Niantic released full details on the Catching Wonders event in Pokémon GO, which will be taking place later this month between Tuesday May 14th, at 10:00am, and Sunday May 19th, at 8:00pm local time. As part of this event, Masterwork Research: Catching Wonders will be made available for free for all Trainers.

Niantic has released full details on the Flock Together Research Day in Pokémon GO, which will be taking place on May 11th, from 2:00pm to 5:00pm local time. As the name suggests, this event will focus on Flying-type Pokémon.

Anime Speedruns Festival (ASF) will be hosting the 2024 edition of their annual online marathon this weekend. Runs of Pokémon Card GB and Pokémon Battle Revolution are scheduled as part of the event, which will be hosted on the Speedgaming Twitch channel.

As announced at the end of last month, Sleep Researchers will soon be getting another opportunity to observe the sleep styles of a Legendary Pokémon in Pokémon Sleep, with the two week long Entei Research event scheduled to commence Monday May 20th at 4:00am local time, and running through to Monday June 3rd at 3:59am local time.

After almost two months of waiting, the official @PokeMikuVOLTAGE account on X (formerly Twitter) has announced that the first additional song of Project VOLTAGE, After Epochs (アフターエポックス) by sasakure.UK, will be making its premiere next week, Friday May 10th, at 6:30pm (JST) / 9:30am (UTC) / 1:30am (PST). As with past songs, the music video is expected to be posted on the artist's own official YouTube channel.

A brand new villain is arriving in Pokémon Masters EX today, with Bellelba & Swoobat making their debut in a new set of Costume Scouts alongside the ongoing Infamous Pokéstar Villains Costume Event. The Bellelba Costume Scout and Bellelba Costume Tiered Scout will run through until May 19th, at 10:59pm (PDT). The associated Bellelba Costume Featured Ticket Scout and Bellelba Costume Guaranteed Ticket Scout meanwhile will run through to May 26th, at 10:59pm (PDT).

Today, Pokémon Masters EX is receiving its second ever Mix Scout, with the launch of the Blue & Charizard Mix Scout. New content is also being added today to the Main Story's Mysterious Stones Chapter, as previewed in the recent developer letter, while Raihan & Duraludon make a return for the latest Monthly Poké Fair Scout.

April's final new event comes to Pokémon Masters EX today with the launch of a second new Costume Event, Infamous Pokéstar Villains. Also launching today is the first of two new Costume Sync Pairs featured in this event, Brycen-Man (Special Costume) & Zoroark.

Sleep Researchers looking to prepare their helper Pokémon ahead of the debut of Entei in Pokémon Sleep in late May will be getting some help early next month, with a week-long event focused specifically on Fire-type Pokémon scheduled to commence Monday May 6th at 4:00am local time, and running through to Monday May 13th at 3:59am local time.

Pokémon Sleep will enter a maintenance period early next week on Tuesday April 30th, ahead of a planned update of the software to Version 1.6.0. This maintenance period is expected to go for roughly 4 and a half hours, from 1:00am until 5:30am (UTC). The update includes the addition of Fire-Type Candy; plus additional Pokémon sleeping in Greengrass Isle and Taupe Hollow, and to prepare the game for the Fire Type Week event starting May 6th, and the Entei Research event later in the month.

A pair of classic gold-themed events, the Pasio Gold Rush Solo Event and The Golden Magikarp Daily Battle Event, are returning to Pokémon Masters EX today ahead of Japan's Golden Week Holiday period. Also launching today are the previously announced Rika's Elite Test Special Event, a trio of Triple Feature Poké Fair Scouts, and a Training Support Rally.

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Blue Rescue Team and Pokémon Pinball Ruby & Sapphire are set to be featured in back-to-back runs as part of this weekend's Pixel Art Runners (PAR) Spring Sprite speedrunning marathon. The event is being hosted on the streamer cic_ada's Twitch channel.

As previewed earlier this week, Rika & Clodsire are making their Pokémon Masters EX debut today in a new Poké Fair Scout. Alongside this scout, Rika will be taking center stage in the brand new Good Ol' Rika Story Event that is also launching in-game today. The game's title screen and app logo have also received Rika-themed makeovers.

The developers of Pokémon Sleep have given players their latest list of features and issues that are currently receiving development attention. This list highlights several new features that players can expect to see coming in an update planned for release at an unspecified future date. Pokémon Sleep are also distributing a large gift bundle of handy in-game items to all currently registered players.

Niantic has released full details on the latest iteration of Pokémon GO's Rivals Week event, which will be taking place taking place early next month from May 4th. As with past Rivals Weeks, this event will feature Pokémon that are considered as rival counterparts to another Pokémon in Pokédex entries. Also commencing May 4th is the game's next GO Battle Weekend Event.

Niantic has announced that a Special Research story, Glitz and Glam, will be available to all Pokémon GO Trainers for free starting May 1st, at 10:00am local time. Trainers who complete this Special Research will earn an encounter with the Mythical Pokémon Diancie.

Sleep Researchers will soon be getting another opportunity to observe the sleep styles of a Legendary Pokémon, with a new event featuring Entei announced for Pokémon Sleep. This event is set to begin sometime in late May.

A new version of Pokémon Masters EX, version 2.44.0, is now available to download. Together with this update, the monthly message from the producers of Pokémon Masters EX has teased several upcoming events that will run in game over the next few weeks, including a brand new Story Event featuring the debut of Rika & Clodsire. The next letter from the producers is slated to be released in late-May.

A special trailer posted to Pokémon Masters EX's official social media accounts today has revealed that Rika, the fan-fave member of the Paldea Elite Four, will be making their Pasio debut later this week in a special Poké Fair Scout. Welcome Rika social rallies has also been launched on the official English and Japanese language accounts on X.

This week’s merch roundup centers on kids as the Pokémon Center adds to its official baby line, monpoké, with new books and a Bonpoint clothing collab, while Japanese fans will also get new Pokémon picture books by prolific children’s book author Akio Kashiwara. The Bonpoint x Pokémon capsule collection is available now online at Bonpoint’s website, with select pieces available online at the Pokémon Centers US, U.K., and Canada.