Pokémon Go celebrated its 10th anniversary recreating its insane Mewtwo trailer – and I'm still not over it ...Middle East

The game has been celebrating its tenth anniversary in a number of ways, from raids to special exclusive research at Go Fest, but Pokémon Go has one last Mewtwo-themed surprise during its biggest 2026 event yet. 

Niantic’s hit AR adventure originally launched on July 6 2016, and the impact it's had on both the Pokémon franchise and mobile gaming is an understatement.

Since giving us the ability to catch real-world Pocket Monsters just with our portable phones, one trillion Pokémon have been caught by 800 million players (aka Trainers) across over 150 countries and regions.

Among all those, there is a per-player average of 45 minutes daily playtime, and the game itself is still enjoying enough players to earn $1 billion of revenue in 2025 alone. 

We felt personally how alive the community spirit was in Pokémon Go just last month, with all the fun had at Pokémon Go Fest: Copenhagen, one of the many events it has going each year, including Pokémon Go Fest 2026 – Global, which all players were able to enjoy last weekend. 

However, to truly mark the end of its first decade, Niantic and its now-parent company Scopely, invited Radio Times Gaming – among other journalists and influencers to New York – to deliver on the final promise teased in its first trailer back in 2015: an epic multiplayer raid against Mewtwo. 

What the deal with Pokémon Go's original trailer was

For those who don’t remember that original spectacle in said trailer, or you aren’t one of the 48 million viewers who’ve seen it to this day, it was the climax to the original tease of what Pokémon Go could be when we saw those first snippets nearly 11 years ago. 

After a showcase of soon-to-be trainers venturing out into the world together, chasing and catching Pokémon and using them in battle, hundreds of Trainers gathered in the Big Apple’s Times Square to team up and defeat the all-powerful Psychic Pokémon, with each player’s creatures brawling above as if taking on the game’s final boss – lit up by the plaza’s iconically dazzling billboards. 

Well, what started out as an epic-looking marketing campaign finally came to life. After spending a few hours in the square playing and connecting with other Trainers in the industry, with LA music duo Sound Luxury performing right above a Pokémon Go-themed disco cube stage, host Sydnee Goodman announced the main event and kicked things off. 

Pokémon Go's NY Times Square raid coming to life

Not only did Mewtwo appear on Times Square’s screens just like in the trailer, but it even physically disappeared in its Pokémon Center attraction in Shibuya (nice touch, Pokémon marketing people). 

What’s more, though, Mewtwo Mega Evolved into its Mega Mewtwo Y form as a Unity Raid boss, just like at in-person Go Fests. Additionally, similar to what we experienced in Copenhagen, you need plenty of players to come together to win a Unity Raid and use a special Unity Attack to break its shields. 

This time, however, not only did Pokémon Go make its first trailer a reality, but proved what we saw at Go Fest: Copenhagen was just a warm-up. 

Starting with a huge red countdown timer across all of Times Square’s screens, a purple-glowing raid appeared in-game, revealed to be Mega Mewtwo Y with over 99,000 CP.

As well over 1,000 players joined the packed lobby, so did the numbers climb up across those same screens; it did feel like a VERY large bunch of friends, old and new, were coming together to complete what we signed up for once we first downloaded this game back in 2016. 

As that countdown finished and Mewtwo’s cry was heard across the square, I immediately felt like my 7-year-old self about to take on the Legendary in Pokémon Blue for the first time. Then, it Mega Evolved and everyone around us was completely buzzing. 

Not only were Times Square’s many screens showing off Pokémon taking part in the Raid – with regular warnings as to when Mewtwo was using a big attack – but the central hub stage where Sound Luxury performed was now a giant health bar for this Mega Evolved boss, with a countdown, too. 

Then, just like Unity Raids of the past, the Unity Attack was what really completed the 10 years of community spirit amongst all the dedicated attendees there. 

Just like before, Mega Mewtwo put up shields in front of its last sliver of health; in order to break them, we had to raise our phones up high, charge the Unity Attack – with screams and our Pocket Monsters powering up across the screens. 

Defeating Mewtwo completely gave each player a free Master Ball to throw and catch the boss, and the very powerful high-stat Legendary, with a stunning New York Times Square background, was officially ours – and a dream come true was had. 

The deep meaning of the Mewtwo Raid to Pokémon Go's bosses

That surprise celebration of Pokémon Go’s big milestone for the devs leading the charge at Scopely, and what made that especially meaningful was that they’re the ones who’ve been a part of Go either from the very beginning at Niantic, or a part of it shortly after its launch. 

Ed Wu, who was the SVP leading Pokémon Go at Niantic in 2015 (now President of Games at Scopely), not only gave us a meaningful retrospective on the game’s development – including how his daughter was the first child to ever throw a Poké Ball in the game, but also explained what the game has meant to him since its launch: 

 “What started as an invitation to explore the world around you has become something that brings players together across cities, countries, and cultures, from neighbourhood meet-ups to celebrations that draw hundreds of thousands of people together.

"As we look ahead, our commitment remains unchanged: to keep evolving the game in ways that turn everyday places into opportunities for discovery and connection. We’re grateful to every player who has brought Pokémon Go to life in their community, and we’re excited to keep building its future together.” 

It was Michael Steranka (Senior Director of Product on Go at Niantic from 2017, then Vice President of Product at Scopely since the 2025 acquisition), though, whose words especially hit home – since he told us just last year at Go Fest: Paris how the 10th anniversary was “going to be a Pokémon fan's dream come true”. 

When talking about bringing the 2015 trailer to life, he said: “When we first dreamt what Pokémon Go might become a decade ago, hosting more than a thousand people in a single, local raid battle was just a pipe dream…”

“We never stopped asking ourselves, ‘What if?’ and ‘How could we do it?’ Seeing that vision become a reality in Times Square was the perfect way to celebrate 10 years of playing together with our community.”

Quite frankly, a “Pokemon fan’s dream come true” it was. In a world of increasing constraints that can see games be born and die in a matter of months, here we see a free-to-play mobile title that – even after its gargantuan opening player base dropped – stabilised and continued with a dedicated community, and devs who’ve made a continued effort to listen to feedback and keep the experience fresh. 

The fact we’ve even got a mobile Pokémon game that’s still viable after 10 years is a major achievement in itself, but Scopely and its Niantic team’s efforts to innovate should be commended. 

While we still would love to see some version of its Times Square Mewtwo raid that could be enjoyed by the wider player base outside of the press, even the recreation of Pokémon Go’s trailer’s epic Mewtwo battle went off so successfully – and became such a wonderful spectacle – should be enough to make any Pokémon fan’s heart sing.

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