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Pokémon Sleep's Eevee Week 2024 event will start on November 18th. A selection of special Eevee Week 2024 Bundles will be made available from the in-game store from November 17th, at 4:00am (UTC). These bundles will remain available until one day after the end of the event, on Tuesday November 26th, at 3:59am (UTC).

Dua Lipa, the English and Albanian singer and songwriter, recently released their new album Radical Optimism. The song Illusion, which featured on that album, has been featured in a special short video in collaboration with Pokémon Sleep, which has been released via The Official Pokémon YouTube channel.

After more than three months of waiting, the first two "Trade Remix" songs of the Project VOLTAGE collaboration between Pokémon and the Vocaloid character Hatsune Miku, iyowa's version of inabakumori's Electricity Forecast, and inabakumori's rendition of iyowa's Journey's Prequels, Journey's Traces, are now set to release. The music videos are set to premiere on each artist's official YouTube channel, with Electricity Forecast (sparking remix) going live tomorrow, Wednesday November 13th, at 6:30pm (JST) / 9:30am (UTC) / 1:30am (PST). Journey's Prequels, Journey's Traces (wandering remix) will then premiere half an hour later.

The latest video on the Japanese official Pokémon Card Channel has revealed a new Seaking card that will be released in the upcoming Terastal Fest ex subset, which comes out in Japan early next month on December 6th. We can expect to see this card released internationally on January 17th, 2025, in Scarlet & Violet—Prismatic Evolutions.

The next past generation first partner evolution to appear in special Tera Raids in Pokémon Scarlet & Violet will be the Continent Pokémon Torterra, which will be making its first appearance in 7-star Black Crystal Tera Raid Battles between November 15th midnight (UTC) / November 14th at 4:00pm (PST), and November 17th at 11:59pm (UTC) / 3:59pm (PST). This will be followed by a second appearance one week later from November 22nd at midnight (UTC) / 7th at 4:00pm (PST), to November 24th at 11:59pm (UTC) / 3:59pm (PST). Blissey will also be appearing more frequently in 5-star Tera Raid Battles during the second weekend of this event.

The Academy Founding Chapter, which began towards the end of Pokémon Masters EX's five-year anniversary celebrations earlier this year, continues today with the launch of a brand new Event, Academy Founding Chapter: Great Infernal Arrival, and the debut of Eri & Annihilape in a new Poké Fair Scout. Both the Event and Scout will continue until November 26th, at 9:59pm (PST).

The second part of Pokémon TCG Pocket's Wonder Pick Event is now available. With this update come an additional set of special missions, as well as a selection of new limited-time items to the in-game store. The Wonder Pick Event will continue through to November 14th, at 9:59pm (PST).

Pokémon Masters EX is today debuting the latest of its Ultimate Battle challenges, this time featuring Nemona, the Champion-ranked Trainer from Paldea in Pokémon Scarlet and Violet.

Pokémon Sleep will once again be celebrating Eevee Day on November 21st with a week-long in-game event commencing Monday November 18th at 4:00am local time, and running through to Monday November 25th at 3:59am local time. Eevee Day has been celebrated since 2018 on November 21 (11/21), which is goroawase for "i-i-bu-i", Eevee's Japanese name. The day is certified by the Japan Anniversary Association.

Having not even finished its first two events yet, Pokémon TCG Pocket is already launching its third in-game event today, Genetic Apex Emblem Event 1. This event will run through to November 27th, at 9:59pm (PST), and offers players the opportunity to acquire emblems to set on their in-game player profiles.

Pokémon Masters EX's latest High Score Event, Fighting and Steel Conqueror, is launching today alongside 5★-Select Type and Double Feature Poké Fair Scouts featuring Sync Pairs useful for challenging the event. Both the event and the accompanying scouts will run through to November 19th, at 9:59pm (PST).

In an update letter posted to the Official Pokémon Forums, the Pokémon TCG Live Development Team have outlined changes to the game's Battle Pass and Ranked Ladder systems that will be arriving this week alongside Surging Sparks; as well a revamp to the in-game economy in a planned update coming next month on December 13th.

As part of Nintendo's presentation today of its Second Quarter Financial Results and Corporate Management Policy Briefing, Shuntaro Furukawa, the current President of Nintendo, confirmed that the Nintendo Switch successor will feature backwards compatibility with Nintendo Switch software. Nintendo Switch Online will also remain available on the new console.

Having only just launched worldwide last week, Pokémon TCG Pocket is already running its second in-game event. The Lapras ex Drop Event will run through to November 17th, at 9:59pm (PST), and offers players the opportunity to acquire a selection of promo cards from the Promo-A promotional set.

Pokémon Masters EX continues its focus on the fan favourite brothers of the Battle Subway with a re-run of 2021's All Aboard the Victory Train Story Event. Also launching alongside this event is a new Double Feature Poké Fair Scout featuring Ingo & Excadrill and Emmet & Archeops, who both made their debut together with the original run of the event. Both the event and scout will be available until November 21st, at 9:59pm (PST).

Having only just launched worldwide earlier this week, Pokémon TCG Pocket is already running its first in-game event. Wonder Pick Event Part 1 brings Chansey and Meowth 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 November 14th, at 9:59pm (PST).

The next Pokémon Trading Card Game expansion in the Scarlet & Violet Series, Prismatic Evolutions, has been officially announced in a press release by The Pokémon Company International. This expansion, which launches internationally on January 17th, 2025, is expected to primarily contain cards from the Japanese Terastal Fest ex subset, which launches there on December 6th, along with an assortment of Japanese promotional cards that have yet to have international release.

Pokémon Sleep's next Good Sleep Day event will run from Friday November 15th through to Sunday November 17th. Good Sleep Day events are being held in Pokémon Sleep once every lunar month, starting the day before the full moon, and ending the day after. As usual, a Good Sleep Day Bundle will be available from the in-game shop alongside this event.

Pokémon Masters EX today starts to move on from all of the recent Halloween festivities, with the launch of a brand new Extreme Battle event, Pasio Subway, featuring Ingo and Emmet with their new and improved minecart battle facility in Pasio. Meanwhile, Steven & Metagross feature in the game's latest Monthly Poké Fair Scout.

Today's update on the Pokémon Trading Card Game's official Japanese homepage has revealed a range of new and reprinted cards from the upcoming Terastal Fest ex subset, including new Pokémon ex cards for Vaporeon, Jolteon, Espeon, Umbreon, Umbreon, Leafeon, and Glaceon, an Amarys Supporter card, and the Max Rod ACE SPEC item card. The set is scheduled to release in Japan on December 6th.