Game Freak Hacker Won't Touch Pokemon Scarlet & Violet, Fears Leaking Switch 2

Game Freak Hacker Won't Touch Pokemon Scarlet & Violet, Fears Leaking Switch 2

From TheGamer (Written by Joshua Robertson) on | OpenCritic

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It's been a pretty wild time to be a Pokemon fan recently, as someone managed to hack Game Freak and spread all kinds of previously withheld data across social media. This data has resulted in some truly wild revelations, strange stories about Pokemon and humans having children together, and details surrounding future and past projects.

What we haven't had a lot of is information regarding the more recent Pokemon releases, such as Scarlet & Violet. We found out a few days ago that this hacker does have access to the source code of various Pokemon games on the Switch, but it turns out that they have a couple of reasons as to why they're not dishing out the goods.

According to a comment from this mysterious hacker, shared by Pokemon-focused Twitter account Centro Leaks, they have serious reservations about leaking details about Scarlet & Violet as they want to try and minimize the risk they're putting themselves under. One of the reasons the hacker gives for the lack of Scarlet & Violet is to avoid Game Freak potentially canceling plans for future events if they were made public.

Another big reason (and arguably the more interesting) is that any leaks about Scarlet...

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