Surprising nobody, The Pokemon Company has announced that tomorrow, February 26, they will be hosting a brand new Pokemon Presents Presentation. The showcase falls a day before “Pokemon Day” and, coincidentally, the day before the franchise turns 25. The rumour mill has been churning wildly for the last few weeks and now it’s our time
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If you ever wanted to feel old, the fact the Pokemon turns 25 this year is a good place to start. Everybody’s favourite Pocket Monsters first graced the world all the way back in 1996. It started with Pocket Monsters: Red and Green hitting the Game Boy in Japan that February. Red and Blue followed
With 2020 now firmly in the rearview mirror, a new year means a host of new milestones with this year being no different. As we kickstart 2021, the year ahead will see significant video game anniversaries for some of the medium’s biggest franchises. Some of which include; The Legend of Zelda, Pokemon, and Skyrim. Today
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
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
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
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.
Last year we saw the arrival of Pokémon: Let’s Go Pikachu/Eevee which allowed players to make use of a Poké Ball Plus controller that was able to be used to control the character as well as be used in capturing Pokémon. The controller was also compatible with Pokémon GO, the popular Nintendo mobile game developed by Game
The folks at Niantic and The Pokemon Company have “intercepted messages” from the evil Team GO Rocket. It looks like these thugs plan on invading a whole lot of PokeStops in the hit mobile augmented reality game Pokemon Go. Why these two companies could not prepare for the inevitable takeover is beyond me, but at
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
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
Pokémon’s reach is extending further every year, from new games to new merchandise and now new sneakers. After the release of custom Air Jordan’s, for the premiere of Detective Pikachu. Solebyjc recently revealed on Instagram a pair of sneakers that looked custom made but are apart of an Adidas collab. Adidas will soon be releasing 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
Microsoft’s annual Build event is a developer-focused conference that gives updates into some of the bigger projects the company is working on. At the tail end of today’s conference, the company teased a Minecraft augmented reality (AR) project that will remind readers of Niantic’s Pokemon Go. Little is known about the project thus far. The teaser
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
Pokemon Pass is a new free app that gives players digital rewards for using when they visit participating retailers. To launch the app, The Pokemon Company is giving away free shiny Eevees and Pikachus for the Let’s Go Eevee and Pikachu games. Check out their short trailer below. As shown in the trailer, players will
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
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