New Pokemon game coming from Call of Duty mobile studio and Tencent

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This is almost certainly another mobile Pokemon game

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Chinese publishing giant Tencent has its fingers in a lot of video game pies already, and now it seems that one of its subsidiaries, TIMI Studio Group, has partnered with The Pokemon Company. According to a statement shared on Twitter (and translated by Japanese game consultant Serkan Toto), TIMI has assumed development of an unrevealed Pokemon game.

Tencent specializes in free-to-play games, and TIMI in particular is best known for Arena of Valor, a free-to-play mobile MOBA. The studio is currently working on Call of Duty Mobile, which will also be free-to-play when it officially launches later this year. As such, there's reason to believe this new Pokemon game will be a free-to-play mobile game as well. However, it's worth noting that Arena of Valor is also available for free on Switch, so it's not unprecedented for TIMI's games to be released on console.

There's a lot of Pokemon games on the horizon, and Pokemon Sword and Shield are handily the most exciting of the bunch. 

Austin Wood
Austin Wood
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Austin has been a game journalist for 12 years, having freelanced for the likes of PC Gamer, Eurogamer, IGN, Sports Illustrated, and more while finishing his journalism degree. He's been with GamesRadar+ since 2019. They've yet to realize his position is a cover for his career-spanning Destiny column, and he's kept the ruse going with a lot of news and the occasional feature, all while playing as many roguelikes as possible.