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During the course of the Pokemon anime series’ over-20-year airtime, many prominent characters have joined Ash on his quest to become the greatest Pokemon trainer of all time. There is just something about Ash that makes total strangers want to follow him around on foot as he explores unfamiliar areas and gets into fights with monsters. What makes these companions interesting is the variety between all of them. The level of variety was not always extreme, but the Pokemon series is known for its creativity (even when rehashing something)....

Pokemon GO’s GO Beyond update makes a number of changes to Niantic’s extremely-popular AR title. One of the most notable changes featured in this update is a level cap increase, and players can now begin working to attain Level 50. Pokemon GO fans that hit the previous max level, Level 40, can also take a moment to celebrate their achievements with the newly-added Legacy 40 Challenge Timed Research, and this guide is here to detail all of its tasks and rewards....

Cresselia is an immensely powerful Legendary Pokemon and the latest Raid target for many Pokemon GO players. If you want the best odds at defeating Cresselia before the Lunar Event Pokemon leaves Pokemon Go Raids for good, we’ve collected all the best Cresselia counters in order to help you catch yourself Darkrai’s nemesis. Pokemon Go’s Lunar Raids are coming to an end in just a few days, meaning that the odds of encountering a Cresselia in are about to go way down....

Yesterday, Pokemon GO fans received an early Christmas gift. This came in the form of the long-awaited reveal for the December Community Day event, and it did not disappoint. Although a few details are sparse such as if shiny spawn rates are once again increased or how Community Day bonuses will exactly work, we do know that this event will feature every Pokemon that has had a Community Day event this year....

Pokemon GO recently brought some fan favorite Battle Raid bosses back into rotation (thanks to the Hoenn region event) and the community has been busy capturing as many of them as possible. Although the chance to catch additional copies of Kyogre and Groudon is likely enticing enough for most players, the added bonus of picking up a shiny copy really sweetens the pot. A news alert pushed out through Pokemon GO earlier today reminded players that it’s currently possible to catch a shiny Kyogre or a shiny Groudon....

Players who have been making good use of Pokemon GO’s updated gym system might be frustrated to learn that their bonuses for leaving a Pokemon defender in their team’s locations don’t appear to be applying as of right now. According to a post on the Niantic Support Twitter, the bonuses are not being awarded due to an issue that the team is currently trying to fix. Gym bonuses were a good way to incentivize Pokemon GO players to actually make use of the game’s gym system, prior to this unexpected bug....

Pokemon GO trainers have been mostly living without big Raiding events for the past two months, but the recent release of Remote Raid passes should help change that going forward. In addition to a new rotation of Legendary bosses in the tier 5 Battle Raids, Niantic is also ready to bring back the Raid Hour events starting this month. Raid Hour events offer a special chance for Pokemon GO players to easily find and battle the current Legendary boss without driving around town searching for a silver egg on top of a Gym....

Ash and Goh’s adventures in the Pokemon world will be released in manga form sometime in the Fall. Viz Media returns to localize and publish the book series to Western territories later this year. They’ve shared the news on Twitter with an image of the book’s cover. Ash, Pikachu, Goh, and arguably the best starter from Pokemon Sword & Shield, Scorbunny, all feature in the first book. Come on, Cinderace is the best evolution out of the lot, with his cool soccer-themed moves!...

Pro Cycling Manager is a series with an almost two-decade history. Put out by Cyanide annually since 2001, the games task players with managing graphs, analyzing statistics, and taking part in real-time races to further their career. The latest game in the series, Pro Cycling Manager 2019, makes this process of crunching numbers and making statistics fun, accessible, and satisfying to engage with. From the outset, players will have the choice of choosing the career of an individual rider or managing an entire team....

Gaming can get expensive given the cost of PCs, consoles, peripherals, and games themselves with new titles often going for more than $60 each in addition to downloadable content. Fortunately, there are ways for gamers to not go broke while indulging their passion. Many popular online multiplayer titles and esports titles are free to play, yet the most coveted games are always going to set you back a bit. Digital game shops from Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo often have specials deals, as do platforms like Steam, GOG, and Itch....

Bethesda has announced that Quake 2 is free to own on the Bethesda Launcher for a limited time as part of Bethesda’s celebration of QuakeCon. Interested players will need to act quick, as the giveaway will only last until 12 PM ET on August 15. That gives fans just under 72 hours to log in and redeem their reward to keep forever. It’s best not to wait though, as redeeming the game is easy....

Raihan and Duraludon are now making their mark in Pokemon Masters EX with the game’s latest update. Hailing from Pokemon Sword & Shield, the duo will be available to scout until May 30, 2021. To help you succeed in getting Raihan and Duraludon, Dena is offering a bunch of events that will give players up to 4,500 gems, just by logging in. Despite the game being fairly easy, Raihan is one of the toughest trainers you’ll face in Sword & Shield, so he’s worthy of the spot....

The new Rainbow Six Siege update Operation Neon Dawn is now live, and bringing a myriad of improvements and bug fixes to the game. Rainbow Six Siege’s new upgrades will also require a massive file size on available platforms to bring all the new changes to the game. Rainbow Six Siege’s Operation Neon Dawn will have a file size of 60 GB on PC, with the update taking up 35.90 GB on consoles....

The last few days of October are around the corner, and Halloween is almost here. Many of the best in-game Halloween events are already in full swing, but not in Rainbow Six: Siege. Up until now, there has been no hint of a Halloween event in Rainbow Six: Siege. This isn’t too surprising, since the game is pretty rooted in the real world (minus the ridiculous gadgets). A strange and goofy Halloween event might feel a bit out of place, even in the story behind Rainbow Six: Siege’s world, but it looks like a goofy Halloween event is exactly what players are going to get, and it’s certainly strange, even for an event like this....

Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart is so gorgeous that you probably want to take things slow. An average playthrough can take you anywhere between 14 to 16 hours, as you make your way through the next-gen platformer, seeing all there is to see. However, speedrunners are wasting no time seeing how quickly the game can be completed. Just weeks after release, the world record already sits at one hour, 32 minutes, and 11 seconds - and the competition shows no signs of slowing down....

Rockstar Games has some fun news for Red Dead Online, the currently-in-beta online multiplayer portion of Red Dead Redemption 2. Not only is Rockstar granting players that log onto the online mode this upcoming weekend a gift of free gold bars, but it’s also making some meaningful improvements to the relatively new Gun Rush battle royale mode. While the online mode isn’t yet ready to make the leap out of beta and into full launch, Rockstar continues to iterate on the service and encourage players to keep coming back....

Persona 5 and Persona 5 Royal’s Morgana is known for a lot of things: his unrequited love for “Lady Ann” Takamaki, his never-ending policing of Joker’s bedtime schedule, and his insistence that, despite his feline-like appearance, he is definitely not a cat. The last fact, in particular, is a bit of a sore subject for the tiny Phantom Thief, who is prone to pretty aggressive comebacks whenever someone mistakenly refers to him as an animal....

The surly weapons dealer Munehisa Iwai runs the airsoft shop “Untouchable” in Shibuya. Joker visits him to purchase some weapons before The Phantom Thieves’ first big mission, but later strikes a deal when he realizes just how valuable Iwai’s partnership could be. Here is a spoiler-free guide on how to max out his confidant in Persona 5 Royal. Availability After 5/6 Joker can head to Untouchable to ask Iwai about the contents of a paper bag the latter previously gave to him....

The Harvest Moon franchise has a long and complicated history that saw it part company with its creators back in 2014. Since then the farming and life simulator’s original developers Marvelous have been publishing under the Story of Seasons brand, while former publishers Natsume continue to use Harvest Moon. Now, for the first time since the split, the two franchises will be releasing titles within the same month. Since many fans still appear confused by the differing franchises, it will be interesting to see what happens when these farming simulator titans go head to head....

Plague Inc: Evolved is a game in which players create and spread a pathogen around the globe in an attempt to destroy the world. The game was popular, but Plague Inc. became controversial amid the Coronavirus outbreak and it was banned in China. Developer Ndemic Creations has made strategic moves to give its game a better look during these strange times, and the most recent one should be a goodwill move many fans can appreciate....