After a long wait since its first announcement during last year’s Pokémon Day, The Pokémon Company is showing off new gameplay details and images for the next mainline Pokémon game, Pokémon Legends: Z-A. The game will take place in Lumiose City in the Kalos region, which is undergoing a “high-tech redevelopment,” where the player will explore, battle, catch Pokémon, and interact with characters both familiar and new.

As previewed in today's Pokémon Presents video for Pokémon Day 2025, the Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket is releasing its next themed booster pack, Triumphant Light, this week from February 28th. The video also announced that Ranked Matches will be coming to the game from March this year.

Today's Pokémon Presents video for Pokémon Day 2025 has given players its first look at cards from the next series of the Pokémon Trading Card Game, with the reveal of cards for Mega Lucario ex and Mega Gardevoir ex. Separate updates on Pokémon Trading Card Game's official Japanese homepage and YouTube channel shortly after the presentation also revealed an additional Item card, Power Protein, which then appeared in an update on the English official website shortly thereafter.

During the Pokémon Day 2025 Pokémon Presents, three new Pokémon were announced for Pokémon UNITE: Suicune, Alolan Raichu, and Alcremie. Suicune joins the fray on March 1st, while Alolan Raichu will join in April, and Alcremie will be joining later this year. Other announcements included a new battle mode and other upcoming events.

Sleep Researchers can look forward to a brand new event coming to Pokémon Sleep in late March, Cresselia vs. Darkrai, announced during the Pokémon Presents for Pokémon Day 2025. As the name suggests, this event will feature the debuts of the Lunar Duo, Cresselia and Darkrai.

With celebrations for Pokémon Day 2025 kicking off with a new Pokémon Presents being released at 11:00pm (JST) / 2:00pm (UTC) / 6:00am (PST) on the 27th of February, likely revealing new information for Pokémon Legends Z-A, eagle-eyed fans have found a way to confirm the length of the announcements. As demonstrated by @TheInculte on X (formerly Twitter), using a screen-reader or narrator tells you that this year's Pokémon Presents is at least 19 minutes long.

SpeeDons 5 will be taking place live out of the Centre des Congrès à Lyon from February 27th to March 2nd. This speedrun marathon is raising money for Médecins Du Monde, also known as Doctors of the World, an international humanitarian organization that provides care for the most vulnerable people in the world and aims to end inequities in health care. A speedrun of Pokémon FireRed/LeafGreen will be taking place at the event, which can be watched from the Twitch channel of marathon founder MisterMV.

In a post that perhaps went up a little earlier than intended, the official Pokémon Philippines account on Facebook has confirmed that all-new episodes of the globally popular stop-motion animation series Pokémon Concierge will be making their way to our screens this September, exclusively on Netflix.

To celebrate Pokémon Day 2025, a special distribution of a Melmetal is being held specifically for the Mainland China variants of Pokémon Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee! for the Tencent Nintendo Switch. This Melmetal will remain available for players to redeem until April 30th.

Pokémon UNITE updated to Version 1.18.1.2 at 4:00am (UTC) on February 27th. These updates, dubbed "Assault Break" (Japanese: 「アサルトブレイク」), bring balance adjustments for a variety of Pokémon, alongside bug fixes and Shop and Event updates.

A new animated special, 『カイリューとゆうびんやさん』 (Kairyū to Yūbinya-san, transl. Dragonite and the Mail Carrier) or Dragonite and the Special Delivery, is now available on the Japanese Pokémon YouTube channel in commeration of Pokémon Day 2025 (February 27th). This special is 14 minutes in length and its cast includes 福本莉子 Riko Fukumoto as Hana, 藤原夏海 Natsumi Fujiwara as Rio, and 高橋伸也 Shinya Takahashi as Dragonite.

Today's livestream on the Pokémon Trading Card Game's official Japanese YouTube channel has unveiled new cards for Ponyta and Rapidash, including a very nice Art Rare print of the latter. These cards will be released in the upcoming Hot Wind Arena subset in Japan on March 14th.

The latest video on the Pokémon Trading Card Game's official Japanese YouTube channel has unveiled cards for two more Ethan's Pokémon, Pinsir and Sudowoodo. These cards will be released in the upcoming Hot Wind Arena subset in Japan on March 14th.

5★ Lillie (Anniversary 2021) & Lunala are making their return to Pokémon Masters EX today today alongside the usual collection of regular events and presents on offer for the monthly Pokémon Masters Day celebrations. All players who log in today will receive a special present of 500 Gems from Pikachu, and have the opportunity to take advantage of special events and co-op battles. As always, several sync pairs are also receiving upgrades alongside this monthly event. A new version of Pokémon Masters EX, Version 2.54.0, is also now available to download.

This past week's episode of Pokémon Horizons was basically introducing Laqua to the viewers and to the main characters, hence why it feels slow-paced. It’s supposed to be that way for immersion. I honestly love how beautiful and peaceful Laqua looks, with a plethora of Pokémon living harmoniously. It’s crazy to see so many of these different species of Pokémon, including Legendary Pokémon, all gathered in one place. Though, that’s just what it looks like on the surface. I like that while it looks like that in the front, delving deeper into Laqua shows the darker, thornier aspects of the paradise.

Following on from the recent Pokémon GO Tour: Unova events in New Taipei City and Los Angeles, and ahead of the global event starting this coming Saturday, Pokémon GO is holding its Road to Unova event from Monday, February 24th, at 10:00am to Saturday, March 1st, at 10:00am local time, featuring the debut of Shiny Meloetta.

In an entertaining final game between Dyl Yeomans and 2016 World Champion Wolfe Glick, the 2025 Europe International Championships were eventually won by Wolfe Glick!

The latest video on the Pokémon Trading Card Game's official Japanese YouTube channel has unveiled a new cards for each of Ogerpon's four mask forms. These four cards will be released in the upcoming Hot Wind Arena subset in Japan on March 14th.

This weekend's Europe International Championships, also known as EUIC, is the 2nd International Championships in the 2025 series. This takes place after the 2025 Latin America Internationals, won by Marco Silva in November 2024, and leads into the 2025 North America Internationals taking place later this year from June 13th-15th.

The latest video on the Pokémon Trading Card Game's official Japanese YouTube channel has unveiled a new card for Zeraora from the upcoming Hot Wind Arena subset, which will be released in Japan on March 14th.