Pokemon: Let’s Go Trailer Shows Off Elite Four And Some Familiar Faces

With Pokemon: Let’s Go Pikachu and Let’s Go Eevee set to arrive on Nintendo Switch in a little over a week, The Pokemon Company is ramping up excitement for their release with another new trailer. While the last one gave us our first glimpse at Lavender Town, this video showcases some of the challenging trainers who stand in your way of becoming a Pokemon Master. Mild spoilers follow.

The trailer begins with a look at Sabrina, the Psychic-type Gym Leader of Saffron City. We also get a glimpse of the leader of the villainous Team Rocket, Giovanni, as well as a quick look at the Elite Four–the four powerful trainers who await you at the Pokemon League. You’ll only be able to challenge the Elite Four after you’ve collected all eight Gym badges in the Kanto region, and you’ll need to defeat them in succession in order to become the champion.

Most notably, the new trailer also reveals that Red and Blue–the protagonist and rival of the original Red, Blue, and Yellow versions–will appear in Let’s Go Pikachu and Eevee. From the looks of it, you’ll be able to battle them during your adventure, though whether they use their original Pokemon lineup remains to be seen. Red and Blue aren’t the only callbacks to the original Gen 1 games, either; at the end of the trailer, you can see a brief glimpse of the female trainer who appeared alongside them in the titles’ original artwork.

As The Pokemon Company recently revealed, your adventure doesn’t end once you’ve defeated the Elite Four. After you’ve become the Pokemon League Champion, powerful new Master Trainers will appear around the region. Each one specializes in one particular Pokemon, and you’ll need to battle them using that same Pokemon in order to claim their title.

Pokemon: Let’s Go Pikachu and Let’s Go Eevee launch for Nintendo Switch on November 16. You can read more about the games in our latest hands-on impressions. We also got to speak with Let’s Go director Junichi Masuda recently about the challenges of updating Pokemon Yellow for a new generation and why Pokemon rivals aren’t jerks anymore, among other things.

How to Rebuild in a real life Fallout 76 World – Reality Check

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How Titans Is Setting Itself Apart From the Arrowverse

When Titans was first announced as the flagship show of the DC Universe streaming app, many fans wondered whether the series might be connected to The CW’s Arrowverse. It wasn’t an unreasonable question, given the involvement of Arrowverse bigwigs like Greg Berlanti and Geoff Johns. But if that controversial Comic-Con teaser trailer wasn’t proof enough, the first few Titans episodes definitely made it clear that this new series isn’t taking place in the same universe as shows like Arrow and The Flash.

That’s not necessarily a bad thing, either. Little by little, the first season of Titans has been showing us why it’s different from the Arrowverse and how it can carve its own niche in the ever-crowded superhero TV market. The debut of the Doom Patrol in episode 4 is key, giving us our first taste of what this wider shared universe will eventually become. Below, we explore how Titans is beginning to solidify its own live-action DCU and why the Doom Patrol represents such an important step for these shows.

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Every Sons Of Anarchy Easter Egg In Mayans MC Season 1

The first season of Mayans MC has come to an end and what a story it told. Sons of Anarchy fans hoping for a nice and easy follow up to the original series were in for a shock quickly, as they learned this particular club is riddled with fractures among its members.

Still, through new characters, a different location, and a healthy dose of references and Easter egg nods to Sons of Anarchy, Mayans MC has managed to become an exciting show to watch. One that, quite honestly, we can’t wait to have return.

How closely were you paying attention to this season, though? Did you realize the show was stuffed with Sons of Anarchy references, ranging from bringing back fan-favorite characters to even small nods to former plots?

After watching this season, we’ve dug through so much Sons of Anarchy lore that it’s as if the original show never ended. Thankfully, that’s amounted to a pretty comprehensive collection of the Easter eggs dropped into Mayans MC by co-creator Kurt Sutter and his creative partners on the series. How many of these did you spot? And what did we miss? Sound off in the comments and let us know!

Riot Games Sued for Gender-Based Discrimination

Riot Games has been sued by one current and one former employee and has been accused of “endemic gender-based discrimination and fostering a “men-first” environment.”

As reported by Kotaku, the lawsuit follows another investigation by Kotaku that delved into a sexist culture at Riot Games, the publisher of titles such as League of Legends.

The class-action lawsuit filed against Riot Games states that, “like many of Riot Games’ female employees, Plaintiffs have been denied equal pay and found their careers stifled because they are women. Moreover, Plaintiffs have also seen their working conditions negatively impacted because of the ongoing sexual harassment, misconduct, and bias which predominate the sexually-hostile working environment of Riot Games.”

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Déraciné Review

Déraciné is haunting, and not just because you play as an invisible ghost-like figure wandering the halls of a boarding school. It’s thanks to a smart focus on character and place that come together to produce an eerie, surprisingly moving fairytale that, mostly, overcomes its pedestrian use of VR.

Déraciné is fairly conventional in the “how” of its VR interaction: you teleport from spot to spot, using two spectral hands to interact with key items. There’s no health or mana bar, no fights to prepare for — rather, as a spectral faerie caught between time, you’re free to move about the mansion setting at a leisurely pace. Across a number of chapters, FromSoftware and SIE Japan’s five or six-hour adventure functions like a point-and-click adventure you just so happen to be physically standing in the middle of. Find an item in one room that can lead to opening a chest in another, but you may need to listen to a line of dialogue to figure out where that initial item actually is.

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New Ark: Survival Evolved Extinction Expansion Goes Live On PC Today, Consoles Later

Studio Wildcard has announced that the new expansion for Ark: Survival Evolved, titled Extinction, will go live on PC today. Extinction continues Ark’s story by pitting humanity against giant mega-dinosaur creatures called Titans.

Defeating the raid boss-like Titans is the centerpiece to Extinction, but the expansion also adds more creatures to tame and technology to utilize. Cryopods, for example, are handy pieces of tech that allow you to store your creatures and easily carry them around in your inventory. You’ll be able to transfer your preexisting characters into Extinction, but your items and tamed creatures will have to stay behind. Whatever you claim in Extinction, though, can be brought back with you into Ark’s older maps.

“We will be introducing North American and European Extinction servers first,” Studio Wildcard senior community manager Jen Stuber wrote in a Steam blog post. “We will be releasing an initial start batch of servers, and bringing more servers online as needed so please be patient for us during this period. The servers will be the standard 70-player cap. Extinction will be included in all CrossARK clusters (except ‘TheHundred’), as well as Conquest and Small Tribes servers.”

Extinction’s PC servers are scheduled to launch today, but as of this post are still not yet live due to a few issues. Both the Xbox One and PS4 versions of Extinction will launch on November 13. Extinction comes included in Ark’s Season Pass, but can be purchased separately as well.

The PC version of Ark: Survival Evolved is being offered as free-to-play until November 11 on Steam. You can also buy the game at a discounted price of $20 / £18 / €22 until November 13.

New Pokemon Go Event And Pokemon Now Available

Niantic has kicked off another in-game event in Pokemon Go. The Stardust Blast event is now live for a limited time. This event gives players a chance to earn twice the normal amount of Stardust for capturing Pokemon and hatching Eggs, and it’s scheduled to run until 1 PM PT / 4 PM ET on November 13.

On top of that, two new species of Gen 4 Pokemon have begun appearing in Pokemon Go. The adorable Water-type Buizel is now available around the world as a Raid Battle, while the pre-evolved form of Roselia, Budew, can be hatched from Eggs. The latter arrives at a fitting time, as Niantic recently rolled out the new Adventure Sync feature to most Pokemon Go players, making it much easier to hatch Eggs than before.

Stardust Blast isn’t the only event going on now in Pokemon Go. To celebrate the release of Ingress Prime, Niantic has made two new Shiny Pokemon, Cubone and Ponyta, available for a limited time. These Shiny variants are green and blue, respectively–the same colors and the two warring sides in Ingress Prime, The Enlightened and The Resistance.

Meanwhile, Pokemon Go’s next Community Day event is scheduled to take place this Saturday, November 10. The featured Pokemon this time around is the Gen 2 starter Cyndaquil, and if players manage to evolve it into its final form, Typhlosion, up to an hour after the event ends, it’ll learn the powerful attack Blast Burn.

Players also still have a chance to catch Giratina, the first Gen 4 Legendary Pokemon to appear in Pokemon Go. Giratina arrived as a Raid Battle as part of the recent Halloween event, and it’ll remain a presence at Gyms until November 20. If you need help adding one to your collection, here are some tips on how to catch Giratina.

Smash Bros. Ultimate DLC Lineup Has Already Been Decided, Says Director

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate director Masahiro Sakurai has confirmed that the five yet-to-be-revealed DLC characters for his anticipated fighting game have already been chosen.

Sakurai tweeted this information, saying that the fighters were picked by Nintendo in conjunction with his input. After being flooded with subsequent recommendations for fighters by fans, Sakurai wrote “It’s great to dream about your favorite character joining the battle and I appreciate your passion, but please try to stay on topic when replying to tweets and refrain from flooding us, and other users, with requests.”

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