Pokémon World Championships 2022 Art Logo, pop-up Pokémon Centre entry tickets and North American International Championships winners announced

Niantic has confirmed that the Starling Pokémon, Starly will be the featured Pokémon for July 2022's Pokémon GO Community Day. During this event, Starly will be appearing more frequently in the wild, and its Shiny variant will be available as well. The event will be held on July 17th, from 11:00am to 2:00pm local time.

A new version of Pokémon Masters EX game, Version 2.22.0, is now available for download. This new version brings with it minor bug fixes and audio changes. The producers of Pokémon Masters EX have also revealed details on several new components to the game in their monthly message to players, along with information about upcoming Sync Pairs. The next letter is slated for late July and will include information about new Sync Pairs coming at the end of that month, as well as details on events that will be running in August.

Latias makes a return to the Legendary Arena in Pokémon Masters EX until July 10th, offering players another chance to earn great in-game rewards by completing the event.

Pokémon Masters is offering players many reasons to celebrate over the coming week with rallies and the Blissful Bonanza making a return, new sync grids for existing Sync Pairs, as well as a 6★ EX Upgrade for Hau, who features in the ongoing It's All Good Solo Event.

A limited-time distribution of Gastrodon was announced for Pokémon Sword and Pokémon Shield during the 2022 Pokémon North America International Championships Pokémon VGC Day 1 livestream. This Gastrodon is based on the Gastrodon used by Eric Rios to win the 2022 Pokémon Europe International Championships. Players can redeem Gastrodon using the code「ER1CSGASTR0D0N」. This code can only be redeemed until June 27th.

Pokémon Masters EX is putting a spotlight on Free Spirit Sync Pairs with the game's latest Solo Event and Spotlight Scout. Solo Event: It's All Good, and the associated Triple Feature Spotlight Scout, will both run through until July 6th.

The next Pokémon Trading Card Game expansion, Sword & Shield - Lost Origin, has been officially announced by The Pokémon Company International. The expansion will be released worldwide from September 9th.

The Pokémon Company International and Play! Pokémon have announced that several cards will be banned from use in the upcoming 2022 Pokémon World Championships held in August in London. These bans are not being put in place due to any inherent balance issues with the cards themselves, but rather are being made to ensure a fair play environment due to certain cards having not received a worldwide distribution.

Niantic has announced more details on the in-person Pokémon GO Fest 2022 event in Berlin, Seattle, and Sapporo. Trainers attending the Berlin, Seattle, and Sapporo Pokémon GO Fest events will encounter an Ultra Beast as a part of their Special Research.

The official Japanese Pokémon website and the official Play! Pokémon Twitter account have announced a new distribution for Pokémon Legends: Arceus. Players can receive a Shiny Baneful Fox Mask, based on the one that Alec wears in the Pokémon: Hisuian Snow animated short, by selecting "Get via internet" from the Mystery Gift feature. This distribution will end in a little under one year's time, on June 1st, 2023, at 5am PDT.

Two Hues, the third and final episode of the three-episode animated series, Pokémon: Hisuian Snow, based on Pokémon Legends: Arceus and set in the Hisui region is now available on the official Pokémon Youtube channel and Pokémon TV. The series was being produced by The Pokémon Company International in collaboration with WIT STUDIO.

The Special Event Rival Challenge and Main Character Poké Fair Scout has started in Pokémon Masters EX, featuring various rivals and main characters respectively. The event and scout banner will remain available until July 3rd.

The 2022 Pokémon North America International Championships will be held in Columbus, Ohio from June 24th to June 26th. Trainers will compete for Championship Points (CP) for the 2022 Pokémon World Championships, which are taking place across August 18th to 21st in London, England at the ExCeL London events center. Fans can catch all the action via livestreams on the various official Pokémon Twitch channels.

For roughly three weeks until the middle of July, McDonalds locations across Japan will be running a "Pokémon Outdoors" promotion, selling a range of new "Pokémon Outdoors Happy Meals", with a total of eight collectable toys featuring Pikachu and other Pokémon. These Happy Meals range in price from 470~500 yen ($3.48~$3.71 USD) each.

Celebrate the 2-year anniversary of the release of the Pokémon Sword and Pokémon Shield Expansion Pass The Isle of Armor with Gigantamax Urshifu (Single Strike Style) and Gigantamax Urshifu (Rapid Strike Style) appearing more frequently in Max Raid Battles in Pokémon Sword and Pokémon Shield through until June 19th, at 4:59pm (PDT). Trainers defeating them will receive valuable items not normally available from from Max Raid Battles.

Niantic has ended support on Pokémon GO for mobile devices running on Android 6, "Marshmallow". Players will need to update their OS to continue access to Pokémon GO. iOS users and Android users running on Android 7, "Nougat," or above are not affected by this change.

The Pokémon Company International has announced that the POKÉTOON animated shorts will be available in English on Pokémon TV from this Friday, June 17th with the first episode "Scraggy and Mimikyu". POKÉTOON were originally released on the Japanese-language Pokémon Kids TV YouTube channel. There are eight POKÉTOON episodes in total, and a new one will release every Friday.

An Alcremie Team Event has now started in Pokémon Café ReMix. Players can take this chance to clear Main orders and Past orders and earn points with team members to receive various rewards and boosters. Alcremie can also be recruited as staff this way. This event will end on June 24th, at 2:59 p.m. JST.

Niantic has announced that the Irate Pokémon, Deino will be the featured Pokémon for June 2022's Pokémon GO Community Day. During this event, Deino will be appearing more frequently in the wild, and its Shiny variant will also be available. The event will be held on June 25th, from 11:00am to 2:00pm local time.