release of Detective Pikachu the world can’t seem to get enough of Pokemon, and who can blame them? Plus, there’s no such thing as too much Pokemon right? I’m glad we can all agree because Japan has done something that all Pokemon
Japanese company Uniqlo hosted a T-shirt competition recently and earlier this week they announced the winner. This year the UT Grand Prix theme was Pokemon, and Chinese artist Li Wen Pei had won the $10,000 grand prize and gotten his design featured in Pokemon Sword and Shield, which are set to be released on the