New Pokemon Gen 2 leak surfaces, shows beta designs for Pichu, Celebi, more
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Update: Following our initial post, more assets have come to light. You can find our follow-up here.
Original: Two years ago, the 1997 Space World demo for Pokemon Gold leaked online. It brought along a ton of interesting details and scrapped elements, including unused creature designs. There’s now been another leak for Gen 2 with another round of juicy discoveries.
It seems that today’s leak involves the full source code of the classic Pokemon games. Fans will undoubtedly be digging through it all in the days to come, but unsurprisingly, much of the talk thus far involves the Pokemon themselves. Beta and placeholder sprites are starting to spread online that show some pretty wild designs for Celebi, Pichu, and more.
Here’s a look at every sprite extracted:
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Future Games Show announced as another E3 2020 replacement
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IGN recently announced plans to host a Summer of Gaming event in light of E3 2020’s cancellation. GamesRadar has now revealed a similar initiative.
Future Games Show, “a digital showcase of the most exciting games of 2020 and beyond”, will be held in June. The hour-long broadcast will include “trailers, announcements, and deep dives on existing AAA and indie games”. GamesRadar will also share news, previews, and interviews.
Here’s a video promoting Future Games Show:
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The Pokemon Company apologizes for including Pokemon not available in Sword/Shield in latest Twilight Wings episode
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The Pokemon Company kicked off Pokemon: Twilight Wings earlier this year. The animated mini-series is designed to give fans more insight into the Galar region and is based around Pokemon Sword/Shield.
In the latest episode, Early-Evening Waves, fans noticed that Pokemon like Dewgong appeared despite not being available in the actual games. That prompted The Pokemon Company to issue an apology on its Japanese Twitter page today. The message was primarily aimed at those who may have felt mislead in any way.
Pokemon: Twilight Wings still has three more episodes to air. Previous episodes can be found here, here, here, and here.
More: Pokemon, Pokemon Shield, Pokemon Sword
Nintendo confirms about 160,000 accounts illegally accessed through Nintendo Network IDs
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Update: Nintendo has sent out a separate statement in English, noting that “there is currently no evidence pointing towards a breach of Nintendo’s databases, servers or services.” This second statement can be read in full below.
Original: Nintendo has followed up on the situation regarding illegal access to Nintendo Accounts, confirming that about 160,000 accounts have been compromised.
In an official statement today, the company said that “login IDs and passwords have been obtained illegally by sources outside our service, to impersonate users to access Nintendo Network ID since the beginning of April.”
Starting today, users will be unable to log in to their Nintendo Accounts with a Nintendo Network IDs. Nintendo further says that “all passwords will be reset for Nintendo Network IDs and all other Nintendo Accounts that may have been illegally accessed.” Nintendo will also be responding to unauthorized purchases.
Here’s the full statement, courtesy of Sephazon:
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Pokemon Journeys: The Series coming exclusively to Netflix
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Netflix has nabbed the rights to Pokemon Journeys: The Series, The Pokemon Company announced today. The anime will debut on June 12 in the west. More episodes will be added quarterly for the duration of the season.
Here’s the announcement in full:
Game Freak employee tests positive for coronavirus, studio says work isn’t impacted
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Pokemon developer Game Freak has had one of its employees test positive for the coronavirus, the company said in a statement today. Despite that news, the company will be able to continue working without interruption.
Game Freak noted that as of January, it has taken various measures to prevent infection. Additionally, all staff have been working from home since April 1.
Here’s the full statement, courtesy of Robert Sephazon:
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Video: A look at Japan’s new My Nintendo app
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As reported earlier today, a new My Nintendo app released for mobile devices in Japan on iOS and Android. Get a closer look at what it has to offer with the footage below.
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Pokemon: Twilight Wings – episode #4 now available in English
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After it debuted in Japanese last week, the fourth episode of Pokemon: Twilight Wings is now available in English. Give it a look below.
Some Nintendo Account users reporting unauthorized access attempts
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If you haven’t enabled 2-step verification on your Nintendo Account, you may want to consider doing so. Recently, a notable amount of Switch owners have claimed that their accounts have been accessed without consent.
The news started to circular after Twitter user Pixelpar said that his account was accessed multiple times from various locations. A quick look at social media indicates that it’s not an isolated incident, as many users have been affected in a similar way. At least a portion of Nintendo Account owners who also set up a PayPal link says funds had been accessed to purchase Fortnite’s VBuck currency.
Nintendo “investigating” reports of unauthorized access to some Nintendo Accounts
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Nintendo has responded to user reports that their Nintendo Accounts have been accessed without consent.
In a statement, the company said that it is “investigating” the situation. Nintendo also recommends users enable 2-step verification.
The full statement reads: