Pokemon Sword and Shield: Nintendo announces new games and a host of new monsters
Meet Grookey and Sobble – in better detail than you've ever seen any Pokemon before
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Your support makes all the difference.Nintendo has announced two new Pokemon games – Sword and Shield – as well as a variety of monsters that will arrive with the new game.
The announcement kicks off generation eight of Pokemon, and the first fully new games in the series for years.
Pokemon Sword and Pokemon Shield will arrive this autumn for the Switch.
Together, the games offer the most detailed and highest quality Pokemon experience ever available on any console. Though there are Pokemon available for the Switch – with last year's Pokemon: Let's Go – the new game will be the first specifically made for Nintendo's latest console.
As well as showing off the new game, Nintendo revealed new details about the world that will surround it.
Sword and Shield will take place in a vast new region known as Galar – a more modern world, which features infrastucture and industry including trains and factories – and will feature new creatures including those known as Grookey, Scorbunny, and Sobble.
All of those features in the trailer, which was shown in the Pokemon Direct event that could be watched live across the world.
Generation seven, which comes to an end with these games, began with Pokemon Sun and Moon. Those were released for the 3DS in 2016, and fans have been waiting for years for the latest update.
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