Pokémon GO

Niantic has announced that the Happiness Pokémon, Togetic will be the featured Pokémon for Pokémon GO's Community Day in April. During this event, Togetic will be appearing more frequently in the wild, with its Shiny variant also appearing rarely. The event will be held on April 15th, from 2:00pm to 5:00pm local time.

In the latest update on Pokémon GO's official site, Niantic has released details on a pair of events coming to Pokémon GO across late March. The Let's GO event starting March 21st will feature a collection of different Pokémon including the Hex Nut Pokémon Meltan. Running alongside this event will be the latest Team GO Rocket Takeover, which will start March 25th. The Team GO Rocket Takeover will see Trainers completing Special Research and chasing down Giovanni before he can complete an evil plot involving Shadow Regice.

Regidrago will be making its Pokémon GO debut this week in a series of special Elite Raids on March 11th. Trainers who managed to conquer the raid will not only earn an opportunity to catch it, but will also unlock exclusive timed research awarding Regirock Candy, Regice Candy, and Registeel Candy on completion.

Between the Pokémon Presents and the beginning of Rising Heroes, a brand new in-game season, a wealth of information has been released this week by Niantic and The Pokémon Company about upcoming in-game events coming to Pokémon GO during March, April, and May.

Niantic has released the first details on the brand new Location Card feature that will be making its first in-game appearance in Pokémon GO during the Pokémon GO Tour: Hoenn - Las Vegas live event later this month. Niantic has also announced dates for upcoming in-game events for Season 10, including Community Day and Community Day Classic events.

Niantic has announced details on upcoming events and activities in Pokémon GO across February, with an infographic posted to their social media accounts. While several of the items included in this infographic were previously announced during January, freshly announced today are two Valentine's themed events, the first of which will be starting in-game on February 8th at 10:00am. This event will feature the Pokémon GO debuts of Mega Gardevoir, Shiny Frillish, and Shiny Tapu Lele.

With the Pokémon GO Tour: Hoenn set to start next month, Niantic has announced details for the new Primal Rumblings event, which will be running from February 22nd at 10:00am local time, through to February 24th, at 10:00pm local time. During this event, a range of Pokémon who first appeared in the Hoenn region in Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire will be appearing more frequently, and players will have the opportunity to have encounters with several of Hoenn's Legendary Pokémon in both Five-Star and Mega Raids.

In the latest update on Pokémon GO's official site, Niantic has released details on a pair of events coming to Pokémon GO across late January and early February. The Crackling Voltage event starting January 27th will feature the Pokémon GO debuts of Shiny Helioptile and Shiny Tapu Koko. Running alongside this event will be the latest Team GO Rocket Takeover, which will start February 1st. The Team GO Rocket Takeover will see Trainers completing Special Research and chasing down Giovanni before he can complete an evil plot involving Shadow Registeel.

Niantic has announced additional details regarding Primal Reversion mechanics for Pokémon GO. As announced back in November, these mechanics will be added to the game with the Pokémon GO Tour: Hoenn live event at Sunset Park in Nevada, Las Vegas on February 18th and 19th, from 10am to 6pm (PST), which will see the debut of Primal Kyogre and Primal Groudon, alongside their Shiny variants.

Pokémon GO is celebrating the start of the Year of the Water Rabbit with a special celebration event to run from 10:00am local time January 19th, through to 8:00pm January 23rd. The Shiny variant of the Zen Charm Pokémon, Darumaka, is also making its Pokémon GO debut with the beginning of the Lunar New Year.

Niantic has announced that the Sound Wave Pokémon, Noibat will be the featured Pokémon for Pokémon GO's Community Day in February. During this event, Noibat will be appearing more frequently in the wild, with its Shiny variant also appearing rarely. The event will be held on February 5th, from 2:00pm to 5:00pm local time.

Niantic has announced details for the upcoming Dragon- and Fairy type themed Twinkling Fantasy event in Pokémon GO, which will be starting in-game on January 10th at 8:00am, and running through to January 16th at 10:00am local time. This event will feature the Pokémon GO debut of Mega Salamence.

Niantic has announced that the next Pokémon GO Community Day Classic event will feature the Rock Skin Pokémon, Larvitar. During this event, Larvitar will be appearing more frequently in the wild, and its Shiny variant also available to be encountered. The event will be held on January 21st, between 2:00pm and 5:00pm local time.

Pokémon GO is ringing in the New Year with a special New Year's celebration event to run from 8:00pm local time December 31st, through to 8:00pm January 4th, 2023. As with previous years, festive fireworks will light up the Pokémon GO skies during this event, and a selection of Pokémon will be available in outfits themed around New Year's parties, including the debut appearances of Pikachu wearing a party top hat, and Noctowl wearing a New Year's outfit.

Niantic has confirmed that the Spiny Nut Pokémon, Chespin will be the featured Pokémon for Pokémon GO's Community Day in January 2023. During this event, Chespin will be appearing more frequently in the wild, with its Shiny variant also being available for the first time. The event will be held on January 7th, 2023, from 2:00pm to 5:00pm local time.

Part 2 of Pokémon GO's Winter Holiday 2022 event will be running through until December 31st, at 8:00pm local time. The entire Eevee family will debut their holiday hat appearance in Pokémon GO as part of this event. Niantic has also announced details of the Winter Wonderland and Hisuian Avalugg Raid Day events taking place on Christmas Eve, December 24th.

Niantic has announced details for the first part of 2022's Winter Holiday event in Pokémon GO, which running from December 15th at 10:00am to December 23rd at 10:00am local time. This event will feature the Pokémon GO debuts of both Shiny Bergmite and Mega Glalie.

Niantic has announced details for Pokémon GO December Community Day for 2022, which will run from 2:00pm to 5:00pm local time on December 17th and December 18th. Pokémon that were featured in Community Day events in 2021 and 2022, including 11 monthly events from each year as well as 3 Community Day Classic events, will return in this month's Community Day event. Pokémon previously featured during 2022 will appear more frequently in the wild and in Timed Research, while Pokémon featured throughout 2021 will hatch from Eggs and appear in raids and Timed Research.

Niantic has released some additional details on upcoming events and activities in Pokémon GO for this month, including an infographic posted to their social media accounts. Several of the items included in this infographic were previously announced together with the update on the new Mythical Wishes season earlier this week.

Niantic has announced that Bahasa Indonesia language support has been added to Pokémon GO. Both new and existing players can now set Bahasa Indonesia as their in-game language. Future events in Indonesia will receive Bahasa Indonesia language announcements on the pokemongolive website, on Instagram @PokemonGOAppID, and on Facebook at PokemonGOAppID. To celebrate the launch of this new language, the Waktu Indonesia Nangkep event will be running for Trainers physically located in Indonesia until January 8th, at 8:00 p.m. local time.