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Anthony McGlynn

GameStop blames Pokemon Company for botched Scarlet and Violet shiny giveaway: "Not our decision"

Koraidon in Pokémon Scarlet.

A Pokemon giveaway from GameStop that started poorly has somehow managed to get worse. The video games and pop culture retailer is giving out codes for special shiny versions of a couple of Legendary Pokémon, and the only people who’re satisfied right now are scalpers.

It started last week, with the announcement that GameStop would be handing out codes for Shiny Koraidon and Shiny Miraidon, the respective mascots of Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, on the Nintendo Switch. These specially colored iterations haven’t been publicly available before now, causing quite the scurry.

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