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Pokémon Masters hands-on — Trainer battles get real-time co-op play on iOS and Android

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 5 min

Japanese mobile game company DeNA has been working on its Pokémon Masters mobile game for a long time, and it is finally lifting the lid on the gameplay today. I got to play it, and I found it to be in an interesting place in the universe of Pokémon games.

The title will be coming out this summer on iOS and Android. 20-year-old DeNA has to navigate through a lot of competition from other Pokémon games, as The Pokémon Company has been busy licensing everyone including Niantic with Pokémon Go and Nintendo with its Pokémon titles (most recently Pokémon Sword and Shield) for the Nintendo Switch.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.