Pokemon Go: It Could Take You a Year to Rank up at Higher Levels
The high level grind in Pokemon Go may prove to be a tougher experience than some people realize, especially if you're not willing to fork over some cash.
That's according to Reddit user Riggnaros, one of the first Pokemon Go players to hit level 30, who took issue with the game's scaling and the number of Poke balls needed at a high level.
"Scaling is WAY off in every area and needs to be adjusted," Riggnaros writes. "Pokemon that you capture do not need to give the same xp at level 30 as they do at level 1, especially rare/evolved/high CP Pokemon. It makes no sense that a 10cp Pidgey should be giving the same xp as an 1600cp Scyther."
Serenity Returns to Comics This Fall
If you've been pining for more adventures set in the Firefly universe, Dark Horse Comics has you covered. Today the publisher announced (via Entertainment Weekly) that they'll be debuting a new Serenity mini-series this fall.
Serenity: No Power in the 'Verse is a six-issue mini-series written by Chris Roberson and drawn by Georges Jeanty (who also drew the previous series, Serenity: Leaves on the Wind).
Which Jason Bourne Movie Is Your Favorite?
With a new Jason Bourne movie on the way, we thought it was the perfect time to look back on the action-packed spy thriller film franchise and see which one IGN readers love the most.
Take our poll below and vote on which Jason Bourne film is your favorite.
Feel free to tell us why in the comments, and you may be featured in our round-up.
Salem: Season 3 Trailer
The longer wait has been difficult for fans, but Salem is returning this October - appropriately enough, just in time for Halloween. And now, the first trailer for Season 3 is here.
Leading into San Diego Comic-Con and the show's panel on Friday, the new trailer shows that things are worse than ever in Salem this year, on the heels of the death of Mary Sibley (Janet Montgomery) at the end of Season 2. But with the devil himself bringing misery and death to Salem, Mary is the only one who can defeat him... if anyone can figure out how to bring her back to do it.
From creators Brannon Braga and Adam Simon, Salem stars Janet Montgomery (Human Target, Made in Jersey) as Mary Sibley, Shane West (Nikita, ER) as Captain John Alden, Seth Gabel (Arrow, Fringe) as Cotton Mather, Ashley Madekwe (Revenge) as Tituba, Tamzin Merchant (Jane Eyre) as Anne Hale, Elise Eberle (The Astronaut Farmer) as Mercy Lewis, Iddo Goldberg (Mob City) as Isaac Walton, Joe Doyle (Raw) as Baron Sebastian Marburg, and Oliver Bell (The Saint) as Mary’s son. Marilyn Manson guest stars in Season 3 as Thomas Dinley.
Dark Horse Expands the World of Overwatch
Overwatch fans will have plenty of opportunity to enjoy the game's colorful characters and universe on the printed page in the months ahead. Today Dark Horse Comics and Blizzard Entertainment announced a partnership that will result in a new Overwatch graphic novel and an art book.
The first fruit of this arrangement is that Dark Horse has begun republishing Blizzard's 8-page digital Overwatch comics through their own digital comics service. We recently learned that Overwatch #8 will focus on the series' newest character, Ana.
Overwatch graphic novel cover
Rocket League PS4-Xbox One Cross-Play Completed, Just Needs Sony’s Approval
Psyonix vice president Jeremy Dunham says work on Rocket League's proposed cross-network play between PS4 and Xbox One is now complete, could be up-and-running within "a few hours", and only requires Sony's approval to be released.
Speaking to IGN, Dunham explained just how close the groundbreaking feature - which would allow play across Xbox Live and PSN for the first time - could potentially be:
"Right now," explained Dunham, "we're literally at the point where all we need is the go-ahead on the Sony side and we can, in less than a business day, turn it on and have it up and working no problem. It'd literally take a few hours to propagate throughout the whole world, so really we're just waiting on the permission to do so."
Pac-Man Championship Edition 2 Is Real, Coming This September
The sequel to Bandai Namco's remix of the classic Pac-Man formula is coming to PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Steam in September as a digital release.
Pac-Man Championship Edition 2 uses the "best aspects" from the previous Championship games and "evolves" them. One such evolution from the previous games is the new ability to "bump" ghosts, as well as "intense giant sized ghost boss battles."
There's also a new adventure mode in which players must chase "fast moving fruit," in addition to battling bosses.
Arguably, the best part of Pac-Man Championship Edition is the ability to turn the tables on the ghostly apparitions who torment Pac-Man to no end. When the hunter becomes the hunted, Pac-Man chows down on huge trains of ghosts in what may be one of gaming's all-time most satisfying mechanics.
Ubisoft CEO Has Seen the “Really Great” Nintendo NX
Yves Guillemot believes the NX will bring casual players back to the industry, based on what he's seen of the upcoming Nintendo console so far.
The Ubisoft CEO was speaking during a quarterly earnings call yesterday. “What we have seen is really great," he explained. "We think having a new machine coming is going to help the industry to continue to grow, and to take lots more casual players back to the industry.”
It's a callback to the successes of the Nintendo Wii and Nintendo DS, whose popularity was driven by a huge interest from non-core users. The Wii U famously failed to repeat the trick, despite Nintendo's internal predictions that it would match the Wii's 100 million sales milestone.
Pokemon Go Japanese Launch Delayed Because of a McDonald’s Email
Pokemon Go's scheduled Japanese launch today has reportedly been delayed after a McDonalds email leak.
As we reported yesterday, the Japanese launch was rumoured to be taking place today, July 20, with the game's first sponsored Gym locations coming in the form of 3,000 Japanese branches of McDonald's.
However, the leaked internal McDonald's email that formed the basis of that rumour is now seemingly the same reason the launch will not go ahead as planned.
According to Tech Crunch (which originally published the email, and is now presumably enemy no. 1 for millions of budding Pokemon trainers), that news went viral, and Niantic has now decided that the potential wave of new users would lead to server crashes.
8 Pokemon Go Changes We Really Want
Pokemon Go took everyone by storm when it released earlier this month for iPhone and Android. While we've been having just as much fun as anyone with Niantic's free-to-play, AR-driven Pokemon MMO, there are plenty of things we'd love to see added to make the experience even better.
Here are the Pokemon Go changes we want the most, in no particular order.
Pokemon Go doles out a small dose of XP every time you capture a Pokemon on the street, so it’s easy to end up with lots of doubles and triples in your collection (and more Zubats than you can shake a stick at) if you’re trying to level up. Transferring these extra Pokemon to Professor Willow earns you Pokemon Candy, an important currency used to power up and evolve Pokemon into bigger, stronger forms — another important activity if you want to take down a gym.