Pokémon hack exposes future games, beta designs and more

Pokémon developer Sport Freak has confirmed its servers had been hacked in August. The breach meant internal materials — from supply codes to early and even scrapped character designs — had been circulating on social media over the weekend.

Leaked paperwork and pictures flooded Reddit and X after Centro Leaks started dumping all of it on Saturday afternoon. It allegedly contains supply codes for previous video games and codenames for the Change 2 and the upcoming Gen 10 Pokémon video games. There are additionally references to a Pokémon MMO, future films and a brand new anime sequence. The leak revealed tons of beta character designs and idea artwork.

— Mat Smith

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