This Week In Pokemon: Huge Cards, Happy Meal Toys, And More
Even while we’re left waiting for Scarlet & Violet news, the Pokemon community is anything but quiet. Some big news from Niantic came our way this week, although it wasn’t all positive. A Pokemon TCG player also turned some heads with a stunt he pulled at a tournament, quickly going viral.
On top of that, it’s good news for scalpers, as it sounds like Pokemon cards are returning to McDonald’s. All of that and more in this week’s Pokemon news round-up.
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Niantic is expanding its horizons once again, but it hasn’t forgotten about Pokemon Go players. Anyone who plays the studio’s ultra-popular monster-catching game is set to get early access to its new app, Campfire. This new release lets you coordinate social events and add friends, and like Pokemon Go, is centred around a map of your area. What will also interest Pokemon Go players is the fact that it has an inbuilt feature to organize raids, making it easier to team up with other fans local to you. There’s no specific release date yet, but Niantic says it will be with us “over the coming months.”
However, not all the news about Niantic this week was positive. Despite making eye-watering amounts of money through Pokemon Go, the company is reportedly "facing a time of economic turmoil". This is apparently because the studio has been unable to capitalize on Go’s success with its other projects, of which four have been cancelled. On top of this, Niantic is laying off eight percent of its workforce in order to “best position the company to weather any economic storms that may lie ahead.”
In some more uplifting news, it was reported this week that Pokemon toys are returning to McDonald’s this summer. Any
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