A daily Pokémon puzzle game is out now as part of a busy lineup

There’s a batch going connected successful the satellite of Pokémon — and you tin play astatine slightest 1 of them close now. During its latest Pokémon Presents presentation, the Pokémon Company astonishment launched Pokémon Friends, a puzzle crippled with regular challenges, an progressively communal benignant of game. In a cute Pokémon twist, solving puzzles earns you adorable (virtual) plushies you tin usage to decorate a room. It’s retired contiguous connected iOS, Android, and the Nintendo Switch.

Elsewhere, we besides got looks astatine a brace of animated adaptations of the franchise. That includes the soothing Netflix bid Pokémon Concierge, which is getting a 2nd play connected September 4th…

And Pokémon Tales: The Misadventures of Sirfetch’d & Pichu, a stop-motion bid from a previously-announced collaboration with Wallace & Gromit workplace Aardman. It won’t beryllium premiering until 2027, however.

It’s shaping up to beryllium a large twelvemonth for the franchise, arsenic it volition besides beryllium making its debut connected the Switch 2 with Pokémon Legends: Z-A, which volition beryllium a cross-gen rubric disposable connected some versions of the Switch erstwhile it launches connected October 16th. As portion of today’s presentation, we got a pair of new trailers, focused connected the caller determination Lumiose City and each the assorted things players tin get up to there.

Meanwhile, determination are immoderate notable updates to immoderate of the franchise’s galore mobile spinoffs, including Mega Evolutions coming to the trading paper game arsenic portion of an enlargement successful September, and a caller country coming to Pokémon Sleep successful November. And lastly, the Pokémon Company confirmed that the battle-focused spinoff Pokémon Champions will beryllium launching successful 2026. It’ll beryllium connected some mobile and the Switch.