The latest video on the Pokémon Trading Card Game's official Japanese YouTube channel has unveiled the new N's Joltik card from the upcoming Battle Partners expansion. This cards will be released in Japan later this month on January 24th. Cards from this set will be released internationally on March 28th as part of the Scarlet & Violet—Journey Together expansion.

The latest video on the Pokémon Trading Card Game's official Japanese YouTube channel has unveiled three new cards from the upcoming Battle Partners expansion: Sentret, and both a regular and Art Rare version of Furret. These cards will be released in Japan later this month on January 24th. Cards from this set will be released internationally on March 28th as part of the Scarlet & Violet—Journey Together expansion.

After a three week break, Pokemon Horizons return with an episode that leaves a rather divisive opinion on the fanbase. On one hand, it’s mainly the gamers who already clowned on Geeta for the difficulty of her battle; on the other hand, it’s also the people who don’t really watch Pokemon Horizons who have the most to say.

Today's video on the Pokémon Trading Card Game's official Japanese YouTube channel has unveiled three new cards from the upcoming Battle Partners expansion: Lotad, Lombre, and Ludicolo. These cards will be released in Japan later this month on January 24th, 2025. Cards from this set will be released internationally on March 28th as part of the Scarlet & Violet—Journey Together expansion.

The Pokémon Company has announced a small and sweet little collection which will be coming to Pokémon Centers in Japan beginning January 18th, and to the Pokémon Center Online on January 17th. The drop contains only five new items, two of which are boxes of assorted chocolates. The star of the collection is the Pikachu plush holding a heart (¥2,200 ($13.94 USD)), which is designed with dots for eyes, similar to its appearance in the monpoké line of merchandise from the Pokémon Center.

The Japanese Pokémon website has opened pre-orders of a huge range of merchandise themed after Pokémon Masters EX, with acrylic stands, acrylic photo blocks, postcards, can badges, tapestry, stickers and plushes themed after the in-game Lodge Decoration plushes. This new merchandise line is being released as part of the Strongest Trainers Festival, project focusing on the Pokémon Trading Card Game and Pokémon Masters EX which aims to showcase the appeal of Pokémon Trainers.

The Pokémon Center online stores in the United States, United Kingdom and Canada have released the final Monthly Dragon Type Pin, featuring the three Tatsugiri forms (Curly, Stretchy and Droopy respectively). As usual for this line of pins, the United States and Canadian stores quickly ran out of stock shortly after release, however as of the time of writing the United Kingdom store still has stock. It is unknown if this line of goods will be restocked in the future, as this line was a celebration of the Chinese Year of the Dragon in 2024.

Niantic has announced that they will be ending support for Pokémon GO on 32-bit Android devices to streamline their development process and focus resources on supporting newer operating systems and technologies.

Rookidee, Corvisquire, and Corviknight will be making make their Pokémon GO debuts next week as part of the Steeled Resolve event, which will run alongside the game's latest GO Battle Week. Steeled Resolve will run from January 21st at 10:00am local time, through to January 26th at 8:00pm local time, while GO Battle Week: Dual Destiny will run from January 21st, at 12:00am to January 26th at 11:59pm local time.

Today's video on the Pokémon Trading Card Game's official Japanese YouTube channel has unveiled many new cards from the upcoming Battle Partners expansion. These cards will be released in Japan later this month on January 24th, 2025. Cards from this set will be released internationally on March 28th as part of the Scarlet & Violet—Journey Together expansion.

Pokémon Masters EX's latest High Score Event, Ice and Rock Conqueror, is launching today alongside 5★-Select Type and Triple Feature Poké Fair Scouts featuring Sync Pairs useful for challenging the event.

Today's video on the Pokémon Trading Card Game's official Japanese YouTube channel has unveiled new cards for Larvitar, Pupitar, and Tyranitar from the upcoming Battle Partners expansion. These cards will be released in Japan later this month on January 24th, 2025. Cards from this set will be released internationally on March 28th as part of the Journey Together expansion, announced earlier today.

With today's announcement of the Scarlet & Violet - Journey Together expansion, we also now have an official date for the start of the next Pokémon Trading Card Game Standard Format Rotation. The Standard format for the 2025-2026 season will begin for in-person events on April 11th, and will come into force for online play in the Pokémon Trading Card Game Live app from March 27th. From these dates, cards with the "F" regulation mark will no longer be legal for play in Standard format, with players only able to use cards with the "G" and "H" regulation marks (and any future released marks), or which have received reprints with those marks. Cards will become legal for tournament play two weeks after their international release date.

The next Pokémon Trading Card Game expansion in the Scarlet & Violet Series, Journey Together, has been officially announced in a press release by The Pokémon Company International. This expansion, which launches internationally on March 28th, is expected to primarily contain cards from the Japanese Battle Partners expansion, which launches there on January 24th. For the very first time, this set will also be released in Latin American Spanish.

Continuing on from the recent debut of Giovanni's new Sygna Suit Sync Pair with Guzzlord, the Team Rocket executives are making a collective return to Pokémon Masters EX today in the Take on Team Rocket Special Battle Event, as well as in a new set of Variety, Tiered, and Ticket Scouts.

The Japanese coffee brand BOSS has announced a collaboration with The Pokémon Company, debuting their new Pokémon Trading Card Game-themed cans and other merchandise coming exclusively to Japan. There will a selection different coffee can designs, based on 15 different Pokémon cards and two Pokémon coins, coming to retailers across the country beginning February 4th, however the merch will be a little harder for fans to get their hands on.

The latest livestream on the Pokémon Trading Card Game's official Japanese YouTube channel has revealed the new Ruffian Supporter card from the upcoming Battle Partners expansion. This card will be released in Japan later this month on January 24th, 2025.

This month's Wonder Pick Event in Pokémon TCG Pocket brings new Squirtle and Charmander promo cards to the game's Wonder Pick feature, along with a selection of limited time event items to the in-game shop, including a pair of backgrounds, and a binder cover. This event will run through to January 21st, at 9:59pm (PST).

The Bulbapedia encyclopedia is always growing here at Bulbagarden! All sorts of edits and contributions sprout up every single day thanks to Pokémon enthusiasts from all around the world! Let's take a closer look at our editors' best contributions that have taken root during December 2024.

Today's video on the Pokémon Trading Card Game's official Japanese YouTube channel has unveiled new cards for Beldum, Metang, and Metagross from the upcoming Battle Partners expansion. These cards will be released in Japan later this month on January 24th, 2025.