The giveaways for legendary Pokemon in 2018 continue; the newest Pokemon that will be available for absolutely free to players of Pokemon Sun, Moon, Ultra Sun, and Ultra Moon will be the legendary dogs Raikou and Entei, whom players might remember as being the electric and fire type beasts that debuted alongside Suicune in Pokemon Gold and Silver, back in 2000.

Entei will be available to players of Sun and Ultra Sun, while Raikou is for Moon and Ultra Moon players. Players of the original Sun and Moon will get their Pokemon at Level 60, while players for Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon will get theirs at Level 100. I’d be angrier about this, but I can’t complain about a free giveaway either way, to be fair.

You can check out the video announcing the new giveaway for yourself below. Pokemon Sun, Moon, Ultra Sun, and Ultra Moon are all available now exclusively for the Nintendo 3DS family.

Say what you want about its first week sales in the UK but Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare scored its eighth week at number one according to Gfk Chart-Track.

FIFA 17 followed closely though sales are down by 72 percent from the previous week. Grand Theft Auto 5 is in third placed followed by Battlefield 1 and Forza Horizon 3. Watch Dogs 2 is doing reasonably well in sixth place while Mafia 3 is in seventh and Rocket League is in eighth place.

Meanwhile, Pokemon Sun saw a 91 percent increase in week-on-week sales, moving up from 36th place to ninth place. Ubisoft’s Steep rounded out the top 10.

It should be interesting to see how the sales charts shake up over the coming weeks with games like Gravity Rush 2, Tales of Berseria, Kingdom Hearts HD 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue and Resident Evil 7: Biohazard releasing. Which game are you looking forward to in January? Let us know in the comments below and stay tuned for more information.

We had reported upon this last week, but the UK was seeing a renewed bout of Pokemon fever on the back of the launch of Pokemon GO there- and now, it seems as though we have definitive and conclusive proof of interest in the mainline Pokemon games having increased as a result of the launch of the perennially successful mobile game.

Three Pokemon games charted in the UK Top 40 this week, of the four separate SKUs that are available on the Nintendo 3DS currently- Pokemon OmegaRuby was No. 17, Pokemon Alpha Sapphire is at 24th, and finally, Pokemon Y sits at 29th. Pokemon X remains the only 3DS Pokemon game to not chart this week. Gfk, the company tracking game sales in the UK, expects the spike to be sustained, and to see Pokemon related hardware and software to see an increased uptake August onwards.

It will be interesting to see if all of this craze can last until Pokemon Sun/Moon, the next mainline games in the series that are due to launch on November 18 worldwide exclusively in the 3DS, and November 23 in Europe.

The Nintendo Direct a couple of days ago shed a ton of information about what we can expect from the upcoming Pokemon Sun and Pokemon Moon games. These games were announced as coming later this year and have plenty of fans plenty excited about their eventual launch date. The new games weren’t the only pieces of info that were released during the media event.

One of the interesting features of the new game that was announced is a new function called the Pokemon Bank. This bank feature will allow players of Pokemon Red, Pokemon Blue and Pokemon Yellow to transfer any creatures they captured in those games to the newest one. Pokemon Red, Blue and Yellow are all out on the market on Saturday, which will give players a few months of running around and gathering up their fighters before the Sun and Moon games are available to all Nintendo DS users.

Nintendo has tried to make it that much more attractive to purchase the new versions of the long running series by offering a ton of bundles to fans. Nintendo is releasing a new bundle that have Pokemon Red, Yellow and Blue all preinstalled. The North American version of the bundle will also have two different cover plates that have Blastoise evolution of Wartortle and the other will have Charizard. It also includes a download code for a new Pokemon menu theme.

It looks like the leaks were true- Pokemon Sun and Pokemon Moon were announced today during the Pokemon themed Nintendo Direct, as all new Pokemon games that will be launching this year, the year of Pokemon’s 20th anniversary. Nothing is known about these games except that they will be coming to Nintendo 3DS systems, and that they will be launching worldwide later this year- though it does appear as though they are set in an all new region, with all new locations and Pokemon, making this, officially, the seventh generation of Pokemon.

“The Pokemon core series games are the center of the Pokémon universe and provide some of the most memorable Pokemon moments for our fans,” said J.C. Smith, senior director of Consumer Marketing at The Pokemon Company International. “I can’t wait to see what fans think of the new adventures they’ll find in Pokemon Sun and Pokemon Moon.”

Nintendo also announced that the Virtual Console re-releases of Pokemon Red, Blue, and Yellow (which will be made available at midnight tonight) will be compatible with Pokemon Sun and Moon via Pokemon Bank– ending the 16 year plus divide that has always separated the Pokemon games on the original Gameboy and Gameboy Color, and all the other titles in the series.

Pokemon Sun and Moon launch later this year on 3DS. Check out the announcement trailer for them below.

We know that Nintendo are planning on hosting a special Pokemon Direct tomorrow, on the 20th anniversary of the release of Pokemon Red and Blue. However, what was unknown was what would be the topic of this Direct- would it be a general retrospective of the franchise? Would it go over all the various Pokemon projects announced for this year- Pokemon GO, Pokemon Pikachu Detective, and Pokken Tournament? Or would it be the announcement of the long expected Pokemon Z?

If this new leak that has come to light is to be believed, it will be none of that- it will be the announcement of a brand new game. Pokemon 7 is set to be revealed during tomorrow’s Pokemon Direct, it appears- and the new set of games will be called Pokemon Sun and Pokemon Moon.

Full trademark classifications for both the games, along with their logos, have been discovered online by Nerd Leaks- what is unknown right now is, if these are indeed what is being announced tomorrow, what system these will be for. Will they be on the Nintendo 3DS? That would potentially jeopardize the Nintendo NX system due later this year. Would they be coming to NX, instead? Maybe NX/3DS multiplatform, like The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess was back in the day?

Or can we expect this to be totally out of the left field, and be exclusive to New Nintendo 3DS systems?

Whatever it is, we’ll know in less than 24 hours.