{"id":114594,"date":"2020-06-24T13:10:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T13:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/06\/pokemon_unite_an_online_team_battle_game_revealed_for_switch_and_mobile"},"modified":"2020-06-24T13:10:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-24T13:10:00","slug":"pokemon-unite-an-online-team-battle-game-revealed-for-switch-and-mobile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/06\/24\/pokemon-unite-an-online-team-battle-game-revealed-for-switch-and-mobile\/","title":{"rendered":"Pok\u00e9mon Unite, An Online Team Battle Game, Revealed For Switch And Mobile"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c68d5693f58db\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c68d5693f58db\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[embedded content]<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The Pok\u00e9mon Company has today revealed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/pokemon_unite\"><strong>Pok\u00e9mon Unite<\/strong><\/a>, a new team-based battle game heading to Nintendo Switch and mobile devices.<\/p>\n<p>The news comes from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/06\/watch_pokemon_presents_-_24th_june_2020_-_live\">today&#8217;s Pok\u00e9mon Presents livestream<\/a> hosted by company president, Tsunekazu Ishihara, who announced that the game is being made in conjunction with Tencent Games&#8217; TiMi Studios.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"gallery\">\n<div class=\"col\"><a title=\"Pokemon Unite\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/d73310c83a154\/pokemon-unite.original.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/static.nintendolife.com\/blank.gif\" data-original=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/d73310c83a154\/pokemon-unite.original.png\" alt=\"Pokemon Unite\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"col\"><a title=\"Pokemon Unite\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/b38bdc755217e\/pokemon-unite.original.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/static.nintendolife.com\/blank.gif\" data-original=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/b38bdc755217e\/pokemon-unite.original.png\" alt=\"Pokemon Unite\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>It&#8217;ll be a free-to-start experience that includes crossplay across Switch and mobile, with players coming together to compete in real-time battles. A release date hasn&#8217;t yet been shared, with more information on the game&#8217;s release promised to arrive in the future.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Pok\u00e9mon UNITE is the first strategic Pok\u00e9mon team battle game. Players face off against each other in five-on-five team battles. During these battles, players will cooperate with teammates to catch wild Pok\u00e9mon, level up and evolve their own Pok\u00e9mon. They will need to defeat their opponents\u2019 Pok\u00e9mon while trying to earn more points than the opposing team within the allotted time. Pok\u00e9mon UNITE will be free-to-start.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Pokemon Unite\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a3e32bc31086c\/pokemon-unite.original.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg' viewBox='0 0 900 506'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" data-original=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a3e32bc31086c\/pokemon-unite.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Pokemon Unite\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>We imagine this wasn&#8217;t what you were expecting for today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/06\/pokemon_to_reveal_a_big_project_next_week_in_second_presentation\">big<\/a> reveal! Let us know your initial thoughts with a comment below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[embedded content] The Pok\u00e9mon Company has today revealed Pok\u00e9mon Unite, a new team-based battle game heading to Nintendo Switch and mobile devices. The news comes from today&#8217;s Pok\u00e9mon Presents livestream hosted by company president, Tsunekazu Ishihara, who announced that the game is being made in conjunction with Tencent Games&#8217; TiMi Studios. It&#8217;ll be a free-to-start [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}