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If you're all about finding the best water-type Pokemon in the game Pokemon GO, now's your best chance - perhaps ever! Right this minute the Pokemon GO Raid Battle circuit is teeming with Kyogre, but the legendary Pokemon is far from the easiest boss to beat. If you're going to go out and attempt to beat Kyogre in a raid battle at your local Pokemon Gym, you'd best bring a friend - or better yet, six or more friends to help.

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The game-making company Sensible Object was acquired by Niantic, as announced by the companies this morning. Niantic is the company that was once part of Google, coming from Google Maps and landing in a separate company under Alphabet called Niantic Labs. They made Pokemon GO and Ingress and they'll soon have a Harry Potter game using the same engine. Now they're readying their business to explode in size once more by acquiring a team called Sensible Object - now re-named Niantic London!

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To gain access to easier-than-normal Shiny Pokemon for Pokemon GO Fest starting this week, you'll need to follow some steps. Today we're taking a look at the steps you'll need to take to get to a new, more extraordinary place in your Pokemon GO journey via Global Challenges and Rewards for Pokemon GO Fest - with the newly rebranded Pokemon GO Global Challenge list.

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The June 2019 Pokemon GO Adventure Week event didn't go as well as some would've liked, over the past few days - but don't worry! Niantic knew there was an issue with Adventure Sync, so they decided to give gamers another chance at glory. This week, users can once again gain access to the standard rewards as outlined in this previous weeks' Adventure Week document.

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The extremely frustrating system of attaining one of seven different Eevee evolutions in Shiny form was under consideration recently at Niantic. Information provided to us by an anonymous source familiar with the subject matter allowed us some insight into the potential near-future changes in Pokemon GO with regard to Eevee.

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Today we're doing a bit of a rundown on the most awesome - read: not necessarily Shiny Pokemon - in the game. When we say good, we mean best: Best for battle in the game Pokemon GO. These top Pokemon list inclusions might not transfer to other games, they're only really mathematically accurate here in the mobile game, here in the summer of 2019.

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Our report today includes info from the latest code for the Pokemon GO app - ready to roll for Adventure Week! This year's Pokemon GO Adventure Week is set to feature a set of new monsters in Shiny mode - edition, rather - one of which you might've been waiting for since the beginning! Here's a hint: This Adventure Week is about to get rocky!

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This is Extraordinary Raid Week in Pokemon GO, and there's a whole lot of quantifiable data through which we must sift! Much like our previous guides for special weeks in Pokemon GO, we've got the shiny Pokemon of the week: Bronzor - as well as some new rates on Shiny Pokemon popping up as result of the raids themselves. All five tiers of Pokemon Raid Boss are in the mix too!

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Pokemon is one of those almost never-ending franchises that keeps on adding new monsters. That's great news for Niantic Labs because it won't be running out of new content any time soon. They just Gen 4 critters from the Sinnoh region just a while back but now they're adding a few more. But perhaps a bit more interesting for some collectors is the arrival of two new Eeveelutions, including a one-time trick to get them.

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In 24 hours from the point at which this article goes live, there'll be no more Detective Pikachu in Pokemon GO. The big Detective Pikachu event in Pokemon GO started on May 7th, 2019, at 1PM Pacific. The event is set to end at 1PM Pacific on Friday, May 17th, 2019. Let's talk about how you can get a Detective Pikachu before your time is up.

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It definitely feels like we're closing in on the release date of Niantic's Harry Potter: Wizards Unite. At the beginning of the month, Niantic rolled the game into beta in some regions of the world, and now the company has published a new trailer for the game. The trailer doesn't provide any details we didn't know about before, but it certainly sets the stage for the conflict at the center of the game.

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It's a dark world out there in the world of Pokemon GO, and it's not ever going to be like it once was. Back when the game began, it was a true wild west of gamers, hackers, Pokemon fans, and developers of all sorts. Now here in 2019, when the game still rages on, the hackers and the developers seem to have left the scene - or so it would seem. Today we're running down a few still-living Pokemon GO Maps and Pokemon Trackers that continue to work with the real live game still in-progress!

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