A special Pokémon UNITE Winter Tournament has been announced for players in the Asian region. This will be an official one-day online tournament organized by JCG Co., Ltd., in cooperation with The Pokémon Company. The regions eligible to participate include Brunei, Cambodia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, The Philippines, and South Korea. The tournament will receive official support in both English and Japanese languages. The top-ranked teams in each tournament may be invited to the offline tournament held in Japan in the future.

The Pokémon Company has announced three Pokémon 2022 International Challenge online competitions, which will be taking place over February, March, and April for all players globally. Top players from Japan in these online competitions will also qualify for the Pokémon Japan Championships 2022 Qualifiers that will be held in May. Successful trainers from that competition will then qualify to participate in the Pokémon Japan Championships 2022 in June.

A range of news Sinnoh-themed content has been added to Pokémon Masters EX this week. Alongside the addition of the Sinnoh Chapter to the Villain Arc of the Main Story, there are also two separate limited-time events beginning that feature Team Galactic, and a a set of Scout banners focused on characters from the Sinnoh region. In addition to all this Sinnoh-themed content, the Give and Take story featuring Professor Sycamore & Xerneas is also being added to Legendary Adventures.

A letter published on the official Pokémon UNITE website from Masaaki Hoshino, the game's producer, has made several announcements about upcoming changes and future plans for the title over the coming months, including a confirmation that Pokémon UNITE will be joining the 2022 Pokémon World Championships.

Over December, Bulbagarden continued its annual tradition of holiday season contests. For 2021, we ran a collection of four separate contests, with more than $2000 USD of prizes on offer. The competition for prizes this year was particularly strong, with most contests seeing about double the number of entries that we saw in 2020.

The official Taiwanese Pokémon Facebook page and KFC Taiwan have announced a special limited promotion to celebrate the Lunar New Year and the upcoming release of Pokémon Legends: Arceus, beginning today. These special Pokémon KFC set meals are available for dine-in customers only in KFC outlets islandwide throughout Taiwan, and are not available for home delivery.

We are now less than three weeks away from the release of Pokémon Legends: Arceus, a brand new open-world adventure that takes place in the Hisui region. It is set to be released for the Nintendo Switch worldwide simultaneously on January 28th, 2022. A large variety of different bonuses are being offered by different stores around the world together with pre-orders for the physical copy of the game. In this article, we'll be rounding up a list of all the pre-order bonuses available.

A teaser image from the official Pokémon Café ReMix Twitter account has revealed that the Mach Pokémon Garchomp will be available for players to recruit as a Staff in Pokémon Café ReMix's first Team Event of 2022. The event, which will also include boosters and items rewards, will commence on January 12th.

An update on Nintendo's official Japanese website has announced that the next Tetris 99 Grand Prix will be a collaboration with Pokémon Legends: Arceus. The event will run from Friday January 21st to Tuesday January 25th (JST).

Niantic has announced the Mountains of Power event for Pokémon GO, which continues the current storyline from the Season of Heritage. Spark's intuition has lead him to believe that the mysterious door's second mechanism will require the help of Rock- and Steel-type Pokémon to unlock. This event will be taking place between January 7th, 2022, at 10:00 a.m. to Thursday, January 13th, 2022, at 8:00 p.m. local time.

A new gear event has just landed in Pokémon Masters EX with the Dragon-Type Gear Event. This co-op battles event, which allows Trainers to obtain 3★ Dragon-Type Gear, will be available until January 12th at 9:59 p.m (PST). The Battle Villa is also returning to the game for the next two weeks as part of its regular rotation, closing on January 19th.

As the Season of Heritage continues, Niantic are offering players an opportunity to return to Pokémon's roots with the introduction of a new kind of Community Day in Pokémon GO, the Community Day Classic events. The first of these event will run on on January 22nd, 2022, from 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. local time, and feature none other than the Seed Pokémon Bulbasaur.

The new year brings more returning seasonal content to Pokémon Masters EX, with the return of the Season's Greetings Story Event until January 17th, accompanied by Lillie and Lance Sync Pairs originally released for New Year's 2021. The Ghetsis & Kyurem: Father or Foe story also makes a return as a part of Legendary Adventures, and the Champion Stadium has rotated around to Johto.

Lucky-themed Pokémon will be appearing more frequently in Max Raid Battles in Pokémon Sword and Pokémon Shield through January 10th, 2022, at 8:59 a.m. JST. These Pokémon include Meowth, Magikarp, Sudowoodo, and Darmanitan. Very rarely, a Shiny Magikarp may also be encountered.

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Registration for the Test Your Luck! Online Competition in Pokémon Sword and Pokémon Shield has started, and will remain open until January 6th, 2022. The competition itself will then run from January 7th, 2022 at 00:00 UTC to January 9th, 2022 at 23:59 UTC.

The eighth episode of Pokétoon was released on the official Pokémon Kids TV Japan YouTube channel at the beginning of this week. The episode is titled "Jigglypuff's Song".

At the end of last week, just before Christmas, Yu Sasaki and Tetsuya Iguchi, the producers of Pokémon Masters EX, announced a range of updates and events which players can expect to see over the coming weeks in advance of the new Sinnoh Chapter featuring Team Galactic launching in game next month. More Rallies and events are planned for the beginning of 2022, with a New Year's Message from the Producers to be released on January 1st, 2022 (JST).

In January, after obtaining enough ☆s from completing each of the puzzles in the Main Orders, players can receive various booster items and rewards. For the Standard Course, players will receive Togepi's Spike Ball Hat (translated name) outfit. Players who purchased the Premium Pass can also obtain the Scorbunny Holiday Vacation (translated name) outfit as a reward.

Every day between now and January 1st, 2022 at 3:59 p.m. PT, players of Pokémon UNITE can log-in to receive a small in-game gift. Players may pick from either 600 Aeos Coins, 375 Aeos Tickets, 5 Holowear Tickets, or 40 Item Enhancers.