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Niantic announces Hoenn Celebration Event for Pokémon GO

Prateek Jain
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Niantic announces Hoenn Celebration Event for Pokémon GO

Niantic is holding a special 5-day event for every main region in Pokémon GO before we make our way to the new Kanto region coming with the big Pokémon GO Tour: Kanto event update. Let’s dig into the Pokemon GO Hoenn Celebration Event in this article.

Starting with the Unova region, Pokémon Go is currently having a celebration event for the Sinnoh region from Tuesday, January 12th until Sunday, January 17th The next will be the Hoenn Celebration event which will take place from Tuesday, January 19th until Sunday, January 24th.

The Pokemon GO Hoenn Celebration event will bring a lot of changes to the game. Starting off with the Hoenn region-specific Pokémon’s Treecko, Torchic, Mudkip, Taillow, Loudred, Nosepass, Aron, Meditite, Roselia, Carvanha, Numel, Baltoy, and others from the region will appear more frequently in the wild. Players will also have a chance to encounter a Shiny Aron.

The raids lineup will also be updated to include Hoenn region Pokémon. Treecko, Torchic, Mudkip, Ralts, Aron, and Bagon will be appearing in one-star raids.

While Breloom, Mawile, Grumpig, Spinda, and Absol will be appearing in three-star raids. Finally, Kyogre and Groudon will be appearing in five-star raids.

Niantic is also giving players a free bundle of 3 Remote Raid Passes to take on the new raid bosses while the event is active. 

As for the collections, a special time-limited Hoenn-themed Collection Challenge will be available during the event where the players will be tasked to collect Treecko, Torchic, Mudkip, Nincada, Nosepass, Aron, Plusle, Minun, and Bagon in order to receive three Silver Pinap Berries, XP, and an Incense.

Previously available Community Day exclusive move Meteor Mash is also on the table for players to claim. Evolve Metang form of Beldum during the event to get a Metagross that comes equipped with the move Meteor Mash as his charge attack. 

During the event, players will also be able to complete event-exclusive Field Research tasks that will reward Stardust and lead to encounters with Pokémon such as Treecko, Torchic, Mudkip, Aron, Plusle, Minun, and Wailmer.

Plus a there will also be Timed Research active throughout the event, completing which the player will get the following rewards

  • Catch two Kyogre – 10 Kyogre Candies
  • Catch two Groudon – 10 Groudon Candies
  • Catch 30 Pokémon – 30 Poké Balls

Completing all the Timed Research tasks will also allow players to encounter a Rayquaza that knows the exclusive Charged Attack Hurricane, as well as earn 3,000 XP and a Silver Pinap Berry. Players that are extremely lucky, might encounter a Shiny Rayquaza after completing all the Timed Research tasks. 

Also Read | Pokémon GO February 2021 Community Day Will Feature Roselia

Outer Space FPS game Boundary coming to PS4 and PC this Summer

Prateek Jain
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Outer Space FPS game Boundary coming to PS4 and PC this Summer

One-of-a-kind space shooter, Boundary is finally coming to PS4 and PC this summer. Developed by Studio Surgical Scalpels and published by Skystone Games, Boundary was first announced in April 2020 last year by Sony.

The zero-gravity first-person shooter was originally expected to launch sometime last year but due to the pandemic and Studios moving towards WFH, the game was delayed. 

Players will take on the role of “astroperators,” also known as AOs. Every AO will have its own set of active and passive abilities as well as different basic capabilities like armor or health.

Every AO would fill their own unique roles in the harsh battlefield of space. Each AO comes equipped with a special all-white combat spacesuit and also carries an extra-vehicular backpack along with a Grapple hook and a mix of modern ballistic and futuristic weapons.

The main differentiating point of the game from other FPS will be its unique movement system. Players will have full freedom of movement and aren’t restricted by gravity or ground. While the movement is unrestricted for players, the same movement rules will apply to the debris. Floating debris or a solar panel might make for a good blind spot to conceal player approach, but the same can become a deadly weapon if players aren’t careful. 

How to get Boundary On Steam

The game is already available to wishlist off the Steam store here. The developer, Surgical Scalpels is also holding a special 3-day playtests event this weekend (January 15-17) from 10 AM PT to 12 AM. For those looking to participate in the event, check out the official Twitter here to claim yourself a promotion key.

Twitter helps Valkyrae get rid of stalker

Sarjyo Mukherjee
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Twitter helps Valkyrae get rid of stalker

Rachel ‘Valkyrae’ Hofstetter was forced to turn her Twitter profile to private following online abuse by a stalker, who for the past few months has reportedly made over a hundred accounts after Valkyrae kept blocking him.

Valkyrae has amassed over 3 million subscribers after shifting to YouTube from Twitch. Joining early in the Among Us hype train has helped her become the most-watched female stream of 2020, breezing past Pokimane. 3 million subscribers boast the obvious implications of her popularity which, as good as it sounds comes with its fair share of shortcomings.

Valkyrae for the past few months was subjected to a stalker, after finding no way out, she was forced to private her Twitter account as despite blocking it, the stalker would make another account to trouble her.

She kept blocking the person in question until there were over a hundred accounts. It took all those stalker accounts for her to reach the boiling point upon which she locked her Twitter.

A desperate Hofstetter called Twitter for help, suggested them to implement a feature that will effectively block all accounts from the same device thus putting an end to the stalking session however that might go in vain as a psychologically challenged person might jump between devices to continue doing it all over again.

She came back on Twitter thanking them for their assistance, meaning they got rid of the stalker.

The good mood of her and unlocked Twitter are evidences of it. With this, they set an example that there is no room for harassment on their platform. There is no clear explanation of what exactly they did, but they were able to deal with such a thing effectively and swiftly keeping a good environment on their platform.

Pokémon GO February 2021 Community Day Will Feature Roselia

Pranav Nalawade
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Pokémon GO February 2021 Community Day Will Feature Roselia

The featured Pokémon for the upcoming Pokemon GO February 2021 Community Day will be none other than the fan-favorite Pokemon Roselia.

The Grass and Poison-type Pokémon that was originally introduced in Gen 3 is a great Pokémon to have for Pokémon GO players, especially since it can be evolved to Roserade, which, if done during the event, will feature two exclusive moves – a Charged Attack Weather Ball and the Fast Attack Bullet Seed.

The February 2021 Community Day is scheduled to take place on Sunday 7th February, from 11:00 am to 5:00 pm local time.

During Community day, players will have a much easier time finding Roselia and consequently, its candies. Once Pokemon GO players gain enough candies, they can evolve their Roselia into Roserade with the unique above-mentioned movesets. A Sinnoh Stone is also needed to evolve the Roselia.

The February 2021 Community Day will also feature a Community box that will be available to purchase in the in-game store and will contain an Elite Fast TM, four Incense, four Super Incubators, and 30 Ultra Balls for a total of 1,280 Pokécoins.

Also Read | Pokemon Go Promo Codes for January 2021

Game Developer gets permission from Elon Musk to use SpaceX branding in-game

Aritra Patra
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Game Developer gets permission from Elon Musk to use SpaceX branding in-game

A game developer named Lyubomir Vladimirov finally got permission after 154 days to use SpaceX branding in his game. He was tweeting to the world’s richest man Elon Musk for the last 154 days. Although Elon Mush is very active when it comes to social media, he finally replied to the developer with a tweet after 5 months.

The developer is making a game about Mars. The guy wants to use the SpaceX branding on stuff like rockets, space suits and much more. The game developer tweeted, “I’m a game dev. and I am making a game about colonizing Mars with you and SpaceX in it. If you think it’s cool, all I need is the Go ahead to use your name and Logos.”

On 13th January, Elon Musk tweeted back to the guy with, “You can steal our name/logos & we probably won’t sue you”.

Lyubomir Vladimirov is finally happy and he got what he wanted for his game. Now we just need to wait for the game to get launched. Apparently, we will be able to play the game soon.

Junior joins FURIA Esports

Bharat Kotwani
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Junior joins FURIA Esports

FURIA Esports on their Twitter has announced the addition of Paytyn “⁠junior⁠” Johnson to their roster. This roster move now stands confirmed after it was earlier reported by Ryan at Rush B Media. 

The 20yo AWPer from Triumph will be filling in the void previously left by Henrique ‘HEN1’ Teles who was benched by the Brazilian Organization a week ago on mutual terms. Henrique has opted to play alongside his twin brother Lucas “LUCAS1” Teles under the project currently led by Raphael “⁠cogu⁠” Camargo.

After spending nine months with the North American Organization, Paytyn averaged with a 2.0 rating of 1.13. Recently he steered Triumph to a runner-up finish at the IEM Beijing-Haidian 2020 North America after they were sent packing by Chaos Esports Club led by Anthony “Vanity” Malaspina and his men. During the player break, Junior was seen grinding in the FPL to the core where he was applauded for his playstyle.

Upon joining FURIA, Junior Tweeted,

“Ever since @FURIA moved to NA, they’ve been my favorite team on & off the server. I’ve looked up to their lineup, raw skill, & supportive fans for a long time now. I couldn’t be happier to join them & make the Brazilian community proud!” 

With this addition, FURIA Esports now has:

  • Kaike “⁠KSCERATO⁠” Cerato
  • Yuri “⁠yuurih⁠” Santos
  • Vinicius “⁠VINI⁠” Figueiredo
  • Andrei “⁠arT⁠” Piovezan
  • Paytyn “⁠junior⁠” Johnson
  • Nicholas “⁠guerri⁠” Nogueira (Head Coach)
  • Henrique “⁠HEN1⁠” Teles (benched)

Statistics Credits: HLTV.org

VALORANT Challengers dates revealed

Bharat Kotwani
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VALORANT Challengers dates revealed

Riot Games today have revealed the schedule for the Challengers stage of the VALORANT Champions Tour 2021. The announcement was made through “Episode 2 Developer Livestream” on Twitch.

The schedule revealed by the Game Developer denotes the Stage 1 dates. According to Riot, there will be a handful of Challenger events ultimately leading the winner from each to a Masters tournament.

Over the course of three such master events, teams topping their regions would receive an invite to the Ultimate Championship event. 

Participating regions and their dates (In order):

  • Latin America : 26th January 2021
  • Brazil and Korea : 30th January 2021
  • North America : From 3rd February to 7th February.
  • Southeast Asia : 5th February.
  • CIS and EU : 11th February. 

Dates for the Japan and Middle East & North America Regions are yet to be revealed.

Also read: Valorant Episode 2 Update Time

Valorant: Nanners elevates to Radiant in less than 24 Hours

Bharat Kotwani
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Valorant: Nanners elevates to Radiant in less than 24 Hours

It took less than 24 hours after the launch of the Valorant’s Episode 2 for Anderson “Nanners” Lutkehus to scale the highest rank in the game, Radiant. 

Valorant still has got its bangs in the FPS Pro scene. Since the former’s launch, we have seen a plethora of players from pro Counter Strike transition to Riot’s brand new First Tactical shooter.

With Episode 2 gone live, Nanners is your first North American to achieve Radiant despite the changes inculcated in the new Ranking system by the game developer where players would calibrate upto Platinum 3 and not beyond it. This indeed is an uphill task to make your way all through to the epitome.

Nanners Valorant

Anderson currently plays for Wichita Wolves, an American Organization backed by CLX Gaming. His notable achievements with Wichita include five championships with two of them at The Thrifty Grind series and a runner up position at the MSI Gaming Arena Open #1.

So far as we have believed, Radiant is only reserved for the best players around the world, requesting a lot of work and perseverance. 

Also Read | How to fix Valorant Error 29?

Pokimane Explains How She “Made” OfflineTV

Sonu Banerjee
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Pokimane Explains How She “Made” OfflineTV

If you’re familiar with the world of video game streaming, then chances are that you’re familiar with OfflineTV – an online social entertainment group of content creators based in Los Angeles, California.

OfflineTV was originally started by William “Scarra” Li and his manager Chris Chan. In a recent livestream, popular Twitch streamer Pokimane has revealed that she was one of the founding members of the group as well.

When one of her viewers asked her how she “joined” OTV, the 24-year-old responded, “You know what’s crazy? I made OTV, not on my own, but I was there at the inception so technically I didn’t really join, and I chose the name Offline TV ‘cause I wanted it to be like, you know, showcasing what we do, offline!”

She further explained how streamers would often lose popularity once players started losing interest in the video games they streamed. “The way that you counteract that is to build an audience off your personality and have them know more about you,” she said. “I wanted to be able to create content outside of gaming.”

After Pokimane moved out of the OfflineTV house back in June 2020, speculations started rising that she would be quitting the group as well. However, much to the delight of her fans, Poki clarified later that she would continue working with OfflineTV to create content despite leaving the house.

Valorant Error 29: How To Fix It

Aritra Patra
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Valorant Error 29: How To Fix It

Love it or hate it – Valorant has a lot of bugs. One of them is Error 29. Numerous players around the world are facing Error 29. If you are also one of them, you are most probably facing Error Code 29. This error code occurs when something goes wrong between Valorant and Windows Firewall. In this article, we are going to describe how to fix the Valorant Error Code 29.

How to Fix Valorant Error 29?

  • In the Windows search bar, type Windows Defender Firewall and click on it.
  • Click Allow a program through Windows firewall.
  • Click Change Settings.
  • Remove any current VALORANT and Riot Client entries, then add a new one with the Allow another app button.
  • Locate C:\Riot Games\VALORANT\live\VALORANT.exe for the new firewall exceptions and click OK.
  • On the firewall exceptions, check all boxes for VALORANT and click OK at the bottom.
  • Repeat the above process to add an exception for our Anticheat at C:\Program Files\Riot Vanguard\vgc.exe and click OK.
  • Once more, repeat the process to add an exception for the Launcher at C:\Riot Games\Riot Client\RiotClientServices.exe and click OK.
  • If you are still facing Error 29, reinstall the full game.

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