Birthdays can mean a lot of things for people – time with friends or family, treating yourself to something special, or just disconnecting from responsibilities. For Kirby it means cake, cake, and more cake. カービィさん、お誕生日おめでとうございます！今日はわれわれワドルディレポート隊が、カービィさんのためにケーキをご用意しました♪さぁ、カービィさん！みなさんへコメントをお願いします…って、わわわっ！？食べるのはまだ早いですよ～っ！！#カービィのハッピーバースデー pic.twitter.com/mVy2QldNbg — 星のカービィ (@Kirby_JP) April 26, 2024 Yes, April 27th marks Kirby’s 32nd birthday and…
LEGO and Animal Crossing is a match made in heaven, but there was one curious omission from the line when it launched earlier this year: K.K. Slider. How could one of the most iconic characters of modern gaming not be included alongside villagers like Julian and Bunnie? Who even are…
Pokémon GO’s quarterly Hatch Day event is back and this time Cleffa is being featured. Before the event kicks off, there will be some extra bonuses available during the aptly named Cleffa Hatch Day Extended Bonuses “event”. So with your Egg inventory cleared out, you’ll be ready to collect (and…
Every month, Niantic spotlights a Pokémon for Pokémon GO’s Research Breakthrough encounter. This feature was added to the game in April 2018 as part of the Field Research system. Essentially a quest system, Trainers can acquire Field Research tasks by logging in daily and/or spinning PokéStops (one task per PokéStop…
Initially announced on January 31st, 2020, Niantic announced it would begin testing new types of events during February 2020 – Pokémon Spotlight Hour and Mystery Bonus Hour. After testing and user feedback, Niantic combined both events into one and announced what Pokémon and bonuses would be featured in advance. Now,…
Niantic is celebrating today’s release of Pokémon Legends: Arceus by adding themed avatar items to Pokémon GO. Inspired by the main characters’ outfits in the game, the items are available to all Trainers! The new items include the following: Survey Corps Headcloth Survey Corps Outfit Survey Corps Sandals…
Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp has been growing and adapting since its launch. Though it’s still a fairly light app in terms of what you can do, there’s a whole lot of potential when it comes to displaying and decorating. An upcoming, large-scale update is on the way that adds brand-new…
Fire Emblem Heroes is pulling from some interesting corners when it comes to characters lately. Yes, you still get the “standard” roll out of characters that were playable in their games as well as special seasonal outfits to tempt those Orbs. When it comes to others though, we’re getting hypothetical…
Niantic has announced a new contest for Pokémon GO, with winners to be featured in-game as battle-able Trainers. The Pokémon GO Gym Trainer Contest will give players the opportunity to have their Trainer characters show up on the in-game map during the upcoming Pokémon GO Tour: Johto event, where they…
Raid Hour (also referred to as Legendary Raid Hour) started as an experiment in March 2019. Initially called Legendary Lunch Hour, Niantic set aside an hour on Wednesdays for Pokémon GO Trainers to find 5-Star (Legendary) Raids easier by increasing the appearance rates. After further testing, Raid Hour was renamed…
Now that both January 2022’s Community Days have concluded, Niantic is looking forward to the next month’s gathering! While we’ve known that February 2022’s Community Day would be taking place on Saturday, February 12th, since December of last year, we didn’t know which Pokémon would be featured. Thanks to the…
Fire Emblem Heroes is now halfway through this year’s Choose Your Legends vote, and the interim results are in! Fans have been supporting their favorites so far, but with a firm idea of who could take the top spots things could still shift before voting concludes. What’s most clear from…
Initially announced on January 31st, 2020, Niantic announced it would begin testing new types of events during February 2020 – Pokémon Spotlight Hour and Mystery Bonus Hour. After testing and user feedback, Niantic combined both events into one and announced what Pokémon and bonuses would be featured in advance. Now,…
Pokémon GO’s long-running monthly event, Community Day, turns 4 years old this month, and Niantic is trying out something new during the Season of Heritage. Four years means a plethora of Pokémon have been shown off with special, event-exclusive attacks and increased Shiny rates. Yet, for newer Trainers, chances are…
The relationship between Wario and Waluigi has been ill-defined for decades. Brothers? Cousins? Friends? Why doesn’t Waluigi ever help with WarioWare? Why doesn’t Wario give his cohort a boost in Smash? These questions aren’t about to be answered, but what’s about to go down is a Kart-based showdown! Mario Kart…
