Friday: Pokémon Rumble World - North American Retail Launch + Pokémon Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire - Battle Competition + Shiny Yveltal Event + Zygarde Distribution
29-04-2016 07:15 BST / 02:15 EDT by Serebii
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Edit @ 08:45: Nintendo Badge Arcade | Edit @ 09:14: Shiny Yveltal Event | Edit @ 16:14: Zygarde Distribution
In The Games Department
Pokémon - Zygarde Distribution
For those of you in Europe, a special gift is now available over the Nintendo Network. This gift gives you the Legendary Pokémon, Zygarde. This Zygarde matches the event distributed in Japan last year and in Korea earlier this year and doesn't have any special moves. It's not currently known how long this event will run, or if it will be in North America. We'll provide more distribution details as they come so keep checking back
Edit: It's now live in North America
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Pokémon - Shiny Yveltal Distribution
The Shiny Yveltal event has been announced for Spain. At the Salón del Cómic de Barcelona festival from May 5th through May 8th, the Shiny Yveltal event will be distributed to all people via a Serial Code. This is the first distribution of this Pokémon outside of Japan and South Korea. We'll provide more distribution details as they come so keep checking back
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Pokémon Rumble World
The spin-off title, Pokémon Rumble World, is released at retail today in North America. This game was released originally as a free download globally in April 2015 and fast became the top grossing non-DLC non-retail original title on the Nintendo eShop to date. The retail release of this game comes with the microtransaction limit already complete, giving you 3000 PokéDiamonds from the outset and giving the PokéDiamond Mine for free PokéDiamonds each day. Do note, you cannot transfer progress from the download version to the retail version.
We covered this game in full upon its eShop release back last April and have complete Pokémon listings, Area listings, King's Challenges listings and so much more in our section. Click the image to go to the section
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Pokémon - Battle Competition
Battles for the next Battle Competition have begun. This is the Flash Clash competition. This competition is a Single Battle competition and allows for you to use any Pokémon aside from Mewtwo, Mew, Lugia, Ho-Oh, Celebi, Kyogre, Groudon, Rayquaza, Jirachi, Deoxys, Dialga, Palkia, Giratina, Phione, Manaphy, Darkrai, Shaymin, Arceus, Victini, Reshiram, Zekrom, Kyurem, Keldeo, Meloetta, Genesect, Xerneas, Yveltal, Zygarde, Diancie, and Hoopa. Pokémon may not hold a Mega Stone nor a Focus Sash. This competition is unique in that matches will only last 5 minutes and you only have 10 seconds to select a move. You can only use 1 of your 6 Pokémon in each battle. Battles run from April 29th 2016 to May 1st 2016. All entrants get 2000 PokéMiles.
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Nintendo Badge Arcade
The free piece of Nintendo 3DS software, Nintendo Badge Arcade, had its weekly update in Europe and with this update, it has added several new panels for various badges. These badges have all been released in Japan so far, and some in the US.. Our section has a full list of badges so click the image to go to the section.
