Santa Hat Pikachu is back for Pokémon Go's festive holiday event, starting today

Pokémon Go's vaguely Christmassy holiday event begins today, developer Niantic has announced, bringing with it all sorts of seasonally-appropriate offerings.

The disappointingly unnamed event (let's go with Pokébauble 2017) runs from today, December 21st, at 1pm PST / 9pm GMT, and continues until January 4th.

Santa Hat Pikachu will be making a return, and can be caught in the wild, and there'll be an increase in Ice-type Pokémon around the world. Pre-event leaks have suggested that one of these Ice-type Pokémon will be the long-awaited, and undeniably festive Delibird - one of only a few Gen 2 species still missing from the game.

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