Pokémon Direct with ‘exciting news’ confirmed for this month

The Pokémon Company has announced a digital event for next week, which it says will contain “exciting news”.

The Pokémon Presents event will take place on Tuesday, February 27 at 6am PT / 9am ET / 2pm GMT.

According to a tweet by the official Pokémon account on X, the presentation will feature “exciting Pokémon news in celebration of Pokemon Day 2024”.

The last major Pokémon game was Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, which was released in November 2022.

This was followed up by a two-part DLC expansion pass called The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero, with the the first part releasing in September 2023 and the second arriving in December 2013.

A final epilogue for the DLC, which featured a new mythical Pokémon called Pecharunt, was released on January 11.

As such, it’s currently unclear what Game Freak‘s next major Pokémon project is, which implies there may be an announcement planned for the Pokémon Presents event next week.

Pokémon continues to make headlines as always, but in recent weeks those headlines have been due to a different game entirely.

Steam title Palworld, which is described by many as ‘Pokémon with guns’, has become a huge success – by February 1 it had sold 12 million copies on Steam and had 7 million players on Xbox.

However, the survival game’s success ignited discourse around perceived similarities between its character designs and those of the Pokémon games, with many accusing it of plagiarism.

Both The Pokémon Company and Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa have said they’re looking into the situation and determining whether Palworld infringes on its IP rights.