Pokemon Sword and Shield are less than a month away. The Gen 8 games arrive on Nintendo Switch on November 15, and much like previous installments, it looks like they’ll receive plenty of free Pokemon and other bonuses after they…
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Every Free Pokemon Announced For Sword And Shield So Far
Pokemon Sword and Shield are less than a month away. The Gen 8 games arrive on Nintendo Switch on November 15, and much like previous installments, it looks like they’ll receive plenty of free Pokemon and other bonuses after they…
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Pokemon Sword & Shield Seemingly Reveal Galarian Ponyta
Pokemon Sword and Shield’s animal cam-style 24-hour livestream turned out to be largely uneventful, but it did give us our first glimpse at another new Gen 8 Pokemon. A mysterious monster was teased throughout the entire broadcast, but only toward…
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Team Go Rocket are coming back to Pokemon Go with bosses and… Giovanni!?
It looks like Pokemon Go fans are about to get a big new update, packed with more interesting content. Data miners have discovered a new Team GO Rocket Special Research questline called “Looming in the Shadows”, and it looks like…
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The Pokémon Company Clarifies There Are Not 18 Gyms In Sword And Shield
In our cover story on Pokémon Sword and Shield this month, we had a sidebar talking about the differences between Pokémon Sword and Pokémon Shield. In the sidebar, it seemed implied in a quote by director Shigeru Ohmori that Pokémon…
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Pokémon devs won’t share how Sword and Shield’s sausage is made
Pokémon Sword and Shield is just over a month away from its Nov. 15 release date, and there are still so many unanswered questions — the biggest of which is this: What’s in Pokémon Sword and Shield’s sausage? During a…
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Upcoming Pokémon Anime Series Will Introduce A New Hero Alongside Ash
Step aside Ash, there’s a new Pokémon trainer in town. Famitsu is reporting that the new Pokémon anime series (called Pocket Monsters in Japan) will feature a new hero who will be training alongside Ash, marking the first time that…
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The Pokémon Sword And Shield Digital Issue Is Now Live
Digital subscribers to Game Informer can now learn the behind-the-scenes story of Pokémon Sword and Shield! Following today’s cover reveal, our digital issue is now live to subscribers on web browsers, iPad/iPhone and Android devices. Individual issues will be available for purchase later…
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Pokémon Sword And Shield Introduce Autosave To The Series
During our trip to Game Freak’s Tokyo headquarters for this month’s cover story, we learned all kinds of behind-the-scenes information about Pokémon Sword and Shield. While talking with the developers about the new features coming to Sword and Shield, director…
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HMs Are Not In Pokémon Sword And Shield
Since the start of the Pokémon series, Hidden Machines (HMs) have been a staple. These special moves, which could be taught to multiple Pokémon, then used in battle and in special circumstances outside of battle, were replaced in Sun and…
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Pokemon Sword/Shield Pokemon leak? Evolutions teased in Japanese website code
Pokemon Sword and Shield are only 57 days from release at the time of writing (yes, we've counted) and ahead of the game going live, fans of the series are starting to get very restless – jostling for any byte…
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Pokemon Go Unova Stones Guide: How To Get Unova Stones And Evolve Gen 5 Pokemon
The first wave of Gen 5 Pokemon have officially invaded Pokemon Go. Players around the world can now catch a handful of monsters originally from the Unova region in Pokemon Black and White versions, and to coincide with their arrival,…
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