Forza Horizon 6 is set to release for Xbox Series X|S and PC on May 19 — unless you buy the most expensive edition, which comes out May 15. This latest installment of the reliably excellent Microsoft racing series whisks drivers to Japan to get their speed on. It’s available now to preorder in a number of editions (see it at Amazon). Below, you can find out what comes in each one, how much they cost, and more. Let’s put the pedal to the metal and take a look.
If all you want is the base game for now, the standard edition is the one to preorder. It comes with the game itself, plus the preorder bonus (see below)
The deluxe edition includes the game, the preorder bonus detailed below, plus the following:
Car Pass – 30 new cars, with one new vehicle made available each week starting May 19.
Welcome Pack – 5 special pre-tuned cars and a Car Voucher, which can be used to claim any car available from the Autoshow. You’ll also receive 3 tickets to redeem any Common or Rare clothing items.
If you want everything possible included with the game, plus early access, you’ll want to preorder the premium edition. It comes with the game, as well as the following:
4 day early access (May 15)
Car Pass
Expansion 1
Expansion 2
VIP Membership
Time Attack Car Pack
Italian Passion Car Pack
Welcome Pack
On Game Pass Ultimate
The standard edition of Forza Horizon 6 will also be available to play on May 19 for Game Pass Ultimate members at no additional cost.
If you have Game Pass, but you want to get all the extras included in the Premium edition, you can purchase the premium upgrade bundle.
Preorder Bonus
Preoder any version of Forza Horizon 6, and you’ll receive a “pretuned and exclusive” Ferrari J50 in the game.
What Is Forza Horizon 6?
Forza Horizon 6 is the newest installment of Microsoft’s open-world racing game. You play as a tourist who joins the races as a novice and works the way up the racing ladder. It’s set in Japan, with a variety of biomes scattered around, from the skyscraper-dense, neon landscape of Tokyo to winding mountain roads and snowy vistas. It features over 550 real-world cars, which is the most in any Forza Horizon to date. That includes special Forza Edition cars fitted with extreme modifications, as well as rare Aftermarket Cars you can collect.
What About the PS5 Version?
Games that used to be Xbox exclusives are no longer Xbox exclusives in this brave new world we find ourselves in, which means Forza Horizon 6 is coming to PS5. Unfortunately, Microsoft hasn’t announced a release date for it. But with Forza Horizon 5’s excellent sales numbers on PS5, you can bet it will arrive on Sony’s console eventually.
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The highly anticipated next expansion for Pokémon TCG’s Mega Evolution series, Ascended Heroes, is (as per usual) increasingly hard to get hold of right now. Preorders are unavailable at most major retailers, and if you missed The Pokémon Center’s latest drop, then you’re hard out of luck. Well, not entirely.
Trusted resale marketplace TCGplayer has just launched its selection of Ascended Heroes sealed products (see here), giving plenty of fans another opportunity to secure the new cards, albeit at a significantly higher price than MSRP.
I’ll leave a link to everything that’s now available in TCGplayer’s presale, ready for the January 30, 2026, release. But, if that’s not of interest to you, then we can swiftly move on to discussing the latest market price data on display for Ascended Heroes’ sealed products.
Just to note, while Ascended Heroes will certainly be available from January 30, several products will be part of a staggered release instead. To get you up to speed, here’s when to expect everything:
January 30, 2026
Booster Collection (2 Pack)—Erika/Larry
Tech Sticker Collection
February 20, 2026
Elite Trainer Box
Pokémon Center Elite Trainer Box
Mini Tins
First Partners Deluxe Pin Collection
Premium Poster Collection—Mega Lucario or Mega Gardevoir
April 24, 2026
Booster Bundle
Mega Meganium ex Box, Mega Emboar ex Box, or Mega Feraligatr ex Box
With that out of the way, let’s dig into the latest market price data on everything available right now at TCGplayer, whether it’s actually worth the increased cost versus MSRP, and how it compares to the other sets from Mega Evolution so far.
Let’s kick things off with the Elite Trainer Box, set to release on February 20, 2026. MSRP is $49.99, but the current market price at TCGplayer is listed at $118.01. That’s around a 135% markup, but not as significantly higher compared to Phantasmal Flames last year.
While that averaged around $150-$200 in the build up to its launch, Ascended Heroes is sitting closer to $120, at least for now. That’s… somewhat positive! At least in my eyes. Having to spend less to get Pokémon cards is a win, whether or not the prices are getting a little ridiculous in recent memory.
Finishing up, if you’re after the exclusive Pokémon Center Elite Trainer Box for Ascended Heroes, you’re instead looking at around $357 market price right now. That’s pretty steep, but hardly unsurprising with how sought after these exclusive ETBs are, even years after release.
On the other hand, Ascended Heroes’ Booster Bundles are looking a little steep right now, and sit at $79.10 market price at TCGplayer. That’s a fair lot more than its $26.94 list price, roughly a 194% markup, and almost triple the cost for what accounts for just six boosters.
Still, that’s the price of cards on the resale market these days! I’m sure most of us are already quite used to it, even if it’s still a mega pricey. By comparison, just to be clear, single boosters will still run you around $14.50 at market, which works out at $87, so it’s still a better offering to pick up the bundle if you’re dead set on it. It’s out on Feburary 20, just like the ETBs.
So what else is up for grabs, and how are the prices looking right now? For starters, there’s the Premium Poster Collection (with a choice of Mega Lucario or Mega Gardevoir), that’s running for $86 for each.
There’s also the First Partners Deluxe Pin Collection, currently at $75.90, alongside the various Ascended Heroes Mini Tins, that are sitting at around $35 market price as well.
You’ve also got the Tech Sticker Collection, Charmander or Ghastly, for around $37, and then the Ascended Heroes Booster Collection featuring either Larry Erika, for about $44.
Robert Anderson is Senior Commerce Editor and IGN’s resident deals expert on games, collectibles, trading card games, and more. You can follow him @robertliam21 on Twitter/X or Bluesky.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons got a big 3.0 update earlier this month, which alongside a lot of new content for everyone included a Nintendo Switch 2 upgrade with some fancy technological buffs. One of those was the ability to play with up to 12 total people on the same island, up from eight in the original version.
Sounds fun, right? Wrong. It’s a nightmare. A nightmare once again spawned by Nintendo handling online functionality in the most ridiculous way possible.
I was so foolish and naive a week ago, when I first had the idea to get 12 of us together for an Animal Crossing session. It would be easy, I thought! So easy, I originally didn’t even plan on writing anything about it! Let me just call up…11 other people I know who are still playing Animal Crossing: New Horizons.
Who also have Nintendo Switch 2s.
And somehow we’ll manage to find an hour we can all do this, despite everyone being busy adults.
Okay, harder than I thought, but we did it! Last night, a group of 12 of us all logged on at once with a plan to meet up on my island. We considered using the Game Chat functionality, but decided against it due to lack of compatibility with Bluetooth headsets, the function’s friending requirements, and the fact that you can’t take screenshots while Game Chat is active. Discord it was, then, apparently still the second-best place for Nintendo Voice Chat (after the podcast, of course).
The plan was for an hour-long session from 9pm to 10pm last night, but I recalled that the cutscene for people landing on the island was a bit lengthy, and we’d have to watch it 11 times, so I logged on half an hour early to open my island so we could start filtering in. I was hopeful that with improved Nintendo Switch 2 loading times, it might not be so bad. And it’s true, the actual loading times were notably faster, though most of the wait for people to land is a combination of said cutscene (“We’ll be making a water landing, but that’s OK because this is a seaplane.”) and everyone saving the game each time, so we didn’t really shorten the wait by that much.
But all that was to be expected. Here was where the nightmare began.
At 8:35pm, my friends began trickling in. We managed to get three people in before the entire session crashed, booting out everyone who had showed up so far and shutting my islands gates for me. I reopened at 8:46pm and we started again, this time creating a “queue” in our Discord text chat so everyone didn’t try to flood in at once. At 8:58pm, one of my friends got an error that kicked her out alongside one other person, but everyone else stayed, so we brought them back and continued down the line.
At 9:19pm, I typed in Discord, “WE DID IT” as person #12 seemingly landed successfully.
At 9:21pm, as person #12 strolled in, another error occurred and two other people got kicked out. At this point, my husband (who was playing Ace Attorney next to me) started rolling his eyes.
At 9:24pm, one of the people who had been kicked out tried to rejoin, errored out, and the whole session crashed again. Every single person got booted back to their islands and my gates were closed again, just as we were finally about to taste success.
Please enjoy this timelapse video, courtesy of our intrepid Wiki writer KBABZ, of 40 minutes of us trying desperately to get everyone onto the island, only for the unthinkable to happen right at the very end:
I was undaunted. By golly, we got all these people together, we were going to hit each other with nets and drop recipe cards for each other! We started again from the top. This time I forbade everyone from doing anything once they landed aside from standing still in a line next to the airport. No menuing. No talking to villagers. Nothing. Folks started coming back in at 9:27pm. At 9:37pm, the fourth person to join crashed the island again. At 9:39pm, almost 40 minutes after our planned start time, we began yet again. Everyone posted cat pics in the Discord channel for emotional support.
This time worked. Finally, at 10:05pm, after multiple crashes and false starts, we had 12 people on my Animal Crossing island.
I’m happy to report that after the 90 minute ordeal that was getting 12 people onto one island, online play actually worked great. We all exchanged gifts, took a pic in the Town Square, explored the island, and got coffee at Brewster’s. People wrote on my bulletin board and sent me letters. Some borrowed my Wario costume from the hotel. A couple people decided to play pranks, burying junk and trapping my villagers with holes. It was genuinely a pretty great time. It just, you know, took way too dang long to set up.
It’s baffling to me that Nintendo’s infrastructure for Animal Crossing is still set up this way. Yes, the island landing cutscene is very cute, and I do think the sea plane line is pretty funny. But why on earth do we need to sit through it 11 times, with everyone who’s not traveling collectively watching a mostly-blank airport-themed loading screen? Why does everything on my island need to completely freeze and exit menus so someone can come in? Why does Group Stretching require me to be Best Friends with everyone on my island? How much worse would all this have been if we had used Game Chat? Mario Kart World doesn’t have this problem!
The best explanation I can think of is that Nintendo genuinely didn’t intend for anyone to use this feature in the first place. Animal Crossing: New Horizons’ 3.0 update is fun, sure, but it’s not creating the same massive surge in interest that existed in 2020 when we were all locked at home and had nothing better to do than ponder whatever it is that Dodos do. You’re unlikely to ever need to collect 11 friends and drag them to your island all at once. Heck, given how hard this was to schedule, I’ll be lucky to get four one of these weekends.
Anyway, Animal Crossing: New Horizons is still very fun to play with friends, but it’s still a massive pain in the butt to actually set up the circumstances for that play to be possible. Next time I’ll just get everyone together for Jackbox.
Amazon has produced yet another brilliant Pokémon TCG deal ready for the weekend, and it’s once again on the latest Mega Evolution set, Phantasmal Flames.
While we’re looking forward to Ascended Heroes at the end of the month, it’s a mighty bit of fresh air to finally get some reasonable prices on boosters for the popular Mega Charizard sporting set from last year.
While stock lasts, at least, as this is such an excellent deal, and below market price, I fully expect these to fly off the digital shelves. Other Phantasmal Flames deals include that UPC for $145 at Amazon or TCGplayer, or you can pick up the Elite Trainer Box for just $79.94 at Amazon as well.
All around, these are pretty excellent deals, and hopefully a sign of things to come when Ascended Heroes and Perfect Order.
Best Phantasmal Flames Cards Chase Cards
According to marketplaces like TCGPlayer, certain Phantasmal Flames cards have already skyrocketed further in price, and, following up from our Mega Evolution round-up, we’ve ranked the ten most expensive cards so far just above. From aggressive Mega attackers to powerful evolution support, Phantasmal Flames brings a fiery mix of competitive threats and high-demand pulls.
Robert Anderson is Senior Commerce Editor and IGN’s resident deals expert on games, collectibles, trading card games, and more. You can follow him @robertliam21 on Twitter/X or Bluesky.
Pokémon Go looks set to add another battle currency to the ever-popular mobile game, this time focused around raids for Mega Pokémon.
As Pokémon Go prepares to roll-out the first of Pokémon Legends Z-A’s new wave of Mega Evolutions next month as part of its upcoming Go Tour Kalos event, the game also appears to have a major rework of its Mega Raid system in the offing.
Datamined information published by The Pokémod Group have spilled details of Link Charges, a new in-game resource that the game’s files refer to as “enhanced currency.” An in-game description states that Link Charges “can be used to enter Mega Raid in place of Raid passes” and will now be “required to enter Mega Raids remotely.”
The addition of a new type PVE battle resource for Mega raids comes as something of a surprise, as Mega battles have existed in the game for years, accessible simply via regular raid passes.
While details remain unconfirmed and subject to change, Link Charges sound like something of a cross between existing raid passes and the Max Energy system introduced more recently specifically for use in Dynamax/Gigantamax battles. The introduction of Link Charges would certainly also delineate Mega raids from regular raid battles — similar to how the use of Max Energy sets Max battles apart.
Unreleased in-game text states that players will be able to “earn Link Charges from activities such as Weekly Challenges, Campfire Check-Ins, and opening Gifts,” all of which are free. That said, images showing the Link Charges themselves (which look like futuristic USB sticks) in various bundles suggest the resource will, of course, also be sold via the game’s in-game shop.
A new item called “enhanced currency” has been added, along with some variations featuring “RRP” (remote raid pass? idk). It looks like something that could be sold in the shop, but we’re not sure what it does yet.
As ever, Pokémon Go’s highly-engaged community have been reacting to the datamined details with their usual mix of excitement and healthy scepticism.
“Are we cooked?” wrote Kind_Cheesecake_8297 on top Pokémon Go reddit The Silph Road. “Asked the frog in the pot,” replied EquivalentReality988. “This is just another temperature increase, we’ve been boiling for years.”
But while the introduction of another PVE battle resource has naturally prompted questions over how plentiful it will be (and how much it will cost via the in-game shop), many others have agreed that the game’s Mega raids do need some form of shakeup.
Following their most recent rework years ago, Mega raids typically provide enough in-game resource to Mega Evolve a specific Pokémon within a few battles. After that, Mega Pokémon can be set as a Buddy Pokémon to generate Mega Energy for free. Beyond hunting for a Shiny or better stat version of a particular creature, there’s little need to then continue raiding — and as an active player, I have to say I don’t consider Mega creatures when deciding what to spend my daily raid pass on.
While this is fine for players who have all Mega Pokémon unlocked already, this leaves newer players without others to battle Mega raids alongside (and most Megas require multiple people to take down). Providing an additional resource to battle Mega raids means players can choose to take on the battles in addition to regular raids — just as the Max Particle system works for Dynamax and Gigantamax battles now.
“I don’t actually hate this (depending on how easy they are to get for free),” said TheWiseMountain. “I feel like Mega raids can get dead very easily because you can just walk Pokémon for more energy. If they’re free and give normal raid rewards though? Seems like a win for newer players who might need help with those raids.”
“Yeah as a F2P [free-to-play player] who can hardly remote anyways this sounds great,” Mushimishi agreed. “I haven’t done a Mega raid outside of new debuts and raid days in almost 2 years, since getting enough energy for everything.”
Pokémon Go has so far introduced all Mega Pokémon species released prior to last year’s Pokémon Legends Z-A other than the highly-anticipated Mega Mewtwo X and Y. The game has officially confirmed the introduction of both Mega Malamar and Mega Victreebell from Legends Z-A next month. As for Mega Mewtwo, while there’s no word on its arrival just yet, the same datamine includes an all-new Tier 7 difficulty Mega raid egg — suggesting that players may finally see it arrive in the future, once this Mega raid rework has been introduced.
Tom Phillips is IGN’s News Editor. You can reach Tom at tom_phillips@ign.com or find him on Bluesky @tomphillipseg.bsky.social
Nintendo has just confirmed a release date for Super Mario Bros. Wonder’s expanded Switch 2 Edition, which will include a suite of new minigames and the ability to play as Rosalina, ahead of her big screen debut in The Super Mario Galaxy Movie.
Super Mario Bros. Wonder – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition + Meetup In Bellabel Park, to give its full name, will arrive on March 26. As that extremely lengthy title suggests, the upgraded version of Nintendo’s 2023 platformer includes the additional Bellabel Park area to explore, which comes stuffed with extra activities.
The Switch 2 Edition will be available to purchase separately, or existing Switch owners of the game can alternatively purchase an upgrade pack.
#SuperMarioBrosWonder – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition + Meetup in Bellabel Park arrives March 26!
Look forward to new boss courses with all 7 Koopalings, two new playable characters, Rosalina, and Co-Star Luma, and more!
Bellabel Park’s Local Multiplayer Plaza features 17 new co-op or versus minigames, with support for up to four local players (and yes, your pals can join even if they don’t have the game, via GameShare). Game Room Plaza, meanwhile, features six minigames for either local or online play — with the latter option supporting up to 12 players.
A third area, Camp Central, features the adorable Captain Toad and his Toad Brigade, who set challenges based on existing courses. Complete them all and you’ll become an elite Toad Brigade explorer yourself. Lastly, the Koopalings are also back — having stolen treasure from Bellabel Park, you’ll need to search through the game’s levels and defeat them.
Helpful additions to the game include Co-Star Luma, who offers a way for a second player to join in as an assist character, while Assist Mode lets you explore the game without fear of damage or falling down a pit. Handy!
Three new amiibo figurines will launch alongside the game on March 26: Elephant Mario, Poplin & Prince Florian, and Captain Toad & Talking Flower. Yes, Captain Toad has a dedicated amiibo figurine at last — and quite right too.
Speaking of Super Mario Bros. Wonder’s chatty/annoying Talking Flower, Nintendo is continuing its plans to launch a real-life Talking Flower desk accessory. Available on March 12, this thing will spout out random phrases “roughly twice every hour” or when prompted with a button press. Holding down its button will mute it “for a while.” I have no idea why this exists.
Pricing details for all of this are still to follow, as Nintendo’s pre-order links don’t yet seem to have gone live. We’ll keep an eye and update when we know more.
Brighten your day with Talking Flower, straight out of Super Mario Bros. Wonder!
This little character will spontaneously speak throughout the day sharing quips, words of encouragement, and more.
Riftbound, the new trading card game (TCG) from Riot Games, released on October 31, 2025, in the West, and has since seen incredible growth, both in terms of overall interest and card listings at online storefronts.
According to new data provided by TCGplayer.com, daily searches for the game have increased by over 300% since launch, compared to the preorder period (about 2 weeks prior to launch). Globally, the term “Riftbound” was searched over 6,300 times per hour, and that’s just by TCGplayer users.
TCGplayer CEO Rob Bigler also provided comment to IGN on the new TCG’s immense success so far: “Riftbound’s early success is a huge positive for the hobby and reinforces that fans are excited to engage with the worlds and characters they love in new ways. Trading card games are a compelling and social way to extend fan affinity when developed authentically and thoughtfully – and we see this via the demand on our marketplace.”
With a property as popular as League of Legends, supplementary media such as Netflix’s Arcane and the upcoming fighting game 2XKO have garnered significant mass appeal, with many fans staying true to their favorite characters from all mediums.
Per TCGplayer, the most popular Riftbound card searches between October 17 and December 7 included some of the most iconic League characters. Jinx, the star of Arcane, had over 65,000 searches, while other fan-favorite character Ahri had more than 54,900. Other popular searches included other League of Legends characters like Sett, Teemo, and Darious, each with over 43,000 searches on the site.
TCGplayer is the biggest online storefront for all things TCGs in the world, and the launch of Riftbound exploded exponentially with related card and sealed product listings.
It’s no secret that getting your hands on sealed Riftbound product was (and still is) a bit tough, but the marketplace saw a 750% increase in listings a month after launch; October 30 saw more than 68,600 listings, while October 31 saw that number almost double, with over 118,100 listings. As of November 30, the number of listings was sitting at more than 585,000.
Riftbound’s second set, titled Spiritforged, is scheduled to launch in the West on February 13 after launching in China on December 12. Preorders are now open for Spiritforged products.
While yesterday saw the end of Ubisoft’s plans to release a Prince of Persia: Sands of Time remake (a project that the company had been working on for at least six years) and five other unnamed games, no mention was made of Beyond Good & Evil 2, whose record-breaking development now spans almost 20 years, off and on.
Indeed, Beyond Good & Evil was named by Ubisoft as an ongoing franchise that would now be overseen by its reorganized “Creative House 4” division, dedicated to narrative driven and fantasy games. Separately, Insider Gaming has reported that the project is indeed still alive today, as the dust settles.
On reddit, Beyond Good & Evil’s long-suffering fans have reacted to the sequel’s survival by calling it “miraculous“, “insane” and simply “too big to fail.”
“It’s insane this game is still in production and survived,” dan_in_his_own_way wrote. “Don’t get me wrong, I want to play it but the cancelation of the Price of Persia remake hit really hard. A project that would arguably cost them less and require less resources than Beyond Good & Evil.”
“Beyond Good and Evil 2 will survive World War 3,” quipped Travguard. “But it still won’t be out by the armistice,” added meathappening.
One fan, 33Sharpies, pointed to the likely financial implications of Beyond Good & Evil 2 ever being canceled, at which point Ubisoft would have to write down the cost of its gargantuan development. While the project is still alive, however, it can still be listed as an ongoing asset. (Insider Gaming has reported that the project has been valued internally as having now cost over $500 million, though that figure is unverified.)
Beyond Good & Evil 2 is believed to have originally begun early development in 2007, with series creator and Rayman mastermind Michel Ancel and his Ubisoft Montpellier team on board. Over the coming decade, development was mostly paused while Montpellier worked on other projects, but Ubisoft re-announced the game with fanfare in 2017 and showed off an in-engine concept featuring space flight and designs to feature multiple solar systems and planets.
Beyond Good & Evil 2 still lacks any word of a release date — and may well have been one of the titles Ubisoft delayed to receive further polish yesterday. As of now, however, it remains alive — however improbable that may seem.
Tom Phillips is IGN’s News Editor. You can reach Tom at tom_phillips@ign.com or find him on Bluesky @tomphillipseg.bsky.social
Ubisoft has said that completing its now-canceled Prince of Persia: Sands of Time Remake would have “required more time and investment than we could responsibly commit,” after more than half a decade of development.
Yesterday, Ubisoft shocked fans by announcing it had scrapped the long-awaited remake completely as part of a major business reshuffle, nearly six years after the project was first announced, and five years to the day after it was initially set to launch — on January 21, 2021.
Ubisoft has never fully explained why the remake has had such a tortured development — first at the company’s Mumbai and Pune studios, then at Ubisoft Montreal since the project was rebooted in 2022. What has been happening behind the scenes since then, and why has the game been scrapped now, after so long trying to get it right?
A statement that’s now been shared via the official Prince of Persia social media account holds few answers. Here it is in full:
“To the Prince of Persia community, we wanted to share this with you directly,” reads a statement attributed to Ubisoft’s Prince of Persia team.
“We’ve made the difficult decision to stop development on Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Remake. We know this is deeply disappointing. The game carries enormous meaning for fans and for the teams who worked on it.
“While the project had real potential, we weren’t able to reach the level of quality you deserve, and continuing would have required more time and investment than we could responsibly commit. And, we didn’t want to release something that fell short of what The Sands of Time represents.
“Prince of Persia as a universe and a legacy continues to matter deeply to us, and this decision does not mean we’re stepping away from the franchise.
“Thank you for your passion, patience and love for Prince of Persia.”
While many of the details around Ubisoft’s business reshuffle remain to be seen, the company did at least name the Prince of Persia franchise as part of its new fourth “Creative House” division yesterday, suggesting it was indeed still an ongoing concern.
For the fans waiting half a decade to play the Prince of Persia: Sands of Time Remake, however, this is likely of little comfort.
“Pretty sad we’ll never get this,” wrote Ubisoft fan SynthPotato, “people were convinced its on the edge of releasing.” “Saw this coming a mile away unfortunately,” added another fan, 8biteric. “Please tell me you’re going to reverse time and take back this post and make an announcement that the game is done and will release later this year,” suggested TheChrisLambert, hopefully.
Five other games were canceled yesterday as part of Ubisoft’s reshuffle, while a further seven titles have been delayed — including the company’s similarly long-awaited Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag remake.
Tom Phillips is IGN’s News Editor. You can reach Tom at tom_phillips@ign.com or find him on Bluesky @tomphillipseg.bsky.social
Nintendo has released an update for Pokémon Legends: Z-A, with some handy item adjustments and a list of bug fixes for the game’s Mega Dimension DLC.
The Switch and Switch 2 Pokémon adventure has today been patch to Version 2.0.1, which makes both berries and Mega Shards easier to buy and hold onto. With the update installed, you will now be able to purchase multiple berries at once from food vendors. Mega Dimension owners, meanwhile, will gain the ability to buy berries at Nouveau Café’s Truck.
Speaking of Mega Dimension, players with the DLC purchased will see a range of bugs fixed — including Shiny Pokémon not registering in your Pokédex, a side mission progression blocker, and an issue where the game’s weather was stuck being sunny (if only this was true in real life).
Launched last month, Mega Dimension adds a fresh story campaign to Pokémon Legends: Z-A, starring a donut chef and the Mythical Pokémon Hoopa. It’s set within an alternative Hyperspace version of Lumiose City, where the franchise’s typical level 100 cap can be surpassed. Most excitingly, it adds a swathe of all-new Mega Evolutions — though none as freaky as the fan-favorite Mega Starmie.
Looking ahead, the Pokémon series celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2026, and fans are eagerly awaiting news on the next generation of mainline games. Many expect these to be announced on the franchise’s anniversary during its annual Pokémon Presents livestream, due on February 27. There’s also the promising-looking life simulation spin-off Pokémon Pokopia to look forward to.
For now, Pokémon Legends Z-A’s latest full patch notes lie below:
Pokémon Legends: Z-A: Ver. 2.0.1 (Released January 21, 2026)
Adjustments Applied for Obtaining Items:
When purchasing Berries from a food stall, you can now purchase multiple Berries at once.
After beginning the story of the Pokémon Legends: Z-A – Mega Dimension DLC, you will be able purchase Berries from the clerk at Nouveau Café’s Truck No. 3.
The maximum number of Mega Shards you can carry has been increased from 999 to 9,999.
Fixes Applied for the Following Confirmed Issues Related to Pokémon Legends: Z-A – Mega Dimension Content:
When using moves in certain pockets of hyperspace, Pokémon may sometimes have faced a different direction from the intended target.
There were cases in which the weather remained sunny and did not change.
Shiny Pokémon obtained prior to the release of Pokémon Legends: Z-A – Mega Dimension may not have been registered to the Mega Evolution Pokédex, even if their Mega Stones were obtained after becoming available in the DLC.
During missions, images from unrelated scenes may occasionally have been displayed.
Players may not have been able to complete side mission 188 “Start Special Scanning!” even after earning the maximum number of survey points. (Players who are already experiencing this issue should be able to progress after entering and exiting hyperspace.)
Tom Phillips is IGN’s News Editor. You can reach Tom at tom_phillips@ign.com or find him on Bluesky @tomphillipseg.bsky.social
