As part of a continuing collaboration with Mie Prefecture in Japan for the Pokémon Local Acts program, a range of merchandise featuring Oshawott, the official Ambassador Pokémon for the prefecture, is being released as part of a promotion centered around the Shima Spain Village theme park.

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The Australian speedrunning community will be coming together for the 2024 edition of the Australian Speedrun Marathon (ASM) event, which is being held live out of the Adelaide Rockford Hotel between July 16th and 21st. Among the runs in the event will be an Any% race of both Generation III remake games, pitting Omega Ruby against Alpha Sapphire. The event can be watched from the AusSpeeruns Twitch channel.

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Two Pokémon games are set to feature in the Summer Games Done Quick Express 2024 charity marathon, which is being held live at the Hilton Minneapolis Downtown from June 30th to July 6th. Like all of the SGDQ events, it will be raising money for Doctors Without Borders, and can be watched live on the GDQ Twitch channel.

The German speedrunning community is set to perform live at the DoKomi event for 2024. Based out of Düsseldorf, Germany, DoKomi is an annual fair for anime and manga. Speedruns of two Pokémon games are scheduled for the final day of the event, which can be watched on the Germench Twitch channel. A Pokémon Scarlet/Violet competition is also set to take place at the event, in colaboration with the Grugapark Poké-Liga.

There's been a lot of talk about the 2024 Pokémon TCG Illustration Contest as the Top 300 Entries have been revealed. Most controversial, however, are accusations that certain contestants have submitted images created with generative AI, with fans pointing out a range of issues with certain images, including inconsistencies in background details, strange proportions, and a rendered-like style common with AI generated images. The Pokémon Company has now addressed these issues in a post on X (formerly known as Twitter), announcing that certain entrants have been disqualified, and that additional artists would be selected to replace them in the Top 300 list.

The Lady Arcaders will be hosting a speedrunning marathon today on June 18th live from the See-Scape in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Their in-person speedrunnig event, Out of Bounds 2024, is part of Toronto Games Week 2024, an independent collective event dedicated to playable arts and culture. A speedrun of Learn with Pokémon: Typing Adventure is set to feature in it.

Bingothon will be returning with its summer event this weekend. As its name suggests, Bingothon Summer is a speedrunning event that focuses on bingos; the event has raised over $30000 across twelve marathons since their first event in 2018. Three Pokémon games spanning the first three generations of the main series are set to feature in this latest marathon, which can be watched from the official Bingothon Twitch channel. The charity for this season's event is Médecins Sans Frontières, a.k.a. Doctors Without Borders, a charity centered around providing medical care across the world to those in conflict zones and affected by various endemic diseases.

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Held over the weekend of May 31st to June 2nd, Pokéverse was an unaffiliated, “Made by Fans for Fans” Pokémon convention held in Mandaluyong City, near Manila in the Philippines. Since the convention, congoers, vendors, and even its own celebrity guests have come online to discuss the many issues they encountered, from its unusually high ticket prices and table fees to concerns with how it treated its Make-A-Wish child guests.

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RPG Limit Break 2024 has begun. This speedrunning marathon is started May 19th, and will run through to May 25th, with runs being a mix of online and on-location live out of the DoubleTree Hotel-Salt Lake City Airport in Utah. Like its predecessors, this year's event will be raising money for the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). A speedrun of Pokémon Let's Go Pikachu/Eevee is set to feature in the event, which can either be watched from the event's Twitch channel or from their website.

Action Role Playing Games Marathon Event (ARPGME) will be hosting their 8th annual speedrunning event from May 6th to May 12th. A full game run of Pokémon Scarlet is set to feature as the final run of the marathon. ARPGME will be raising money for The Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation, and will be hosted on the ReallyReallyLongAThon Twitch channel.

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Anime Speedruns Festival (ASF) will be hosting the 2024 edition of their annual online marathon this weekend. Runs of Pokémon Card GB and Pokémon Battle Revolution are scheduled as part of the event, which will be hosted on the Speedgaming Twitch channel.

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Blue Rescue Team and Pokémon Pinball Ruby & Sapphire are set to be featured in back-to-back runs as part of this weekend's Pixel Art Runners (PAR) Spring Sprite speedrunning marathon. The event is being hosted on the streamer cic_ada's Twitch channel.

The Speed Stuff 4 Charity Twitch channel will be hosting their annual marathon over this weekend. This year's event will be to support speedrunners who are financially struggling. A speedrun of Pokémon Alpha Sapphire will be part of the event.

The 2024 edition of the Catch a Million charity marathon is continuing all week, with more than two dozen separate streamers (and counting!) taking part in the event. Lists of all streamers currently live can be found on the Tiltify page for the event, as well as by searching for #catchamillion on Twitch.