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These five Pokemon Sun and Moon features helped the RPG take on bold new forms and let us off the leash to explore

30 Years of Pokemon | How Pokemon's seventh generation gave us the 3DS-powered tropical getaway we all needed

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OG Pokemon devs struggled to fit their iconic RPG onto a Game Boy cartridge: "It was a fight against capacity, a fight against what we could fit onto the cartridge"

"I like the Game Boy as a machine but trying to work with all these challenges and make a game that anyone could get into and enjoy was difficult"

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Game Freak can't add hundreds of new Pokemon and more Types every generation or else new games would take too long to make, director says: "If you added like 300 or so new monsters, that'd just be too many"

Gotta balance 'em all

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Pokémon fans think Winds and Waves’ adorable widdle starters might evolve into mythological calamities

Never make fun of the little guys. They might grow up to break the world.

Destructoid

Pokemon Winds and Waves continues a sentimental tradition I've had for 27 years, and it still sets the RPG series apart

Opinion | Gotta share 'em all

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Even for fans like me, the Pokémon 30th anniversary ‘stuff’ is a bit much

With the wait for the new Winds and Waves games set to stretch into 2027, Pokemon’s 30th anniversary celebrations have plugged the gap with a deluge of nostalgia bait. Is the franchise in danger of losing its heart?

The Guardian - UK

Pokemon being "a game for children" is "a misunderstanding," Game Freak veteran once said – and it rings more true than ever as the RPG series turns 30

Pokemon is for everyone

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These five Pokemon Gold, Silver & Crystal features allowed the sequels to evolve from one-off to true worldwide megahit, enduring even today

30 Years of Pokemon | How Pokemon's second generation added to Game Freak’s original formula

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The 5-year wait for Pokemon Winds and Waves is unprecedented, but it looks like Nintendo has learned its lesson from Scarlet and Violet

Opinion | A whole new world?

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Everything announced at Pokémon Presents February 2026: Pokémon Winds and Waves officially revealed

Tune into our live coverage of the Pokémon Presents showcase. We'll post about each and every announcement as it happens.

TechRadar

Pokemon Winds and Waves confirmed to be open world, with Game Freak unphased by Scarlet and Violet's woes

Plus, it looks like you have a hoverboard

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What artists can learn from 30 years of Pokémon character design

Everyone needs to study Game Freak and Nintendo's art rules.

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"We had no idea this would be such a phenomenon": As Pokemon Red and Blue turn 30, here's how Game Freak created one of the most important RPGs of all time

30 Years of Pokemon | The making of Pokemon Red & Blue charts the creation of a Game Boy classic

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From Pokémon Champions to a Gen 10 reveal — here’s everything I hope gets announced at this week’s Pokémon Presents event

The next Pokémon Presents showcase is happening soon, and there’s a strong chance of some really big reveals.

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Pokemon Pokopia's new Pikachu form was dubbed "unfortunate Pikachu" by co-dev Koei Tecmo, but it comes from a place of love: "We were surprised and thrilled"

Pikachu passed away waiting for Colosseum and XD to come to Switch Online

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Pokemon Pokopia director thought up the Animal Crossing-like while placing grass for Ruby and Sapphire, as he wanted to give players "the experience of creating their own Pokemon world"

"My job was to place the grass"

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Pokemon developer to launch Beasts of Reincarnation in August, promising "one-person, one-dog action" for its first non-Nintendo game in years

"This game doesn’t require you to fight solely through action," though

The Guardian - UK

What is Pokopia? Inside the calming Pokémon game that ditches battles for gardening

We explore the cosy world-building spin-off with Game Freak’s Shigeru Ohmori and his fellow developers – and learn how it began with a Pokémon-hunting dream

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Pokemon devs "wanted to create a different type of game that's not an RPG" with cozy life sim Pokopia, but that whole idea "was a challenge"

After Pokemon Scarlet and Violet, Pokopia senior director Shigeru Ohmori wanted to "create a different type of game than usual"

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Beast of Reincarnation's battles are about "the joyful dilemma of choice", building on the director's Pokemon battle planning expertise

Interview | Beast of Reincarnation's Kota Furushima tells me about combat, working together with your dog companion, and the post-apocalyptic journey that awaits

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Pokemon Ultra Beasts are "a manifestation of my own resentment," Game Freak artist says after his designs were rejected by art director: "This doesn't mean that I hate Mr. Sugimori or anything like that"

No, nothing like that…

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The Pokemon Company teases "special" 30-year celebration for February 8 – by putting Jigglypuff in a recording studio for Super Bowl LX

Jigglypuff is cooking something up, and it ain't a clutch Rest

GamesRadar

Pokemon studio's action RPG Beast of Reincarnation is not open-world, has difficulty settings unlike Soulslikes, and combat is about parrying to tag in a dog you power up with pets

You pet the dog 10/10

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Pokemon dev Game Freak says it wasn't trying to make an anti-Pokemon game with its flashy new action RPG Beast of Reincarnation: "It just happened"

"We never had a strong feeling like, 'let's make something in a different genre and style to what we've done before'"

Windows Central

It's shocking what Game Freak has been able to do when it steps out of Nintendo's shadow

I've analysed Game Freak's latest showcase for its upcoming action-RPG, Beast of Reincarnation, and found myself intrigued by it. With its post-apocalyptic setting and action-packed gameplay, this game has the potential to be a hit and convince Game Freak that it doesn't need Pokémon anymore to be successful.

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