As Limp Bizkit once said, something something my generation. Honestly, this was the best segue I had for this post but whatever. While this year’s Pokémon iteration blends the ideas of Pokémon Go with the classic Yellow edition of the game to form Pokémon Let’s Go Pikachu and Let’s Go Eevee, it’s next year’s iteration that I’m interested in. Pokémon …

After twenty years, you have to understand that Pokémon is the Star Wars of the gaming industry: Everywhere, more regular than a middle-age colon and stacked to the top with merchandise. Fans count on that schedule of seeing a new Pokémon game every three years, that pushes the ideas of the franchise in new directions and unleashes dozens of new pocket monsters in the process.

It’s official! More than a year after it released, the Nintendo Switch finally has an original Pokémon game on the way. Called Pokémon Let’s Go Pikachu/Let’s Go Eevee, Nintendo is rolling out a two-pronged nostalgia assault with a few new ideas rolled into one package, and the results look charming to say the least.

Zygarde will be up for grabs, available to all players of the Sun, Moon, Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon versions of the latest Pokémon games. This specific version will feature a colour scheme of white and teal, which kind of also looks far better than the regular Zygarde’s camouflage which makes it look like it’s trying to blend into a Monster Energy Drink warehouse.

Choose your Pokémon, level it up and stick to four moves. Simple. Except, it really isn’t. Beneath that familiar surface is a very different game. A game that has been tweaked and transformed over the years to shake up its formula and then some. Here’s ten such changes made over the last two decades, that have been strokes of genius for the franchise.

In an attempt to further tie together the core series on Nintendo hardware and the smartphone app, Pokemon GO will be adding 18 pocket monster variants found on the sunny shores of Sun and Moon's Alola region.

Say hello to the next duo of Pokémon games on the Nintendo Switch: Pokémon Let’s Go Pikachu and Pokémon Let’s Go Eevee.

Conventional wisdom states that we’re going to see the recent Sun and Moon editions wrapped up with a pretty bow on top, that’ll go by the name of Pokémon Twilight. Other rumours say that the original generation of the Red and Blue games will be resurrected once again, to mark the start of a new Pokémon journey on the Switch. Or maybe developer GameFreak has something bigger in mind.