Just in time for the first anniversary of Pokémon Sleep, The Pokémon Company has launched two new themes for the LINE social messaging app. The Pokémon Sleep: Good Morning and Pokémon Sleep: Good Night themes can be purchased in the LINE shop for ￥370 or 150 LINE Coins in Japan, or in other countries at the local currency equivalent of the USD$2.99 price tier.

New information about Pokémon Sleep will be announced every day this week, alongside the first half of the First Anniversary Fest event. Today, the game has commemorated its first birthday with the announcement of a special gift to be distributed to all players who log-in to the game from Saturday July 20th at 3:00am (UTC), which marks exactly one year since the game's global release. Between the release of the game last year and May 29th this year, Sleep Researchers clocked up roughly 440,000 years, or around 3.9 billion hours worth of total sleep time tracked. With the extra month and a half of Sleep Research between when that was tracked and today, that means Sleep Researchers should by now have completed half a million years worth of sleep research.

Hi Bulbapedia readers! Today, we have a few announcements.

After being re-run twice during 2023, the Team Magma's Red-Hot Rage Villain Event is making yet another return this week to Pokémon Masters EX. This event originally ran as part of the Hoenn chapter of the Villain arc between July 29th and August 28th, 2022. Fair-exclusive Sync Pairs for Sygna Suit Steven and Sygna Suit Brendan will also be making their own returns in a Double Feature Poké Fair Scout.

Mega Lucario will make its Pokémon GO debut in the upcoming Ultra Unlock: Mega Lucario Raid Day on July 27th, running from 11:00am to 5:00pm local time. Mega Lucario's shiny variant will also rarely appear in Mega Raids during this event.

Niantic has released details on next week's Ultra Unlock: Strength of Steel event in Pokémon GO, running from July 25th, at 10:00am, through to July 30th, at 8:00pm local time. Shiny Togedemaru will make its Pokémon GO debut as part of this event.

Ho-Oh is the latest Pokémon to join the fray in Pokémon UNITE. A selection of minor shop and event updates have also been made for Pokémon UNITE's 3rd Anniversary.

New information about Pokémon Sleep will be announced every day this week, alongside the first half of the First Anniversary Fest event. In today's announcement, information was given regarding a planned event for late September, as well as changes coming to Good Sleep Day events from October onwards.

New information about Pokémon Sleep will be announced every day this week, alongside the first half of the First Anniversary Fest event. In today's announcement, further information was released on the new update that will be released sometime in early August. In addition to the chances announced over the past two days, adjustments are being made to Skills specialty Pokémon to make them more valuable to include in Sleep Researcher's teams.

New information about Pokémon Sleep will be announced every day this week, alongside the first half of the First Anniversary Fest event. Today's announcement was additional information on a new update that will be released sometime in early August. In addition to the limit unlocks announced yesterday, the August update will also be increasing a number of rewards to improve playability.

Pokémon UNITE updated to Version 1.15.1.2 on July 16th. These updates, dubbed "Shadow Flame" (Japanese: 「シャドウフレイム」), bring balance adjustments for a variety of Pokémon alongside bug fixes and Shop and Event updates. The patch notes and in-game data also reveal information about the upcoming 3rd Anniversary events, which begin July 19th. The announcements include teasing the moves of the next Pokémon to join the fray — Ho-Oh, the return of the Panic Parade game mode, various commemorative events, new regulations for Ranked Match Series 21, and more. Additionally, a new gift code has also been released, enabling players to obtain rental licenses for Charizard, Ceruledge, Chandelure, and Gyarados.

Greta & Breloom make their Pokémon Masters debut today in a limited-time Poké Fair Scout, running alongside the continuing Isle Disciples, Arena Tycoon Story Event. Also launching today is a Training Support Rally, to assist players in boosting up their Sync Pairs.

New information about Pokémon Sleep will be announced every day this week, alongside the first half of the First Anniversary Fest event. Today's announcement was a preview of a new update that will be released sometime in early August, bringing the first changes since February's 1.3.0 update to max levels for Research ranks, as well as Pokémon, main skills, and recipe levels. Alongside this announcement, a selection of First Anniversary Bundles have now also been released.

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.

New information about Pokémon Sleep will be announced every day this week, alongside the first half of the First Anniversary Fest event. Today's announcement was the reveal of the new Ultra Biscuit item. This new biscuit makes Pokémon much more friendly to Sleep Researchers, increasing their friendship points by 5, or by as much as 15 if the Pokémon is hungry.

Avery & Slowking make their Pokémon Masters debut today in a limited-time Poké Fair Scout, running alongside the continuing Isle Disciples, Arena Tycoon Story Event. This scout is available in-game now, and will run through to August 6th at 10:59pm (PDT). As normal for Poké Fair Scouts, 5★ sync pairs have a 10% chance of appearing in this scout.

The American footwear brand Crocs is expanding their collaboration with the Pokémon brand this year, previewing four new Gen I designs coming sometime in 2024, though no specific date has been given. Following the Pikachu design from earlier this year, Jigglypuff, Charizard, Gengar, and Snorlax will each feature on Crocs’ Classic Clog, with the Pokémon’s colors in a swirled design on the upper and a monochrome sole.

Did you know that the events of this week's episode were foreshadowed all the way back in Episode 21? I like how they added in continuity from a very obscure piece of dialogue, which shows how detail oriented Pokémon Horizons can be.

From July 27th onwards, the Pokémon Center official storefront in Japan will offer seven new plush toys as part of their 'Comfy Cuddlers' line. The Comfy Cuddlers collection debuted in July of 2022 in Japan, and consists of mini 'pocket plushes'—versatile toys than can serve as side-by-side collection displayables, desk toys, or as the name suggests, cuddling. Each Comfy Cuddlers plush is hand-washable, and features a soft, easy-to-clean design.

Pokémon Centers in Japan are adding some new sleepy plushes to their lineup inspired by the first anniversary of Pokémon Sleep. The app’s mascot Snorlax will feature as a plushie with Pikachu asleep on its belly for ¥6,930 ($43.90 USD), and the sleeping Gengar, Eevee, and Larvitar plushies come in at ¥3,520 ($22.30 USD) each. These four will be available at Pokémon Centers across Japan beginning July 20th, and at the Pokémon Center Online beginning July 18th.