Author: Trafficblast

The Ultra Bonus Event is now underway in Pokemon Go, bringing an influx of Gen I Pokemon with it. For a limited time, Pokemon originally found in the Kanto region will appear much more frequently in the wild. That isn’t all, however; the three Legendary birds Articuno, Zapdos, and Moltres have all also returned to the game, but for only a few days.

From now until September 20, you’ll have another chance to fight the three Legendary birds in Raid Battles. While the three are available, the duration of Raid Battles has been extended to 90 minutes, giving you some extra time to battle and catch them. Niantic also says you’ll have a chance of running into Shiny versions of each Legendary.

On top of that, you’ll now be able to get your hands on some previously region-exclusive Pokemon. Until September 30, you’ll have a chance of hatching Farfetch’d, Kangaskhan, Mr. Mime, and Tauros from 7 km Eggs. Each of the aforementioned Pokemon is typically only available in a certain part of the world, making this many players’ first opportunity to add them to their collections.

On the same day Articuno, Zapdos, and Moltres leave Raid Battles, another Gen I Legendary, Mewtwo, will take their place beginning at 1 PM PT / 4 PM ET. This isn’t the Psychic-type’s first appearance in Pokemon Go, but it has up until now only been available through the invite-only EX Raids. This marks the first time Mewtwo will be available in regular Raid Battles, making it much easier to finally capture one. It will appear in Raid Battles until October 23.

While not part of the Ultra Bonus Event, players still have only a few more days to capture a different Legendary Pokemon, Regirock, which is also scheduled to leave the game on September 20. Pokemon Go’s next Community Day event will take place not long afterward, on Saturday, September 22. This time, the featured Pokemon will be Chikorita, one of the three starters from Pokemon Gold and Silver.

PS4’s Spider-Man pits Peter Parker against some of his most powerful adversaries, like Scorpion and Electro. However, when the wall-crawler isn’t battling supervillains, he does what Spidey is best known for: being a friendly neighborhood hero.

Spider-Man truly shines in the small moments where Peter is helping out his fellow New Yorkers, and one of the more noteworthy sidequests has him chasing down pigeons for his friend Howard. In the video above, Joey discusses how this side quest works to both humanize Spidey as an everyday hero and acts as a tutorial to teach players how to achieve maximum effectiveness when it comes to web-swinging around the city. To help him out, a few of Joey’s feathery friends join him on camera.

Although it hasn’t been for very long, pigeons do have a history in video games. They typically show up as a background prop for cities, like in Super Mario Odyssey‘s New Donk City, but they also make for a good collectible that will get you roaming around an open-world playground, such as Spider-Man’s New York and Grand Theft Auto IV‘s Liberty City.

However, sometimes a game comes along that highlights pigeons’ real-world importance. 2016’s Battlefield 1, for example, captures the bird’s role during World War I as messengers and photographers. The game even built an entire multiplayer mode around teams battling it out for possession of a messenger pigeon.

Spider-Man is simply the most recent video game to recognize how incredible pigeons can be, both as a game mechanic and a narrative device. The game’s attention to small details like that is why we fell in love with Insomniac’s newest title. In our Spider-Man review, we gave the game a 9/10, complimenting it for perfectly capturing the feeling of being Spider-Man and using his abilities.

If you’re looking for more Spider-Man, you can watch our video of our favorite eight Spider-Man games of all time or our feature that covers the wall-crawler’s entire video game history. We also have an article that analyzes the final scenes of the game and how Silver Sable might tie into Spider-Man’s mid- and post-credits scenes.