POKÉMON GO AND NEW POKÉMON SNAPCOLLABORATION ANNOUNCED

 

POKÉMON GO AND NEW POKÉMON SNAPCOLLABORATION ANNOUNCED: THE ‘NEW POKÉMON SNAPCELEBRATION’

BELLEVUE, Wash., April 15, 2021 – To celebrate the launch of New Pokémon Snap for Nintendo Switch, Trainers will be able to partake in a special New Pokémon Snap and Pokémon GO crossover event starting April 29! 

The “New Pokémon Snap Celebration” will give Trainers the chance to tackle a new type of research task featuring a Pokémon GO Snapshot theme, catch different Pokémon that are found across New Pokémon Snap’s Lental region, and grab new camera-themed avatar items from the Pokémon GO Style Shop.

Trainers will also be able to encounter the Painter Pokémon, Smeargle, by completing certain research tasks and by checking some of their snapshots’ surroundings. For a limited time, lucky Trainers may even find Shiny Smeargle, so be sure to take a lot of snapshots throughout the New Pokémon SnapCelebration event!

The New Pokémon Snap Celebration event begins Thursday, April 29 at 10:00 a.m. local time and will end Sunday, May 2 at 8:00 p.m. local time.

For more information, please visit: https://www.pokemon.com/us/pokemon-news/a-picture-perfect-new-pokemon-snap-celebration-in-pokemon-go/.

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About Pokémon
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About Nintendo
The worldwide pioneer in the creation of interactive entertainment, Nintendo Co., Ltd., of Kyoto, Japan, manufactures and markets hardware and software for its Nintendo Switch™ system and the Nintendo 3DS™ family of portable systems. Since 1983, when it launched the Nintendo Entertainment System™, Nintendo has sold more than 5 billion video games and more than 779 million hardware units globally, including Nintendo Switch and the Nintendo 3DS family of systems, as well as the Game Boy™, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS™ family of systems, Super NES™, Nintendo 64™, Nintendo GameCube™, Wii™ and Wii U™ systems. It has also created industry icons that have become well-known, household names, such as Mario, Donkey Kong, Metroid, Zelda and Pokémon. A wholly owned subsidiary, Nintendo of America Inc., based in Redmond, Wash., serves as headquarters for Nintendo’s operations in the Americas. For more information about Nintendo, please visit the company’s website at https://www.nintendo.com/.
 
About Niantic, Inc.
Niantic, Inc. builds real-world experiences that foster fun, exploration, discovery and social interaction. Originally incubated within Google, Niantic was founded by John Hanke, who previously helmed the Google Geo team (including Google Maps and Google Earth) after his start-up Keyhole was acquired by Google. The company’s real-world adventure game Ingress has been downloaded more than 14 million times and is played in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide. For more information on Niantic, please visit www.nianticlabs.com.