Pokemon Sleep Announced, Sleep Features Coming to Pokemon Go May 28, 2019
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Sleep seemed to be the word of the day at the recent Pokémon business event.
Pokémon Sleep promises to do for sleeping what Pokémon Go did for walking. We have no further details about how this application will work other than the fact it will use your smartphone to record your sleeping habits.
A new Bluetooth device called the Pokémon Go Plus +, an updated version of the popular Pokémon Go Plus accessory, will assist in monitoring sleep when you put it on your bed’s mattress as you sleep. It will also function as a Pokémon Go Plus when you’re not sleeping.
Pokémon Sleep is coming to SmartPhones in 2020. Pokémon Go is out now for SmartPhones.
Pokemon Home Announced May 28, 2019
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The Pokémon Company’s biggest announcement at their official business conference was Pokémon Home, a new application that plans to integrate your ongoing Pokémon collection among wide variety of Pokémon games on multiple platforms.
It is possible this application could be the Hub of all Pokémon content I have been waiting for since the 3DS was announced? Pokémon Home will offer full integration with the recent Pokémon games and services including Pokémon Bank on 3DS, Pokémon Go for smartphones, Pokémon Lets Go Pikachu and Eevee and the upcoming Pokémon Sword and Shield games on the Nintendo Switch.
Most importantly, this application will support trading with other local Pokémon players, although they admit the process for how this will work is still being worked on.
Pokémon Home is coming to Smartphones and Nintendo Switch in 2020.
iOS 12.3.1 Released May 27, 2019
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A minor software update was released for Apple iOS devices this past weekend. The new update fixes some problems with VoLTE calls connecting and reporting for iMessage spam.
If you previously had iOS 12.3 installed, we don’t expect the update will take very long to download or install. We tried installing it on multiple different iOS 12 devices and the update weighed in at around 50MB.
Mind of Maniac – Why Are So Many Major Retailers Unable to Competently Host a Pokemon Event? May 23, 2019
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Welcome back to a new Mind of Maniac, where our site’s Editor is able to freely speak about the issues of the day.
The Pokémon Company has been offering numerous promotions at retailers across the US to promote the new Detective Pikachu feature film. Companies like Target, Walmart, GameStop and even movie theaters like Cinemark have signed up to do these events, where they give away free posters and cards for the Pokémon Trading Card Game. While stores like GameStop have held events like this in the past successfully, other Pokémon events are being held by incompetently organized stores full of employees who aren’t informed of these events in advance, or fail to receive the promotional items they are supposed to be distributing. This can get extremely frustrating to consumers who wish to participate in them.
Here’s some of my biggest horror stories about these events from just the past month. Watch to find out: Who is good, Who is bad, and why aren’t more online pundits talking about this?
Tales from IT – My Most Frustrating Job May 22, 2019
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You might think being an IT guy is an easy job and while it is certainly less difficult than other professions (provided you have years of experience) it can have its moments of frustration. Customers frequently forget their own passwords or give you incorrect information about their system specifications. However, we won’t be talking about issues with end users today. Our currently most frustrating experience working at IT was a time we had to install new servers at a retailer.
How long did we spend on the job and were we able to finish it? Watch and find out.
The Dark Pictures: Man of Medan Release Date Trailer May 22, 2019
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The Dark Pictures is being developed by Supermassive Games, the same studio you might remember for making the critically praised PS4 exclusive Until Dawn. Their next games will be coming out as part of an anthology series and the first one of that anthology, Man of Medan, has been receiving high praise during its previews. Today, we finally have a release date for that game!
The Dark Pictures: Man of Medan is coming August 30th, 2019 to the Xbox One, PS4 and PC.
Halo: Outpost Discovery Behind the Scenes 2 Video May 22, 2019
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Halo: Outpost Discovery is a live event which will take place in five cities across the United States this summer. 343 Industries promises the event will feature experiences like a real-life Hall of History, and a virtual reality team deathmatch.
The guys at Studio 41B have been working on some of the setpieces for the event and they were kind enough to make this video showing some of the components they’re working on for the venue. Their work looks just great and I can’t wait to see it up close for myself!
Get your tickets as soon as you can because the 3-day VIP passes for the Orlando event have sold out!
Dusk Diver Announcement Trailer May 21, 2019
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An all-new action RPG has just been announced for the PS4 and Nintendo Switch and it looks like it’s got an incredible art style and a rockin soundtrack. It’s called Dusk Diver and it grabbed my attention immediately. Check it out.
Dusk Diver is coming Fall 2019 to the Nintendo Switch and PS4.
Spider-Man: Velocity is First Original Spider-Man PS4 Comic Story May 16, 2019
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Spider-Man on PS4 has been a literal marvel for Marvel Comics, the original publisher of the character. It revived interest in the wall crawler in a way that hasn’t been seen in a decade. Now, a painful agony is upon those who must wait for Insomniac and Marvel to announce its inevitable sequel. However, there have been some interesting developments for the franchise on the comic’s front. While the character in the PS4 game is not the canonical 616 version of Peter Parker found in the main pages of Marvel Comics, the PS4 Spider-Man universe has appeared in comic books including Spider-Geddon, and the game’s story is currently being adapted for the comic series Spider-Man: City at War. However, other than the novelized prequel we haven’t gotten any entirely original comic stories from the Marvel Gamerverse…until now.
Marvel has just revealed the first ever full-length original comic book that will take place in the same universe as the PS4 video game, Spider-Man: Velocity. It’s based on the backstory of the Velocity Suit, an entirely original suit that first appeared in the PS4 Spider-Man game. The suit was designed by artist Adi Granov, who is probably best known for his revolutionary Iron Man suit design in the mid-2000s that was used as the basis for Iron Man’s suit in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Now it looks like we will finally learn where it came from and why Spidey had to use it.
Spider-Man: Velocity #1 will be coming in August 2019.
Spider-Man is out now exclusively for the PS4.
Super Mario Maker 2 Direct May 16, 2019
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Super Mario Maker 2 is coming to the Nintendo Switch later this summer and earlier today, Nintendo dedicated an entire Nintendo Direct to preview this upcoming game. You’ll get a closer look at the interface, what you’ll be able to do with the game, and new features that weren’t in the previous title. Check it out!
Super Mario Maker 2 is coming exclusively to the Nintendo Switch.
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