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The spooky season is bringing a bountiful harvest worth of new content to Pokémon Masters EX, with a brand new Halloween-themed story event, The Haunted Museum, making its debut today alongside Seasonal Scouts featuring Phoebe in a fresh seasonal outfit together with her new sync partner Cofagrigus. Both the event and seasonal scouts will run through to October 31st.
Pokémon Scarlet and Violet have received an update to Version 2.0.2. This update resolves bugs that were preventing victories against NPC Trainers from being recorded in certain circumstances, as well as an issue that prevented certain Pokémon originally caught in Pokémon GO to be transfered from Pokémon Scarlet or Pokémon Violet via Pokémon HOME.
Today's livestream on the Pokémon Trading Card Game's official Japanese YouTube channel has revealed a new cards for Morpeko, including both regular Rare and Art rare versions, which will be released in Japan later this month on October 27th as part of the Ancient Roar expansion for the Scarlet & Violet series of the Pokémon Trading Card Game. Cards from this set, and its partner Future Flash, will be released internationally as part of the Scarlet & Violet: Paradox Riftexpansion on November 3rd.
Pokémon Masters EX's Legendary Arena is expanding this week, with the addition of a brand new battle area, focused on Registeel. The Legendary Gauntlet is also making a return, featuring Registeel together with Latios and Tornadus. Players finding themselves without the proper sync pairs to take on the Arena and Gauntlet will be able to take advantage of two new Scouts that are launching alongside this event, featuring a variety of Sync Pairs suited to these particular challenges.
A new video on the Pokémon Trading Card Game's official Japanese YouTube channel has revealed new cards for the Crobat evolution line, which will be released in Japan later this month on October 27th as part of the Ancient Roar expansion for the Scarlet & Violet series of the Pokémon Trading Card Game. Cards from this set, and it's partner Future Flash, will be released internationally as part of the Scarlet & Violet: Paradox Rift expansion on November 3rd.
A new video on the Pokémon Trading Card Game's official Japanese YouTube channel has revealed new cards for Tatsugiri and the Tinkaton evolution line, which will be released in Japan later this month on October 27th as part of the Future Flash expansion for the Scarlet & Violet series of the Pokémon Trading Card Game. Cards from this set, and it's partner Ancient Roar, will be released internationally as part of the Scarlet & Violet: Paradox Rift expansion on November 3rd.
Continuing on from the recent launch of the new Trainer Files: Two Factory Heads event in Pokémon Masters EX, Noland & Ninjask are making their debut today in a set of Variety Scouts. These scouts will be available until October 18th, at 10:59pm (PDT).
To mark the Autumn Harvest Season, Pokémon Sleep will be making a selection of Autumn Treats available to players via the in-game store between October 9th at 4:00am (UTC), and October 16th at 4:00am (UTC). Over this period, players will be able to receive one Autumn Treats Bundle Vol. 1 S every day for free from the in-game store. One paid Autumn Treats Bundle Vol. 1 M will also be available each day, at a cost of 100 diamonds.
An update on the Pokémon Trading Card Game's official Japanese homepage has revealed a large quantity of cards from the upcoming Ancient Roar and Future Flash expansions for the Scarlet & Violet series of the Pokémon Trading Card Game, including multiple Pokémon ex and art rare cards. Cards from these sets will be released internationally as part of the Scarlet & Violet: Paradox Rift expansion on November 3rd.
Project VOLTAGE, the special art and music collaboration project between Pokémon and the popular Volcaloid character Hatsune Miku, will soon be releasing the second of 18 music videos, with Electric Forecast feat. Hatsune Miku (『電気予報』feat. 初音ミク ) by Vocaloid producer inabakumori (稲葉曇) set to premiere later today, Friday October 6th, at 6:30pm (JST) / 9:30am UTC / 2:30am (PDT).
TV Tokyo have released the first trailer for the upcoming new live-action Pokémon-themed drama series Pocket ni Bōken wo Tsumekonde (Pack Your Pocket With Adventure - ポケットに冒険をつめこんで), which will begin airing on Japanese television later this month.
The new Two Factory Heads Trainer Files event has just launched today in Pokémon Masters EX. Running alongside this event are a set of Variety Scouts featuring Thorton, who debuts today with a new sync partner, Magnezone. The event and Scouts will both be available until October 18th, at 10:59pm (PDT).
The Pokémon Trading Card Game Live this week received an update to Version 1.8.1. This update resolves a small number of issues that had been impacting on several cards, most notably incorrect damage calculations for Toedscruel ex's Colony Rush attack, and Rare Candy not being able to evolve Fossils including the recently released Antique Dome Fossil and Antique Helix Fossil. Unfortunately, with numerous players impacted by a bug introduced in 1.8.0 have reported continuing to find themselves stuck on "Loading data from server 7/40", and unable to actually load the game.
Today's livestream on the Pokémon Trading Card Game's official Japanese YouTube channel has revealed a new Pokémon Tool card, which will be released in Japan later this month on October 27th as part of the Ancient Roar expansion for the Scarlet & Violet series of the Pokémon Trading Card Game. Cards from this set, and it's partner Future Flash, will be released internationally as part of the Scarlet & Violet: Paradox Rift expansion on November 3rd.
Earlier today, Nintendo announced in posts on their official social media channels that core online play and communications functions for the 3DS and Wii U consoles will sunset from early April 2024. After this date, users of these consoles will no longer have access to online play, internet ranking, or other data distributions for most titles. The sole exception to this shutdown is Pokémon Bank, which the announcement Q&A posted to Nintendo of America's support site explicitly notes will continue to operate.
Starting next week, Pokémon GO will be marking the changing of the seasons with a new Harvest Festival event, running from October 12th at 10:00am through to October 17th, at 8:00pm local time. The Olive Pokémon Smoliv, and its evolutions Dolliv and Arboliva, will make their Pokémon GO debuts as part of this event.
The next past generation first partner evolution to make its Paldea debut in special Tera Raids will be the Arrow Quill Pokémon Hisuian Decidueye, who will be making its first appearance in 7-star Black Crystal Tera Raid Battles between October 6th at 00:00 (UTC), and October 8th at 23:59 (UTC), with a follow-up appearance one week later from October 13th at 00:00 (UTC), to October 15th at 23:59 (UTC).
A new video on the Pokémon Trading Card Game's official Japanese YouTube channel has revealed new cards for the "Elemental Monkey" evolution lines, which will be released in Japan later this month on October 27th as part of the Ancient Roar and Future Flash expansions for the Scarlet & Violet series of the Pokémon Trading Card Game. Cards from these sets will be released internationally as part of the Scarlet & Violet: Paradox Rift expansion on November 3rd.
Pokémon Scarlet and Violet's Ranked Battles Season 11 has begun, and will run through to October 31st, at 11:59pm (UTC). This season follows the new Regulation Set E, which expands the list of allowable Pokémon to include those found in The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero Part 1: The Teal Mask.
Rei, who features in the ongoing Together in an Unknown Land Story Event, is making his Pokémon Masters EX debut today in a new Poké Fair Scout, together with his partner Hisuian Decidueye. The latest Monthly Poké Fair Scout is also dropping in game today, this time featuring Steven & Metagross.
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