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WIRED
22-07-2025
- Entertainment
- WIRED
A Surprise Pokémon Game Just Dropped for Switch and Mobile
The Pokémon Company is releasing a new, unexpected game today: Pokémon Friends, a daily puzzle game you can download now for mobile devices, Switch, and Switch 2. The company revealed the game as part of a Pokémon Direct presentation that included new details on Pokémon Legends: Z-A and a Switch 2 bundle, Pokémon Champions, and more. In Pokémon Friends, players untangle yarn—essentially solving different puzzles, like freeing pokémon from a box or fixing tracks—to make and collect plush toys. Once you've made a toy, you then get to decorate your room with it. Much like with typical games in the series, collecting is important. The yarn you earn from puzzles, which are randomized between a few different possible outcomes, dictates which plush toys you're able to make. Early puzzles, which are touched based, are pretty simple. Completing a route while drawing only one line, for example, isn't much of a challenge when it's the only line you can draw. Pokémon Friends is free to download oniOS and Android, with puzzles offered daily. Players who want to unlock more puzzles will need to buy DLC packs for $15 each, or as a package for $26. On Switch platforms, the game costs $10 and includes the DLC. The Direct also showed off more gameplay for Pokémon Champions, an online, battle-focused game, and the highly anticipated Pokémon Legends: Z-A, launching October 16. New to the Pokémon Legends universe: rogue Mega Evolutions, where creatures evolve on their own and wreck havoc; players will need friends' help to take them down. Nintendo is releasing a special Switch 2 bundle alongside Z-A, which includes the game and console, for $499.99. Notably, that price is the same as the system's launch bundle with Mario Kart World. The company will raise the price of the original Switch in August for some regions.
The Verge
22-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The Verge
Soak up the sunflora this September.
Posted Jul 22, 2025 at 1:27 PM UTC Soak up the sunflora this September. Pokémon Concierge , the adorable stop motion Netflix series, launches its second season very soon. The show, about hospitality worker at a resort exclusively for 'mon and their humans, returns with new episodes September 4th. The announcement came during today's Pokémon Direct and included a brand new trailer featuring all the new poké-friends you'll make.
