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"If the service continues to demonstrate financial viability, it may encourage publishers to consider implementing their own paid inventory services"
Read More »Pokémon Home has been installed 1.3 million times in just 7 days
Pokemon Go surpasses $3bn in lifetime gross revenue
"This year’s sales have been spurred on by updates of Team Rocket"
Read More »Pokémon Masters generates $33m in its opening month
Becomes the second highest-grossing mobile Pokémon game, second only to Pokémon Go
Read More »The Pokémon Company partners with Tencent for more Pokémon games
No further details are available at this time, though
Read More »Junichi Masuda thinks the Pokémon: Let’s Go games will be his last as director
"It's important to have the younger generation take over the development"
Read More »Taking aim at the millions of Pokémon Go players still checking in each month is a no brainer for Nintendo
Bringing Pokémon Go players into the Switch fold with Pokémon Let's Go is going to work wonders
Read More »Pokémon Go will make $1bn a year, App Annie claims
Recently released free-to-play game Pokmon Go is going to make a lot of money, research firm App Annie claims. The company says that Pokmon Go could potentially generate $1bn a year, on the condition that the game no longer suffers server issues, is out worldwide and has further social and …
Read More »MCV Jobs Weekly: The Pokémon Company evolves its PR team
ThePokmon Company strengthens its PR team, Sumo hires Karl Hilton to run its new studio and Future announces two appointments to its commercial and sales team. Enticknap and Bryant join ThePokmon CompanyUK team The firm behind the monster-catching series has just added two names to its PR team. First, Richie …
Read More »Pokémon merchandise bays coming to GAME to celebrate series’ 20th anniversary
High Street retailer GAME has partnered up with The Pokmon Company for the franchise’s 20th birthday. From Friday, March 25th, consumers will be able to pick up a limited edition Pikachu Pokmon card (pictured), marked with the Pokmon 20th branding. This is free with any Pokmon-related purchase in participating GAME …
Read More »Pokémon series has sold over 279m units worldwide
The blockbuster Pokmon series has sold over 279 million units globally since it debuted in Japan 20 years ago. This impressive figure comes by way of a press release from The Pokmon Company (translated by NeoGAF’s JoeM86– thank you), which claims that the pocket monster series has hit that sales …
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