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Gen 3 & Weather influences coming!

Game Announcements, Pokemon GO

Trainers,

They’reeee heeeerrrrreeee!!  By end of this week we’ll start to see the Hoenn Region Generation 3 Pokemon released in game!  A blog update by our friends at Niantic indicates 50 new Pokemon being launched “Starting later this week.”  As well a previously unknown Weather interaction is being introduced in game.

Gen 3 launch:

Lets get into the details shall we?  Treecko, Torchic, and Mudkip are specifically called out in the blog post but we can expect to see all 50 Gen 3 Pokemon to be released in the next 24-48 hours, with more coming over the next few weeks.  No details on Gen 3 evolutions to current Pokemon but one would have to assume that’ll also be included.    Please feel free to share your Gen 3 catches on our twitter, facebook, and here on the site!Exciting stuff but what’s this about the Weather?

A previously unknown new weather influence is being added as well.  If it’s raining outside guess what?  It’ll be rainy on the game and your chance for water related Pokemon increase.  Sunny days will be fire type Pokemon.  To boot, their attacks types *ALSO* are influenced by weather!!  Pretty neat and interesting to see how this affects overall Gym battles and holdings.

Check out the launch video:

https://youtu.be/dUztYCMZYls

And as always you can visit the Niantic blog here.

Legendary Summer

Events, Game Announcements, Game Info, Pokemon GO

Well folks, here it is just released this morning!  Niantic announces by way of an very sharply shot exciting video, Legendary Pokemon in the wild!  2017 has been an incredible year for the resurgence of PokemonGo and while the 1 year anniversary was blah boy they came out swinging.

Clocking in at almost 3 mins the video (very snazzily shot by the way) shows the new gym system, team battling with invites to raids that open with legendary Pokemon, aptly called Legendary Raids.  A W E S O M E!  If you win you get to catch a Legendary Pokemon of your own…..ay yi yi!

SPOILER ALERT – It’s a very good adrenaline pumping Pokemon inspired video ending with a brief glimpse of MewTwo OMG.  Anyway hop over to this link and watch the video and get ready y’all this summer is gonna be lit!

Now arriving – PokemonGo’s biggest update since launch!

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Trainers across the world should have the latest and greatest update very soon!  Version 0.67.1 for Android and 1.37.1 for iOS devices have been rolling out through the respective stores as of last night through today!  Players in the Eastern United States started receiving the iOS update around 12pm EST.  This update brings out the big guns in a HUGE way!  At long last we are going to see new revamped gyms, gym battling, the introduction of raids, and LEGENDARY Pokemon!!

Directly from the folks at Niantic, below are some release notes and comments from our development team.

  • Gym features significantly updated to add the all-new motivation system.
  • Added new Gym Badge feature.
  • Added in-app and push notification system for Gyms.
  • Added Raid Battles, a new cooperative gameplay experience.
  • Added four new items available only by completing Raid Battles.
  • Added Raids tab to Nearby screen.
  • Added search functionality to Pokémon collection screen.
  • Added visual indicator to unvisited PokéStops.

There’s so much to see in this update we can spend all day detailing them but here’s the direct link to the official blog spelling it all out in glorious detail.

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PokemonGo Eggstravaganza!!!

David S., Events, Game Announcements, Pokemon GO

The folks over at Niantic have announced we’re very close to the Pokemon GO Eggstravaganza event!  The event was leaked a few days ago and now confirmed to start up today, April 13th,  at 1pm PDT to 1pm PDT April 20th, 2017.  Details provided indicated eggs will produce more varied Pokemon hatch results.  Specifically Niantic claims “a greater variety of Pokemon can now be found in 2km Eggs.”  Players will also receive more candy for every egg hatched and DOUBLE XP through the event!  They are offering 50% off Lucky Eggs in the Shop to help you double anything earned on top of that!

As always share your Egg hatches and catches on social media via the #PokemonGo hashtag.

Direct link for full details.

Finally!!! 80 new Johto Pokemon, new Evolutions, and more this week!

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Trainers got a major surprise this morning as Niantic announced a HUGE update launching this week with Pokemon Go.  Players have been anxiously waiting word of new Pokemon and updates to the game and it seems it’s finally here.  According to a new blog post this morning, Niantic will be releasing 80 new Johto Pokemon from the Johto region “this week”.  Pokemon from the Gold and Silver games are to be showcased in this release.

But wait there’s more:

  • New Evolutions – With new Pokemon come new evolutions so we can expect to evolve most of these 80 new Pokemon!  AND you’ll be able to evolve some original Kanto Pokemon into Johto Pokemon!  Expect new “evolution items” to show up at Pokestops too!
  • New Encounter Gameplay – Pokemon can act in “new ways” during encounters and “new item carousels” will be available for faster switching to balls or berries.
  • New Berries – Nanab and Pinab berries are being introduced to satisfy the “berry” hungry new and old Pokemon!  Nanab berries will slow Pokemon down to make them easier to catch and the Pinab berries will double the Pokemon candy on successful catch!!
  • New avatar and expanded wardrobes – Trainers will be able to update and refine both Avatars and their outfits!!
  • Hashtag #PokemonGo to report and share all your new experiences!!

PokemonGo Valentine’s Event February 8th – 15th

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Well after the long anticipated wait for another PokemonGo event, Niantic announced the Valentine’s Day event this morning.  While expected to some degree it feels like a let down.  Recycled structure of previous events in that more candy is provided for catches, hatches, and transfers; as well as Buddy Pokemon additional candies and a spotlight is put on specific Pokemon.  We’ll see more Chansey, Clefables and “other pink Pokemon”.  Cleffa, Igglybuff, and Smootchum will be likely to be hatched from eggs as well (UGH!!).  Festivities start 11am PST February 8 to 11am PST on February 15th, 2017.  I think we can all agree we need to start seeing some Gen 2 soon this game is going to lose even more players.

Link to the original post from Niantic.

New PokemonGo App Update – No Gen2 but GPS drift and Apple Watch fixes

David S, Game Announcements, Pokemon GO

Hey gang!  It’s been quite a stretch of quiet from the folks at Niantic regarding the game.  Beyond the usual 2 week nest migrations (Nest Migration #11 happened January 12th, 2017 and happens every two weeks), some expansions of the Starbucks Pokemon Gym/Stops to more locations, and RAMPANT Gen 2 speculation, there’s been nothing of any real merit.  Although they’ve broken their silence about the game and an updates this is still pretty non-eventful.  Today via blog post they announced that an update is coming to bring Pokemon Go for Android to 0.53.1 and for iOS 1.23.1.

The one giant omission from the patch notes is any reference to legendary Pokemon nor more Gen 2 Pokemon.  Disappointing for sure.

 

 

 

 

 

The Apple Watch “fix” is so that the Apple Watch displays eggs obtained from PokeStops.   The biggest concern to players seems to be a tweak for the “GPS drift.”  The notes detail change of distance tracking for GPS drift which will have a HUGE impact to gaining km’s for eggs, buddy, anything distance based for the game.  Some users including this writer like to open the game even when not actively being played as the character will randomly move around acquiring location from the GPS within the phones.  Not a “hack” or major glitch by any definition as on guesstimates alone there’s no way people are getting more than maybe 1-3 kms extra out of GPS drift, that’s again having the phone open ALL day.  Let’s hope the folks at The Silph Road have some existing data to see how big an impact this has on players.  They seem to be pretty awesome on picking apart updates, getting data, and analyzing the game very well, check them out here and sign up to help ID nests around your area as well.

Seems to be yet another squeeze to push folks to only get the km’s from either walking or biking.  Let’s hope we’ll at least see something new and exciting here soon…

Tis the season for a Pokemon Go Holiday Event!!

Game Announcements, Pokemon GO

Niantic has just released the details on the end of year Holiday Event!  It’s packed with a ton of Poke goodies!  Trainers have been awaiting the long rumored holiday event for weeks now and it looks like it was very much worth the wait!

Increased hatch rates – Starting Christmas morning, December 25, 2016 through the afternoon of January 3, 2017 (PST) we’ll see increased egg drops and hatching rates for Togepi and other recently released Johto region Pokemon.  To handle the increased egg hatching, Niantic is also increasing the incubator drops.  “Pokestops will award one single-use Incubator each day after your first Photo Disc spin.”

Holiday themed Poke’s will hang around for a while longer – Festive Pikachu will be around for a bit longer it seems.

This is where it gets better – Increased first partner Pokemon and their evolutions in the wild!!  This means all the Kanto region originals will be more plentiful so if you’ve still not got a Bulbasuar, Ivysaur, and Venusaur, or a Charmander, Charmeleon, and Charizard; you certainly will after this event.  These increased spawn rate items will run from the afternoon of December 30th, 2016 through January 8th, 2017 (PST).  As well any lures you drop at Pokestops will be extended to 60 minutes instead of the usual 30 minutes.

Get the full post here.

So unwrap all your cool presents in the morning, then get out and enjoy the holiday event!!

More Pokemon and limited edition Pikachu are live!!!

Game Announcements, Pokemon GO

Our wait is over!  We were told to wait until today for new information on Pokemon Go additions and here it is:  Togepi and Pichu will be hatching from eggs starting later today!  Hailing from the Johto Region in the Gold and Silver video games these two are the first two of many more Pokemon that will be introduced in the coming months based on the update on Niantic’s blog!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As well starting today at 10:00 AM PST limited edition Pokemon will be available for trainers to find all over the world.  They will be dressed in “festive hat” for the season.  See the video for more:

Share your new Pokemon catches on Twitter via the hashtag #PokemonGo and for the festive catches go AR, snap a pic and tag #HolidayPikachu

 

Starbucks and PokemonGo – 2nd major partnership announced

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Niantic has confirmed much of the speculation and rumors generated by leaked Starbuck’s emails that it has indeed inked a deal to partner with the huge chain.  Starbucks will now be an official partner with Pokemon Go!

Much like the Sprint partnership this means that all 7,800 company operated Starbucks will have Pokestops and Gyms.  What makes this different from the Sprint deal is that fans of Pokemon Go can get a special-edition Pokemon Go Frappuccino.

So if you dig Fraps and Pokemon Go take a spin or walk over to your local company operated Starbucks and get a drink and some Pokestop goodies or battle it out for Gym ownership!