{"id":9395,"date":"2016-02-24T08:05:05","date_gmt":"2016-02-24T13:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/?p=9395"},"modified":"2016-02-25T11:59:57","modified_gmt":"2016-02-25T16:59:57","slug":"nintendo-schedules-pokemon-direct-on-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/2016\/02\/nintendo-schedules-pokemon-direct-on-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Schedules Pok\u00e9mon Direct on Friday; New Games on the way?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nintendo has scheduled a Nintendo Direct for this Friday. The direct is called &#8220;Pok\u00e9mon Direct&#8221; and is set for one day before Pok\u00e9mon Day, which sees the Virtual Console releases of Pok\u00e9mon Red, Blue, and Yellow.<\/p>\n<p>Expect to see information about those VC titles, Pok\u00e9mon GO, and Pokk\u00e9n Tournament. The Pok\u00e9mon Direct presentation is scheduled to start at 10:00am ET.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Update: Today some information leaked, with possibly the title and logos of two Pok\u00e9mon titles. Pok\u00e9mon Sun and Pok\u00e9mon Moon. They have reportedly been trademarked, and the below leaked online.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_20160225_115034.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9413\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_20160225_115034.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20160225_115034\" width=\"585\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9413\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_20160225_115037.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9415\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_20160225_115037.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20160225_115037\" width=\"592\" height=\"284\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9415\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_20160225_115049.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9416\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_20160225_115049-600x485.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20160225_115049\" width=\"600\" height=\"485\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-9416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_20160225_115049-600x485.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_20160225_115049-768x620.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_20160225_115049.jpg 822w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While, if accurate, this is exciting news, this is also why I have a love-hate relationship with the internet. It can spoil potentially exciting surprises. We&#8217;ll see what is announced on Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>You can watch the presentation when it starts below or at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendo.com\/nintendo-direct\/02-26-2016\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nintendo of America website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-gjNhcqeUt4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nintendo has scheduled a Nintendo Direct for this Friday. The direct is called &#8220;Pok\u00e9mon Direct&#8221; and is set for one day before Pok\u00e9mon Day, which sees the Virtual Console releases of Pok\u00e9mon Red, Blue, and Yellow. Expect to see information about those VC titles, Pok\u00e9mon GO, and Pokk\u00e9n Tournament. The Pok\u00e9mon Direct presentation is scheduled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9399,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[21,1530,75],"tags":[1386,125,1575,1574,1027,199],"class_list":["post-9395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nintendo-3ds","category-nintendo-switch","category-nintendo-wii-u","tag-nintendo","tag-pokemon","tag-pokemon-moon","tag-pokemon-sun","tag-pokken-tournament","tag-virtual-console"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/pokemon_direct_20160226.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6HXYU-2rx","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12716,"url":"https:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/2018\/01\/blastoise-and-aegislash-dlc-coming-yo-pokken-tournament\/","url_meta":{"origin":9395,"position":0},"title":"Blastoise and Aegislash DLC coming to Pokken Tournament","date":"January 11, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Nintendo revealed in a Nintendo Direct mini that two new Pok\u00e9mon are being added to Pokken Tournament over the next few months as paid DLC.\u00a0Aegislash will be added January 31at with Blastoise available in March. 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