The Pocket Players

New Pokémon revealed for Pokémon X/Y, a new game announced for 3DS in Japan, and an awesome unofficial Pokémon noir comic finally goes live. Warning: You may never look at your favorite pocket monsters the same way! [...]

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Welcome again to the Pokémon News Roundup! Here are the top Pokémon stories from last week. [...]

Welcome to the Pokémon News Roundup where I (Faroresdragn) am going to give you the gist of what’s been going on in the Pokémon world every week.

Announcing The First Annual Pallet Cup

The Pocket Players are launching their first official Pokémon tournament, The Pallet Cup! Just to ease us into things, this tournament is going to be OU, run through Pokemon Showdown, and will have rules about traditional as you can get.

For you guys who don’t know, Pokémon Showdown is an online simulator, so you don’t need to be good at EV training or even own a DS to participate, which is pretty cool. I know I’m going be getting in on it, and it’d be really great if we had a large turnout. But If you want to learn about this tournament in more detail, and sign up to participate, check out the tournament’s thread in the forums. [...]

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We are planning to hold a Pokémon video game tournament via Wi-Fi on this site. We shall call it the Pallet Cup and I will arrange some small prizes to send out to the winners. However, before we start anything, I need to gauge interest first.

This poll started in the forums, but I thought I’d bring it up here to make sure all interested parties see it. If you answer that you would only play in a specific format, leave a comment below telling us what format you prefer.

This video was recently posted on the official Pokémon YouTube channel. It shows an oddly familiar Pokémon in the upcoming Pokémon XY.

The video description reads: Get a glimpse of a newly discovered Pokémon in Pokémon X and Pokémon Y that bears an intriguing resemblance to the Legendary Mewtwo!

There is currently a heated debate as to whether this is actually a new Pokémon, or a new “forme” of Mewtwo, similar to how Deoxys or Rotom can change back and forth between various forms, each with different abilities or even typing.

My completely uneducated guess on this matter: This guy is its own unique Pokémon with a backstory linked to either Mew or Mewtwo. Remember that Mewtwo was an early attempt to clone Mew. So this Pokémon could either be a more modern attempt to clone Mew, or a naturally occurring descendant of the original secret legendary. [...]