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Petilil has made its debut on Pokémon GO. Here’s how to find the grass-type and how to evolve Petilil into Lilligant. At the time of typing this, the third and final set of timed research building to GO Fest is underway. This week, the challenges Pokémon GO trainers are faced with all revolve around friendship. The tasks include interacting with Buddy Pokémon, and building on the friendships trainers have with others who are on the same quest to catch ’em all....

There have been plenty of amazing card arts to come out ever since the Pokémon trading card game originally came out on October 20th in 1996. Whether they’re cool because they’re full-art rainbow rare holos or just because they had an interesting take on the Pokémon partaking in its daily activities doesn’t really matter, and some are so fun because they’re just plain silly. With all of these interesting facets to what a Pokémon card art can be, it only makes sense that we’d have some really super ones show up in the last generation of cards to have happened, the Sun & Moon collections....

Despite the fact that there are hundreds of different moves in Pokemon that are spread out between egg moves, Tutor moves, TMs, and TRs, not to mention all of the moves learned via level-up, players tend to fall into the few moves that they are comfortable using. While there are many different Fire-type attacks in Pokemon, most players will choose either Flamethrower or Flare Blitz depending on the Pokemon using it....

As predicted, the release of Pokemon GO’s next major Battle Raid boss is arriving just in time to coincide with the 2018 Halloween event. The spooky Ghost/Dragon-type Giratina is an exciting new challenge to tackle and we’ve got the perfect battle party suggestions to take down the new Legendary. Ghost/Dragon is a very powerful combo and Giratina should actually be a great Pokemon in the current metagame, which makes this boss’ arrival even more exciting....

There are many different shiny Pokemon that players can find and catch in Pokemon GO. While some are more popular than others, the most well-liked are known for having unique color pallets that are sometimes even more pleasing to the eye than their originals. One aesthetically pleasing shiny Pokemon is Camerupt, the evolved form of Numel. With both Pokemon being from the Hoenn region, the two have been in Pokemon GO for quite some time now....

Mapping tasks have been added to Pokemon Go for trainers level 20 and above. Here’s what they are, where to find them, and how to complete them. Pokemon Go is an augmented reality game. That means it can be played in the world around us. One of the initial novelties of Pokemon Go back when it was released in 2016 was opening up our cameras and seeing a Bulbasaur sat under our stairs, or a Chansey in the driveway....

The month of September is just around the corner, and with it comes many new opportunities for Pokemon GO trainers. Players who enjoy the mobile app can look forward to new Mega Evolution raids and special research that will be available throughout the month. Along with giving player more opportunities to get involved with Raid battles during September, Niantic is giving a discount for Remote Raid Passes. During the month of September, players can purchase three Remote Raid Passes for the price of one PokeCoin, which can prepare them for the challenges that will be taking place throughout the month in Pokemon GO....

We’re not going to tell you how, but you can definitely cheat in Pokemon Go. It’s also something that developer Niantic has started to crack down on after reporting over a million players have been banned globally in 2020 alone. Niantic didn’t say how long each of those bans lasted, but we’re assuming this million player count includes each of Niantic’s three different strikes. On a first offense, players are banned for seven days, they’re banned for 30 days on a second offense, and a third offense results in a permanent ban....

There are a ton of interesting events that take place during the main story of Pokemon Sword & Shield; however, the Champion Cup is the grand finale of the game, which makes it one of the most interesting scripted events in the game. Although the Champion Cup only takes a few hours to complete, it’s easy to miss some of the finer details of the battles, buildings, and Pokemon that are found during this segment of the game....

A few months ago, it was widely reported that Fortnite star Ninja was earning $500,000 a month from streaming the popular Battle Royale game. The eye-watering numbers behind Ninja’s success were met with skepticism at first, but his meteoric rise shows no signs of slowing down, as he and many other gaming stars continue to gain mainstream attention. So striking is this new trend of celebrity gamers, in fact, that two researchers from Ryerson University predict that eSports stars will soon earn more than the world’s top athletes....

Sony’s introduction of PS Now a few years ago was both a defining and exciting moment for players of Sony’s home consoles. Of course, the idea of paying a monthly subscription to gain access to a library of games, which are playable via streaming, seemed like a step towards the future of gaming. However, PS Now has an essential requirement that not everyone has access to, which is a constant high-speed internet connection....

Analysts reveal Sony’s PlayStation 4 outsold Xbox One in November, breaking Microsoft’s four-month winning streak for the best selling gaming console. The last month has been great for PlayStation 4. The Sony console experienced strong November sales, beating out Xbox One in Cyber Monday online sales. The PlayStation 4 also reached 50 million units sold as of December 6th, catapulting it past lifetime sales of the Super Nintendo, and bringing it within striking distance of outselling the NES....

While a lot of emphasis is placed on the graphics of next-gen consoles, there are many other innovations that promise to help make your gaming experience much more immersive. Sound design and replication are getting an upgrade with next-gen tech, as well as haptic feedback on the DualSense controller—the combination of which one PS5 dev called “magical.” Haptic feedback (also known as kinaesthetic communication or “3D touch”) has largely been relegated to basic vibrations on console controllers up to this point....

In today’s gaming market, it is rather common for a highly successful release like PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds to be followed by an array of derivative clones, mostly on mobile platforms, made by developers hoping to profit from the game’s success. PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds’ developers, PUBG Corp., will no longer be tolerating some of these knock-off titles. The company, which is owned by the Korean publisher Bluehole, filed a lawsuit on the 2nd of April in the US District Court of Northern California against Chinese publisher NetEase, who published a pair of highly derivative smartphone titles called Rules of Survival and Knives Out that look and play extremely similarly to PUBG....

Our quick take Pure Twilight - 4.0 / 5 The touch-senstive Daylight lamp has been designed so that it can be turned on or off with one touch, while the brightness can be increased or decreased by keeping your hand on the surface until the light reaches the desired level. The brightness levels runs from 0 right up to an eye-blistering (not literally) 100. We’re not entirely sure that the highest brightness level needs to be quite that high as it’s far too bright to be used as a reading lamp, but it’ll certainly wake you up....

In a surprise announcement this morning, publisher 505 Games has revealed that Puzzle Quest 3 will finally be happening after more than a decade of being away. While the original game was given a remaster on Switch in 2019, the series hasn’t seen a true sequel since Puzzle Quest 2 launched in 2010 (we’re certainly not counting those spin-offs). It’s definitely time for a new Puzzle Quest adventure. Thankfully, the mistakes of the past won’t be getting repeated here....

Earlier this month, Bethesda officially announced Rage 2. A shooter from Avalanche Studios and id Software, an over the top gameplay trailer confirmed that the game will feature huge, extravagant action sequences, a variety of heavy weaponry, and plenty of vehicles to zip around in (or use to mow down enemies). While the trailer gave fans a brief overview of what to expect, there are plenty of gameplay features yet to be fully detailed, and one of these may include multiplayer....

Ongoing service games, particularly first-person shooters, have to deal with the constant threat of hackers ruining the experience for other players as much as they do balancing individual mechanics. Many developers have been open about their efforts to stem the tide, with PUBG Mobile announcing its million-player ban waves on a regular basis. While Ubisoft’s Rainbow Six Siege does not boast numbers quite as large, its developer recently updated players about ongoing efforts to tackle cheating....

Ratchet sets the tone early in Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart’s prologue. “We haven’t done anything heroic in years. What if everyone thinks we’re washed up?” Years is putting it lightly. The last main entry into the original Ratchet & Clank timeline was in 2013, nearly a decade ago. We got the reboot in 2016, five years ago, and it was one of the best-performing entries in the series, despite a lukewarm reaction from hardcore fans....

This piece contains spoilers for Ready Player Two. When Ernest Cline published Ready Player One in 2011, its exhaustive array of Easter eggs were literally built into the worldbuilding—seemingly one pop culture name-drop per pixel that made up the digital OASIS, per the fierce 1980s nostalgia that creator James Donovan Halliday possessed for the most formative decade of his adolescence. And once the billionaire inventor revealed the Easter egg hunt for his fortune, it made perfect sense that the 2040s generation of gunters would immerse themselves in the same references, placing themselves into Halliday’s mindset to inherit his treasure....