Game Freak News Articles
Tuesday8th Feb 2022
News Are Complaints About Pokémon Legends: Arceus' Graphics Fair? Digital Foundry Digs In
Popping in with some analysis
Pokémon Legends: Arceus is already proving to be a sales success, with plenty of positive buzz from fans that have made the jump. However, an ongoing debate around the game has related to its performance, especially its graphics and the quality of Game Freak's engine. Even a number of fans that love the game itself...
Thursday3rd Feb 2022
News Pokémon Legends: Arceus Sold 1.43 Million Units In Japan In Just Three Days
And that's not counting digital
Famitsu has posted early sales estimates for Pokémon Legends: Arceus and it appears that the game sold a mighty 1,424,657 million copies in its first three days on sale in Japan. For perspective, that puts it in second place in the launch sales rankings behind Animal Crossing: New Horizons, which sold 1.88 million...
Tuesday1st Feb 2022
News Pokémon Legends: Arceus Earns Franchise's Best Debut on Twitch
Peak viewership almost twice that of Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl
Pokémon Legends: Arceus has scored the best debut of any Pokémon title, according to the boffins at Gamesight. The firm compared the first 72 hours of engagement with similar timeframes for each of the series' recent launches, finding that Arceus "significantly outpaced" the...
Monday31st Jan 2022
UK Charts Pokémon Legends: Arceus Accounted For Almost Half Of All Boxed Games Sold Last Week
Fourth biggest Pokémon UK game launch of all time
Pokémon Legends: Arceus stormed into the UK charts last week, claiming the top spot and accounting for almost half of all boxed games sold in the country over the past week (thanks, GamesIndustry.biz). Arriving just two months after Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl
Saturday29th Jan 2022
News Pokémon Legends: Arceus' NYC Launch Was Unusually Subdued, But That's Fine
No camping out required
The times they are a-changin' and in this instance, seemingly for the better. Unlike past launches of Nintendo first-party properties at the flagship Nintendo NY store located in New York City’s fabled Rockefeller Center — which often saw hundreds of people queued up overnight to be the first to buy the Switch, or...
Monday24th Jan 2022
News Pokémon Legends: Arceus Gets An Updated Six-Minute Overview Trailer
UPDATE: Now localised into English!
Update (24th January): Nintendo has now published a localised version of this trailer, with updated narration and equivalent footage of the English language build, above. Enjoy! Original Article (7th January): Easily the most anticipated Switch game of January 2022 is Pokémon Legends: Arceus - it's an entirely...
Thursday20th Jan 2022
News Pokémon Legends: Arceus For Switch Has Now Been Datamined
A week before the game's release
We heard yesterday how copies of Pokémon Legends: Arceus were already out in the wild, and now it seems the floodgates have well and truly opened. Not only is footage all over websites like Twitter, Reddit, and ResetEra, but it seems the game has now also been datamined. There are a lot of images and videos...
Thursday13th Jan 2022
Video Nintendo Airs Another Pokémon Legends: Arceus Commercial
Your legend is about to begin
One of the biggest Nintendo releases is just around the corner. Yes, we're talking about Pokémon Legends: Arceus - an entirely new take on the longtime RPG series that takes place in the Hisui region. In the lead-up to this release, Nintendo has been releasing more and more trailers, and now there's a new commercial...
Wednesday12th Jan 2022
Random A Lovely Easter Egg From Pokémon Diamond & Pearl Returns In The New Remakes
Happy birthday, Junichi Masuda!
Today is the 54th birthday of beloved director and composer of the Pokémon games, Junichi Masuda — and, to celebrate his birthday, you can see a limited-time surprise in Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl. Back when the original games came out in 2006 and 2007, there was a secret embedded within the...
Monday10th Jan 2022
News New Pokémon Legends: Arceus Trailer Teases Crafting And New Areas
Plus tree-punching Snorlax
It's just a couple of weeks until the release of Pokémon Legends: Arceus, and still we know relatively little about the game — we know it will take place in the past, in the new/old Hisuian region, with new/old variants and evolutions of existing Pokémon. We know there will also be crafting, as players will have to...
Sunday9th Jan 2022
Gallery Nintendo Shares More Screenshots Of Pokémon Legends: Arceus For Switch
Out January 28th
Later this month sees the arrival of Pokémon Legends: Arceus on the Nintendo Switch. To fill in some time between now and then, Nintendo has shared another batch of screenshots on its Japanese website. It gives trainers a look at the game's environments, some of the Pokémon you can expect to encounter as well as the battle...
Random Pokémon Whips Were Once Considered, But Game Freak Thought It Was "Too Cruel"
Trainers could have been collecting belts instead of badges
Collecting Gym badges in the Pokémon series is just what you do, but it wasn't always planned to be this way. 'Did You Know Gaming?' has gone to great lengths to dig up some new information about the popular RPG series - translating 100 pages of the "Japan-only" book 'Game Freak: The...
Thursday6th Jan 2022
News Pokémon Studio Staff "Experience Failure And Success" To Make Games That Players "Desire"
"The lack of knowledge and experience sometimes showed through"
Shigeru Omori (left) and Kazumasa Iwao (right) Pokémon studio Game Freak has posted an article on its recruitment website which goes into detail on the creation of Pokémon Sword & Shield, with director Shigeru Omori and planning director Kazumasa Iwao going into detail on how the...
Wednesday29th Dec 2021
News There's Now Just One Month To Go Until Pokémon Legends Is Out On Switch
Get ready, trainers
If you're not done with Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl, you better hurry up - because Game Freak's new entry Pokémon Legends: Arceus will be released on the Nintendo Switch very soon. In fact, we're so close to release - we're now just one month out. It's almost hard to believe! The game is due to arrive on 28th...
Wednesday15th Dec 2021
Random In An Alternate Reality, Sega Published Pokémon
And the seeds were sown 40 years ago this month...
Satoshi Tajiri, as we all know, is one of the key figures behind the incredibly successful Pokémon series. However, it's important to remember that Tajiri's interest in game development began long before he had the idea of linking two Game Boy consoles together in order to share fictional monsters...
Monday22nd Nov 2021
Jessie and James would be so proud
Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl is finally here, and generally, people seem to be enjoying it... but there are some interesting bugs in the game that have been amusing players since its release last week — and one of them features Team Galactic finally doing what Team Rocket never could. In a clip...
Monday1st Nov 2021
Random Someone Carved 107 Pokémon Pumpkins To Celebrate The Diamond & Pearl Remakes
Gotta carve 'em all
Carving pumpkins is messy, time-consuming, and leaves you with far more gourdmeat than you're prepared to eat. In fact, if you manage to carve more than one pumpkin in preparation for Halloween, then you're an accomplished and impressive human that's going to have to eat pumpkin-related foods for the next two weeks. But why stop...
News A New Limited-Time Pokémon Sword And Shield Charizard Distribution Has Begun
Get it while you can!
There's a new distribution event available in Pokémon Sword and Shield. It's only on offer until 3rd November - so act fast! This time around it's a Charizard. As explained by Serebii.net, this Pokémon has been given out to celebrate the winner of the Global Exhibition. The code you'll need this time is: GL0BALCHAMP2021...
Tuesday26th Oct 2021
News Pokémon Brilliant Diamond And Shining Pearl Trailer Shows Off Bad Guys, Gyms, And DLC
Hello, Chibi Cyrus
Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl — the remakes of the DS games — are almost here, and that means more trailers! The latest trailer on the Pokémon YouTube channel fills in some of the details, including Candice and Volkner, the Ice and Electric gym leaders, the Lake area, and the legendary trio of Uxie, Mesprit,...
News Pokémon Legends' Hisuian Zorua Is Sad And Dead Because Everyone Was Mean
Big mood
Tragic Pokémon descriptions are not new. Ever since we found out that Cubone wears the skull of its dead mother as a hat, we've been plenty prepared for Pokémon that rip our hearts out and stamp on them. Never mind that it's a game made for kids! Game Freak really want us to know that Bewears accidentally crush their loved ones to death,...
Saturday9th Oct 2021
News Pokémon Legends: Arceus Won't Actually Be An Open-World Game
It will feature "open areas", according to The Pokémon Company
When Pokémon Legends: Arceus was originally revealed it was described and compared quite a lot to open-world games such as The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. While PR and early footage of the game certainly gave the impression of an open-world environment that you'd be able to...
Wednesday8th Sep 2021
News A New Limited-Time Pokémon Sword And Shield Distribution Event Has Been Announced
Will tie in with the upcoming movie release
Alongside the announcement of the new Pokémon movie coming to Netflix on 8th October, The Pokémon Company has also revealed a new distribution event is coming to the Switch games Pokémon Sword and Shield. As explained by Serebii.net, Dada Zarude and Shiny Celebi will be available to players through a...
Sunday22nd Aug 2021
Video Check Out This Comparison Of The Pokémon Diamond And Pearl Remake Trailers
What do you think?
The graphical overhaul of the upcoming Pokémon Diamond and Pearl remakes for Nintendo Switch has been a major talking point. The sprite work from the original games has been replaced with cute 3D graphics and well...not everyone is impressed. There have also been some criticisms about the quality of the visuals. It was recently...
Saturday21st Aug 2021
News A New Limited-Time Pokémon Sword And Shield Porygon-Z Distribution Event Has Begun
Get it while you can!
Once again, there's a new distribution event available in Pokémon Sword and Shield. It's only on offer until tomorrow - so act fast! This time around it's a Porygon-Z. As explained by Serebii.net, this Pokémon was given out for the Korean Trainer Battle tournament. The code you'll need this time is: 1STPTCCHAMP "This...
Friday20th Aug 2021
News Pokémon Brilliant Diamond And Shining Pearl's New 'Grand Underground' Map Looks Epic
Tunnel vision
We knew that the Underground from Pokémon Diamond and Pearl would be returning in the upcoming remakes, but now we know that it's also getting spruced up a fair amount, with an expanded map, "Pokémon Hideaways" that contain Pokémon which can only be found in that area, and a new mechanic that means the statues you place in your...
Thursday19th Aug 2021
Random This SHOCKING Fact About Wurmple Will Change Your LIFE
BREAKING WURMPLE NEWS
In all the hype surrounding the Pokémon Legends: Arceus trailer that was revealed earlier this week, we were all so blinded by fluffy Growlithe and the horrible, horrible fish ghost that we neglected to notice one very big change. You guys. Wurmple has an EXTRA HORN. Or maybe the same amount of horns, actually. It looks...
Random In Case You Didn't Know, There Are Now 900 Pokémon
Think you can still catch 'em all?
If you were around during the original Pokémon generation, believe it or not, but 151 monsters actually seemed like a lot back then. People were able to name 'em all and could even recite the entire PokéRap. Nowadays, though, your chances of remembering them all are far less likely - and it's now just got even...
News File Sizes Of Pokémon Legends And Pokémon Diamond & Pearl Remakes Seemingly Revealed
Make some space
If you're planning on picking up digital copies of Pokémon Legends: Arceus or Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl you might be curious to know how much space you'll need to allocate for all of these games on your Nintendo Switch. For anyone planning on grabbing all three - the system's internal memory simply won't cut it...
News The Pokémon Diamond And Pearl Remakes Might Require A Launch Update "To Play Some Content"
A release patch seems to have been confirmed
It's hard to avoid game updates nowadays. Normally, if you want to access all of the features in a new release, you're expected to install a launch patch. We've seen it with countless first-party Nintendo games during the Switch generation, and it seems like the release of Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and...
Wednesday18th Aug 2021
News Pokémon Legends: Arceus Has New Pokémon, Including A Horrible Fish Ghost Bent On Revenge
Also, fluffy Growlithe!
We've been checking our Pokémon Legends: Arceus bingo cards, and not a single one of us had "Basculin gets a new evolution". Basculin? The fish guy? We have to say, we weren't completely on board — at least, until we found out how GOSH DARN METAL he was. Everyone loves a Pokémon with a horrible back story, like Drifloon...
