Although some Pokemon GO players are unhappy with Ho-Oh and Latias/Latios appearing at the same time; there are still level 5 Battle Raids that need to be defeated. Players should be well aware of the differences between battling Latios and Latias, but many trainers may need a refresher on Ho-Oh’s weaknesses. Ho-Oh is a powerful Legendary Battle Raid boss, so Pokemon GO raiders need to bring a strong team to the table to be able to defeat it....
Pokemon GO players are about to get a brand new Mega Raid boss to face off against after a week or so of battling the Kanto-region starters. Thanks to some hard work on a global community challenge, the player base has been able to unlock Mega Pidgeot raids in the mobile AR game. The new Mega Raid boss arrives in just a few days, which means it is time for players to start preparing their counter rosters and getting ready for the next big fight....
Pokemon GO’s GO Fest Friendship Challenge is officially underway, and it features a variety of different tasks for players to complete. One of the first tasks that fans will encounter during the GO Fest Friendship Challenge instructs them to play with their Buddy, and some players may be curious about exactly how that is done. Fortunately, it is quite easy to play with a Buddy in PoGO, and this guide contains all of the details that players need....
With every new update to Pokemon GO, it is standard for fans to go to work quickly at scouring game files for clues about upcoming changes and additions to Niantic’s smash augmented reality game. This holds true once again with the Pokemon GO update that began to be implemented today, and industrious dataminers have already unearthed something that fans may find intriguing — namely, specific reference to Pokemon GO purified Pokemon has been found in the game files....
Pokemon Go players are already starting to hit level 50, with the first in the world to do so streaming the moment live. Ever since Pokemon Go launched during the summer of 2016, the game has had a level cap. Even though trainers who reach level 40 continue to earn XP, it all counts for nothing. Until very recently, there was nothing beyond that lofty ceiling. However, at the tail end of 2020, Niantic revealed that it would be upping the level cap to 50....
The Pokemon Trading Card game has a ton of viable strategies at the top of the metagame. One of these decks is the Eternatus VMAX deck. The Pokemon introduced in the Eighth Generation has one of the best VMAX cards out there. The Eternatus VMAX decks is a Dark-Type focused one that is able to utilize some great support cards. Eternatus VMAX is all about getting Dark-Type Pokemon onto the Bench in order to boost up Eternatus VMAX’s attacks....
Pokemon is home to almost 800 different creatures who all have their connection to a certain typing, or pair of types. Many of them are based on or inspired by real-life animal counterparts, while others are unique creations never before conceived. Their evolutionary lines often followed an understandable path of growing and transforming, but you can see the connective tissue between them. That isn’t always the case though, and even through Pokemon Sword & Shield, there are plenty of Pokemon who look nothing like the base form they evolved from....
Nintendo redefined a genre in 2017 with the release of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, with the game ushering in a whole new category for open-worlds. However, while the original Legend of Zelda is one of the first open-world titles in the history of the genre, with many of the more recent titles like the Wii’s Skyward Sword having taken more linear approaches to design. So, if Breath of the Wild could jump back to the series’ roots with such success, then there may be other legendary franchises that could use a refresher in the form of a new open-world....
Motive Studios, which is working with Visceral Games on an as-yet-untitled Star Wars project, reveals that Portal lead designer Kim Swift has joined the team. Even though details about the Visceral Games Star Wars project are remaining scarce, fans of the beloved sci-fi universe are extremely excited about the in-development title. Part of this comes down to the number of brilliant minds working on the game, with director Amy Hennig just one of many examples....
While most of the discussion around the next generation Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5 consoles has been focused on 4K resolution, gamers planning to use a 1440p monitor may have expected the new hardware to natively support the intermediate resolution. The latest comments from Sony however, suggest that the PlayStation 5 will not. According to IGN Italy, a Sony representative has confirmed that the PlayStation 5 will not support 1440p resolution natively....
At 7 pm GMT today, Returnal is getting its first update, but Housemarque - the developer - has warned that, if you don’t want to lose your run, you should turn off auto-updates. Currently, there’s no save and quit feature despite this being something that most roguelikes offer so that players can leave a game mid-run in case something crops up. Returnal can last upward of five hours, potentially more, so players are opting to put their PlayStation 5’s into rest mode as a temporary fix, but there’s a slight hiccup with this strategy....
Despite claims that the PlayStation Network had returned to stability following the Christmas Day DDoS attacks, gamers are still reporting problems logging in to the PSN. In fact, Sony just recently confirmed the connection issues, but have also provided a potential fix for gamers’ problems. Although it seemed like the worst was behind us (thanks to Kim Dotcom), many gamers were still having trouble connecting to PSN following the “all clear” signal over the weekend....
Competition in video games has been a part of the system since the very beginning. We’ve come a long way from the 2D world of pong with bare minimum depth to real-time 3D battles happening in front of our screens. And if there is one game that has impacted the multiplayer in this generation, it is PUBG. The game is released on almost all major platforms by now and has become a cult classic already....
Early last month, David Cage, the founder of Detroit Become Human developer Quantic Dream, promised fans they can expect some big new announcements throughout 2021. Today, the CEO revealed that the company has opened a brand new studio and, as expected, it is working on an ambitious and innovative new game slated to release in the coming years. Revealed through an exclusive interview with IGN, Cage announced that a “human-sized” team has been established over in Montreal, telling the publication that the idea behind the decision isn’t to pump out games as quickly as possible....
If I had to choose a science fiction franchise to hold above all others, it’d be Mass Effect. This was a sci-fi opera unlike any other - drastic galactic stakes, incredible futuristic technology, galaxy-spanning alliances, and a dark and terrible foe. Perhaps best of all throughout the franchise were the alien species each game introduced. They had just the right amount of alien to make us think this wasn’t going to be another Star Trekkian ham-show of a bunch of dudes with weird ridges on their face, and just the right amount of 2 legs, 2 arms, and 1 head to make us recognize each species as a sentient thing....
The focus this week might be on the new 3DS games, but one Pokemon card collector has snagged a very rare card at auction for a whopping sum of $54,970. Pokémon cards may be one of dozens of fads that caught fire and then faded during the ‘90s and early ‘00s, but the Pokémon brand still has plenty of clout around the world. And even though the cards themselves aren’t nearly as popular as they once were, there are still some very avid collectors out there who are willing to pay top dollar for rare versions....
Rift Apart dominated the sales chart during its launch month while breaking all sorts of records in the Ratchet & Clank series along the way. Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart ended a five-year wait for a new game in the series. It also took the PS5 to a whole new level just seven months on from the console’s release. Insomniac made the decision not to create Rift Apart for PS4, instead harnessing everything the PS5 has to offer to create a truly next-gen game....
As hype builds for a Red Dead Redemption sequel, some fans have noticed that Take-Two Interactive Software have quietly claimed the domain for Red Dead Online. In all the excitement for a sequel to 2010’s Red Dead Redemption, fans have been scouring the internet for more evidence of a future Red Dead game’s existence. Well now it’s been found, and it comes in the form of a domain registry for Red Dead Online....
One of the most interesting aspects of both Red Dead Redemption games is the honor system, a subtle but powerful sub-system that permeates the entire in-game experience. The first game utilized the honor system in a much less critical way, with high honor meaning people are nice to the player and shops give discounts, whereas low honor means people are mean to John and he doesn’t get any favoritism. However, in Red Dead Redemption 2, the honor system has a much bigger impact on Arthur’s personality in comparison....
As gaming has embraced some of its most visually rich worlds to date, so too has it began to implement tools for players to fully appreciate and share them. Photo modes are more common than ever in the vast majority of blockbuster AAA releases, whether that’s capturing stills from the likes of Death Stranding, The Last of Us 2, or Ghost of Tsushima. However, a new study from the team over at Shotkit....
