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Google has announced the winners for its Best of Play Store 2020 awards, with the ‘Best App for 2020’ going to ‘Sleep Stories’ by Bengaluru-based developer, Touchkin, known for its wellness app, Wysa. Some of the other notable inclusions in the honor lists include Microsoft Office, Chef Buddy and Legends of Runterra, which won the ‘Best Game of 2020’. Here are the highlights: Alongside the aforementioned categories, Google also opened an ‘App for Good’ category this time around, which is more poignant than ever given the way this year has gone....

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds doesn’t have any built-in controller support at this time, so there’s a lot to learn for new players. Aiming down sights, equipping items and using them, running, parachuting and more… this is the essential list of controls for Battlegrounds that’ll help you survive longer and potentially win the Battle Royale. Aiming Down Sights One that many players seem to have trouble with right out of the game is Aiming Down Sights....

Unless you’re a pesky little korok seed hiding underneath a Hyrulean rock, you’ve probably heard of a pretty important game called PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. After smashing records all over the place since its release, the multiplayer Battle Royale game has now become the most concurrently played Steam game in the services entire 13-year-long history. Smashing Dota 2 out of the top spot, as it already did to the extremely popular MOBA in the top current concurrent charts, PUBG has annihilated the competition by roughly 50,000 players....

Sony has announced its most recent sales data for the PlayStation 3. The console has passed 70 million units worldwide as of November 4th, 2012. This comes six years after its launch in 2006, and closes the gap between the Xbox 360 in global measurement. This 70 million figure is neck and neck with the most recent numbers that Microsoft announced in their most recent financial report. The PlayStation 3 took a hard route to get to this point....

Sony Interactive Entertainment has just announced that on July 18, the PlayStation 5 console had sold more than 10 million units globally since first launching on November 12, 2020. Meanwhile, it took the PS4 about 10 months to reach the same sales numbers. Early this year, in February, the company stated that it had shipped 4.5 million units of PS5 despite stock shortages. Aside from hardware sales, Sony also revealed sales information of their in-house developed titles that helped move the console, including:...

Sony’s extensive lineup of first party games lends itself well to a brawler, that’s why it came as no surprise when the company announced PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale for the PlayStation 3 and PS Vita. This genre of a game is not a new idea. Nintendo invented the brawler with its Smash Bros. franchise, and SuperBot Entertainment is now taking a crack at it, with an immense roster of fighters from the most iconic PlayStation games that span multiple generations....

The new games will return to Kanto and feature Pokémon GO integration. A couple of weeks ago, a slew of rumors took over the internet about the next Pokémon games for the Switch. These games were alleged to be called Pokémon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! and Pokémon: Let’s Go, Eevee! and it was reported that these games will have some integration with Pokémon GO, among other features. The debate raged on as to whether these rumors were true or not, but now The Pokémon Company has officially announced the games....

More Meowth balloons may be on the way While Team GO Rocket may be the main foe of Pokémon GO, the old classic team of Jessie and James still pop up from time to time. Lately they’ve been appearing pretty regularly and this is expected to continue into the new year. Appearing only from the Meowth balloons that seem to spawn randomly, there are patterns to exploit if you want to fight these two and their team of powered up Shadow Pokémon....

Find and catch in the wild, hatch, battle in raids, and more Among the many benefits of the Pokémon GO Ultra Unlock 2021: Time even is the arrival of Shiny Cranidos and Shiny Shieldon. Many players have been anxiously awaiting this day as they stocked up on Candy and high IV versions of these two power Pokémon. And now they have the chance to add the shiny versions to their collection, but to do so you need to know where and how to find them....

Shiny Pokémon are rare versions of Pokémon in Pokémon go that have modified looks. They are called shiny because they generally add a slight sheen, making them stand out more than the normal versions. Shiny Rates Apart from the Pokémon that don’t have shiny versions in the game, every Pokémon has a base shiny rate that tells you how often you’ll see a shiny version. Chimchar is a relatively common Pokémon, so they don’t have a boost to their rate....

Salamence, the final evolution form of Bagon and Shelgon, is a Dragon- and Flying-type Pokémon that serves as a Tier-3 Raid Boss in Pokémon GO. Wielding 23,700 Combat Power, this Hoenn Pokémon can be soloed by a high-level Trainer or be fought with at least two lower-level players. As a Dragon- and Flying-type Pokémon, Salamence is resistant to Fighting-, Bug-, Fire-, Water-, Ground-, and Grass-type Moves. On the other hand, this Raid Boss’s dual-type elemental attribute makes it vulnerable to Rock-, Dragon-, Fairy-, and especially Ice-type abilities in Pokémon GO....

Niantic announced that it will be rolling out new social features for Pokémon Go, as well as updates for in-person raids. The new social features are based on the social App experience that Niantic has been experimenting with Ingress Agents. The test has been going on for a few months, and the app is available only in a closed beta to the Ingress Community. The purpose of the app is to make it easier to communicate among the different agents at Ingress....

The Sticky Glob is a throwable item in Pokémon Legends: Arceus that can stun Wild Pokémon upon impact, creating an opening for Trainers to dispatch a follow Poké Ball for a capture. When stunned, a wild pocket monster will become immobile and will not react to the player protagonist’s movement. As a result, Trainers can use this moment to slip past a monster too dangerous for confrontation or easily catch a creature without engaging in combat....

The Pokémon in Pokémon Legends: Arceus will be scattered in the wild to capture what you can see walking around the overworld. We get our first look at how wild Pokémon encounters will work and how to battle them in the game from the Cat Mario show, which appears on Nintendo’s Japanese YouTube channel. We see a trainer preparing to capture a wild Bidoof in the wild, and they’re able to do it without bringing out their Pokémon to battle....

Spoiler warning for Pokémon Scarlet and Violet: don’t read further if you want to remain clueless about the new games. Pokémon fans got early copies of Scarlet and Violet, leaking images and details about the game throughout the internet. Leakers are now accessing the games’ files, discovering codes and names in the files that aren’t in the game. Within the codes, fans found data for a new convergent species of Magikarp and Gyarados, similar to Wiglett....

More Battle Styles and Galarian Legendary Birds The next Pokémon Trading Card Game expansion is just on the horizon with the announcement of Pokémon TCG: Sword & Shield – Chilling Reign. This new set of cards will add to what we’ve already seen from the Sword and Shield expansions, with more Battle Styles and lots of big cards to collect and use in battle. The announcement comes with some big details as well, so here’s all we know right now about the Pokémon TCG: Sword & Shield – Chilling Reign expansion which starts hitting stores on June 5th....

Find out how to get your hands on this Pokemon, and if they can be Shiny! As you begin to make your way out into the world to search for new and exciting Pokemon in Pokemon GO, you can start to come across some pretty amazing monsters. One of these Legendary beings is Landorus, who just so happens to be one of the three Forces of Nature from the Unova region....

Should you buy a ticket for Alola to Alola? Season of Alola is coming to a close in Pokemon GO and that means it is time for one final event called Alola to Alola. In this event, there are tons of shiny Alolan Pokemon to get, islands to visit, and research to complete. If you’re looking to cap off this incredible season in style, you’ll want to grab the Special Research Story ticket....

While lots of countries have had Pokemon Go since July, others have had to wait. Many African countries can now download the game as of today. The Pokemon Go Facebook page announced: Trainers in Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Rwanda, Seychelles, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Chad, Gabon, Sao Tome and Principe, Egypt, Morocco, Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Cote d’Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mauritania, Niger, Sierra Leone, Togo, fill your backpack and get ready for a hike!...

After much teasing, Pokemon Go’s PVP mode has finally been detailed. Known in-game as Trainer Battles, Trainers will be able to put themselves and their Pokemon against their friends in battles. Niantic confirmed all the new details in a blog post on their official site. Trainer Battles will be familiar to those who have used the gym and raid system already existing in Pokemon Go. In these battles, players tap on the screen to use a quick move and build up their charge move meter....