{"id":83784,"date":"2019-02-20T15:15:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T15:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/02\/rumour_pokemon_news_coming_soon_according_to_leaker"},"modified":"2019-02-20T15:15:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T15:15:00","slug":"rumour-pokemon-news-coming-soon-according-to-leaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/02\/20\/rumour-pokemon-news-coming-soon-according-to-leaker\/","title":{"rendered":"Rumour: Pok\u00e9mon News Coming Soon According To Leaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/1a6eb7c94cbd6\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/1a6eb7c94cbd6\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"POKEMON\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/1a6eb7c94cbd6\/pokemon.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/1a6eb7c94cbd6\/pokemon.900x.jpg\" alt=\"POKEMON\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>It&#8217;s not even a week since the February Nintendo Direct dropped and finally kickstarted 2019 for Nintendo fans. Of course, the world of video games is fast-moving, and we all knew it wouldn&#8217;t be long before the rumour mill began creaking and moving again.<\/p>\n<p>Our friends over at <a href=\"https:\/\/nintendosoup.com\/leaker-who-predicted-all-feb-13-direct-titles-correctly-says-pokemon-switch-news-is-coming-soon\/\">NintendoSoup<\/a> have noticed that <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/muguwus\/status\/1098097825768980480\">@muguwus<\/a>, a Twitter user who predicted a whole bunch of last week&#8217;s Direct has posted this enigmatic missive:<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"et\" dir=\"ltr\">Pokemon soon.<\/span>\u2014 Mug (@muguwus) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/muguwus\/status\/1098097825768980480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 20, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Not the loquacious sort, it seems. While truckloads of salt are required with most things found on the internet, Pok\u00e9mon Day &#8211; the anniversary of the series&#8217; launch in Japan back in 1996 &#8211; is coming up on 27th February. This mysterious tipster also accurately called a long list of games from the Direct, almost as if they&#8217;d seen the video before the broadcast:<\/p>\n<aside class=\"gallery\">\n<div class=\"col\"><a title=\"Tweets\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/8525aaa25ca8e\/tweets.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/8525aaa25ca8e\/tweets.original.png\" alt=\"Tweets\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"col\"><a title=\"Tweets2\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/41af2aa40f999\/tweets2.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/41af2aa40f999\/tweets2.original.png\" alt=\"Tweets2\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Whether this rumour turns out to have substance or not, the absence of news in the last Direct coupled with the upcoming anniversary means it doesn&#8217;t take a Sherlock to foresee a <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/pokemon\">Pok\u00e9mon Switch<\/a><\/strong> announcement on the horizon.<\/p>\n<p><em>Are you getting impatient for more details on Pok\u00e9mon Switch? Would you be disappointed if the only news is a Pikachu with a different hat in Pok\u00e9mon Go? Drop us a line below&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not even a week since the February Nintendo Direct dropped and finally kickstarted 2019 for Nintendo fans. Of course, the world of video games is fast-moving, and we all knew it wouldn&#8217;t be long before the rumour mill began creaking and moving again. Our friends over at NintendoSoup have noticed that @muguwus, a Twitter [&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-83784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83784","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=83784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}