POKÉMON UNIT ANNOUNCED FOR NINTENDO MOBILE AND SWITCH DEVICES
New multiplatform game is being developed in partnership with Tencent Games
Tokyo, JAPAN – June 24, 2020 – Today during a Pokémon Presents video presentation, Tsunekazu Ishihara, president and CEO of The Pokémon Company, revealed Pokémon UNITE, a new game for the Nintendo Switch ™ system and mobile devices. Pokémon UNITE is being developed in partnership with Tencent Games’ TiMi Studios.
Pokémon UNITE is the first strategic battle game for Pokémon teams. Players face off in five-on-five team battles. During these battles, players will cooperate with their teammates to capture wild Pokémon, level up and develop their own Pokémon. They will need to defeat their opponents’ Pokémon while trying to earn more points than the opposing team within the allotted time. Pokémon UNITE will be free to get started.
For more information about Pokémon UNITE, visit Pokemon.co.uk/Unite
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About Pokémon
The Pokémon Company International, a subsidiary of The Pokémon Company in Japan, manages the property outside Asia and is responsible for brand management, licensing, marketing, the Pokémon Trading Card Game, the animated TV series, home entertainment and the official website of the Pokémon. Pokémon was launched in Japan in 1996 and today is one of the most popular children’s entertainment properties in the world. For more information, visit www.pokemon.co.uk.
About TiMi Studios
TiMi Studios, a subsidiary of Tencent Games, is a leading global video game development team based in Shenzhen, China, with offices in Los Angeles, Shanghai and Chengdu, China. TiMi strives to create games of high quality, fidelity and highly accessible in a wide variety of genres. Founded in 2008, TiMi has developed a number of successful titles, including Honor of Kings, Speed Drifters, CrossFire: Legends, Arena of Valor and, more recently, Call of Duty: Mobile. To learn more about TiMi, follow us on Twitter @timistudios and on Facebook @timistudiosofficial.
About Tencent games
Tencent Games was launched in 2003 and has since become the leading global platform for game development, publishing and operations, as well as the operator of China’s largest online gaming community. It is dedicated to offering engaging, high quality and interactive entertainment experiences for all players. Tencent Games currently offers more than 140 self-developed and licensed games in 200 countries and regions, providing hundreds of millions of users with interactive entertainment experiences across multiple platforms. Honor of Kings, PUBG MOBILE and League of Legends are some of the most popular titles in the world. We are committed to exploiting the full potential of games, leveraging Tencent’s rich IP capabilities, spanning literature, anime, film and television, to create high quality interactive entertainment experiences. In addition, Tencent Games actively collaborates with game publishers abroad, such as SEA, Netmarble, Supercell and others, to form strategic partnerships and launch new games.
About Nintendo:
The worldwide pioneer in the creation of interactive entertainment, Nintendo Co., Ltd., of Kyoto, Japan, manufactures and markets hardware and software for its Nintendo Switch home console and Nintendo 3DS ™ family of portable systems. Since 1983, when it launched the Nintendo Entertainment System ™, Nintendo has sold more than 4.7 billion video games and more than 740 million hardware units globally, including the Nintendo Switch ™ and the Nintendo 3DS family of systems, including New Nintendo 3DS ™, New Nintendo 3DS XL ™, Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo 3DS XL ™, Nintendo 2DS ™, as well as Nintendo DS ™, Nintendo DSi ™, Nintendo DSi XL ™, Game Boy ™, Game Boy Advance ™, Super NES ™, Nintendo 64 ™, Nintendo GameCube ™ Systems, Wii ™ and Wii U ™. She also created industry icons that became known, familiar names like Mario ™, Donkey Kong ™, Metroid ™, Zelda ™ and Pokémon ™. A wholly owned subsidiary, Nintendo of Europe, based in Germany, was founded in 1990 and serves as the headquarters for Nintendo’s operations in Europe.