report this adThe Pokemon franchise has found great success in mobile gaming recently. Pokemon GO, the game co-created by Niantic and Pokemon brand manager The Pokemon Company, has made more than $1 billion. Also, the recent release of Pokemon Quest took just one month to make $8 million in revenue, but it seems that The Pokemon Company is ready to build on this success even further. This is evidenced in The Pokemon Company’s new job listing for a principal game designer. The listing explains that the hired candidate will be working on “an upcoming mobile game” alongside a team of other designers, engineers, artists, producers, and testers. Applicants should have five or more years of experience in designing mobile games, two or more years of experience as a principal game designer, and should also understand “the secret sauce to fun games” and can communicate this to the rest of the team.Pokemon fans have already taken to social media to speculate on what … [Read more...] about The Pokemon Company Working on New Mobile Game
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The Pokémon Company finally shows its hand, but for the first time we don’t know what to expect
For a long time, Pokémon has been playing it safe. In two decades the main series really hasn't changed that much, instead retreating into a kind of calculable routine. New, main series Pokémon RPGs come out every couple of years: each time there's two of them, each time there's probably an enhanced version - either a third, or another pair - and each time Game Freak will add roughly one thing new and take roughly one other thing away, which was probably the new thing they'd just added last time.And a lot of the time that works - Pokémon is comfort food. A new Pokémon game that just gets a bit bigger, a bit tougher, and a bit prettier every year or two would be probably be plenty. But at the same time, Pokémon has been so startlingly predictable that, if you know your history, even rumours and leaks about new games can be dismissed out of hand. There's a known rhythm to it, a pattern that must be followed: there's no way it's coming out this year, because they … [Read more...] about The Pokémon Company finally shows its hand, but for the first time we don’t know what to expect
10 things you might have missed in the Pokemon Let’s Go Pikachu and Let’s Go Eevee trailer
After all the rumours, it turns out Pokemon Let’s Go Pikachu and Eevee are both real games and they’re coming to Nintendo Switch on November 16. The Pokemon Company has released quite a lot of information about the games, but here are 10 things you might have missed in the Pokemon Let’s Go Pikachu and Eevee trailer:1. We’re going back to Kanto and it’s a faithful reproductionThe trailer doesn’t specifically tell you that we’re heading back to good old Kanto for Pokemon Let’s Go Pikachu and Let’s Go Eevee, but we totally are. Professor Oak is back (move on over Professor Kukei), all the original generation 1 Pokemon, plus some Alolan variants, and some very familiar old turf. And if you want to see just how faithful the games are to their source material - namely Pokemon Yellow - just check out the images below of the same city featured in the trailer, Vermillion City. They’re screens from Pokemon Red/Blue, Pokemon Gold/Silver … [Read more...] about 10 things you might have missed in the Pokemon Let’s Go Pikachu and Let’s Go Eevee trailer
Believe It or Not, Pokémon Go Is Still an Absolute Goldmine for The Pokémon Company
With the recent announcement of Pokémon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! and Pokémon: Let’s Go, Eevee!, it’s important to remember that The Pokémon Company has continued to make serious bank off of their mobile title Pokémon Go. New financial reports made public by Japan’s government reveal that The Pokémon Company has netted a total of $80.8 million for their most recent fiscal year. While this is figure is substantially lower than the $145.60 million that the company made in their last fiscal year, the year that the mobile game was released, it shows that The Pokémon Company is still generating a ton of revenue from the mobile app. To put things in perspective, the year before Pokémon Go released the company netted $5.7 million dollars — a sum that seems measly in comparison. Pokémon Go launched on Android and iOS in July 2016. The augmented reality game quickly amassed hundreds of millions of downloads and … [Read more...] about Believe It or Not, Pokémon Go Is Still an Absolute Goldmine for The Pokémon Company
Pokemon Company Hints at Pokemon Switch Leak
The Pokemon Company recently tweeted a picture that invites speculation. What could this mean? It could be providing the first glimpse at the upcoming Pokemon Nintendo Switch game. It might simply be trolling eager fans hoping for any information or confirmation of the Pokemon Nintendo Switch game. The image below was initially leaked a while back and it supposedly shows an in-game screenshot from the Pokemon Nintendo Switch game. The alleged leaked picture is of dubious quality but we can vaguely make out an Eevee and a Lapras. Earlier today, the Pokemon Company posted this picture on Twitter: ⏰ 11時21分 イーブイタイム をお知らせします ☀ ラプラスに乗って 探しに行こう♪ pic.twitter.com/T6M1eRha8P — … [Read more...] about Pokemon Company Hints at Pokemon Switch Leak