Pokemon developer Recreation Freak has been hit by an enormous hack, leaking large quantities of behind the scenes particulars, together with the Swap 2’s codename.
As reported by IGN, over the weekend large quantities of leaked knowledge from Recreation Freak was shared in a barely unprecedented hack of the corporate. Whereas it was unclear how actual any of the contents of the leak have been, it was later discovered that Recreation Freak had despatched out a press release confirming {that a} knowledge breach had taken place in August of this yr. Not solely has data relating to many Pokemon video games seemigly been leaked, however 2606 circumstances of worker particulars, together with present, former, and contract employees.
Recreation Freak additionally apologised to everybody affected, and stated that it has already rebuilt and inspected the server that was hacked. The assertion would not make point out of the leaks relating to previous and future video games, however the acknowledgement {that a} breach did happen would appear to probably lend extra legitimacy to those parts.
Probably the most notable elements of the leak is that the codename of the Nintendo Swap 2, or the successor console as the corporate sometimes refers to it, is seemingly “Ounce.” Codenames for an as of but unannounced tenth technology of Pokemon video games have additionally seemingly been leaked, and there are mentions of different unannounced Pokemon video games too. On prime of that, large quantities of particulars, improvement notes, and idea artwork has been shared – it goes even additional than that too, there’s truthfully an excessive amount of to say.
Issues have typically been fairly quiet for The Pokemon firm this yr, having solely held a single Pokemon Presents this yr again in February – that specific showcase revealed Pokemon Legends: Z-A, the most recent entry within the Legends sequence that’s taking gamers to the sixth technology’s area Kalos. Sometimes a Pokemon Presents is held in August, nevertheless it was absent this yr.