Monday: Pokémon Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon - Zeraora Event + Pokémon Let's Go - Demos + Pokémon GO - Safari Zone, Research & Deoxys + Pokémon Duel - New Figures + Pokémon Sun & Moon - Episode Title + Trademark
01-10-2018 07:05 BST / 02:05 EDT by Serebii
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Edit @ 07:43: Episode Title | Edit @ 09:35: Pokémon Duel | Edit @ 10:55: Zeraora Distribution | Edit @ 11:32: Let's Go Demo | Edit @ 14:20: Deoxys | Edit @ 19:54: Trademark | Edit @ 21:00: Pokémon GO Research
In The Games Department
Pokémon Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon - Zeraora Event
The Zeraora event has begun in various parts of Europe. Unlike past events, many of the distributions haven't been officially announced so some stores have begun the event without previously advertising it so keep checking back for additions. It runs from today until November 15th 2018. Our Event Database has full details for this event
In the UK, it's being distributed at GAME
In Germany, it's being distributed at Gamestop
In Italy, it's being distributed at Gamestop
In Spain, it's being distributed at GAME
In The Netherlands, it'll be distributed at GameMania
In Belgium it'll be distributed at GameMania and Dreamland
Edit @ 17:10: It has also been confirmed that the distribution will run in the US in Gamestop from October 19th through November 9th
In The Games Department
Pokémon Let's Go, Pikachu! & Let's Go, Eevee!
It has been confirmed that Pokémon Let's Go, Pikachu! & Let's Go, Eevee! are to be playable in Belgium at the GameForce event on October 13th and 14th 2018 which takes place in the area of Mechelen, just outside of Brussels and Antwerp. This demo will likely match the Viridian Forest demos that are currently going around America and other parts of Europe
In The Games Department
Pokémon GO - Suicune Research
As part of the monthly rotation of Field Research, new Field Research tasks will begin to appear in Pokémon GO. With this, there is a focus on Johto Pokédex Pokémon and Water-type Pokémon, with the Legendary Beast Suicune having now rotated in as the Research Breakthrough reward. We're currently cataloguing all Research that we find and get reports of and the section will be continually added to over the next day
Edit @ 21:01: Spinda Form #1 is now available in the game
Edit @ 21:18: Shiny Krabby and Kingler is now being reported to be in the game
In The Games Department
Pokémon GO
Niantic have announced a new Pokémon GO Safari Zone event. From November 1st through November 5th, the Safari Zone will take place at the Tainan Metropolitan Park in Tainan, Taiwan. This event will include the migration of the Regional Pokémon Relicanth as well as appearances from rare Pokémon such as Bagon, Swablu, Anorith and Unown. It also introduces Shiny Pinsir into the game. As always, we have created a page to keep track of all details of this Safari Zone
Edit @ 20:15: The official news release in Taiwan confirms that the Unown letters of T, A, I, N, Z, O & E, spelling out Tainan Zone, will spawn during the event
In The Games Department
Pokémon GO
EX Raids have started to run across the globe again, with some running today mostly in the Americas while Europe and Asia's are tomorrow, October 2nd. With this, Deoxys is now available within the game, but currently only its Normal Forme. For full details on Deoxys in the game, be sure to check out our Pokémon GO Database listing for Deoxys
In The Games Department
Pokémon Duel - Update
The smartphone game, Pokémon Duel, has had a new update. This patch takes it to version 6.2.5 and requires 247MB of space on your mobile device to download. It is required to update in order to play the game
In addition to the balance patches announced on Friday, this patch contains various brand new figures.
The UX Figures are Mega Gardevoir, Mega Banette & Giratina Origin Forme,
The EX Figures are Marshadow, Drifblim & Banette
The R Figures are Elgyem, Beheyeem & Sigilyph
The UC Figures are Drifloon
Several new Plates have also been added to the store
In addition to this, as part of the special promotion, you can get a booster for free each day and a special Shiny Gyarados figure
In The Anime Department
Pokémon Sun & Moon - Episode Title
A Japanese magazine has revealed new episode titles for upcoming episodes of the anime. This episode is due to air on October 28th. This episode features Lana's sisters wanting to go to a haunted house, so the group decide to make one
Episode 1037: Ghost Pokémon Everywhere! Everyone's Haunted House!!
In The Pokémon Department
New Trademark
Nintendo, Creatures and Game Freak have registered a new trademark in Japan. This is for the term "monpoké" and comes with a special logo. At present it's not clear whether this is related to games, merchandise or an in-life event as the trademark covers pretty much every conceivable possibility including software and beards, but we'll provide full details as they come so be sure to keep checking back
