Posted on 7 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in Mobile, News | 2 Comments

Niantic CEO John Hanke previously indicated that Pokemon GO’s lore would be expanded in the coming months. However, in an interview with Polygon, senior product manager Tatsuo Nomura mentioned that it isn’t a top priority currently. That’s simply because Niantic is “a very small team and we can only do so much at once.”

Nomura added:

“It’s not like we’re forgetting [about the characters], but it’s just resource-wise, what we are doing next … Do we do multiplayer and gen two versus putting out more narrative?. So far, it’s not being our focus, but we are not leaving it behind. I personally still want to think a lot more stories behind them and narratives.”

Niantic is currently focusing on building new functionality of Pokemon GO. This includes trading as well as other multiplayer features.

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Posted on 7 years ago by Matt(@OnePunchMaz) in Mobile, News | 0 comments

Version 3.0.3 of Pokemon Duel went live today, and in addition to various bug fixes, it also added a total of six new figures: EX Reshiram and Zekrom, Rares Flygon and Whimsicott and UC Gothita and Solosis.

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Posted on 7 years ago by Jake in Mobile | 0 comments

Pokemon Duel has updated to version 3.0.3. This implements some bug fixes and the balance changes describehere.

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Posted on 7 years ago by Jake in Mobile, Switch | 0 comments

Miitomo will be featuring some special items to celebrate the Switch’s launch. By logging into Miitomo between March 3 and 23, players will receive Switch-themed items, getting a new one every day that they log in. The items are as follows:

There are pictures of the items below, so check them out:

Thanks to Nintendaan for the heads up!

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Posted on 7 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in Mobile, News | 1 Comment

Miitomo has been updated with new Daily Decorations. Users can check back daily for wallpapers and floorings, including the following:

– Theater stage (Wallpaper)
– Borderline (blue) (Wallpaper)
– Retro flower print (yellow) (Wallpaper)
– Retro flower print (blue) (Wallpaper)
– Log cabin (Wallpaper)
– Two-tone (pink) (Wallpaper)
– Two-tone (yellow) (Wallpaper)
– Red carpet (Flooring)
– Pile carpet (emerald) (Flooring)
– Ash flooring + circle rug (stars) (Flooring)

Miitomo Drop stages are located in the Shop tab, and can be played with Miitomo coins or game tickets.

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Posted on 7 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in Mobile, News | 0 comments

The 2017 Game Developers Choice Awards took place earlier this evening. At the event, there was one Nintendo-related winner.

Pokemon GO was chosen as the “Best Handheld / Mobile Game”. It beat out Super Mario Run, Pokemon Sun / Moon, Clash Royale, and Reigns.

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Posted on 7 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, Mobile, News | 1 Comment

My Nintendo has added in another Super Mario Run reward. For 300 Platinum Points, the Gold Peach Statue can be yours. The Mario and Bowser Gold statues are still on My Nintendo as well.

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Posted on 7 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in Mobile, News | 3 Comments

Pokemon GO is still missing a key feature from the main Pokemon games: trading. It should be added via an update in the future, but Niantic still has some work to do before it’s ready.

Speaking with Polygon at GDC, senior product manager Tatsuo Nomura confirmed that trading won’t happen through the internet. He also indicated that the team is still trying to figure out the best way to handle the functionality. Failing here could “easily kill the game.”

Nomura said:

“[Trading] won’t be through the internet. You shouldn’t be able to exchange your Pokémon with someone who is 100 miles away from you. … The person needs to be in your proximity.”

“I wasn’t really thinking of trading as a way to solve the local area spawn issue. That was more, we have a couple Pokémon that only spawn in a couple regions, and that was the hope, that some Pokémon you have to know someone or find someone who lives in certain regions and meet and exchange. We don’t want to just have that be an online game that you can just exchange virtually.”

“We’re still trying to come up with an answer [to trading] that makes sense so it doesn’t kill the game. If we fail this, we can easily kill the game.”

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Posted on 7 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in Mobile, News | 0 comments

Pokemon Duel will be receiving another update tomorrow. Several of the game’s characters will be impacted by balance changes.

Serebii shares the following list:

Charizard

Ability – Charizard gets the ability Speed Booster which increases its Movement by 1 if it has evolved
Move Iron Tail is changed to Dragon Tail

Zygarde

Power of Dragon Breath increased from 80 to 100
Power of Land’s Wratch increased from 60 to 70

Metagross

Ability – Metagross grets the ability Rapid Calculation which ignores ability-forced respin effects
Power of Metal Claw increased from 80 to 90

Tyranitar

Ability – Tyranitar gains the new ability Speed Booster
Earthquake piece size increased
Power of Bite increased from 40 to 50
Position of Earthquake and Crunch swapped
Size of Miss piece reduced

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Posted on 7 years ago by Jake in Mobile, News | 2 Comments

Fire Emblem Heroes has updated again. The update includes new missions for March, giving players various tasks to complete by the end of the month for rewards. If you complete all the missions on a difficulty level, harder missions with greater rewards will be unlocked. The Normal missions and their rewards are as follows:

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