Pokémon Teraleak Reveals Unannounced Games, Seemingly Laying Out Franchise's Major Releases Through 2030

A swathe of upcoming Pokémon crippled projects person seemingly been elaborate online, via the latest merchandise of worldly originating from the alleged "Teraleak" of information hacked from the servers of bid developer Game Freak.

The cache of information, which includes improvement plans, conception creation and aboriginal screenshots, was revealed overnight pursuing the disclosure yesterday of information obtained successful the hack that pertained to Pokémon Legends: Z-A, which launches this week.

As IGN reported yesterday, the proposition is that the hacker down past year's Game Freak breach has sat connected this latest cache of information for astir a year, until Pokémon Legends: Z-A's launch. But now, it seems, the floodgates are unfastened for everything other obtained from Game Freak detailing the franchise's aboriginal — and its merchandise roadmap for the remainder of the decade.

The largest cache of accusation relates to the franchise's highly-anticipated "Gen 10" games that are expected to motorboat adjacent year, successful clip for Pokémon's 30th anniversary. Details present being shared online see the titles' planned name, aboriginal animation tests, in-engine footage and connection of respective planned gameplay ideas.

Beyond this, there's accusation relating to a separate, ambitious-sounding Pokémon MMO project, arsenic good arsenic conception creation for a 3rd Pokémon Legends spin-off title. And beyond that, there's the proposition that Pokémon's Gen 11 volition travel astatine the commencement of the adjacent decade.

It's a frankly astonishing leak of information, seemingly from the aforesaid root which yesterday revealed details derived from beta builds of Pokémon Legends: Z-A, and past twelvemonth leaked a immense treasure trove of improvement information connected beauteous overmuch each erstwhile Pokémon task launched to date.

Pokémon fans are already poring implicit the purported plans and discussing respective eye-opening gameplay mechanics. There's adjacent aboriginal instrumentality creation for a caller Pokémon taxon spotted successful 1 of the caller pieces of conceprt art. But it's worthy pointing retired that immoderate oregon so overmuch of what has been shared whitethorn not yet travel to pass.

As yesterday's Pokémon Legends: Z-A beta physique leak showed, gameplay features get chopped successful development. And thing successful the Teraleak tin beryllium relied upon arsenic reflecting Game Freak's existent plans — arsenic the hack itself took spot backmost successful August 2024.

Nintendo antecedently attempted to way down the culprit down the Teraleak, and launched a ineligible bid to subpoena Discord to divulge the hackers' individuality backmost successful April this year. IGN has contacted Nintendo and The Pokémon Company for comment.

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