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This month’s Pokémon GO Community Day features a brand new feature called Special Research Story, which is available to trainers willing to spend a little extra. Niantic gave Pokémon GO players the power to decide which Pokémon would be the star of February’s Community Day via a unique voting system. This month, it has taken that power back, although we’re assuming the voting system will return in the future. Niantic has decided Abra will get a Community Day this month, and you’ll hear no complaints from us....

The briefly delayed Raid Invite feature has arrived in Pokémon GO but is only available to Level 40 trainers for the time being. Niantic has done everything it possibly can to keep people interested in Pokémon GO throughout the COVID-19 outbreak. Some of the features added to the game over the past few months include the ability to raid remotely, opening up the catchment area of PokéStops, and allowing trainers to compete in the GO Battle League without first having to walk 3 km....

Pokémon fans who visit or live in Japan are in for a treat. The series has taken over certain commuter trains, plastering the walls, floors, and even screens with content from the upcoming Pokémon Let’s Go Pikachu and Eevee. Several outlets have taken notice of the change, including an IGN editor who took several pictures of the setup. He explains that train cars running on the Ginza and Marunouchi lines have been turned into speeding advertisements during the month of August....

When Nessa was first introduced, she quickly became one of the most beloved characters in the franchise to date. Her love of Water-type Pokémon and her character design make her a fan favorite and almost every fan has an affinity for her to some extent because she is one of the most likable characters in a video game to date! This list will show fans some things they didn’t know about the Water-type gym leader from generation 8 and shed some light on her past and her personal life....

Pokémon are created in a lot of different ways in the Pokémon series. Some were created by the Pokémon god Arceus, some evolved into their new forms, and others were helpless humans who, through a horrible twist of fate, became Pokémon. That’s right, some of those creatures you send out into battle were once human beings. Some were even children who have been twisted beyond recognition and given incredible powers to fight on your behalf and spend their lives inside of Pokeballs....

Pokemon games always have players facing off against other trainers during their journey to catch ’em all, and Pokemon GO is no exception. Players can battle trainers including Team Rocket Boss Arlo in Pokemon GO this month, and will face more during the upcoming Kanto event in February. During the Pokemon GO Tour: Kanto event, players will face event-exclusive trainers in the game, and some players can become one of these characters....

2020 has been the year of the mobile game. And one in particular has had some astounding financial success this year: Pokemon GO, even though some thought that a game that promotes going outside like Pokemon GO would do poorly in a global pandemic. All the way back at the beginning of the year, coronavirus concerns slowly but surely began to change video gaming as the world knows it. In America, people on lockdown spent more time on their phones as a way to stay connected, spending an average of 23 minutes extra per day on their phones....

Pokemon GO players may still be recovering from Sunday’s Mareep Community Day event, but it’s never too early to start looking ahead to the next big event. As rumors suggested, this May will bring another Kanto starter into the spotlight with a special Charmander Community Day. The big Pokemon GO event will take place on Saturday, May 19 and offer players three hours of increased Charmander spawns, 3x Stardust bonus, three hour lures, and a special move that hasn’t been revealed just yet....

Pokemon GO’s second Community Day event for November is kicking off around the world, which means it is time for Magmar to finally take the spotlight. The Gen-1 Fire-type has a pretty popular evolution in the PoGO metagame, which means that a lot of trainers will be out for today’s event. As expected, there will be a special ticketed research storyline for players who want to trade $1 to earn some extra rewards during today’s Pokemon GO festivities....

Those familiar with the MineCraft content creation community will no doubt be surprised at the announcement that one of the most popular YouTubers playing Mojang’s ubiquitous sandbox game has now retired. MineCraft stalwart SkyDoesMinecraft announced his retirement a few days ago in a video on his channel, stating that he no longer enjoys the game and has been disillusioned by its oft-criticized community. SkyDoesMinecraft’s announcement comes as a shock to many despite the fact that his social media accounts had been littered with statements of MineCraft-related discontent in the months leading up to it....

Level-5, the Japanese studio best known for the Professor Layton series, is working on a “completely new project”, according to a recent job listing. While the studio remains tight-lipped on what this new project is specifically, the recruitment page suggests it’s early in development, as numerous important roles still need to be filled. Among the roles Level-5 is recruiting for, there’s producers, programmers, character designers, and even the all-important game director....

PUBG Mobile is already one of the biggest titles on mobile, but its next update on September 8 is hoping to take the popular game to new heights. The massive patch will be around 2.0GB in size and will bring new character models, an improved UI, enhanced visuals, and a “much-anticipated surprise.” The first thing you’ll notice when booting up the game on September 8 is the overhauled lobby. Tencent claims it will be more interactive than ever before, allowing you to quickly navigate menus and jump into a game....

Ubisoft’s Rainbow Six Siege didn’t have the worst launch, but it wasn’t that great either. Players quickly found numerous exploits, Operators were poorly balanced, and not all of the game’s mechanics worked properly. It was a promising game that was rough around the edges. Now that it’s been a few years and the developers have remained faithful to the game it’s seen some significant updates. Whether it’s quality of life improvements, new Operators, game mechanic tweaks, or new tools to play with, Rainbow Six Siege feels like an entirely new game....

Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart’s file size has been spotted online, revealing that it’ll weigh in at 42 GB. This information comes courtesy of PlayStation Game Size, who Tweeted out the game’s file size, revealing that it comes to just a little less than 50 GB. The account has previously revealed file sizes for games like Returnal, so it seems that their information is reliable. Although 40 GB is a pretty standard game size, this is actually pretty impressive considering the game’s high-fidelity graphics and range of PS5 features....

Someone has made a model of Master Chief using nothing but cardstock and the end result is truly something to behold. The gaming community is often tarred with a very broad brush. Stereotypes peg those with a penchant for playing video games as hermits. While those stereotypes might be true of some people, a large, very creative part of the expansive community is not given nearly enough attention. People need to look no further than almost any video game convention for evidence of how creative video game aficionados can be....

The long-rumored Mass Effect Trilogy remaster might be coming to the Nintendo Switch if a new leak is to be believed. It’s been many months of rumors and reports pointing to a remastered Mass Effect Trilogy, and we’ve got yet another leak to add to the pile. This one comes courtesy of famed games leaker @Nibellion on Twitter, who reposted an image of a Portuguese games retailer taking pre-orders for something called “Mass Effect Trilogy Remastered....

Remedy Entertainment has been a consistent deliverer of AAA games since Max Payne’s release in 2001 made the company a fixture in the industry. Yet it was 2019’s Control that reestablished Remedy as one of the industry’s foremost studios, with action-adventure title racking up a number of awards. To say fans are anxious about what Remedy is working on next would be an understatement. Luckily, Remedy creative director Same Lake has something new to share with those fans....

Love ’em or hate ’em, Facebook and smartphones are two of the most influential innovations of the last decade. For many of us, they’ve completely overhauled the way we connect, interact, consume and share content, and incinerate hours of the day. Even the average troglodyte is apt to use one or the other. Naturally, then, it begs the question of whether or not the two could ever coalesce. After all, fellow internet giant (and fellow 21st Century trailblazer) Google has patented technology under the hood of Android devices, and their recent $12....

Come on, let’s do it again. Peter Frampton’s Do You Feel Like I Do? A Memoir brings it all back when you can’t remember who’s wine, what wine, and where the hell you may have dined while living the life of a working rock star. Written by Frampton with Alan Light, Peter comes alive on the pages of Do You Feel Like I Do? A Memoir. He’s been in you, and now he’s letting you in....

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has been outrageously successful since it launched on PC via Steam’s Early Access program in March. But few would ever have predicted just what kind of success it would reach. Today marks a new level of triumph for the online multiplayer battle royale, as PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has dethroned Dota 2’s record for concurrent players online on Steam. Steam provides data regarding concurrent player count for the top 100 games on the platform, making tracking extremely simple....