Pokémon Presents: Everything Announced Last Night During July 2025 Stream

The Pokémon Company held its annual Pokémon Presents stream last night, giving us more in-depth looks at upcoming games.

The Pokémon Presents stream aired last night, showing off a slew of new titles, animated shows and a new Pokémon Park for Japan. Overall reception to the event has been fairly lukewarm, however, as there weren’t really any groundbreaking announcements. However, if you’ve picked up a Nintendo Switch 2 and are keen for some Pokémon news, this will be your fix.

Here are all the biggest announcements from the stream.

An in-depth look at Pokémon Legends: Z-A

Last night’s stream gave us a more in-depth look at the upcoming Pokémon Legends: Z-A title releasing in October.

The trailer gave us some deeper insight into the game’s new story, mechanics and some brand new Mega-Evolutions.

Taking place in X and Y’s Lumiose City, you play as a new trainer recruited into Team MZ, a task force created to protect the city. During the day, you’ll explore the city, catch Pokémon and interact with the cityfolk. By night, you’ll get to compete the the Z-A royale and battle against other trainers. That’s right, it’s Pokémon: Nightreign, baby.

Mega Evolutions are also returning. The new trailer revealed that wild Pokémon have been mega evolving on their own, so it’s up to you to find out why and help neutralise the threat.

I think this all looks pretty neat! I’ve been feeling burned out on the series for a bit and felt like the series needed a bit of a revamp. All the changes announced so far suggest that the game will alter the gameplay loop sufficiently to make things feel relatively fresh. Plus, who isn’t a sucker for those Mega Evolution designs?

The game is set to release on October 16th on both Nintendo Switch consoles. There’ll also be a Nintendo Switch 2 bundle you can pick up if you haven’t grabbed a new Switch 2 just yet.

Pokémon Champions Announced

Nintendo has taken its time releasing a sequel to the Nintendo Wii’s Pokémon Battle Revolution – and now, we have it.

Pokémon Champions will be a battle-focused game for the Switch and mobile. You can either bring your Pokémon over via Pokémon Home or use the Pokémon within the game.

Fans have been praying for a mainline game that solely focuses on battles. So much so, fans came together to create Pokémon Showdown in 2011, a website that lets you battle trainers across the world.

One of the biggest deterrents against online battles is the massive time sink needed to get your team battle-ready. Thankfully, Champions is saying it has streamlined the process, allowing trainers to set stats, moves, natures, and abilities. So, hopefully, that means we won’t need to spend hours EV training anymore.

Pokémon Champions is set to release in 2026.

Pokémon Friends Puzzle Game Released

Pokémon Friends is a brand new puzzle game, featuring over 1,200 puzzles with more being released every day. These ones don’t particularly look too hard, but who here among us isn’t prone to some light dopamine releases solving some easy puzzles?

Pokémon Friends is available right now on iOS, Android and the Nintendo eShop.

Pokémon Tales: The Misadventures of Sirfetch’d & Pichu

We got two major animation updates: the first was that Pokémon Concierge‘s second season is releasing on September 4 this year. The second is that an entirely new Pokémon show is on the horizon.

Pokémon Tales: The Misadventures of Sirfetch’d & Pichu is a brand new animated series from Aardman Studios, the creators behind Wallace & Gromit, Chicken Run and more. The series is set to release sometime in 2027, so we’re a ways away from it being released.

However, we did get a tease on what the series will look like. Either way, great to see Nintendo investing in the artform. As a nerdy stop-motion freak, I’m keen to see what Aardman do with this one.

PokéPark: Kanto Announcement

Add this to your ever-growing Japan trip itinerary. Pokémon has just announced that they’ll be opening PokéPark Kanto in 2026.

The park will be located in Tokyo’s Tama Hills and will be the first-ever permanent Pokémon attraction. The company have promised that over 600 Pokémon will be found throughout the park’s forest and town locations.

The website states that visitors will get to observe a variety of Pokémon run, battle and share berries. All I have to say is if this Pokémon park is half as good as Awaji Island’s Dragon Quest exhibition, it’s going to be a sure-fire hit.

That’s just about everything the Pokémon team announced at the showcase. A bit of a lacklustre one if you ask me, as we already knew about a majority of these projects. With the Pokémon Worlds event happening in just under a month, it makes me wonder if they’re holding out on any surprises to share there.