New Pokemon Working Name Revealed

by J.K. Guise

Insiders familiar with the project tell the Daily Rager that the newest generation of Pokemon game has been given the working name “Reused” and “Recycled”.  While some have questioned whether this is a cynical statement about the nature of Pokemon’s flagship series, a spokesperson for Game Freak stated, “The purpose of the titles, which is really just a working title for internal use, is to highlight the need for us all to be aware of our world and its need to be taken care of.”

However, in an off the record conversation, at least one person working on the project stated, “Yeah, it was a huge statement about how repetitive these things are.”  He laughed and then said, “But we’ve added shiny versions of some classic pokemon, so no one will care and it will sell like hot cakes.”

There is little word about names for the land or pokemon.  Our source tells us, “Project name of the continent, ‘Generic-Same-as-the-Last’ but that’ll get changed.”  Starters project names are ” charmander-as-a-rodent”, “squirtle-as-a-rabbit” and “blubasaur-as-a-mushroom”.  Our sources added another new innovation, “We decided this time we’d find a Dutch intern to read a Chinese restaraunt’s menu, rather than our usual process of have a Swedish one read a Mexican  restaraunt menu.”