Nintendo Cracks Down After High-Profile Leaks

Published: Feb. 27, 2020, 6:58 a.m.

At 10:28 pm on November 1, an image of an unknown and classified Pok\xe9mon appeared in a Discord group. Gigantamax Machamp, the megasized version of the body-builder Pok\xe9mon, was slated to appear in the then-unreleased games Pok\xe9mon Sword and Pok\xe9mon Shield. Within minutes, JPEGs of it were posted to 4chan. Then, on a dedicated Pok\xe9mon Reddit. It wasn\u2019t long until 300 URLs were hosting it.