Yesterday, Niantic and Pokemon GO revealed the exclusive move for Mareep’s upcoming Community Day. While this move seems to add some versatility to the Pokémon’s move set, many players are upset about how underwhelming the Community Day appears to be compared to previous events. Typically, the fully-evolved version of the Pokemon caught during the Community Day event somehow influences the metagame. Many wanted Squirtle, Charmander, or even a Magikarp (so it would be easier to catch Mew) Communi

While the PC version of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds seems to get all the attention, the Xbox One version is slowly catching up to it, content-wise. Greenberg took to Twitter to confirm that the Miramar desert map would be coming to the Xbox One version of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds in May. After all, when the PC version of PUBG received the Miramar desert map back in December, it also marked the game’s official launch. The @PLAYERUNKNOWN himself just shared that the @PUBG Miramar map is com

Developer Rare’s new open-world pirate RPG Sea of Thieves has been awash with criticism since its launch, but the developer may be about to make a significant change for the better. The first, significant change that Rare plans to introduce will allow players the option of choosing whether their ship is “invite-only,” rather than open to any matchmade players. The other key issue addressed in Rare’s developer update is cheating in Sea of Thieves. Finally, Rare briefly addressed the studio’s plan

In its place, Fortnite Battle Royale has added the Dark Vanguard skin, which further plays into the space theme of Season 3 and is available for 2,000 V-Bucks. In this case, the Dark Vanguard has the familiar design of an astronaut, with some darker and more futuristic flair. Obviously, the Dark Vanguard skin for Fortnite Battle Royale is not on the level of the Raven skin, but it’s a new legendary skin and that is always going to draw some eyes. Alongside the release of Dark Vanguard, Fortnite

The most recent Metal Gear spinoff, Metal Gear Survive, has been the subject of as much criticism as its predecessor, The Phantom Pain, has praise. Beginning on April 10th, a new cooperative event titled The Encounter 1964 takes direct inspiration from one of the most popular Kojima games back in the day: Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. This announcement comes as good news for fans of the game that may have found it lacking in Metal Gear content. Our Metal Gear Survive review didn’t recommend t

20 year old Danny Diaz-Delgado of Trenton, New Jersey was killed on March 23 after attempting to buy a PlayStation 4 for his younger brother from a stranger he was conversing with through Facebook Messenger. Police allege that Diaz-Delgado’s murderer was 29 year old Rufus Thompson, a convicted burglar. Police believe that Diaz-Delgado arrived at the agreed meeting place with $240 to buy a PlayStation 4 that didn’t exist, and that is when Thompson abducted him. Thompson apparently killed Diaz-Del

A couple of weeks ago, Niantic announced that the next Community Day for Pokemon GO would feature Mareep and take place on April 15. We knew that anyone who evolved a Flaaffy into an Ampharos during the Mareep Community Day would unlock an exclusive move, but until now, we didn’t know what that move would be. As announced by Niantic, the exclusive move that Ampharos can learn during the Mareep Community Day in Pokemon GO is Dragon Pulse. Anyone that wants to add an Ampharos with Dragon Puse to t

Veteran game developer Cliff Bleszinski’s new studio, Boss Key Productions, has announced that the company will be moving on from its first and only game, LawBreakers, stating that the game failed to find an audience. “The fact is LawBreakers failed to find enough of an audience to generate the funds necessary to keep it sustained in the manner we had originally planned for and anticipated. When LawBreakers launched in August of last year, the game failed to attract many players, with sales numb

Monster Hunter World has delivered an excellent experience on all fronts at this point and the game’s community is still tearing through the endless content. To go along with the other Street Fighter tie-ins, it looks like the next wave of DLC will add a Chun Li costume to the mix. There’s a lot of exciting content to explore, but the final seconds are used for a mic drop reveal of the Chun Li costume. Take a look at the special costume right here…According to early translations, the Chun Li cos

In an effort to give PvE players a better overall experience, Destiny 2 is lowering its inactivity requirement before kicking players to orbit. Now, players that sit idle in a Strike playlist for 3 minutes will be removed from the activity and replaced by an active player. On the one hand, this sounds like a positive change for Destiny 2’s Strike playlist, as it will alleviate the burden of having to “carry” inactive players through the PvE encounters. In response to recent player feedback, we a

When Final Fantasy 15 was released in 2016, publisher Square Enix promised that the game would receive story-based downloadable content post-launch. The episode will detail the final days of the empire, which Square Enix have described as “Aranea’s worst day”. Square Enix’s decision to release new story-driven content for Final Fantasy 15 should not come as a surprise. With Final Fantasy 15’s new content seemingly being designed with player input in mind, it will be interesting to see whether it

However, it appears as though yet another special event will be hosted in the game in April, according to a newsletter sent to some members of the Pokemon GO community. As reported by Pokemon GO Hub, Niantic’s latest newsletter teases a special event starting Tuesday, April 10 that will focus on Kanto region (generation 1) Pokemon. Unfortunately, the newsletter doesn’t clarify what this special event will entail exactly, but we have some guesses. “Trainers, starting April 10, we’ll be hosting a

Crucible fans are in for a bit of disappointment, as today Bungie announced that 6v6 Iron Banner in Destiny 2 would be delayed due to a late-breaking issue discovered in internal testing. 6v6 Iron Banner was set to make a comeback in Destiny 2 after high demand for a return to Destiny 1-inspired Crucible matches. Instead of Iron Banner, Rumble will be the weekly Crucible playlist next week. The Destiny 2 community takes the good with the bad because alongside the disappointment of the Iron Banne

However, a recent trademark filed by Nintendo suggests that this isn’t the only Pokemon game currently in development for the Switch. Pokemon Rumble is one of the more successful spin-off series, with several games released on the Nintendo 3DS, Wii, and Wii U. The most recent game in the spin-off series is Pokemon Rumble World, a 3DS game released in 2015. According to Serebii and Japanese Nintendo, Nintendo recently registered a trademark for “Poksucu.” This word is often used in reference to P

After some investigation it was found that women earn significantly less than their male contemporaries at Rockstar North’s GTA 5 studios, amongst other companies. Rockstar North’s public report shows that female game developers’ hourly rate is a significant 64% lower than that of male developers. In addition to the big pay gap, the demographic of female game developers at Rockstar North is severely lacking, where women make up a mere 8% of the highest paid employees at the company. Payment gaps

So far, Pokemon GO’s new Research mechanic seems to be a major hit. Although many of the Field Research quest rewards are items, some quests also have the chance to reward a special encounter. Although the encounter may seem like a mystery, Pokemon GO players who don’t mind spoilers can actually figure out which pokemon they’ll be seeing. Each particular quest has one to three possible pokemon that can spawn as a reward (except for the battle in a gym quest, which has seven possible rewards). Ju

Monster Hunter World has launched its Spring Blossom Festival, which includes an opportunity to replay all event quests, collect some new emotes, and enjoy a change of scenery in Astera. The biggest selling point for the Spring Blossom Festival is the event quests, which are all active for Monster Hunter World. This greatsword was designed by a fan prior to the release of Monster Hunter World and was the winner of a contest. 🌸 pic.twitter.com/VYb3Ge5p9c — Monster Hunter (@monsterhunter) April 6,

As the hype for the next Destiny 2 expansion, supposedly titled The Fallen Warmind, continues, Bungie has started giving teasers of what we might expect from the best-selling first-person-shooter’s second DLC. First, WWE’s “The Big Show” Paul Wright has tweeted a photo of him wearing a Destiny 2 t-shirt, with the caption “Soon… #Destiny 2 Partner”. It is a well-known fact that “The Big Show” Paul Wright is a big fan of the Destiny game franchise and an enthusiastic Destiny player, having served

Although Bungie was hoping to give Destiny 2 PvP players one of their most requested features with the return of the Rumble mode, many felt this new version was disappointing. Now that Rumble has rotated out of the weekly Crucible playlist (replaced by Mayhem), Bungie can address player feedback and tweak the mode to meet player expectations. Specifically, Bungie plans to lower the player count to 6 and improve the spawning algorithms, so players don’t find themselves immediately under fire afte

One of the most anticipated Microsoft exclusives, State of Decay 2, has released a new trailer at PAX East in Boston. The video focuses on base building, stealth combat, and also touches a little bit on the new survivor system. The survivor system is only touched upon momentarily and cooperative features are also completely absent in the new trailer. More in-depth details on the survivor system have already been revealed, including how backstories factor into character skills. For those not will