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I’m your host, Blake Montgomery, the Guardian’s US tech editor, writing to you from my happy village in https://www.theguardian.com/games/2026/mar/05/pokemon-pokopia-review-collectible-creatures-create-their-own-perfect-world">Pokopia.

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