Friday: Pokémon Let's Go, Pikachu! & Let's Go, Eevee!
13-07-2018 04:06 BST / 23:06 EDT by Serebii
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Edit @ 04:34: Movie News | Edit @ 10:39: Dragon Majesty | Edit @ 16:14: Pokémon GO | Edit @ 18:12: Community Day
In The Games Department
Pokémon Let's Go, Pikachu! & Let's Go, Eevee!
Another new trailer has been released for Pokémon Let's Go, Pikachu and Let's Go Eevee. This footage showcases the first footage of Jessie & James in the game, as well as the fact that you may be battling Legendary Pokémon in the wild
Edit @ 05:27: Pokémon Let's Go, Pikachu! & Pokémon Let's Go, Eevee! will be preloadable on the Nintendo Switch eShop on October 22nd 2018. Requires 4.6GB of space to download
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In The Games Department
Pokémon Sun, Moon, Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon - Tornadus & Thundurus Event
For those of you in the United States, the sixth month of the Legendary Pokémon Year events have begun. From now until July 28th 2018, players will be able to get a Thundurus in Pokémon Sun and Ultra Sun or Tornadus in Pokémon Moon and Ultra Moon simply by getting a Serial Code from Target stores. These distributions differ between Sun & Moon and Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon with the Pokémon being Level 60 in Sun & Moon and Level 100 holding a Gold Bottle Cap in Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon. Our Event Database has full details of this event.
This event is currently available in Europe across the Nintendo Network and Canada through the official Pokémon Trainer Club Newsletter later this month
In The Games Department
Pokémon GO - Global Challenge
The Global Challenge for the weekend of Pokémon GO Fest has begun. Over the weekend, players will be able to earn special rewards which will run throughout next week and, if all aare met, will unlock Zapdos Day. These run from specific times
GO Fest - July 14/15 = Rewards run from July 16 - 23rd
GO Fest - Complete 100,000 Research Tasks - Catch Candy Increase
Europe (July 14th 00:00 UTC - July 15th 23:59 UTC) - Complete 5,000,000 Research Tasks - Hatch Candy Increase
Americas (July 14th 00:00 PDT - July 15th 23:59 PDT)- Complete 5,000,000 Research Tasks - Egg distance decrease
Asia Pacific (July 14th 00:00 JST - July 15th 23:59 JST)- Complete 5,000,000 Research Tasks - Raid Candy Increase
Along with this, Shiny Plusle & Minun are now live, as are Alolan Geodude, Alolan Graveler, Alolan Golem Alolan Diglett & Alolan Dugtrio
Edit @ 21:10: To coincide with this, three new boxes have also gone live
Special Box - 480 Coins - 1 Egg Incubator, 4 Premium Raid Pass & 20 Ultra Balls
Great Box - 780 Coins - 3 Super Incubators, 6 Premium Raid Pass, 10 Pinap Berry & 6 Star Pieces
Ultra Box - 1480 Coins - 9 Super Incubators, 9 Lucky Egg, 12 Premium Raid Pass & 9 Star Pieces
In The Games Department
Pokémon GO
Niantic have announced the next Pokémon GO Community Day on both August 11th & 12th focusing on Eevee. This event will have 3* Catch Stardust and has 3 Hour Lure Modules. In addition to this, all Eevee caught in the three hour periods during the event will know a special move that will be revealed later. We'll bring more details as they come. This runs at specific times:
The Asia-Pacific region: 12:00 P.M. to 3:00 P.M. JST (GMT +9)
Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and India: 09:00 A.M. to 12:00 P.M. UTC (GMT +0)
The Americas and Greenland: 11:00 A.M. to 2:00 P.M. PDT (UTC -8)
In The Games Department
Pokémon GO - Global Challenge
To coincide with Pokémon GO Fest, Lugia is to return to Raid Battles over the weekend. From July 14th to July 15th, Lugia will be the Level 5 Raid Boss that will appear throughout the game. At present it isn't known if it will result in Shiny Lugia
In The Games Department
Pokémon GO!
Today, Niantic put out a special anniversary picture and within this picture was an unexpected bit of information. This picture included the first sign of Generation IV Pokémon in Pokémon GO, depicting Turtwig, Chimchar and Piplup. It's currently unknown when Generation IV will actually hit but we'll provide full details as they come
In The Anime Department
Pokémon the Movie 2019
The new movie, Pokémon Everyone's Story was released today in Japan and, as it does practically every year, showcased confirmation of the next movie after the movie had finished in the form of a small teaser.The teaser trailer showed the name of the first movie in Japan, Mewtwo Strikes Back, and added the word Evolution to it making next year's movie called Mewtwo Strikes Back Evolution (ミュウツーの逆襲evolution) and showcased the start of the movie but in CGI. We'll provide full details on this as it comes
In The TCG Department
Pokémon - Dragon Majesty
The Pokémon Company International has finally announced a new subset, Dragon Majesty and is to be released from September 7th. This set has over 65 cards including 6 Pokémon GX, 4 Full-Art GX, 4 Rainbow GX, 2 Prism Stars and 2 Full Art supporters. This set can only be obtained through boosters in special products like the Generations and Shining Legends set. It is made up of the recent Dragon Storm set from Japan.
