Review: Pokémon Horizons is the reinvention the Pokémon anime desperately needed

I really like Pokémon Scarlet. I also liked its first DLC. And so I was excited for The Indigo Disk…

An unassuming character featured in 's DLC is officially the strongest trainer ever to appear in the series. is the second part of 's expansion,. Following, it has players visiting Blueberry Academy as an exchange student, where they'll battle a variety of trainers from all around the world. There's also a wide variety of new Pokémon to catch in , along with new regions to explore and new mysteries to uncover.

Game Freak’s second paid DLC for Pokemon Scarlet and Violet, The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero Part 2: The Indigo Disk is available now on Nintendo Switch for Expansion Pass owners. It sees the player venturing to Blueberry Academy, exploring the Terarium of four artificial biomes, and challenging the Elite Four.

Game Freak’s final DLC for Pokemon Scarlet and Violet, The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero Part 2: The Indigo Disk, launches next week. Check out the latest trailer below. While it introduces new areas like Blueberry Academy and the Terrarium, there’s also a new feature – the Synchro Machine.

Players will be able to play as their captured creatures in Pokémon Scarlet and Violet's DLC, The Indigo Disk.

Although seem like prime candidates for the next remakes in the franchise, there's one classic game that could use the remake treatment first — . Despite the fact that the series has essentially abandoned the idea of releasing third, more definitive versions of each generation's games, replacing them with DLC expansions, there are still plenty of ideas from the original on the Game Boy Advance that would get a better chance to shine in an all-new remake. And, while remakes of the third generation already exist in the form of, another remake for Hoenn could take on a significantly different style.

While US fans have been watching the conclusion of Ash Ketchum’s journey in Pokemon Ultimate Journeys, audiences in Japan have already embarked on a new adventure, Pokemon Horizons. Fans excited for this new chapter are in luck, as the Pokemon Horizons Netflix release date has been announced.

Shiny Pokémon are making their return to Pokémon TCG with the Scarlet and Violet — Paldean Fates expansion. The expansion launches on Jan. 26, 2024, though some of the specialty items below will launch later. The tins and Premium Collection sets will be available starting Feb. 9, 2024 and the booster bundle won’t launch until Feb. 23, 2024.

In what is either a very blatant marketing strategy or a case of Icarus soaring too close to the sun, the Cult of the Lamb developers at Massive Monster put out a tweet earlier this week saying «we will add sex to the game if we hit 300k followers by the end of the year.»

After over 1,200 episodes and well over a dozen films, Ash Ketchum’s Pokémon journey concluded earlier this year. But you’d be crazy if you thought that would be the end of the immensely successful anime series. Pokémon Horizons is on the way to pick up the mantle, with Netflix confirming in a new trailer that it will begin airing stateside early next year.

Ever since the adventures of Ash and Pikachu came to a close last year in Japan and earlier this year in the West, many were curious about what would happen next for the anime side of the Pokemon franchise. The answer came quickly, as Pokemon Horizons was unveiled to the world, and the first batch of episodes came out in Japan to a positive reception. The anime will completely reset things regarding characters, setting, and more, and while Japan has already gotten its first taste of what the anime will be like, the US and other countries have had to wait for a bit.

Pokémon Horizons will be released on Netflix in February 2024 in the US.