Over the past few days, Pokemon GO players have been gaining the ability to transfer Pokemon to Pokemon HOME. This service is the main way for players to transfer their monsters to other games, including Sword and Shield and Let’s Go Pikachu and Let’s Go Eevee. The service has been available for level 40 players
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Pokemon GO Fest 2020 was, for the most part, a success this year. The event took place all over the globe, as opposed to the usual single real-world location due to the ongoing pandemic. While it mostly went off without a hitch, the game was still plagued with some issues similar to the GO Fests
For the past few years developer Niantic has held Pokemon GO Fest, its annual worldwide gathering for its massive mobile hit Pokemon GO. With a variety of different in-game challenges and activities, alongside the opportunity to catch rare Pokemon, the sense of community and collaboration that Pokemon GO Fest has fostered has turned it into
Niantic is now in full swing with preparation for the upcoming Pokemon GO Fest at the end of this month. We’re coming to the end of the second of three special events designed for the lead up to the Festival, and Team Rocket’s notorious foes Jessie, James, and Meowth / Nyarth are invading the game
Since the game’s enormous debut in 2016, Pokemon GO has continued to expand on its social-focused gameplay of having players venture out into the real world to capture Pokemon and battle other trainers. Special events and limited time battles have been a hallmark of the game over the last several years, as the latest in-game event
Over the past few days, Niantic has been teasing a new edition to its ever-popular mobile game Pokemon Go. The teases have included “strange scraps” of paper with images of Team Rocket’s iconic hot air balloons with said images scattered amongst recent promotional material. However, little else was known about what was coming. That is,
Pokemon Go Fest 2020 is just around the corner and today the Pokemon Company released a new commercial from esteemed director Rian Johnson (Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Knives Out). The trailer, released alongside some new key art celebrating Pokemon Go’s fourth anniversary, shares the magic of the game. The trailer shows off the new
Niantic, best known for Pokemon Go, is full of announcements today. They announced that their upcoming Catan World Explorers is releasing into beta sometime soon. And now, they’ve revealed that they’ll be working with Punchdrunk, the Sleep No More creators, to produce a new Augmented Reality experience. It all sounds incredibly ambitious. Hopefully, the two
Niantic is best known as the team behind hits like Pokemon Go and Harry Potter: Wizards Unite. Now, they’re adding to their growing catalog of major IPs with a new game based on the world-famous board game Catan. Catan World Explorers enters beta “very soon” and aims to turn the classic game into a massively
It’s been a busy week for Pokemon GO news – first we were treated to the return of the Go Battle League PVP mode and now following a tweet and blog post last night, we know that Pokemon Go fans are in for a range of events in the weeks leading up to Pokemon GO
It’s been a big week for Pokemon news — last week during the Pokemon Presents presentation we got the announcement of three new Pokemon games in the works; Café Mix (which released today), Smile, and most importantly a new Snap coming to the Nintendo Switch. Even better, the good news doesn’t stop there for Pokemon
Despite launching nearly four years ago now, Pokemon GO has continued to build a huge audience over the years and expand with its mobile take on the Pokemon catching experience. While players around the world are gearing up for the upcoming GO Fest 2020, which will be adapt to an online format this year, The Pokemon Company revealed
While the game is now four years on from its release, Pokemon GO has still continued to drive a huge playerbase and last year saw its best month ever (in terms of revenue) since debuting in 2016. Most of all, the game has continued to highlight the importance of socially-minded gaming experiences and communities. As developer
Since its launch in 2016, Pokemon GO has continued to be a driving force in socially-driven gaming experiences for players around the world. While traditionally summer is when players from around the world gather together for Pokemon GO Fest to catch Pokemon and experience special events together, this year’s event is taking a bit of a
Ever since its skyrocket debut in 2016, Pokemon GO has continued to attract tons of players to catch Pokemon or trade and battle with friends. While the game has been a huge success because of its social/outdoors-focused gameplay, the current climate of the coronavirus pandemic has had an effect on players being able to take their Pokemon adventures
In a report from Gamesindustry.biz, former Niantic employee Megan Quinn has returned to the company as their new COO. Quinn first worked at the company ten years ago when they were an experimental lab in Google. Over the past five years, Quinn has been an investor and board member of Niantic and other companies alongside
Being quarantined sucks. Over here in the UK, because of COVID-19 we’ve been locked down and limited to only one form of exercise a day, whether that’s a jog or even walking. Other countries around the world have the same restrictions, or similar. For those that enjoy Niantic’s Pokemon GO or Harry Potter: Wizards Unite,
As the world slowly drags to a halt amid this coronavirus pandemic, companies are allowing employees to work from home, Itay issued a lockdown, schools are being closed, and countries are starting to see residents avoid social interactions. But Pokemon GO, an incredibly popular mobile game developed by Niantic is one that encourages its users
While it first debuted nearly four years ago, Pokemon Go has continued to be one of the most popular and engaging mobile games around. Thanks to its combination of simple, easy to grasp gameplay and a smart, mobile-centric adaptation of Pokemon, the mobile game has gone from a worldwide phenomenon to harboring a dedicated playerbase every month.
Even since the summer of 2016 when it became a worldwide phenomenon, Pokemon Go has still captured an audience of Pokemon trainers around the world with its monthly Community Day events. While 2019 is quickly coming to a close, and with that the end of Community Day events for the year, players will still have one
Ever wish that you could do some hardcore gaming while you sleep? Well, wish no longer. In what is perhaps the strangest announcement to come out of today’s Pokemon Press Conference, The Pokemon Company unveiled Pokemon Sleep. The new app, which is set to release next year in 2020 and will track your sleeping habits. After
Harry Potter: Wizards Unite is Niantic’s attempt to merge the Harry Potter license with the popular Pokemon Go app. The game went into a limited beta in New Zealand last month and, while we still don’t know the exact release date, it appears that the launch is happening relatively soon. Today the team released a
Warner Bros. and Legendary Entertainment’s Detective Pikachu is just around the corner. With this being one of the biggest Pokemon movies to date, Niantic is celebrating its opening week with a new limited-time event. From Tuesday, May 7, at 1 pm PDT to Friday, May 17, at 1 pm PDT, a number of new cosmetic
Pokemon GO has taken the dream of venturing out into the world to collect Pokemon and battle gym leaders a reality. The augmented reality game developed and published by mobile developer Niantic released on July 6, 2016. Since then Pokemon GO has given people a reason to get out of the house and go outside for more
Harry Potter: Wizards Unite is developer Niantic’s follow-up to their wildly successful Pokemon Go app. Niantic is gearing up to release Wizards Unite this year and has put the game out for a beta test in New Zealand. In 2016, Pokemon Go took the world by storm, becoming a massive hit almost instantly. To date, the
Anyone that plays Pokemon Go on their phone knows it’s difficult enough keeping up with one or two accounts as they are out and about making their way to the next gym or raid – but how do you think you would handle trying to keep up with a whopping 21 phones AND riding a
While it may not be at the same level of cultural phenomenon that it was when it debuted in summer 2016, Pokemon GO still continues to deliver new events and challenges for players to take on month after month, with the next Raid battles in the game bringing the time-bending Legendary Pokemon, Dialga. Developer Niantic provided
Niantic will be updating Pokemon Go so that players can now switch sides and change their team from Team Instinct, Mystic, or Valor to whatever they want. However, this comes with the caveat that you are only able to switch teams once a year. Meaning if you mess up on your change you have to
We’ve all seen people on social media networks complaining to YouTube about their content being demonetized, taken down, or even whole accounts terminated unfairly. These people complaining are usually victim to YouTube artificial intelligence algorithm which appears, over the past few years, to have replaced the main bulk of work for human moderation. Popular Pokemon GO
Pokémon GO launched in 2016, prompting players to get out into the real-world and make use of the satellite navigation features in their mobile phones to go and catch Pokémon using AR systems. Since then, people have been creative with the AR camera trying to take screenshots of their encountered Pokémon lined up with real-world objects. Well, now