Scarlet & Violet

Six separate speedruns of Pokémon games are set to feature in the 2024 European Speedrunner Assembly (ESA) Winter event, which is taking place from February 17th to February 24th across two streams from Malmö, Sweden. This year's event will be raising money for Alzheimerfonden, the Swedish Alzheimer’s Foundation. The event can watched from ESA's official website, or via its main and secondary Twitch channels.

Registration for Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet's 2024 Global Challenge II Online Competition will open next week on February 22nd at Midnight (UTC). Registration will remain open until the end of the month, with the competition itself scheduled to run from March 1st, at Midnight (UTC) through to March 3rd, at 11:59pm (UTC).

The Pokémon Europe International Championships are coming once again to the enormous ExCeL London event center in England. Running from from April 5th to 7th, the event will feature competitions for the Pokémon Trading Card Game, the Pokémon Scarlet and Violet video games, Pokémon GO, and Pokémon UNITE. As with the 2022 Pokemon World Championships and 2023 Pokémon Europe International Championships which were also held at this venue, a pop-up Pokémon Center store will be available at the event, selling a wide variety of Pokémon products, including a range of items themed around the International Championships.

Pokémon Scarlet and Violet are giving players more opportunities to catch certain Version-Exclusive Pokémon this coming week, with a selection of 3-star and 5-star Tera Raids featuring Stonjourner, Eiscue, Armarouge, and Ceruledge. These raids will be available starting Friday February 16th at midnight (UTC), and will run through until Sunday February 19th at 11:59pm (UTC).

Smash Bros. Ultimate has started 2024 off with a series of four new Spirit Board events, each of which have added a selection of new spirits to the game. The third of these events is scheduled to start this Friday, February 9th, running for 5 days through to February 14th, and will feature a range of Pokémon from Pokémon Scarlet and Violet appearing as spirits for the first time.

Just in time for Valentine's, the seasonally appropriate Rendezvous Pokémon Luvdisc will be appearing with the Fairy Tera Type in special 3- and 5-star Tera Raid Battles in Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet next week, between Monday February 12th at 00:00 (UTC), and Thursday February 15th at 23:59 (UTC).

Pokémon Scarlet and Violet received an update to Version 3.0.1. This update, which was originally hoped to release in mid-January, resolves a number of bugs present in the game since the Version 3.0.0 update in December for The Indigo Disk, including issues acknowledged back in a late December update.

The next past generation first partner evolution to appear in special Tera Raids in Pokémon Scarlet & Violet will be the Emperor Pokémon Empoleon, who will be making its first appearance in 7-star Black Crystal Tera Raid Battles between February 2nd at Midnight (UTC), and February 4th at 11:59pm (UTC), with a follow-up appearance one week later from February 9th at Midnight (UTC), and February 11th at 11:59pm (UTC).

Pokémon Scarlet and Violet are giving players more opportunities to catch certain Version-Exclusive Pokémon this coming weekend with a selection of Mass Outbreaks and 5-star Tera Raids. These events will be available starting Friday January 26th at midnight (UTC), and running through until Sunday January 28th at 11:59pm (UTC).

Starting today, players of Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet can now claim the Mythical Pecha Berry via Mystery Gift, which can be used to unlock the game's new Mochi Mayhem epilogue story.

The Pokémon Japan Championships 2024 video game tournaments and qualifiers were officially announced earlier this week through the Japanese Poké Portal News in Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet. The PJCS2024 is being held as a series of official online competitions for Japanese players in Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet.

The next past generation first partner evolution to appear in special Tera Raids will be the Blaze Pokémon Blaziken, who will be making its first appearance in 7-star Black Crystal Tera Raid Battles between January 12th at Midnight (UTC), and January 14th at 11:59pm (UTC), with a follow-up appearance one week later from January 19th at Midnight (UTC), and January 21st at 11:59pm (UTC).

Pokémon Scarlet, Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team, and the Japanese-exclusive WiiWare title Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Let's Go! Stormy Adventure Squad will feature in the VrTuber Raid RTA marathon, which is being held this weekend on January 6th and 7th (JST), and will be hosted by Japanese speedrunner icarus (イカロす) on their Twitch channel.

Pokémon Scarlet and Violet's Ranked Battles Season 14 has now begun, and will run through to January 31st, at 11:59pm (UTC). This season follows the new Regulation Set F, which expands the list of allowable Pokémon to include those found in The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero Part 2: The Indigo Disk. The sign-up period for the Blueberry Prologue is also now open, with the competition itself scheduled to start January 12th at Midnight (UTC). An official acknowledgement has also been issued for a bug with the move Dragon Cheer.

Following on from Pokémon Scarlet and Violet's update to Version 3.0.0 last week alongside the release of The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero Part 2: The Indigo Mask, a Poké Portal News update has issued a rare acknowledgement for two bugs reported by players, along with a statement clarifying how these issues will be addressed.

Pokémon Scarlet and Violet are celebrating the holiday season and the new year with a selection of Mass Outbreaks and Tera Raids over the next two weeks.

Just in time for Christmas, the seasonally appropriate Paradox Pokémon Iron Bundle will be making its first appearance in 7-star Black Crystal Tera Raid Battles in Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet later this week, between December 22nd at 00:00 (UTC), and December 24th at 23:59 (UTC).

Pokémon Scarlet and Violet received an update to Version 3.0.0 today alongside the release of The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero Part 2: The Indigo Mask. In addition to updates associated with the addition of the new DLC, this update makes a few small additional changes, adjusting the difficulty of the Ogre Oustin' minigame introduced in The Teal Mask, and fixing a small selection of bugs.

The Pokémon Company has announced that Super Music Collections for Pokémon Sword and Shield + Expansion Pass, Pokémon Legends: Arceus, and Pokémon Sword and Shield + The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero will each be released in Japan on Pokémon Day on February 27th, 2024. Pre-orders are now open on the Pokémon Center ONLINE website in Japan, while stocks last, and are limited to a maximum of 2 items per person.

The final trailer for The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero, the paid DLC for Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, has been released ahead of the release of Part 2, The Indigo Disk next week on Thursday, December 14th. This new trailer reveals a range of new features in the DLC, including for the first time in a main series title the ability to control your Pokémon directly. Additional details on these features, along with special distributions being made to celebrate the release were also given in a simultaneous update made to the official Scarlet & Violet website.