Niantic trying to determine best approach for trading in Pokemon GO, won’t be done through the internet
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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Pokemon Duel balance update coming tomorrow
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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 TailZygarde
Power of Dragon Breath increased from 80 to 100
Power of Land’s Wratch increased from 60 to 70Metagross
Ability – Metagross grets the ability Rapid Calculation which ignores ability-forced respin effects
Power of Metal Claw increased from 80 to 90Tyranitar
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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Fire Emblem Heroes – new monthly missions available
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:
Miitomo – new Miitomo Drop stage (3/1/17)
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Miitomo has been updated with new content. Players can nab the latest items in the Miitomo Drop stage, “Loud and in your face! Decourageous Fashion #3”.
Available items include:
– Colorful clunky highlights wig
– Lightning bolt polka-dot biker jacket
– Lightning bolt polka-dot pants
– Pop Mii chain necklace
Users can select Miitomo Drop stages from the Shop tab. Miitomo coins or game tickets are needed to play.
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Niantic shows off early designs for Pokemon GO, including original design for trainer avatar
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During a session at GDC this week, Niantic’s Dennis Hwang provided a look at how Pokemon GO changed throughout development. The company messed around with different versions of the overworld map, a variety of takes on the appearance of the battle screen, and even original plans for the trainer avatar.
As for the trainer, originally Niantic had an avatar more in line with the character from Pokemon Ruby / Sapphire. However, it was scrapped during early stages of development.
Hwang said during his talk:
“[In] the original IP, the trainers have a much younger look as the target audience tends to skew younger. But for us, the avatars, we wanted to kind of elevate them to an older generation slightly.”
“We didn’t want some super stylized big-headed, small-bodied characters running on the map when you’re the real game hero. We kind of wanted to match the virtual with the physical.”
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Pokemon GO getting three major updates this year
Posted on 7 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in Mobile, News | 8 Comments
At a keynote in Barcelona at Mobile World Congress today, Niantic CEO John Hanke teased the future of Pokemon GO. Three major new releases are planned for the mobile game this year. Hanke didn’t clarify, but that’s likely in addition to the Generation 2 update.
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Fire Emblem Heroes: Calendar artwork for March revealed, featuring Ike and Lyn
Posted on 7 years ago by Matt(@OnePunchMaz) in Images, Mobile | 3 Comments
The Fire Emblem Heroes calendar artwork for March has been revealed. This month features the winners of the “Choose your Heroes” event, Ike and Lyn.
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Pokemon GO update rolling out (version 1.27.3 / 0.57.3)
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Update (2/27): The update should now be live on iOS and Android.
Original (2/24): A new update is rolling out for Pokemon GO. However, it won’t be as significant as the last one that introduced a bunch of Pokemon and features.
iOS users will soon have access to version 1.27.3. On Android, the game’s update will be 0.57.3. Niantic says the patch will “implement performance improvements.”
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Niantic announces 650 million downloads for Pokemon GO
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During the 2017 Game Developers Conference today, Niantic announced that its hit mobile game Pokemon GO has exceeded 650 million downloads.
Niantic chief technology officer Phil Keslin mentioned that trainers have now walked roughly 8.7 billion kilometers (5.4 billion miles) while playing Pokemon GO. Keslin said that distance is “just shy of Pluto”, but it’s actually closer since Pluto is about 7.5 billion kilometers (4.67 billion miles) away even at its farthest distance from Earth.
Keslin added that Niantic intends to keep Pokemon GO fresh with regular content updates.
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Fire Emblem Heroes – Sibling Bonds footage
Posted on 7 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in Mobile, Videos | 6 Comments
Fire Emblem Heroes adding in a bunch of content earlier today. New heroes are available, as well as Paralogue Maps: Sibling Bonds and related special quests. Watch some footage below.
