Some sort of new Pokemon project called The Pokemon Works is in the works, but it’s not very clear what it is.
Earlier this year, The Pokemon Company apparently launched a new subsidiary called The Pokemon Works, apparently located in the same building as ILCA, the studio behind Pokemon Home and Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl. It’s unclear what exactly The Pokemon Works is, but there’s an official website now up and running that’s shedding some light on the whole ordeal – with emphasis on a little. Based on a machine translation, The Pokemon Works is focused on working on services like Pokemon Home, which makes sense since it’s in the same building as ILCA, as well as developing games in the franchise. What games, you ask? Don’t have the foggiest! But at the very least they will all be Pokemon related.
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The “About” section of the site is actually a message from the studio’s head, Takuya Iwasaki, a developer who has worked on titles like Nier, Drakengard, and most recently Sand Land. As for further details, however, you’re out of luck. The rest of the post on the section is mostly about how Pokemon are your friends, and trying to make realistic and accessible Pokemon experiences, which is mostly just business. At this point, it doesn’t seem like there’s a clear connection to that massive Game Freak leak from last month, so we’ll just have to wait and see what it has to say.
Aside from the aforementioned leak, it’s been a very quiet year for Pokemon. We know there’s a new Pokemon Legends in the works, ZA, which was announced back in February, but we haven’t heard anything since, and there’s no word on the tenth generation of games either. Perhaps Game Freak is slowing things down, given fan reaction to Scarlet and Violet – those pair of titles were riddled with bugs and framerate issues at launch, and an empty open world didn’t help much either. I hope whatever comes next can bring back some of that classic Pokemon magic.