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The Pokémon Company announces the release of a new Pokémon, although not the one we were expecting

The Pokémon Company has announced the release of Pokémon Friends, a new puzzle game available for Switch 2 and mobile devices. This title, which focuses on solving random puzzles, aims to provide players with an entertaining and well-crafted experience, designed to “untangle your mind.” Pokémon Friends is already available and offers the option to download it for free on mobile, while it can be purchased for 9.99 euros on the Nintendo eShop, including a basic package that contains 30 puzzles and 70 plush toys that players can create. A game that seeks to promote creativity In Pokémon Friends, […]

The Pokémon Company has announced the release of Pokémon Friends, a new puzzle game available for Switch 2 and mobile devices. This title, which focuses on solving random puzzles, aims to provide players with an entertaining and well-crafted experience, designed to “untangle your mind.” Pokémon Friends is now available and offers the option to download it for free on mobile, while it can be purchased for 9.99 euros on the Nintendo eShop, including a basic package that contains 30 puzzles and 70 plush toys that players can create.

A game that aims to promote creativity

In Pokémon Friends, players earn thread by completing puzzles, which can be used in a tool within the game called Plush-O-Matic, allowing them to create Pokémon plushies. As part of their experience, players can also keep track of the plushies made in a catalog and stamp each day they play, allowing them to return and practice the puzzles they have played previously.

In addition, users will find characters in the game world who request specific plush toys, completing missions that increase the friendship level with the villagers. As a reward, players will receive furniture that they can use to decorate their plush toy creation areas. However, it is important to mention that the game incorporates microtransactions, where additional puzzle packs can be purchased separately for 15 euros, or in a bundle for 26 euros.

The announcement of Pokémon Friends was made during the Pokémon Presents presentation, which included other highlighted announcements, such as new revelations about a real Pokémon park, thus expanding the Pokémon universe beyond traditional video games.

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If you are interested in the future of the Pokémon brand, pay attention to this date

Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl were released in 2021, so it’s about time for beloved Pokémon Black and White to get remakes…

The Pokémon Company will host a live stream on February 27 at 6 AM PT (3 PM in Spain) to share “exciting Pokémon news” on their official YouTube channel.

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The annual broadcast, called Pokémon Presents, will provide a lot of information about what’s coming in 2024.

The company broadcasts this event every year, but this one could be special: it coincides exactly with Pokémon Day, which celebrates the original release of Pokémon Red and Pokémon Green in Japan in 1996.

What could they show us on February 27th in their Pokémon Direct

We don’t know exactly what will be shown, but we have some guesses. Taking into account previous Pokémon Presents broadcasts, it is likely that they will inform us about the successes of online services, such as Pokémon Go, the Pokémon Unite MOBA and the Pokémon Sleep tracking app, recently released.

But we will also have something more substantial. Most of these broadcasts include the announcement of a Pokémon role-playing game. Chronologically speaking, it is too early to expect a revelation of the true new generation Pokémon game, since Scarlet and Violet were released in 2022. Main releases usually have a three-year release cycle.

But there are still remakes and spin-offs. Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl were released in 2021, so it’s about time for beloved fifth generation Pokémon Black and White to get remakes. This is just a speculation, but it doesn’t seem like Pokémon Company will skip a generation in their remake. It’s Black and White’s turn.

There is also the possibility that we will have a new Let’s Go set in another region of the Pokémon universe. We could even have a new action RPG like Pokémon Legends: Arceus.

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There will always be strange announcements, like a new Pokémon Mystery Dungeon or even a new Pokémon Art Academy that integrates the touch screen of Switch. Who knows… we’ll have to wait until February 27th.

Pokémon Launches Official Forum: The Gathering Place for Trainers Worldwide

The Pokémon Company has opened a forum and, as expected, it has been filled in a short time with all kinds of questionable content.

Nintendo does things at its own pace. The Pokémon Company is no different, but to the extreme. Expecting them to be at the forefront of adopting any kind of technology is a mistake because they are not that kind of company. However, in some cases, their tendency to progress very slowly, changing nothing unless absolutely necessary, becomes somewhat ridiculous. This has led to The Pokémon Company’s decision, on July 5, 2023, to open the first official Pokémon forum for players to discuss the franchise’s video games, anime, and trading card game.

Opening a forum in 2023 comes with its challenges. Not only because it seems outdated, but also because there is a need for strict control over the content that will be posted, even if unlike imageboards like 4chan, the identities of the writers are not private to the administrators. And that’s where The Pokémon Company made a miscalculation. They opened their doors without enough moderators to control what was going to happen.

With posts about sexual attraction towards Pokémon, odes to piracy, and baffling acts of trolling, the forum quickly filled with the kind of content that was to be expected. Even if somehow they managed to avoid, to some extent, Pokémon pornography.

However, it seems that gradually the moderators are regaining control of the forum, establishing usage guidelines and ensuring that users follow them. While there are still some questionable threads, it no longer has the appearance of those early hours when it seemed like something out of the wild days of the late 2000s, where anything goes on the internet and the person you’re talking to could very well be a dog. But we no longer live in that internet era, and The Pokémon Company knows it, even if they were not aware of the danger of opening a forum without proper protocols in place in 2023.

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