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Niantic has launched the fifth anniversary event for Pokémon GO. The event, which already started in some timezones earlier today, begins for trainers from July 6 at 10 .a.m local time, and concludes on July 15, 2021, at 8:00 p.m. local time.

Niantic has announced that real-world Pokémon GO Fest 2021 celebrations will be held in more than 20 cities in the United States, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific. These in-person events are scheduled for day 1 of the Pokémon GO Fest 2021 on Saturday, July 17, 2021, from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. local time. Trainers attending these in-person celebrations will be able to participate in special photo op locations across each city.

Niantic has announced details of the monthly update for July 2021 in Pokémon GO. These events will take place between Thursday, July 1, 2021, at 1:00 p.m. PDT and Sunday, August 1, 2021, at 1:00 p.m. PDT (GMT−7). Research Breakthrough encounters Rufflet can be encountered in Research Breakthrough encounters after completing seven days of Field Research. You will also receive a free Remote Raid Pass and double the XP when you achieve a Research Breakthrough. Pokémon Spotlight Hours Taking place every Tuesday from 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. local time, these Pokémon and special bonuses will be featured: July 6, 2021: Bulbasaur will be in the spotlight, and you'll earn twice the XP for catching Pokémon. July 13, 2021: Charmander will be in the spotlight, and you'll earn twice the Candy for catching Pokémon. July 20, 2021: Squirtle will be in the spotlight, and you'll earn twice the Candy for transferring Pokémon. July 27, 2021: Natu will be in the spotlight, and you'll earn twice the...

To celebrate The Pokémon Company International's newly-designated Bidoof Day on July 1, 2021, Pokémon Trading Card Game Online and Pokémon Masters EX have announced special log-in bonus for their games. In Pokémon Trading Card Game Online, if you log-in from July 1 to July 7, 2021, you can receive a one-time gift of Bidoof-themed card sleeves, a deck box, and a coin. If you log-in to Pokémon Masters EX from June 30, 2021 at 11:00 p.m. PDT onward, you will receive an unspecified amount of free gems. UPDATE (July, 1, 2021): Players of Pokémon Masters EX will receive 400 gems for three days of logging-in between now and July 8, 2021 at 11:00 p.m. PDT.

Several changes major changes have come to Pokémon Masters EX with the version 2.10.0 update. DeNA has also announced a number of upcoming events for up to mid-July.

The Bidoof Breakout event currently occurring in Pokémon GO, updates with new elements that will extend to July 1, 2021, a newly designated Bidoof Day. It will take place from 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. local time. Features that are available throughout the Bidoof Breakout event will remain available on Bidoof Day. The Plump Mouse Pokémon will be appearing in the wild at an incredibly high rate. A 4× Catch XP bonus will be active. Bidoof caught on this day will know Superpower, and you'll be able to use a Charged TM during the event to teach Bidoof Ice Beam, Shadow Ball, or Thunderbolt. After the event, you can use an Elite Charged TM to teach Bidoof one of these moves. Bidoof will be the only Pokémon you can challenge in one-star, three-star, and five-star Raid Battles. Mega Raids will not be available during this time. Team GO Rocket Grunts will have Shadow Bidoof on their teams more often. A free event-exclusive Special Research story will be available, giving Trainers an...

The official Japanese Pokémon Card Game website has announced the eighth subset of the Pokémon Card Game Sword & Shield Era, 25th Anniversary Collection

Several Pokémon with tentacles will be appearing more frequently in Max Raid Battles in Pokémon Sword and Pokémon Shield through June 27, 2021, at 4:59 p.m. PDT. These Pokémon include Octillery, Malamar, and Grapploct. Shiny Grapploct can also be encountered. To encounter these Pokémon in a Max Raid Battle, you'll need to connect your Nintendo Switch system to the internet through the Y-Comm or by selecting Mystery Gift in the X menu, then selecting Get the Wild Area News. After that, whenever you see a pillar of light shining from a Pokémon Den in the Wild Area, you can walk up to the Pokémon Den and interact with it to start a Max Raid Battle. This event does not affect the Pokémon encountered within Dynamax Adventures.

Niantic has announced full details for day 2 of the Pokémon GO Fest 2021 which will focus on Raids. It will feature every Legendary Pokémon that have ever appeared in Pokémon GO. It will take place on Sunday, July 18, 2021, from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. local time. Each Pokémon will be appearing in five-star Raid Battles during one of the four themed hours that will be on rotation throughout the event. During Wind Hour, occurring from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. local time, Mewtwo, Ho-Oh, Latias, Latios, Regigigas, Altered Forme Giratina, Cresselia, Virizion, and Therian Forme Tornadus will be appearing in five-star raids. During Lava Hour, occurring from 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. local time, Moltres, Entei, Regirock, Groudon, Heatran, Reshiram, Terrakion, Therian Forme Landorus, and Yveltal will be appearing in five-star raids. During Frost Hour, occurring from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. local time...

Niantic has announced that several updates are being made to Raid Battles which will start this summer in Pokémon GO. Trainer Achievements: Complete certain actions during a raid and you may be featured afterwards! Art and user experience updates: Raids will look better than ever. Various quality-of-life updates will be implemented. Trainer Achievements will be introduced to celebrate Trainers of all levels for taking part in a raid. It will give you a medal that you can level up from bronze, to silver, and finally to gold, if you complete certain actions. You can download your Trainer Achievement Card featuring your avatar to share with your friends on social media. Here's a list of some feats that can earn you a Trainer Achievement after a raid: Delivering the final attack Dealing the most damage overall Keeping a single Pokémon in battle for the longest time of all participants Using the tallest Pokémon among all participants in battle Joining the raid from furthest distance...

The Pokémon Company International has announced Pokémon Trading Card Game: Celebrations, a special expansion released to celebrate Pokémon’s 25th anniversary. The expansion will feature a range of beloved characters from across the Pokémon franchise, as well as popular card artwork and gameplay mechanics spanning the history of the Pokémon TCG.

The official Pokémon Café Mix Japanese website has announced that, to commemorate the 1st anniversary of Pokémon Café Mix, all players will be rewarded with 2,500 Golden Acorns and 25 Helping Paws. Players have to log-in to their game between June 24, 2021 at 15:00 and July 1, 2021 at 14:59 JST to claim their Gifts.

The Pokémon Organized Play has announced details for the 2022 Championship Series season, under the assumption that most play will be able to resume in some form over the next 12 months. The health and safety of the communities remain to be the most important aspect of resuming live events. The timing for the next live Play! Pokémon events will be determined by the health mandates, guidelines, and recommendations provided by appropriate government agencies. Play! Pokémon events have currently only resumed in Australia and New Zealand. The Pokémon World Championships 2022 are anticipated to take place in London in August 2022, over the period of four days, beginning on a Thursday.

Niantic has announced a number of changes which will be coming to Pokémon GO. There will be new feature bonuses coming soon, and some current feature bonuses will be removed. The changes are aimed at restoring the focus of Pokémon GO on movement and exploration in the real world, and are being rolled out as certain parts of the world start to slowly recover from the global pandemic.

Niantic has announced that Tepig will be the featured Pokémon for July 2021's Community Day. The Shiny variant of Tepig can also be encountered. When you evolve Pignite into Emboar during, or within two hours after the event, it will learn the Charged Attack Blast Burn. The event will also feature a 3× Catch Stardust bonus, and Lure Modules and Incense activated during the event will last for three hours. A Community Day-exclusive Special Research story, Roasted Berries, will be available for purchase at US$1.00 (or the equivalent pricing tier in your local currency). A special one-time-purchase Community Day Box will also be made available for 1,280 PokéCoins, featuring 50 Ultra Balls, five Incense, five Star Pieces, and an Elite Charged TM. The event will take place on Saturday, July 3, 2021, from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. local time.

In commemoration of the launch of Pokémon Air Adventures, an initiative started in Japan that helps create wonderful travel memories, Niantic has announced that a new costumed Pikachu and the Shiny version of a regional Pokémon will be appearing in Pokémon GO.

The official Pokémon Café Mix Japanese website has announced that they have opened registration to players in Japan for a closed beta testing of a renewed version of Pokémon Café Mix. The application ends on June 30, 2021, while the testing is scheduled to be held this Summer. The renewed version will be launched this Autumn.

The Pokémon Company has announced Pokémon Global Exhibition, a tournament featuring eight of the top players from around the world, will be held this October. The tournament will consist of the highest-ranking players from Europe, North America, Latin America, and Oceania participating in the Pokémon Players Cup IV Global Finals which will be held later this month. In Japan, the competitors will be those who have achieved excellent results in the Masters division of the Pokémon Japan Championships 2021 scheduled to be held from July 17 to July 18, 2021 in Japan. For South Korea, the winner of the Pokémon Trainers Cup 2021, which will be held from July 12 to August 2021, will be representing them.

The official Pokémon Special Twitter account has announced that the next chapter of Pokémon Adventures, called Pokémon Special in Japan, will be on hiatus from the August issue of CoroCoro Ichiban (which is due to be released on June 21, 2021), due to the author, Hidenori Kusaka, feeling unwell. It is not yet known when Pokémon Adventures will resume publication.

Two more promotions are currently being held in EB Games stores in Australia. One of them is to get a Flapple stamped card and another to get codes to encounter Gigantamax Flapple or Appletun in Pokémon Sword and Pokémon Shield. Both promotions are while stock lasts. To commemorate the release of the newest Pokémon Trading Card Game expansion, Chilling Reign, customers who purchase $20 worth of Pokémon Trading Card Game products will receive a stamped version of Flapple from Rebel Clash. This stamped card will feature EB Games' logo. Players can obtain a code card which allows you to obtain a Dynamax Crystal that you can use in Pokémon Sword or Pokémon Shield to encounter Gigantamax Flapple or Appletun respectively in Max Raid Battles. You can face the Pokémon as many times as it takes to win until midnight on the day that the Dynamax Crystal was used. How to receive the Dynamax Crystal via Mystery Gift: Launch Pokémon Sword or Pokémon Shield from the Nintendo Switch HOME Menu...