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YOASOBI's brand new song, Biri-Biri, is now available for streaming and download in both Japanese and English across a wide variety of music platforms, including Spotify, Apple Music and the iTunes Store, Amazon Music, Tital, and deezer. The song is directly inspired by After the Rain With You (Japanese: きみと雨上がりを Kimi to Ameagari o), the original short novel based on Pokémon Scarlet and Violet that was released as a free-to-read web novel in Japan last Friday, November 10th.
Pokémon Sleep's fourth Good Sleep Day event will run from Sunday November 26th through to Tuesday November 28th. Good Sleep Day events are being held in Pokémon Sleep once every lunar month, starting the day before the full moon, and ending the day after. As usual, a Good Sleep Day Bundle will be available from the in-game shop alongside this event.
A limited-time distribution of a Dragapult was announced for Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet during the livestream of the 2024 season Pokémon Latin American Championships. This Dragapult is based on the one used by Alex Gómez Berna in their Masters division victory at the 2023 North American Pokémon International Championships in July. This distribution will remain available only until November 20th, at 11:59pm (UTC).
A limited-time distribution of a Special Illustration Rare Iron Valiant ex for the Pokémon Trading Card Game Live was announced during the November 17th livestream of the 2024 Season Pokémon Latin America International Championships. This distribution will remain available only until November 27th, at 6:00am (UTC).
Elaine, the female player character from Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!, is making her Pokémon Masters EX debut today in a new Poké Fair Scout, together with her partner Eevee. Alongside this scout, Elaine is also taking center stage in the brand new Let's Go in Search of Wonder Story Event launching in-game today in celebration of Eevee Day on November 21st, together with Eve, a Poké Kid also in a sync pair with an Eevee.
The sixth Pokémon Trading Card Game expansion in the Scarlet & Violet series, Paldean Fates, has finally been officially announced by The Pokémon Company International. This expansion, which is releasing on January 26th, 2024, will be the international equivalent of Japan's High Class Pack: Shiny Treasure ex, which is scheduled for release on December 1st this year. It's not yet known if all of the cards from that set will make it over to Scarlet & Violet - Paldean Fates internationally.
The Pokémon Company have announced that Japanese superduo YOASOBI will be releasing a brand new song, Biri-Biri this Saturday, November 18th, in commemoration of the first anniversary of the release of Pokémon Scarlet and Violet. The song will be simultaneously released for both download and streaming in both Japanese and English versions. A music video will also be made available in the near future.
Pokémon Sleep has received an update to Version 1.0.13. This new update adds a number of new features to the game, including several changes designed to help players earn additional candy to level and evolve their Pokémon. Additionally, some updated information has been released regarding Pokémon appearance rates for the Eevee Week 2023 event.
Netflix today have released a brand new trailer for Pokémon Concierge, the upcoming stop-motion animated series from dwarf studios. In addition to revealing the release date for the series, December 28th, the new trailer also gives fans our first taste of the show's opening theme, Have a Good Time Here (君の居場所), by Mariya Takeuchi, the Japanese singer-songwriter best known internationally for Plastic Love, the 1984 city pop classic and YouTube viral hit.
On November 16th, starting at 9:00am (PST) / 5:00pm (UTC), the Pokémon Trainer Club will be undergoing maintance for important updates to authentication security. As a result of this maintance, all players of the Pokémon TCG Live and Pokémon UNITE will be logged out, as will any players of Pokémon GO who use their Pokémon Trainer Club to login.
Today's on the Pokémon Trading Card Game's official Japanese YouTube channel has revealed new Gimmighoul and Gholdengo cards, which will be released in Japan on December 1st as part of the upcoming Shiny Treasure ex subset, the first High Class Pack for the Scarlet & Violet series of the Pokémon Trading Card Game. Cards from these sets will be released internationally in a future, as yet unannounced expansion.
After having been previewed in several past developer letters, Pokémon Masters EX is today finally debuting the first of its Ultimate Battle challenges with the addition of Ultimate Battle: Anabel's Flickering Flames. Also launching today is a new Steel-Type Gear event.
The 2023 edition of Pokémon GO's Fashion Week event will be beginning this week, running from November 15th at 10:00am through until November 19th at 8:00pm local time. During this event, trainers can look forward to encountering a variety of Pokémon wearing fashionable costumes, including for the first time Dragonite, Wooper, and Quagsire. Gothita's shiny variant will also make its Pokémon GO debut during this event.
Since 2018, November 21st has been recognised as Eevee Day by the Japan Anniversary Association, and has been celebrated each year with a variety of in-game and in-person events. Ahead of Eevee Day this year, between November 17th at Midnight (UTC) and November 20th at 11:59pm (UTC), a combination of 7-star Tera Raids and Mass Outbreaks featuring Eevee will be running in Pokémon Scarlet and Violet.
Starting November 20th, Pokémon Sleep will be holding the Eevee Week 2023 in-game event, in celebration of the annual Eevee Day on November 21st. The game will also be receiving a small update next week, with Onix and Steelix starting to appear for sleep research in Taupe Hollow.
Penny is making her Pokémon Masters EX debut today in a new Poké Fair Scout, together with her partner Sylveeeon. Alongside this scout, Penny is taking center stage in the brand new Veevee on Pasio! Story Event launching in-game today. Both the scout and event will continue through to November 29th, at 9:59pm (PST).
Defying recent media speculation that the series may have been delayed until 2024, The Pokémon Company International has announced that Pokémon Horizons: The Series will make its English language debut in the UK this December on BBC iPlayer and CBBC. Listings on the BBC website suggest the first episode will go up on December 1st, as part of an initial batch of 6 episodes.
Niantic has revealed this week that the next Pokémon GO Community Day Classic event, scheduled for later this month on November 25th, will feature the Wool Pokémon, Mareep. Niantic has also announced dates for multiple as-yet unannounced events being held in-game over the next season.
Pokémon Masters EX's latest High Score Event, Fire-Type Masters, is launching today alongside two new Scouts featuring Fire-type Sync Pairs. Both the event and these scouts will run through to November 21st, at 9:59pm (PST). Pokémon Masters EX official social media accounts have also confirmed that Penny will be making their debut later this week in their own Poké Fair Scout.
More past story content is returning to Pokémon Masters EX this month, with a re-run of 2021's Shining Heart of Dragons Story Event. Iris (Alt.) & Hydreigon, who made their debut together with the initial run of this event, is also returning in a new Poké Fair Scout.
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