Thursday: Pokémon Let's Go, Pikachu! & Let's Go, Eevee! + Pokémon GO - Community Day
12-07-2018 05:03 BST / 00:03 EDT by Serebii
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Last Update: 21:49 GMT
Edit @ 10:12: Pokémon Let's Go! | Edit @ 12:11: Pokémon Duel | Edit @ 12:16: Pokémon Quest | Edit @ 15:54: Pokémon GO | Edit @ 17:19: Pikachu POP Vinyl | Edit @ 18:57: Zapdos Day
In The Games Department
Pokémon Let's Go, Pikachu! & Let's Go, Eevee!
It has been confirmed that some news about Pokémon Let's Go, Pikachu! and Pokémon Let's Go, Eevee! will come later today at 22:00 JST / 14:00 BST / 09:00 EDT / 06:00 PDT. At present we don't know the format of the news but will post it as soon as it comes so be sure to keep checking back
Edit @ 14:00: Trailer added
Edit @ 14:05: Eevee has got a special gender difference in this game, a love heart style tail. You can also give your Pikachu & Eevee haircuts
Edit @ 14:09: Oddish, Sandshrew & Growlithe are exclusive to Let's Go Pikachu while Bellsprout, Vulpix and Meowth are exclusive to Let's Go Eevee
Edit @ 14:14: Added Dozens of Pre-Release Screenshots
Edit @ 14:44: Created a page on Version Exclusives
Edit @ 15:02: Created a page on Trainer & Pokémon Customisation
Edit @ 17:49: As requested, created a page on Your Starter Pokémon providing all the information we know
Edit @ 21:49: The official Japanese site confirms that the game only has 2 Player battles, confirming that Multi Battles are not in the game
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In The Games Department
Pokémon GO - Zapdos Day
It has been confirmed that, if players complete all the Global Challenges this weekend to tie in with GO Fest, it will unlock a unique Zapdos Day on July 21st 2018. During the three hour window on this day, all Gyms will have Zapdos Raid Battles. This Zapdos will have the Fast Move of Thunder Shock and will have a chance to be Shiny. The Global Challenge this weekend are:
GO Fest - Complete 100,000 Research Tasks
Europe - Complete 5,000,000 Research Tasks
Americas - Complete 5,000,000 Research Tasks
Asia Pacific - Complete 5,000,000 Research Tasks
In The Games Department
Pokémon GO - Community Day
Following their delay due to the extreme weather in Japan, Niantic have confirmed that the Squirtle Community Day and the Articuno Day will run on August 4th 2018 in Japan. The Articuno Day will run from 12:00 to 15:00 JST and the Squirtle spawns will run from 15:00 to 18:00. In addition to this, the special XP bonus that was earned at the Dortmund Safari Zone will run in Japan during the time
In The Games Department
Pokémon GO - Special Weekend
A new Special Weekend event has been announced for Korea. On July 29th, if you have obtained a ticket from Lotteria, 7-11 or SK Telecom, you'll be able to see special spawns of Dratini, Unown S, Unown L and Unown T. With this, there will also be double experience for the day
In The Games Department
Pokémon Quest
Pokémon Quest on mobile has been updated. This update brings it up to Version 1.0.2 and provides many bug fixes. It also adds a special mobile only Quest which gives you 100 PM tickets for the first time you create backup data for your game
In The Games Department
Pokémon Duel - Update
A new Queen's Cup event has begun in Pokémon Duel. This cup has you play against players to earn a high score with various rewards based on it. It runs until July 26th and offers the brand new Alolan Sandshrew & Alolan Ninetales figures for getting enough points
In The Pokémon Department
Pokémon - POP! Vinyl
Funko has announced that Pokémon will finally join its ranks of various character/game related POP! Vinyl toys. This is commencing with the Pikachu POP! Vinyl which will be available exclusively in Target stores across North America this July
