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You probably don’t want your Pokémon fan project getting too much press coverage.

Given how litigious Nintendo is, the company’s reluctance to go after Palworld has raised a lot of questions about what might actually spur The Pokémon Company to claim of IP infringement.

Sales numbers and visual similarities are obviously part of the equation. But according to TPC’s former Chief Legal Officer Don McGowan, one of other big factors that plays into how fanmade projects wind up on Nintendo’s radar entertainment press coverage.


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Watch these Toyota engineers build Pokémon’s Miraidon from soup to nuts.

While everyone was getting worked up about the announcement of the next Pokémon game, the Toyota Engineering Society was busy working on a special project to create a life-sized Miraidon, the motorcycle-like legendary dragon mascot from Pokémon Violet.

Even though we’ll probably never get a chance to see the thing actually zooming around, it’s still cool as hell seeing it come together in this video about the collaboration.


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Could Pokémon Legends: Z-A be coming to a Switch 2 near you?

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.”

Combine that with the fact that Nintendo likes to make its launch titles cross-gen and that the possible scope of Z-A seems limited to one big mega city which might reduce technological constraints if the game is working across two systems, and we’ve got a tinfoil-solid theory going on.

So... whadaya think?


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The mobile Pokémon Trading Card Game is finally leveling up.

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.


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Pokémon Go and Sleep are getting a bunch of great new monsters.

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.


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Your next Pokémon vacation is on the way.

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.

Here’s hoping Mariya Takeuchi returns with another bop for season 2.


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Pikachu cast Copycat, it’s super effective.

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.

The announcement featured music from Pokémon Red / Blue which some observers are interpreting as a hint that the announcement will be related to the Generation 1 games.


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Pokémon Go’s newest features are actually kind of brilliant.

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

But Adventure Effects — a new mechanic rolling out later this year that allows you to manipulate time and space to extend in-game incense timers, or see more wild Pokémon on the map — are honestly clever as hell. Niantic: more of this, please.


Palworld is a hit, and it’s easy to see why

The Pokémon-like has sold over 5 million copies in the three days since its early access launch.

Over five million copies of Palworld have been sold since Friday.

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.

The game, described by Kotaku as “if someone tossed Minecraft, Fortnite, Pokémon, and some AR-15s into a giant blender,” is a breakout hit despite seemingly coming out of nowhere.


More than 5 million Pal Tamers in only 3 days!
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The premiere of Pokémon Horizons on Netflix just got a little further away.

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.


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The end of Pokémon Scarlet and Violet begins with a peach.

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

In order to dig into what seems to be Generation 9’s final chapter, though, you’ll have to complete both of the games’ DLC stories, and pick up the Mythical Pecha Berry Mystery Gift, which absolutely seems less like a delicious fruit, and more like a cursed Key Item you shouldn’t eat.


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No thoughts, just Pokémon Concierge run cycle animations.

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.


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Time for one last Poké-adventure.

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 and Tiffany are making a new kind of Luxury Ball.

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

But for those looking to get their hands on an even pricier, more luxurious, harder-to-find piece of spherical Poké-merch that screams “I’m about to wreck the Elite Four,” Tiffany’s new collaboration with artist Daniel Arsham might be just what you’re looking for.


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Detective Pikachu’s new short gets the most important detail about his species right.

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.

Over the years, Nintendo’s alluded to Pikachu’s chunky past in a couple of clever ways, but none of them have been as delightful as the way the new Detective Pikachu animated short just says “screw it” and leans into that classic shunky Pikachu aesthetic.


Pokémon Sleep helped me catch ’em all — all the z’s, that is

The mobile app isn’t for everyone, but for one insomniac, Pikachu and Snorlax made a big difference.

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Pokémon: Paldean Winds’ latest episode is a PSA about loving your starter

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.

But Pokémon: Paldean Winds’ latest episode is all about how even the best battlers sometimes have to be reminded that pokémon — especially their starters — are friends first, and fighters second.


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Scalpers have forced the Van Gogh Museum to stop giving out Pokémon promo cards

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.

That said, the cards will still be available via the Pokémon Center.


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Pikachu With the Grey Felt Hat returns.

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.


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It’s Thursday, so of course Pokémon scalpers are ruining things for everybody.

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.