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Meeting their original promise to release the first of two DLC expansions for Sword & Shield "before the end of June", the Pokémon Company has announced today that The Isle of Armor will be available to download from the 17th June.

A few new details about the expansion have also been announced, including the first information on Galarian Slowbro.

As well as the new story content, new wild area and new and returning Pokémon already confirmed for the first DLC, several new moves and features will also be introduced and exclusively available within this area.


The Cram-O-Matic is a device available within the Dojo on the Isle of Armor. If you feed it four items, a new item, such as PokéBalls, PP Ups and even rarer items will be coughed up in return. If you've wound up with a huge collection of unused items thanks to Max Raids, this could...

Leading up to the release of the Isle of Armor expansion for Pokémon Sword and Pokémon Shield next month four new Mystery Gifts will be released.


Read on to find out more!

It has been confirmed that the latest dub series of the Pokémon anime will be known as Pokémon Journeys: The Series. As well as releasing an official trailer, broadcast details for the show have also been confirmed. You can check out the trailer below and read more after the jump:

It has been announced this week that the 2020 Pokémon World Championships have been cancelled.

Play! Pokémon events had previously been cancelled up until May due to ongoing concerns regarding Coronavirus, so perhaps it comes as no surprise that this has unfortunately extended to all events up to and including the World Championships themselves.

The World Championships were due to be held in London this year. Play! Pokémon have confirmed that the event will be held in London in 2021 instead and any championship points earned by players so far will roll over to the 2021 season of events.

A new Nintendo Direct "mini" has been released today and it brought with it some new footage of the up-coming expansion for Pokémon Sword and Pokémon Shield. You can check out the trailer for yourself after the jump.

It's that time again! Pokécharms is 17 years old as of today, which means that next year it'll officially be old enough to vote. Considering that most of the staff have been here at least a decade, I'm not sure whether that makes us dinosaurs, or fossils. (I could cope with being a cute little Bulbasaur, but I'd rather not be a broken Dracovish, thankyouverymuch!)

It's a strange time that I find myself writing this, what with the novel coronavirus COVID-19 becoming a pandemic around the world. Here in the UK, many workplaces are switching to remote working only. My university has already shut for taught course students, and the labs will be closing for research students on Friday. So a lot of us are finding ourselves having to adapt to sudden enforced lifestyle changes, which means we're all stressed and rather short of energy. Hence we don't have any fantastic new artwork to share with you.

So I thought I'd write a review of the past year as seen here on Pokécharms.

The first... excitement of the year...

It's Pokémon Day! 24 years ago today, Pokémon Red and Green were released in Japan for the first time. To celebrate, The Pokémon Company's bombarded us with new details on a whole host of Pokémon related things. Not least of all, a brand new Mythical Pokémon coming to Pokémon Sword and Shield later this year.

Zarude


Category: Rogue Monkey Pokémon
Height: 5'11"
Weight: 154.3 lb.
Type: Dark/Grass

Zarude is a Dark- and Grass-type Pokémon that can grow vines from the back of its neck, its wrists, and the soles of its feet at will. The vines are strong and flexible and are useful for many different situations. They can be used to wrap around tree branches to move around and grab Berries from distant branches, and they even have healing properties.

This Mythical Pokémon lives in a pack deep in the dense forests of Galar. It treats anyone that isn’t part of its pack with immediate hostility....

The latest issue of Japanese magazine CoroCoro has revealed the silhouette of a brand new Mythical Pokémon. This is the same Pokémon that is due to be officially revealed on the 27th of February as part of the Pokémon Day celebrations.


No further information on the Pokémon has been revealed at this stage. What do you think it could be? Let us know your thoughts in the comments!

Credit to PokéBeach for the image.

For the first time you'll now be able to complete your full 890-strong National Pokédex - but with a small catch: you'll have to do it in the new Pokémon HOME app instead of an actual game.

Pokémon HOME launched overnight and consists of two different apps - one for your Nintendo Switch and one for your Android or Apple smartphone. Both apps allow you to search and view your entire Pokémon collection - once they've been imported into HOME's boxes - but they otherwise have pretty different functionality.

On the Nintendo Switch, you'll be able to transfer Pokémon from the Switch games, Let's Go Pikachu/Eevee and Sword/Shield into HOME, as well as organise your up to 200 Pokémon boxes. You can then also retrieve those Pokémon from HOME and return them to those games - but with a few specific catches:

• Pokémon transferred from the Let's Go games can not be transferred back to the Let's Go games once they've been sent to...

It has been announced today that the Gigantamax version of Toxtricity will become available in Raid Battles in Pokémon Sword and Pokémon Shield from the 6th of February at 4PM PST. A trailer for the event can be viewed after the jump!