This is not an instant win. No purchase necessary. Competition ends at 12:00 PM PT on November 30, 2018, in which 80 winners will be chosen at random and emailed a code.
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You'll receive these in-game goodies for your favorite Blizzard games:
Overwatch® - 5 Epic and 5 Legendary Skins - Kick start your collection with this select set of 5 epic and 5 legendary skins, including Okami Hanzo, Shrike Ana, and Mystery Man McCree, and customize the appearance of some of your favorite Overwatch heroes.
Overwatch® - Hero Skins - Pay homage to the original Overwatch strike force by wearing the vintage skins Blackwatch Reyes or Strike-Commander Morrison. Explore other heroes' origins with Overgrown Bastion, Security Chief Pharah, and even Slipstream Tracer!
Heroes of the Storm - Tracer Hero - Jump into the Nexus with Tracer and surprise your enemies in the blink of an eye.
World of Warcraft® - Baby Winston Pet - Adorably cuddly and highly intellectual, the Baby Winston pet will be at your side as you fight your way through Azeroth.
Diablo® III - Mercy's Wings - Slay demonic forces throughout the High Heavens and Burning Hells as you don Mercy's wings. All of Sanctuary will know of your allegiance to Overwatch!
StarCraft® II In-game Portraits and a Hearthstone® Card Back! - With portraits of Tracer, Reaper, Pharah, Winston, Bastion, and Soldier: 76, you're sure to become a champion of the Koprulu Sector. You can also battle it out in Hearthstone with an Overwatch-themed card back fit for a hero!
By Anonymous on Nov 29, 2018 12:00 am We start our preparations for Destiny 2: Forsaken's upcoming Black Armory update by farming pinnacle weapons and more.
While Let's Go Pikachu and Let's Go Eevee are heavily inspired by Pokemon Yellow, the pair diverge from the classic Game Boy title in some dramatic ways. Rather than starring Red and Blue, the protagonist and rival of the original game, the pair cast players in the role of a brand-new trainer who is setting off on a journey to become a Pokemon Master alongside a new rival character.
But while Red and Blue no longer share the spotlight in Let's Go Pikachu and Eevee, they do play a role in the games. As we learned from a recent trailer, both classic characters appear at some point during the adventure--as does Green, the female trainer who was seen standing alongside the other two characters in the original artwork for Pokemon Red and Blue.
All three trainers can be battled at different points in Let's Go Pikachu and Eevee, but as in previous games, Red is the most difficult to find and defeat of the three. While Blue and Green will challenge you to a match when you've made it to a certain part of the story, you'll need to fulfill a few conditions before you're able to take on Red. Some mild spoilers follow below.
If you're hoping to test your battle prowess against the iconic Pokemon trainer, you'll first need to complete the main story by defeating the Elite Four. Once you've taken the mantle of Pokemon League Champion, a new slew of characters known as Master Trainers will begin appearing around the Kanto region. Each Master Trainer specializes in one particular Pokemon, and you'll need to use that same Pokemon to defeat them in a one-on-one battle. True to their name, however, Master Trainers pose a significant challenge; the Pokemon they specialize in has high stats and knows attacks that give it an advantage over you.
In order to battle Red, you'll first need to defeat any six Master Trainers in Let's Go Pikachu or Eevee. Once you've accomplished that feat, Red will appear outside of the Pokemon League in the Indigo Plateau, where you can talk to him to initiate the battle. He has a diverse team that consists of Pikachu, Snorlax, Arcanine, Lapras, Machamp, and Mega Venusaur, all of which are level 85, so you'll need to bring a powerful team of your own to stand a chance.
After defeating Red, you'll earn the title of Battle Master, which you can display to other players in-game when challenging them to Link Battles. Red will then leave the area, but you'll be able to re-battle him in the same spot by defeating the Elite Four again.
December is almost here, which means PlayStation Plus members will soon get a new batch of PS4, PS3, and PS Vita games they can download for free. Sony has just announced the PS Plus lineup for December, and it's a good one. Let's take a look at what games you'll be able to grab for free between December 4 and January 1.
For one, PS4 owners will be able to pick up Soma, a sci-fi horror game set in a research facility at the bottom of the ocean. But unlike many creepy games that mainly offer jump scares, this one actually has something to say. In our 9/10 Soma review, Richard Wakeling called Soma "an intelligent game that forced me to think and contemplate ideas as only the best sci-fi is capable of doing."
Also free on PS4 is Onrush, an online team racing game that has a lot more going on than just rushing to the finish line. Using influences ranging from Burnout's takedown mechanic to Overwatch's hero abilities, "Onrush is such a bold, refreshing twist on the genre," according to our 9/10 review.
Meanwhile, PS3 owners will be able to pick up the space shooter Steredenn and the mind-bending visual novel SteinsGate. The free PS Vita games for December are the Metroidvania-inspired Iconoclasts (also playable on PS4), and the indie gem Papers, Please.
If you hurry, you can still grab November's PS Plus games, which include Yakuza Kiwami and Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition on PS4, Jackbox Party Pack 2 and Arkedo Series on PS3, and Burly Men at Sea and Roundabout on PS Vita.
As always, you'll have access to the games you add to your account as long as you have a current PS Plus subscription.
The Bearded Ladies Consulting, developer of Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden, has revealed Farrow, a new fox character for the upcoming X-COM-inspired tactical game. Mutant Year Zero is set for release on PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One on December 4, so the new character comes as a last-minute surprise.
Farrow is described as an assassin who specializes in stealth tactics, equipped with gear and skills that give her the ability to move quickly yet silently through a battlezone. She will fight alongside the two previously known characters, the iconic duck, Dux, and the grizzly looking boar, Bormin. Farrow's skillset will compliment Bormin's explosive launcher and tank-like defense, as well as Dux's preference for long-ranged sniper attacks.
Mutant Year Zero's newest survivor, Farrow the fox.
The Bearded Ladies dev team is made up of former Hitman and Payday developers, and Mutant Year Zero is based on a popular pen and paper RPG from Sweden, simply titled 'Mutant'. In addition to releasing on Xbox One, the game will also arrive on PC and on PlayStation 4 early next month.
BioShock creator Ken Levine has been relatively quiet since the release of BioShock Infinite in 2013, but he's still at work on new video game projects. In fact, his latest one is already playable, but he's only rolling it out among a very select few participants.
In a tweet, Levine told a fan, "We've done some friends and family testing but that's all at this stage." Friends and family tests are usually conducted relatively early in development. It does mean the game exists in some form of playable state, however.
Levine hasn't talked much about the direction for his next project. He gave a talk at GDC 2014 about a concept he dubbed "Narrative Legos." The idea involves distinct storytelling pieces that can be reassembled to make new combinations and in different orders, making a story-driven game that can be replayed endlessly.
He said in an interview in 2016 that he stopped leading BioShock games due to adverse effects on his health and relationships. He said at the time he's more interested in smaller, experimental games--possibly like the Narrative Legos concept he outlined. Levine still heads up the studio formerly known as Irrational Games, now Ghost Story Games, though it has scaled down significantly since making the BioShock series.
BioShock and BioShock Infinite were both critically acclaimed. "BioShock Infinite isn't afraid to magnify the way religious and racial extremism inform our culture and change lives," critic Kevin VanOrd wrote in GameSpot's BioShock Infinite review. "It isn't afraid to depict a less-than-holy trinity diseased by power, deception, and manipulation. As the story circles back on itself, you're left wondering whether redemption cleanses us of our atrocities, or simply invites us to commit greater ones. Once the finale comes, you will want to play again, watching each event and image through the lens of information you can never un-know. BioShock Infinite is more than just a quality game: it's an important one."
One of the first images on the screen at the start of Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse is an "Approved By The Comics Code Authority" stamp, trailing right behind a glitched out slideshow of different studio logos. It's a nod that comics history buffs will no doubt appreciate, both as a fun Easter egg, and as a perfect tone setting introduction. This is a comic book movie--not a movie based on characters from comic books. It is literally a comic book turned into a movie, and every single piece, from the character designs to the animation itself, has been designed from the ground up to make that possible. The result is visually stunning and completely unique.
Into the Spider-Verse is the story of Miles Morales (Shameik Moore), a slightly put-upon but otherwise unassuming teenager in Brooklyn who is struggling under the weight of his parents' lofty expectations. However, during a slightly less-than-legal graffiti excursion with his slightly less-than-reputable Uncle Aaron, Miles' life is turned upside down when he's bitten by a dimension-hopping radioactive spider. Dimension-hopping becomes a recurring theme--it's the basis for the titular "Spider-Verse," an inadvertent convergence of Spider-people from different universes, brought about by a villain's scheme. It's all pretty sci-fi, but never too sci-fi, even for those who are less well versed in comic book science than others--especially not in the same year as Thanos's snap or Ant-Man's exploration of the Quantum Realm.
In fact, Into The Spider-Verse's self awareness of just how over-the-top its own science is makes for some of the most clever gags in the movie. It's brilliantly playful in introducing a supporting cast of various alternate reality Spider-people to the mix, like Nicolas Cage's Spider-Man Noir, a nazi-punching 1930s detective who is animated in perpetual black and white; John Mulaney's Spider-Ham, an anthropomorphic pig animated like a Loony Toon; or Hailee Steinfeld's Gwen Stacy--A.K.A. Spider-Woman--who carves her own path of cool through this film. At one point, Miles points out that Noir's constant rain-slicked, windblown look makes no sense--they're inside--but Noir shrugs and says that "wherever I go, the wind follows." And that's the end of that, even if Miles is practically left looking directly into the camera and contemplating how his life has gone so far off the rails.
The entire movie oozes this same sort of style. It's an explosion of color--part motion comic, part music video, part traditional animation--with a driving, almost frantic energy that carries every scene. There are montages that pluck real life comic covers off the shelves, word balloons splashed on screen to represent internal monologues, benday dots smearing over shadows to convey depth--really, you name it. There seems to have been no limit to the aesthetic experimentation allowed here, and the end result is an animation style that feels completely and totally new. It may take some getting used to for the purists out there, but by the second act even the weirdest visual quirks manage to level themselves out and become totally endearing.
Somehow even more endearing is the relationship between Miles and Peter Parker (Jake Johnson)--not the Peter of Miles' Earth, but one from an alternate dimension who is a little past his prime. Peter becomes Miles' unwilling mentor, which builds into as many laugh-out-loud gags as it does genuinely touching moments. Sure, this Pete may be a decade or so away from the youthful exuberance of someone like, say, Tom Holland, but that doesn't make him any less familiar--in fact, it really only makes him even more relatable for the twenty and thirty something crowd.
That relatability is really Into The Spider-Verse's core, when you get down to it. The premise may be bundled in a sci-fi camp wrapping and served up as a desperately stylish, rapid fire visual extravaganza, but its heart is pretty simple. Anyone, anywhere, has the power to be as heroic and as special as Spider-Man. It doesn't matter if you're an angst ridden teen struggling through high school, a middle aged divorcee down on their luck, or a cartoon pig with no concern for the laws of physics--the ability to do good, the ability to make the world a better place, is universal. It's multiversal, even. It's a constant.
It may seem a bit saccharine, typed out in so many words, but it's a message that superhero comics--that Spider-Man comics specifically--have been touting for ages, and something that's been long overdue for a big screen debut. It probably wouldn't work if Into The Spider-Verse weren't just so funny, self aware, and bleeding-edge modern--but it is, and it does. It manages to blow right past the dangers of sinking into after school special territory by believing wholeheartedly in its own message and delivering it with appropriately genuine stakes. The end result is an instant animated classic, and, with any luck, the first of many of its kind.
The Good
The Bad
Incredible, unique animation and style
Johnson and Moore's hilarious chemistry
A great message
Almost too many easter eggs for comics fans to count
Searching is a gripping mystery, where almost all of the film take places on the main character--David Kim's--laptop. It's very serious and intense, but if you go back an pay close attention to everything in the film, you'll learn the Earth is about to be invaded by aliens.
A special feature in which writer/director Aneesh Chaganty and writer Sev Ohanian discuss the Easter egg is hidden in the main menu of movie. This completely spoils the end of the movie, but we won't do that here. To find it, you'll have to highlight "Languages," then press up to highlight a folder on the desktop with a question mark on it. That's where this Easter egg special feature is located.
Towards the end of the feature, it's explained that throughout the movie, there's a subplot about an alien invasion on Earth. There is a moment when Kim (John Cho) is on YouTube and there's a video called "Real Footage of alien sighting at Sequoia 5/14/17," which at first, doesn't seem too out of the ordinary because YouTube has plenty of videos like that. However, from there, it gets a bit more weird.
Still early on in the movie, there are news articles from NASA about electromagnetic anomalies, people from NASA are murdered, and the President is going to address it all, including extra-terrestrial life on Earth. So while Kim is trying to find his daughter, the world is on the brink of an alien invasion. However, this secret subplot is never resolved, so it's up to the viewer to guess where it goes. I'm guessing everyone in the movie has been replaced by aliens.
Chaganty and Ohanian only discussed a few of these alien invasion Easter eggs. However, they said there is a reference to this subplot in the background of almost every scene, which will make you want to go back and hunt for them all. The extensive planning needed to pull this off in an already complicated film is outstanding.
Additionally, this special feature goes over around 10 of the Easter eggs within the film, which completely spoil the movie; however, there are around 500 of them scattered everywhere, in every scene, and we only caught a few when the movie first came out. It greatly enhances the rewatchability of the movie, just to see if you can spot any other insane subplots.
Searching is available now both digitally and on DVD and Blu-ray.
Nintendo set sales records over the holiday weekend from Thanksgiving to Cyber Monday, the company has announced. The Nintendo Switch became the best-selling Nintendo console in US history for those five days, even surpassing the Wii, and the system also had its best-selling week ever in the US. All of these figures are for the US only.
In the announcement, Nintendo also noted that Adobe Analytics showed Switch among the most purchased items online on Thanksgiving day and the best seller for video games during the full Black Friday to Cyber Monday time period. Overall Nintendo sold $250 million worth of products during the holiday, according to internal sales figures. That includes Switch, 3DS products, the NES and Super NES Classic systems, and accessories and games.
Nintendo also noted that Pokemon Let's Go Pikachu and Let's Go Eevee have reached a combined 1.5 million units since launch. Super Mario Party reached 1 million as well, making it the fastest selling Mario Party game. Total lifetime 3DS sales have reached 22 million, while the Super NES Classic has hit 2.5 million and the NES Classic is at 2 million.
Some of these records may be due to increased shopping time, as more stores are choosing to open for select hours on Thanksgiving day. That gives shoppers a head-start on Black Friday deals. The Nintendo Switch also had an appealing bundle option this year, packaging Mario Kart 8 Deluxe in with the system at no extra charge. Some retailers piggybacked on that bundle with extras of their own. The 3DS also got its own holiday bundle, packaging a specially colored 2DS with Super Mario Maker for $80.
Heads up, action fans. Mission: Impossible - Fallout is gearing up for home release. It's already launched on digital services, but the 4K UHD, Blu-ray, and DVD versions are set to hit stores on December 4. But you don't have to wait until then to secure a copy; you can pre-order Mission: Impossible - Fallout right now.
Fallout is the sixth film in the long-running action franchise. It stars Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt, along with a murderer's row of well-known faces, including Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Henry Cavill, Rebecca Fergusson, and more. Directed by Christopher McQuarrie, MI: Fallout is another globe-trotting adventure that's filled to the brim with surprising plot twists and downright insane action set pieces. You can read our Mission: Impossible - Fallout review for our thoughts on the film.
But if you're ready to bring home a copy of the movie, you might be wondering where to buy it, what kind of bonus features it will have, and how much it costs. We have you covered on all accounts below.
Mission: Impossible - Fallout Digital Edition
Mission Impossible: Fallout has already landed on digital storefronts, so you can download and watch it right now. The pricing is the same everywhere: $15 for SD, $20 for HD, and $25 for 4K.
If you want an instant collection of all six Mission: Impossible films, this is an easy (and cheap) way to do it. It comes in either 4K UHD or Blu-ray format, and even includes digital copies.
If you only want the new installment, you won't find a better-looking version than this one. In addition to a 4K UHD disc, it also comes with a Blu-ray, as well as a digital copy.
The most affordable way to get your hands on the film is by purchasing it on DVD. It doesn't come with any extras or bonus features, but getting a copy of the movie itself is the main point, right?
The Super Smash Bros. series has always excelled in a party setting thanks to its frenetic action and easy-to-learn mechanics, but the franchise has generally struggled to offer an equally compelling single-player experience. While each installment has featured a variety of modes tailored to solo players--the most robust being Super Smash Bros. Brawl's Subspace Emissary, a full-fledge crossover adventure--none of these have had the same lasting appeal as its standard Smash mode. The series' latest entry, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate for Switch, introduces a few new single-player options of its own in the form of the Spirit Board and World of Light mode, and from what we've seen of them thus far, they look to be just what the series needed to elevate its solo experience.
We had the opportunity to try both of the new solo modes during a recent hands-on demo of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. Much like Subspace Emissary, World of Light is an expansive single-player adventure that unites the game's motley cast against a powerful, supernatural entity known as Galeem. As we saw during the final Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Direct, the story begins when Galeem unleashes a barrage of light that reduces every character on the roster--with the exception of Kirby--to Spirits, beings who have lost their corporeal form. As the sole survivor of the onslaught, it falls to the intrepid puffball to rescue the other fighters and put a stop to Galeem's machinations.
Despite its initial similarities to Subspace Emissary, World of Light differs from it in some notable ways. While the campaign does feature some cutscenes, Nintendo says it isn't quite as story driven as Brawl's adventure mode. Instead, World of Light compensates for its lighter narrative with a sprawling world map, which features branching pathways and dozens of battles to take part in. As you work your way through these bouts, you'll gradually rescue other characters, who you'll then be able to freely switch between as you head toward the final confrontation with Galeem.
Each opponent you face off against in World of Light comes equipped with Spirits, collectible characters drawn from an array of different video games. Much like the different pieces of equipment you could acquire in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U and 3DS, Spirits are used to augment your fighter's stats and abilities. They come in two varieties. The first, Primary Spirits, confer a stat boost to your character. Depending on their class level, they also typically boast one to three slots that can be outfitted with Support Spirits, which further imbue your fighter with different abilities and attributes. For instance, equipping Fire Emblem Awakening's Lon'qu as a Support Spirit will give your character a Killing Edge sword at the start of a match, while the Wind Fish from The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening increases the power of your special moves.
Furthermore, Primary Spirits fall under one of three different categories: Attack, Grab, or Shield. Much like the elemental types in Pokemon, these coexist in a rock-paper-scissors-style triangle, each one offering an advantage over another. As a result, the battles in World of Light introduce a new layer of strategy to the series, as you'll need to carefully consider which Spirits to equip to your fighter in order to counteract the different battle conditions imposed by your opponent's Spirits. Defeating foes will in turn reward you with their Spirits and other in-game currency, which you'll then be able to use to level them up and even unlock additional attributes for your fighters on a skill tree.
Complementing World of Light is the aforementioned Spirit Board, another mode in which you can unlock the titular collectibles. True to its name, the Spirit Board is laid out much like a quest board; you'll be able to select the picture of a Spirit you'd like to challenge and compete against an appropriately themed character who is equipped with it, just as you would in World of Light (albeit without the adventure game trappings found in that mode). The difficulty of these bouts is determined by the rarity of the Spirit you are facing, and they can get surprisingly challenging if you're battling an Ace or Legendary Spirit. Fortunately, even if you don't succeed the first time around, you'll be able to challenge the Spirit again after a set amount of time.
Thanks to the introduction of Spirits, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate's new single-player modes are shaping up to be the deepest in the series yet. The game launches for Nintendo Switch on December 7. On top of the new modes, it boasts the largest roster in the franchise to date, with 11 new characters set to debut in the game (plus five as-yet-unannounced fighters slated to arrive throughout 2019 as DLC). You can take a look at some of the new fighters in action here. For even more on the title, check out our roundup of everything we know about Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.
By Anonymous on Nov 28, 2018 08:30 pm Fallout 76's controls on PC leave a lot to be desired and it could be worth trading your keyboard and mouse for a controller for the best experience. Let us know what you think in the comments!
Since it first arrived on Nintendo 64 back in 1999, the Super Smash Bros. series has become a veritable who's who of some of gaming's most beloved characters. While the franchise initially served as a showcase for Nintendo's vast pantheon of first-party mascots, the roster has since grown to encompass other gaming icons such as Pac-Man, Sonic the Hedgehog, and many more. That tradition continues with the upcoming Super Smash Bros. Ultimate for Switch, which features the largest and most diverse selection of fighters in the series to date.
On top of every playable character to have ever appeared in a Super Smash Bros. game, Ultimate introduces 11 new fighters to the base roster, with an additional six set to arrive as DLC in the months following its release. Inkling and Ridley were the first two newcomers announced for the game, showcased during Nintendo's big E3 2018 presentation, and since then the company has gradually unveiled all the remaining new fighters debuting in Ultimate, from the oft-requested King K. Rool to complete surprises like Animal Crossing's Isabelle and Castlevania's Simon and Richter Belmont.
We recently had an opportunity to go hands-on with a "near final" build of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. Naturally, the first thing we did was try out the game's newcomers. In the video above, you can watch us play a handful of standard four-player Smash matches with nearly all of Ultimate's newly announced characters. While Echo Fighters like Ken and Dark Samus naturally bear many similarities to the characters they're based on, the other new additions to the roster all feel pleasantly unique. Simon Belmont and his own Echo Fighter, Richter, in particular stand out among the crowd thanks to their versatile Vampire Killer whip, which has a long reach and can even deflect projectiles.
Likewise, Isabelle, despite boasting some similarities to her fellow Animal Crossing representative, Villager, feels new thanks to her unique moves and characteristics. Like Villager, one of Isabelle's specials involves a Gyroid rocket; however, rather than riding atop hers, as Villager does, Isabelle buries it in the ground, setting a trap that your opponent will activate when they step over it. Her diminutive stature also means her Smash attacks have a shorter reach than most characters, making her one of the trickier fighters to use. Incineroar, too, takes a bit of getting used to; its up special, Cross Chop, doesn't gain much height and launches it back toward the ground diagonally, making it easy to send yourself plummeting off the stage. That said, Incineroar's pro wrestling-inspired moveset is very satisfying to use and doesn't feel like any other character on the roster.
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate launches for Nintendo Switch on December 7. Nintendo will release five as-yet-unannounced DLC characters for the game throughout 2019 as part of the Fighters Pass, plus one additional surprise fighter: Piranha Plant, which you'll receive for free if you register Ultimate on My Nintendo by January 31, 2019. You can read more about the game in our roundup of everything we know about Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.
Batman joins this season of Young Justice, coming to the streaming service DC Universe at the start of 2019, and apparently, he's going skydiving. However, this is for a mission and not for fun. Batman doesn't like fun. The first trailer for Young Justice Outsiders was recently released, and the video has a few surprises.
The second season of Young Justice aired back in March 2013, but Season 3 will still be dealing with the fallout and events of that season, from metahuman trafficking to intergalactic threats to figuring out how to be a hero in the DC Universe without being one of the big superhero names. The trailer for Season 3, which you can see above, doesn't give too much away; however, we do get to see Metamorpho, Batman, and Katana in the video, and Kid Flash is running a mission on a distant planet.
Young Justice: Outsiders comes to the DC Universe streaming service on Friday, January 4. Then, every Friday until January 18, a new episode will be released. On January 25, DC Universe will celebrate the mid-season finale by debuting four new episodes. The second half of this season will hit the service in June 2019.
DC Universe is doubling-down on all its Young Justice content. Aside from the first two seasons being exclusive to the streaming service, DC Universe will release enhanced episodes from Season 1 and 2 starting on December 4, on every Tuesday, through December 25. Every episode from the original series will feature commentary, interviews, and extra information. Additionally, there will be a "Making of" docuseries for Young Justice: Outsiders following voice actor Whitney Moore during the production process. This series starts on Tuesday, January 8.
The DC Universe streaming service has come a long way since its launch back in September. It contains movies, TV series, and comic books featuring the company's characters, but the real selling point is and will be the original series. Titans is well underway, releasing weekly, and while the first episode had a bit of a learning curve, it's quickly become a fantastic comic book TV series with a high production value. In addition, you can rewatch Batman: The Animated Series completely remastered in HD. It's taken a few months, but DC Universe is quickly becoming a must-have streaming service for DC fans.
Pokemon Go developer Niantic has announced the first details on the game's next Community Day, but this one looks to be a little different from previous events. Rather than taking place on a single day, as most Community Days have, the next event runs for an entire weekend and gives players another chance to capture all of the previously featured Pokemon.
The special Community Day weekend kicks off Friday, November 30, at 1 PM PT / 4 PM ET and runs until 11 PM PT on December 2 (2 AM ET on December 3). During this time, Pikachu, Eevee, Dratini, Beldum, and all of the other Pokemon that were featured during a previous Community Day will reappear in greater numbers. Likewise, you'll have another opportunity to learn the special event-exclusive moves that were available during past Community Days.
On top of bringing back all of the previous featured Pokemon, Niantic is offering a handful of in-game bonuses during the Community Day weekend. As with a typical event, these will only be available during a three hour window of time, which will vary by region. This time, the bonuses include double the normal amount of XP and Stardust for capturing Pokemon, as well as double Incubator effectiveness. You can see when these will be live in each region below.
Niantic hosted the first Community Day back in January, and since then, the developer has held a new event for the game each month. Unlike other real-world Pokemon Go events, these typically only run for three hours, during which time you can find increased spawns of that month's featured Pokemon. You can also learn a special event-exclusive move if you meet a certain criteria before the event ends. You can check out our guides for all of the previous Community Day events below for more details on how to get these moves.
In addition to the upcoming Community Day, a new Legendary Pokemon is now available in Go. Cresselia, the Legendary Psychic-type introduced in the Gen 4 games Diamond and Pearl, will appear in Raid Battles until December 18. Niantic also recently rolled out a Special Research questline that revolves around the new Mythical Pokemon Meltan.
Pokemon Go Community Day Bonus Schedule
Europe, the Middle East, Africa, India: December 1, 2018, 10 AM - 1 PM UTC
The Americas and Greenland: December 1, 2018, 11 AM - 2 PM PST
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