Thursday: Pokémon Legends: Arceus - Coverage Day 8 + Pokémon Sword & Shield - Online Competition
03-02-2022 06:00 GMT / 01:00 EST by Serebii
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Last Update: 21:22 GMT
Edit @ 07:18: Pokémon Sales Data | Edit @ 08:02: Pokémon Masters EX | Edit @ 15:01: Pokémon GO TCG
In The Games Department
Pokémon Legends: Arceus Coverage Day 8
Our Legends: Arceus page and our Pokédex are all continually being added to, and we have a New Pokémon page, Hisui Pokédex and Hisui Location Database which now includes an interactive map, and more available so be sure to check our section out. This update will be amended repeatedly with more pages and details as we get through the game
Edit @ 09;13: Done some general clean up of the site sections
Edit @ 09:47: Updated the Hisui Interactive Maps to display the Unown locations. When clicked, it will show an image of the location as well as the encounter table
Edit @ 10:36: We have also updated Hisui Interactive Maps to display Spiritomb Wisp locations. When clicked, it will show an image of the location
Edit @ 13:57: As requested, created a page on Weather
Edit @ 14:39: We've updated the Pokéarth - Hisui section with some native imagery and evolution notes. We'll be adding more images as time passes
Edit @ 17:49: Updated the Customisation section with some preliminary female outfits
Edit @ 18:54: Updated the Customisation section with female hair options
Edit @ 20:00: Updated the Wardens page
Edit @ 21:22: Updated the Hisui Interactive Maps to display Old Verse segments
In The Games Department
Pokémon GO
A special set of Pokémon Trading Card Game cards based around Pokémon GO has been confirmed for release this summer. Itwill release in Japan on June 17th 2022 with an International release coming later. We'll provide full details as they come
In The Games Department
Pokémon Sword & Shield
The next online competition has been fully announced. This competition, the 2022 International Challenge February is a Double Battle competition with standard VGC rules. All players who enter and participate in at least 3 battles will receive a Shiny Galarian Articuno
Registration is open now to February 17th at 23:59 UTC. Battles will run from February 18th 00:00 UTC to February 20th 23:59 UTC.
We have full details of this competition, including an eligible Pokémon list, in our 2022 International Challenge February section
In The Games Department
Pokémon Masters
The Baking Buddies event for Pokémon Masters EX has been announced for a repeat run. This event was released last year and focuses around Serena and Dawn celebrating Palentine's Day on Pasio. It runs from February 5th 2022
In The Pokémon Department
Pokémon Sales Data
Today is Nintendo's quarterly financial release and with it comes various sales data for the Pokémon Switch games. As of December 31st, the Pokémon game sales are as follows
Pokémon Let's Go, Pikachu! & Let's Go, Eevee: 14.64 million
Pokémon Sword & Shield: 23.9 million
Pokémon Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl: 13.97 million
New Pokémon Snap: 2.36 million (excluding numbers from Japan)
