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Pokemon Unite Glaceon, Buzzwole, and Tyranitar

Original (7/15): Glaceon, Buzzwole, and Tyranitar are joining Pokemon Unite, it’s been announced. They’ll be appearing in the game starting on July 21, August 4, and August 16 respectively.

With Glaceon, we know that it will be available to all players by completing the Icy Glaceon Challenge and its missions. Additionally, it will come with two pieces of Holowear.

Nintendo has updated its maintenance schedule, and three sessions are currently planned for the rest of the month. Unsurprisingly, each one involves Switch.

Here’s the maintenance schedule as things stand now:

The 2022 Pokemon World Championships are taking place next week, and Niantic has a special event planned for Pokemon GO in celebration. It will include the debut of World Championships 2022 Pikachu.

Here’s the full rundown:

Pikmin Bloom update 51.1

Niantic has released a new version 51.1 update for Pikmin Bloom, which is now available for all users.

Some new additions are included here such as an indicator to the friend list to show your friend’s weekly challenge participation status. New variations have also been added to the weekly challenge memento cards. 

The full patch notes for the Pikmin Bloom version 51.1 update are as follows:

Following the introduction of the Hoenn Main Story Villain Arc a couple of weeks ago, a new set of content has just released concluding it, along with a couple of associated events. Beyond the new content for the main story, a Poke Fair Scout for the new Sync Pair Sygna Suit Steven & Deoxys and a Team Aqua Villain Event have also become available.

Look below for more information on these events.

Now that L’Arachel: Princess of Light has been released as a Resplendent Hero, Intelligent Systems has announced the next Feh Pass-exclusive Hero. As such, we now know that the next Resplendent Hero joining the game will be Lon’qu: Solitary Blade, and he’ll be available along his own set of Feh Pass quests on August 25, at 12 AM PT.

You can view a brief overview of the character below:

The Risk and Reward summoning event was announced for Fire Emblem Heroes during the latest Feh Channel presentation, and a trailer has now shown it off.

As a reminder, the following characters will be featured:

Now that the Ocean Tour is wrapping up, the next event coming to Mario Kart Tour has been announced. The game’s next Tour will be the Sundae Tour, featuring a new Mii Racing Suit, kart elements, and the Sky-High Sundae track which just recently made its way to Mario Kart 8 Deluxe.

You can check out trailers for both the Sundae Tour and the 12th wave of Mii Racing Suits below:

August 2022 Pokemon Presents recap announcement

The Pokemon Company has passed along an official announcement recapping all of the news from the August 2022 Pokemon Presents. Pokemon Scarlet and Pokemon Violet were obviously the big focus, but other mobile games and news was touched on as well.

Here’s the full roundup:

Fire Emblem Heroes update 6.8.0

Nintendo and Intelligent Systems have shared the full patch notes for the Fire Emblem Heroes version 6.8.0 update, which was first mentioned during this week’s Feh Channel presentation.

There’s a lot planned here, but we’ll just mention some of the highlights. Binding Worlds will be added as a new event, new skills are being added for a Legendary and Mythic Hero, new Memento Events are being added to Heroes Journey, and more.

The full patch notes for the Fire Emblem Heroes version 6.8.0 update are as follows:


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