How to read the three states above
They are not three degrees of the same thing, and the page keeps them apart because flattening them is how a list of nothing starts reading like a plan. Announced means the developer or publisher said it in its own voice — there is exactly one of those today, and it is a list of intentions with the developer’s own "subject to change" attached. Scheduled means a fixed date owned by Valve or by a show organiser; those dates are certain and say nothing whatever about this game. Not announced means a thing people are searching for that nobody has announced, and each of those carries where we looked rather than an assertion that we looked.
- A filled amber node is the developer speaking. There is one.
- A hollow node is somebody else’s calendar. Three, and none of them is evidence about this game.
- A dashed node is a hole in the line rather than a stop on it — the thing is absent, and the check says how that was established.
What would actually count as an announcement
Three channels, and nothing else is a signal. The publisher’s Steam Community Announcements feed, which this site syncs several times a day and renders in full at /updates/. GAME FREAK’s official account on X, which is where the 5 August patch statement went and where it stayed — that post has still never appeared on Steam, which is the single most useful thing to know about how this developer communicates. And the storefront listings themselves, which is where a fourth platform or an unreleased DLC entry would show up before anyone wrote a post about it.
- Steam Community Announcements — official, synced here several times daily.
- GAME FREAK on X, in Japanese, often days before any English coverage exists.
- The Steam, PlayStation and Xbox product listings, which change before the posts do.
- A wiki page carrying a release window is not one of the three, and is how every fabricated claim on this page entered circulation.
Why a page about the future exists on a site that refuses to speculate
Because the alternative is worse. On 8 August 2026 the first page of results for this game’s roadmap and DLC queries is substantially invented — a named expansion, a quarter, a raid size and a system name, none of it attributable to anyone. A reader who searches that question today gets an answer, and the answer is wrong. This page does not compete with that by guessing better. It publishes the same absence the competition papered over, with every step of the check written down so a reader can repeat it in about ten minutes rather than take our word for it.
What has actually changed since launch
Less than the volume of coverage suggests. The game shipped on 3–4 August. A day-one update numbered 1.004 is reported on PlayStation 5 with no published notes; on PC, 1.0.6 is the version the developer’s own launch announcement names, so there is no evidence of a separate PC download. On 5 August GAME FREAK announced the first real post-launch patch, in Japanese, on X. As of the last sync on 8 August the official Steam feed still holds eight announcements and none of them is a patch note. Version-level detail, and what is and is not known about each build, is on the patches page.