'Sun' and 'Moon' announced just before Pokémon's 20th birthday
Pokémon fans will be able to embark on a new adventure this holiday in the just-announced Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon.
The Pokémon Company announced both games on the eve of the franchise's 20th anniversary, in a trailer full of nostalgic references.
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The company didn't say much about the new games beyond the fact that Pokémon caught in X, Y, OmegaRuby and AlphaSapphire will be transferrable via cloud service The Pokémon Bank to the new game. In addition, creatures caught in the remastered versions of Pokémon Red, Blue and Yellow can be transferred and battled in Sun and Moon.
The games will come out during the 2016 holiday season for the Nintendo 3DS and 2DS handhelds and will support nine languages at launch: English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish and -- for the first time -- both Traditional and Simplified Chinese.
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Chelsea Stark was the Games Editor for Mashable, where she covered everything from AAA titles, mainstream consoles, indie gems, mobile games and gaming culture. She handled news, feature stories and reviews. Before that, Chelsea was Mashable's Multimedia Producer, where she helped develop visual storytelling aids, whether they were photos of video. She came to New York in 2010 to pursue her master's degree in journalism at NYU's Studio 20 program, which focused on innovation as journalism is changed by new technology. Before coming to New York, Chelsea lived in Austin, where she did online journalism and social media for the local CBS affiliate. She loves good beer, classic Nintendo games, and all things geeky, and spends her time attempting to find anything close to good Tex-Mex in Brooklyn.
