This week Niantic is reversing a bunch of incorrect strikes and punishments issued to players in the very recent past. To make up for the incorrect issue of punishments and strikes, the company is delivering a free Event Box in the in-game store. This Event Box contains 10x Premium Raid Passes, 10x Incense, 10x Raid Passes, and 10x Super Egg Incubators.
The last part of the Pokemon GO Ultra Unlock series for this year's Pokemon GO Fest includes Zacian and Zamacenta. These Pokemon will be among the first released by Hoopa! Hoopa will likely play a significant part in the in-game story rolling through Pokemon GO from this point on, especially when it comes to Legendary releases. In this case, the first to Galarian Legandary Pokemon come from the hoops!
Pokemon Unite has been out for a little while, and now that the meta has become more defined, it looks like it's time for the game's first balance patch. Tencent and The Pokemon Company have actually published the patch notes for this update well ahead of its arrival - while the update won't be landing until tomorrow, we've got a list of all the changes right now.
Niantic is facing a bit of backlash from Pokemon GO gamers who are not pleased to find changes in the game this week. Per Niantic, they intended to "remove or change some of the bonuses introduced last year," and would not be starting this rolling set of changes until the end of July 2021. Niantic began changing these bonuses "first as a test" in two key regions: New Zealand and the USA.
In the month of August, 2021, Niantic's ready to roll with a set of Pokemon you'll most likely want to catch for Spotlight Hours. The best of the bunch might very well be the first, with Magnemite. There'll also be a Shellos from the East Sea and a Shellos from the West Sea. Late August also has a couple more Pokemon that aren't yet revealed to the public.
Today we're taking a peek at Eevee Community Day in Pokemon GO, complete with an early peek at code that'll go live on the first big day. Eevee Community Day in Pokemon GO is your next best bet for finding a Shiny Eevee and whichever Eevee evolution Pokemon you've not yet collected. The latest update to this event (before it happens) has to do with the ticket you can attain for the event to make the event more valuable to you on August 14.
So far, New Pokemon Snap is one of the Switch's biggest releases of the year, and today Nintendo and The Pokemon Company announced that the game is getting a free content update. This doesn't appear to be a small update either, as it adds 20 new Pokemon to photograph and three new areas to visit. So if you were hoping for more New Pokemon Snap, then it seems that you're going to get it.
Those iPhone Pokemon GO users that were bummed to see Google Play sponsoring the Pokemon GO Fest 2021 event will be glad to see iOS-specific eggs in the near future. The latest update to the game files for Pokemon GO revealed this (iOS-specific eggs) and a wide variety of wild new updates and teasers for future items and features in the game. Also found were new fitness tracking mods, dynamic re-load of map elements, cross game settings between other Niantic games, and an expansion of the ways in which a player can work with their address book.
Pokemon Unite has been out for a little over a week, and already we're getting the first post-launch character added to the roster. The Pokemon Company and Tencent announced today that Gardevoir will be joining the lineup of Pokemon Unite later this week, bringing its ranged attack capabilities to the table. While we don't know Gardevoir's full kit yet, the announcement trailer for the Pokemon suggests that it'll be pretty strong.
This week Pokemon Masters EX had a deluge of updates spilled with details on new moves, new events, and new sync pairs for August. This all begins with an event starting on August 4, 2021, at 11PM (local time) called Daily Type Rotation: Type Team-Up. This system will use sync pairs of all 18 available types, and types will rotate daily.
Pokemon Unite is here, and it's almost surprising just how much fun it is to play. Pokemon Unite can probably best be described as a casual MOBA that borrows elements from more hardcore games in the genre like League of Legends and Dota 2. Even though it isn't as complex as either of those games, strategies for winning matches in other MOBAs definitely still apply to Pokemon Unite - and if you're new to the genre, those strategies may not be immediately obvious. If you're a MOBA newcomer, here are some quick tips that will help you win matches in Pokemon Unite.
For almost as long as there have been Pokemon video games, there's been a Pokemon TV show. In fact, the Pokemon anime series debuted in the United States a few weeks before the first Pokemon games launched here, so as far as we Americans are concerned, the Pokemon TV show even predates the games. There have been quite a few Pokemon spin-offs and miniseries throughout the years, but now it sounds like Netflix is going to give us our biggest one yet.