Pokémon Day 2023: all Pokémon Presents news

Pokémon x Netflix, Pokémon Go x Scarlet and Violet, and more
Pokémon Day 2023: all Pokémon Presents news
Pokémon Day 2023: all Pokémon Presents news /

The Pokémon Presents livestream on Pokémon Day 2023 had lots of goodies for the brand’s fans in store, such as the announcement of Pokémon Scarlet and Violet DLC coming later this year. There was plenty of news from other video games and from outside the digital space as well, though, so let’s dive into what the event had in store.

All news from Pokémon Presents on February 27, 2023

The Pokémon World Championships will be held in Yokohama, Japan, this year. Running from August 11 to 13, they feature competitions in Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, Pokémon Go, and Pokémon Unite.

Speaking of Pokémon Unite, Zacian has been newly added to the arena brawler. You can get it for free by playing the Adventure in Zacian’s Weald event available in the game right now. There is also a new promo code for Pokémon Unite, which gets you some in-game rewards – POKEMONDAY.

Pokémon Café Remix and Pokémon Masters EX get new content as well: A Paldea-themed event in Café Remix allows you to choose one of the region’s three starter Pokémon for your staff, while some of Galar’s most notorious trainers are coming to Masters EX with the Kanto birds’ Galarian forms.

Pokémon Sleep logo.
Pokémon Sleep is a new sleep-tracking app coming out this year / The Pokémon Company

Pokémon Sleep has been announced as an upcoming gamified sleep tracker, which will share some functionality with Pokémon Go in the future, though it’s not clear how that will look like. For now, both apps will be able to use the newly revealed Go Plus+ gadget. Connecting Pokémon Go to Pokémon Sleep will also unlock a Special Research in the mobile game, which features Snorlax with a new hat.

The Go Plus+ is the successor to the Go Plus gadget / The Pokémon Company

Go Plus+ enables you to spin PokéStops and catch Pokémon without using your phone. A new feature compared to the original device is the ability to choose Great Balls and Ultra Balls over using Pokéballs. It will be available on July 14, 2023.

Pokémon Go can also be connected with Pokémon Scarlet and Violet now, allowing you to send postcards to your Scarlet and Violet game and encounter Vivillon there. Its wing pattern is going to depend on the origin of the postcard, just like in Pokémon Go. In return, you will receive coins to evolve Roaming Form Ghimmighoul, which joins Pokémon Go as its first Paldea Pokémon.

Poster for Pokémon Concierge.
Pokémon Concierge tells the tale of a concierge at a Pokémon resort :: The Pokémon Company / Nextflix

Outside the realm of video games, The Pokémon Company and Netflix have teamed up to produce a new stop-motion animation series called Pokémon Concierge, which follows the concierge at a Pokémon resort as he deals with his cute guests.

It has also been revealed that a Pokémon TCG Classic game set is being worked on, which will make available all cards from the original release of the TCG in a complete set alongside some markers and a mat to play on.


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Marco Wutz
MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg