As previously announced, a special Pokémon Center Pop-Up Store will be opening at the 2022 Pokémon World Championships at ExCeL London from August 17th, with a range of Pokémon Center-branded products being available exclusively at the event. The Pokémon Company International today revealed the latest of those exclusive products, with four different coin and marker sets for the Pokémon Trading Card Game.

During the Pokémon Presents presentation aired August 3rd, the 2022 edition of the Pokémon World Championships trophy was unveiled. This trophy will be rewarded to the top three players in each division from the VGC and TCG, as well as in the new categories for Pokémon GO, and Pokémon UNITE.

The Pokémon Company has launched a new Theme for the LINE app called "Pokémon Pixel Art". It can be purchased for the equivalent of USD$2.99 in local currency in the LINE shop, and features a selection of popular 1st generation Pokémon including Bulbasaur, Squirtle, Charmander, Pikachu, and Eevee.

In a press released earlier today, The Pokémon Company International have announced that they will be debuting a new campaign this year centered around Halloween, offering families a variety of different ways they can incorporate Pokémon into their celebrations of the spooky season. This campaign will begin with the launch of the new Pokémon Trading Card Game: Trick or Trade BOOster Bundle at participating retailers worldwide on September 1st.

This week at San Diego Comic-Con, Jazwares, the company responsible for the Squishmallows line of plush toys, revealed a new Squishmallows x Pokémon collaboration collection in partnership with The Pokémon Company International. The initial launch of Pokémon Squishmallows will feature the classic first generation fan faves Pikachu and Gengar, both of which are featured on the show-floor at Comic-Con at Jazwares Booth #3513.

For a limited time only, the Japanese Pokémon Center Online has opened orders for a new shipment of their life-sized Lucario plush toy. Fans have until Monday, July 25th to get their orders in, with fulfillment scheduled to start from late February next year.

As Japan's rainy season winds down for temperatures to rise, Family Mart, a popular Japanese conbini or convenience store chain, as well as Baskin Robbins, have each partnered with The Pokémon Company for their own selections of limited-time Pokémon-themed items.

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.

U-TREASURE, a Japanese jewelry company who produces "authentic character-based jewelry for adults," have released a new diamond cut with a Poké Ball motif. The diamond is called the "POCKET MONSTERS Monster Ball Diamond," and features 143 small facets. The diamond, which has been meticulously designed and crafted by some of Japan's best specialists in the field of diamond cutting, boasts almost 2.5 times more diamonds than a typical brilliant round cut.

U-TREASURE, a Japanese company specializing in making elegant character-themed jewelry for adults, have added another rings featuring fan-favorite Pokémon to their U-TREASURE Pokémon ring line. The Riolu and Lucario Fork Ring features motifs of a "cooly-posing" Riolu and Lucario. The ring is made with silver plated with rose-gold, accented by a blue sapphire gemstone, and will cost 18,700 yen ($141 USD).

The second official soundtrack for the Pokémon Journeys anime (known simply as Pocket Monsters in Japan), will release in Japan on June 22nd. Pocket Monsters Original Soundtrack Vol.2 will feature more than 40 songs from the soundtrack of the 2019 anime.

The Japanese jewelers U-TREASURE, who produce "authentic character-based jewelry for adults," released new jewelry in their Pokémon line earlier this week with necklace and ring designs featuring "the adorable charm of the Sleeping Pokémon, Snorlax,", complete with a 360-degree recreation of its stomach. Every piece is made of silver, coated with a glossy black paint, and shows Snorlax in its classic and unique yawning pose.

Late last week, The Pokémon Company announced a new Pokémon Center location on their website. This new location will be in the vibrant Japanese tropical island chain of Okinawa, on the first floor of the Aeon Mall Okinawa Rycom, a mall with four floors and varied attractions, such as "shops, restaurants, a movie theatre, and even an aquarium."

The Japanese jewelry company U-TREASURE, who is known for partnering with many Japan-based and international media franchises to make character-based jewelry, will be releasing a new set of Pokémon-themed rings on May 31st. These new rings are a continuation of the U-TREASURE Pokémon ring line, which recently saw the addition of wedding and engagement rings featuring Gengar. The new rings will feature the popular Mythical Pokémon Mew, and will be available in variety of different materials.

The new Pokémon Garden Wedding line of merchandise from the Pokémon Center was announced earlier this week on April 28th. This new range of products features wedding-related items, perfect for any fans who want to have a fun-filled Pokémon wedding. Paired with U-TREASURE's Pokémon-themed wedding and engagement rings, a lifelong-remembered event featuring Pokémon is within reach! Pokémon Garden Wedding goods will be sold in Pokémon Center stores starting from May 14th, and offered online on the Pokémon Center website starting from May 12th.

The Wand Company, known for making premium functional prop replicas, and The Pokémon Company International announced this week that the Master Ball is now available for purchase exclusively at the Pokémon Center UK store. The Master Ball was originally released in 2021, but was not available from the Pokémon Center UK store during that initial release.

The Japan-based graniph, which describes itself as a "Japanese art apparel pioneer", and the world-known casual apparel brand UNIQLO, have each listed a range of new clothing items featuring popular Pokémon, in a continuation of each brand's popular collaborations with The Pokémon Company for licensed apparel.

The Galaxy Z Flip 3 was one of South Korea's best selling phones of 2021. So it's somewhat surprising that Samsung's latest collaboration, a new Pokémon-themed special edition of the Galazy Z Flip 3 phone, was announced with such little fanfare yesterday on Samsung's South Korean website.

Niantic has announced that special postcards will be distributed in several cities across countries in the Asia-Pacific region on the Stufful Community Day on April 23rd, between 2:00p.m. and 5:00p.m. local time.

From April 23rd, the Pokémon Café locations in Tokyo and Osaka will be releasing a range of new original Pokémon-themed menu items and tableware. Customers looking to have the Pokémon Café feeling at home will be able to purchase this tableware from the goods center in-shop at each Pokémon Café location. The new additions to the kids' menu, which is exclusivly available to elementary-school-student ages and below, feature "tons of Pikachu". The adults' menu is also expanding with a new original sandwich that promises to be popular with parents, while a Snorlax-themed pancake set is being added to the sweets menu.