The hype surrounding popular gaming app, Pokemon Go, may slowly be fading away but it doesn’t mean it still doesn’t have a huge player base or that Niantic Labs and the Pokemon Company will stop bringing updates to the game. The most recent update brought us the appraisal system, which is a somewhat vague representation […]
If you’re having a tough time tossing those PokeBalls and often find yourself having to do a massive PokeStop run cause you’ve wasted your stash on that low-level, stubbron Pidgey, then this may be the perfect accessory for you — if you own an iPhone and an existing case from the brand making them. Catalyst, […]
Here’s some interesting news for Pokemon Go players who got perma-banned for using third-party apps and add-ons. Niantic is apparently reversing some of these lifetime bans, according to their latest blog entry this week. Read carefully if you’re one of the “banned guys”: An update on Pokémon GO account bans We continue to work to […]
You may have seen a job posting circulating social media this past weekend looking for Lure Managers. It was later confirmed by news sources that it was someone from Freenet, an arm of Voyager Innovations, that was on the hunt for the precious few that could fill the position that was later revealed to be […]
The Pokemon Go trainers over at The Silph Road Reddit took a closer look at the game’s code after the latest update and found some interesting placeholder values that might give us a clearer glimpse of what Niantic has planned for future updates. Note that some of these placeholder keys have been in the game […]
The birthplace of the Pokemon phenomenon, Japan, has just seen its first Pokemon Go related death, regional news agency Japan Times reports. A truck driver playing Pokemon Go while driving ran over two women, killing one and injuring the other in the Tokushima Prefecture, local police said. The suspect, 39-year-old farmer Keiji Goo, admitted […]
(August 26 EDIT: The “Lure Manager” job post is legit! See this post for additional details.) Fancy working part-time as a Pokemon Go lure manager? Have the needed qualifications? Wanna earn cash while playing your favorite augmented reality game? Send your resumes to that guy up there. Here’s what’s written on the original Facebook post, which […]
The Pokemon Go juggernaut is steadily losing steam, based on multiple data tracking reports from industry analysts. From a peak of almost 45 million daily active users (DAU) in July, Pokemon Go‘s concurrent users in August now sit at around the 30 million mark. Bloomberg released the report from industry analyst Axiom Capital Management, who […]
This is just INSANE. We’ll let the pictures speak for the chaos that Pokemon Go induced on Taiwan the other day. Credits to Kotaku, Taiwan’s Eastern Broadcasting Company for the shots, and to the local players for the YouTube videos. The culprit? Apparently a Snorlax spawned somewhere in a busy part of town and that triggered […]
Intrepid data-miners and Pokemon Go enthusiasts over at The Silph Road Reddit have discovered some recent server-side changes to the game. Reddit user NaestaChalmers has compiled a list of the changes from the feedback gathered from the forum’s users and here’s what they’ve noticed so far: New move sets for some Pokémon (confirmed by Game_Master […]
Well, it’s been more than two weeks now that Niantic Labs’ and the Pokemon Company’s smash hit of a gaming app has been out in the Philippines. You’re all probably hovering around level 20 and climbing that enormous mountain to become the very best. Level requirements are getting higher and higher, so you’ve probably read […]
It’s no surprise that a number of brands, not to mention almost all the malls in Metro Manila, have taken advantage of the craze that Pokemon Go is drumming up; from a marketing standpoint, we really can’t blame them. Droves of people, including ourselves, have been heading to malls and other public areas that are strewn […]