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It was called such in the event. The battles against trainers seem to be just like the other mainline Pokemon games, and it's developed by GameFreak. It's just a more casualized one and also a remake.
And no, Pokemon's twitter does not imply it's not, just states that the actual Gen 8 games, will come next year (and probably be more traditional in how capturing works).
Groudon fags lost.