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Niantic is holding a bonus event for Pokemon Go Tour: Kanto ticket holders starting tomorrow, March 5. Beginning at 10 AM local time, players who had purchased a ticket to the Pokemon Go Tour: Kanto event will have a chance to complete more event-exclusive Timed Research tasks, with a variety of rewards up for grabs. According to Niantic, you'll be able to earn the following items by completing the aforementioned Timed Research: 30 Ultra Balls A Lure Module A Poffin A Super Incubator A Lucky Egg Three Silver Pinap Berries A Star Piece An Elite Fast TM An Elite Charged TM A Charged TM A Fast TM 100 Mew Candy These Timed Research tasks will be available for ticket holders until 10 AM local time on April 5. Niantic will also offer a free bundle containing three Remote Raid Passes in Pokemon Go's in-game shop. You can read more details about the event on the official Pokemon Go blog . The original Pokemon Go Tour: Kanto event took place on February 20 … [Read more...] about Pokemon Go’s Bonus Kanto Tour Event Starts Tomorrow

The esports fighting game scene is brimming with talent and tournaments, and WePlay Esports recently stood out from the crowd with the highly acclaimed WePlay Dragon Temple. The next event from the same organiser WePlay Ultimate Fighting League (WUFL) Season 1 starts very soon. Media holding company WePlay Esports is a well-known name on the esports scene. It combines the best practices of esports, media, and entertainment fields to provide cutting-edge products and services worldwide. WUFL Season 1 will kick off with a four-day marathon of Mortal Kombat 11 (25–28 March), where contenders will be looking to turn each other into flappy fillets of human flesh by tearing each other’s spines out. After that, oversized metal swords, zweihanders, and scythes will clash in SOULCALIBUR VI (1–4 April), before things finish up with the King of Iron Fist tournament in Tekken 7 (8–11 April). What makes WePlay Esports’ approach special is that their shows cater not only … [Read more...] about WePlay Ultimate Fighting League Season 1 – A premier $150,000 fighting games tournament has been announced

The recent demo for upcoming looter-shooter Outriders has been played by over two million people in just a week. Developer People Can Fly isn't resting on its laurels, however, with a significant patch set to arrive at some point next week that fixes a number of issues ahead of the game's full release on April 1 for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, PC, and Stadia. Connectivity issues were a problem when the demo launched last week, so People Can Fly is currently working on the game's backend to ensure the same thing doesn't happen when the full game launches. The developer says that while its infrastructure was ready for the raw number of expected players, the speed with which they were joining exceeded its expectations and the backend systems were unable to scale in time. People Can Fly also reiterated that any changes to the demo need to be carefully balanced with its work towards launching the full game. With that in mind, a patch for the demo is set … [Read more...] about Outriders Demo Patch Is Coming Next Week

Comic-Con International: San Diego 2021 has been canceled as an in-person event and will instead be held as a three-day online only event, according to a statement from Comic-Con International . The statement cites health concerns surrounding the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic as well as financial strain as the primary factors in the decision to take its 2021 San Diego convention online. CCI's decision comes hot on the heels of a similar decision by the organization to move its planned WonderCon 2021 event from an in-person convention to an online only event . "It is the policy of the organization to continue to closely monitor information from local and national healthcare officials as it pertains to the COVID-19 pandemic. Never could we have imagined what the world experienced in 2020 and continues to experience today," reads CCI's official statement. "While we are buoyed by the rollout of the vaccine and the growing number of individuals being inoculated, it appears … [Read more...] about San Diego Comic Con 2021 goes online-only but a new live event is planned

At the Microsoft Ignite conference, the company's Alex Kipman unveiled a new hologram-based mixed-reality communication platform called Microsoft Mesh. This thing is jaw-dropping. Its most basic purpose is allowing people in different physical locations to join a shared environment, with 3D capture technology creating a hologram of each person therein (a process Microsoft insists on calling 'holoportation'), all running atop the company's cloud platform Azure. There's some forgiveable exagerration at points in the above precis of the Ignite presentation (no, this is not 'teleporting' people), but it showcases the potential for this technology far beyond mere business meetings. A family watching huge shoals of fish on the ocean floor, the software highlighting certain species with information as the father points (yes the world is becoming a video game). Engineers and mechanics messing around with hologrammatic equipment, finger-controlled UI overlays altering the working … [Read more...] about Microsoft Mesh is humanity’s jaw-dropping hologram future