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Pokemon Go July Community Day Event Available with Squirtle from the Animated Show

Pokemon Go fans should be happy to know that Niantic is planning something big for July’s Community Day. The game developer announced that the upcoming Community Day event is going to feature Squirtle which is one of the classic starter Pokemon that players get to choose. To make things even better, Niantic has dropped some hints which point towards the fact that players might even be able to find a special version of Squirtle in the game once the Community Day event starts.

July Community Day Event

Even though Pokemon Go has been out for a long time now, the game developer has managed to keep Pokemon Go fun for players by creating lots of special events. These events give veteran players a reason to keep coming back for more while refreshing Pokemon Go’s gameplay at same time.

Special Squirtle

Nonetheless, Niantic recently announced on Twitter that players who complete all the Field Research Tasks during the July Community Day will be able to encounter a special Squirtle that wears sun glasses. This Squirtle is referring to the classic Pokemon animated show that had a gang of “cool” Squirtles which wore sun glasses at all times.

Moreover, Niantic also announced that a new set of Field Research tasks will become available once the event kicks off and that they will be focused on the Kanto region which is the latest region to be added in the game.

Launch Date

  • North America (11 AM – 2 PM PT);
  • Europe and Africa (10AM – 1PM BST);
  • Asia-Pacific (12PM – 3PM JST).

The event will be available for a limited period of time and players need to try and complete all the field research tasks in those thee hours. Not just that, but players will also benefit from a bunch of limited bonuses such as faster egg hatching time.

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Pokemon Go’s Dortmund Safari Zone: What We Know so Far

Right now, three significant events are happening for Pokemon Go. Among them is the Safari Zone in Dortmund, in Germany, which is by far the most popular one. It caught so well with the people, that it crashed the game.

Our advice is not to use the Incence, because it can cause the crash, and you won’t be able to enter the game or play.

Global Research Challenge

This new event is a big part of the Global Research Challenge, a challenge where gamers are asked to do things. The exciting thing is that they have to do it locally, at the very events, and in the whole world to unlock different prizes.

Asia-Pacific and Dortmund already did their part. There’s still those who are in the Safari Zone – there are 50,000 of tasks, which can unlock 3x catch XP globally. Let’s give a round of applause for  Asia, which did about 5 million tasks, which gave them luck eggs that last for one hour.

Let’s see what America can do. We have to do 5 million tasks, and the game has 145 million active players, so how hard can it be? Let’s not forget that Asia hit this goal in half of the hour. So, if we are to do some math, if even less than 5% does its task, globally, we could make it. If America also reaches its goal, it’s going to get hatch XP. If Africa and Europe do it, too, that means bonus raid XP.

But what’s the reason behind all of this? Rumor has it, there will be a vast unlock on the 7th of July, one that Nintendo has talked about, even if the gamers did not reach the goal just yet. From what they’re saying, the return of Articuno is the big prize, and it will last for 3 hours. During these 3 hours, Articuno will be the one to have a chance to shine finally.

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Pokemon Go Receives a More Realistic AR Pikachu thanks to the Developer’s New Technology

The Augmented Reality (AR) seems to be one of Niantic’s latest innovating areas. Nowadays, the developer is working on improving Pokemon Go by turning the AR tech into something more like actual reality. For that matter, they have created virtual versions of the sweetest characters, Pikachu and Eevee and have given them the possibility to hide behind objects from the real world.

This operation received the Codename: Niantic Occlusion and it has been presented by a brief demo video released by the developer. In this short footage, the Augmented Reality characters are shown as real-world environment characters. Players will be very excited to see this considering the fact that from now on, they won’t see any connection between Pikachu and the top of a camera feed.

The technology is described on Niantic’s YouTube channel

The team which has been working on developing the new technology joined Niantic recently. Under the name Matrix Mill, the specialists spent several years working on the development of a system that can induce information about the environment around us on different cameras.

Once discovered, this technique can redefine the way machines see the 3D world and how digital objects end up interacting with the real elements. The Codename: Niantic Occlusion operation presents AR Pokemon Go figures running among real people and hiding behind different objects from the actual surrounding world.

Also, they are making some independent gestures which show a high level of integration into the natural environment. From the experiment we can conclude that the future of AR is bright and will bring many surprises.

Niantic says that Codename: Niantic Occlusion can serve as concept note for innovative gameplay possibilities. Since virtual characters like Pikachu can become aware that different things are near and hide behind them, Pokémon Go and similar games will become even more challenging if they’re played in AR mode.

In case you are interested, you can see the video Codename: Niantic Occlusion on the developer’s official YouTube channel:

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Pokemon Go Update Download Available with Friends Feature and Trading Pokemons

It’s a component that players distressfully missed from the primary Pokémon series, which has customarily given two players a chance to trade Pokémon. Back in the July of 2016, Niantic’s CEO John Hanke revealed to Business Insider that it’s sort of a central component. Yet it wasn’t until the point when, a week ago, at E3, a Pokémon Go designer depicted the game’s up and coming trading feature.

The thing with the trading in Pokémon Go is that it will just work locally, in about 100 meters of another player. They expected to consider how to bring trading into this game where investigation and investigating new places is central to the game adjust. They would not like to ruin this thing, as said by Pokémon Go’s engineer Kristen Koa at a Niantic lunch. Here are the means by which Niantic depicts trading in their public statement:

About trading

Mentors will gain the Candy of the Pokémon received from trading, and that reward can increment if the Pokémon traded was gotten in areas far separated from each other. The Friendship level between players trading Pokémon will give different rewards including Stardust rebates. Higher Friendship levels between Trainers will open the Special Trades choice, which incorporates the capacity to trade some certain Pokémon, for example, provincial Pokémon, Legendary Pokémon and Shiny Pokémon, and adds new Pokémon to their Pokédexes. However, coaches who require the approval of their parent and registration through the Pokémon Trainer Club to play Pokemon GO will be not able to trade with different Trainers in the game.

About the “friends” feature

Niantic additionally reported that Pokémon Go would welcome the “friends” feature, which will concede players rewards the more they play together. Players can just include companions by utilizing each other’s “trainer codes,” something that may sound commonplace to Nintendo Switch proprietors.

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Pokemon Go 0.105.1 Update Download Available – New Ability and Bug Fixes

Pokemon GO is one of the best mobile games ever made and there’s no doubt about that. What makes Pokemon GO truly special is the fact that it gives people the chance to live their childhood dream of running around the city and catching Pokemon while fighting against other trainers at the same time. In addition, Pokemon GO uses AR (augmented reality) technology which makes it possible for the developers to place Pokemon in real-life locations such as the nearby park.

Pokemon Go 0.105.1 Update

This game is played by millions of people every day and this means that the developers can’t take any risks with it. Niantic, the game developer in charge of Pokemon GO, is making sure that the game is always running without any issues by launching a constant stream of updates that include software tweaks and bug fixes.

Talking about Pokemon GO updates, fans of the game should be happy to know that a brand-new one has just been made available for download. The update sports the Pokemon GO “0.105.1” version number and it is available in the form of APK. With that said, let’s see what the new update contains.

Bug Fixes

Even though Pokemon GO is a premium game, some issues still manage to appear every now and then. Luckily, the developers are quick and they take care of them before they manage to do any harm. Therefore, the new update contains a bug for the in-game messaging error codes that didn’t allow players to communicate.

New Ability

Another important thing that the new update brings is the ability to view and activate in-game items such as TMs, Rare Candy and more right from the info screen of a Pokemon. This is not a groundbreaking feature, but it will surely prove to be quite useful.

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