Month: February 2021

Pokemon Go is celebrating the series’ 25th anniversary with the Pokemon Go Tour: Kanto, a one-day event revolving around the original 150 Pokemon. As with the original games, the event will be available in two flavors, a Red Version and a Green Version, and now developer Niantic has explained how you’ll be able to choose your event version when the festivities begin later this month.

How To Choose Your Event Version

The Pokemon Go Tour: Kanto event takes place on Saturday, February 20. Before you can participate, however, you’ll need to choose which “version” of the event you want to experience. Once the event is underway, open your item bag and select your Pokemon Go Tour: Kanto virtual ticket. After that, you’ll see a prompt asking you to Choose Red or Choose Green. Simply tap on the event version you’d like to experience to make your choice. Bear in mind that your choice is final, so think carefully before making your selection.

Version Differences

As was the case with the original Pokemon Red and Pokemon Green games, the primary difference between the event versions boils down to Pokemon selection. Some monsters will be more likely to appear depending on which version of the event you choose. You can see the full list of event-exclusive Pokemon below:

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Disney+ and Marvel have announced Marvel’s Behind the Mask, a new upcoming documentary special slated to hit the streaming service on February 12. You can check out the official trailer for the special below.

Marvel’s Behind the Mask will let fans behind the curtain to “discover the inspiration behind Marvel’s greatest heroes” in what looks to be a deep dive into the company’s history and evolving creative philosophies.

According to an announcement posted on Marvel’s website, the documentary will also “feature guests from across Marvel’s 80-year legacy, including the writers and artists behind the rise of characters like Black Panther, Miles Morales, Ms. Marvel, Luke Cage, the X-Men, Captain Marvel, and many other characters in the Marvel Universe, highlighting Marvel’s impact on pop culture and media.” The documentary will serve as a nice counterpart for Marvel Studio: Legends, a new series that revisits some of the most iconic moments from the MCU, one character at a time.

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Game publisher Electronic Arts has announced earnings results for its big holiday quarter that ended December 31, and the company is doing great, with live services AKA microtransactions helping fuel the publisher to some big numbers, though it wasn’t all good news.

Total revenue for the three-month period was $1.673 billion, compared to EA’s projection of $1.675 billion. For the trailing 12 months, EA pulled in revenue of $5.956 billion, which is up 8% year-over-year. Looking at money in the bank, EA made a profit of $1.179 billion for the trailing 12 months, compared to a profit of $2.83 billion for the same period last year (though this number includes the impact of a one-time tax benefit).

EA also called out its EA Sports games for their performance, reaching more than 230 million people in the past year. FIFA’s Ultimate Team mode, meanwhile, reached a new record high of 6 million daily active players in December 2020.

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If you enjoy both the tactical shooting action of The Division 2 and the zombie horror of Raccoon City, we’ve got good news: The Division 2’s Resident Evil 25th Anniversary crossover event is now live. Celebrating the 25th anniversary of the release of the original Resident Evil game for PS1, players of The Division 2 can grab loot that’s inspired by the horror series for the next two weeks.

The event runs until February 15, and it is now live on every platform. Players who log in during the event will receive the Leon Kennedy RPD 3-piece outfit automatically. Resident Evil fans will recognize this as one of the outfits that Leon can wear in the much-acclaimed remake of Resident Evil 2.

According to Ubisoft’s website, possible rewards from the event include an outfit inspired by Chris Redfield’s STARS outfit, an Umbrella Corporation Operative skin that looks a lot like fan-favorite HUNK, and a Jill Valentine-like outfit. A Nemesis Mask will also be available soon as an event completion reward. There are also a few Backpack Trophies and Arm Patches available during the event. February 2 will also bring The Division 2’s 4K 60 FPS update to PS5 and Xbox Series X, so if you’re rocking a next-gen console, check that out.

The 2.02 patch for Valorant aims to start the process of fixing running accuracy, along with shifts to the Competitive system to help ensure players are reaching the proper rank faster while stabilizing the battle for top ranks.

One of the first things the patch is touching up is rifle movement accuracy. All rifles now have a much higher amount of error when moving and shooting. This is to help combat the sensation of running kills gained using rifles, and will make getting kills with rifles while moving more difficult (but not impossible if you can get close enough).

As far as changes to Competitive mode go, there are a few new things going on. Up first is the MMR to Rank Convergence increase, which will increase your Rank Rating (RR) if your MMR isn’t equal to your rank faster. This change should also lead to fewer RR losses per loss as well, and will hopefully help players reach the rank that suits them best in fewer games. Additionally, this patch is introducing a performance bonus for players from Iron to Diamond, which will reward players who perform exceptionally well in a match. The in-game matchmaker has a notion of how it can expect you to play, so if you surpass those expectations you’ll be getting some extra RR.To make sure players can’t just 5-stack their way to the top, Diamond 3 is now being converted to Solo/Duo. This alongside the changes to Convergence will reduce the total number of games that 5-stacks can play together before being forced into Solo/Duo.

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Certain Affinity, an independent developer founded by Bungie veterans that has worked as a support studio on various Halo and Call of Duty projects, has announced it’s working on a new IP of its own. The Austin, Texas-based outfit confirmed this in a blog post, but unfortunately, the company is not able to share any specifics about the project at this stage.

“Are we excited to take on a genre and style of game that we’ve always loved? Thrilled beyond words! Are we honored to be bringing this game to market? Indescribably so! Are there any other tantalizing details regarding this new venture? More than we can say! And we mean that quite literally: the particulars of this new game are still VERY much under wraps,” Certain Affinity said. “All we can say for now is that this ambitious new project is the culmination of our goals to steadily and healthily grow a world-class team to create an original IP.”

Certain Affinity has 250+ employees already at its Texas and Toronto offices, but the company is looking to grow even further. The company has numerous open positions on its careers page for both the new IP and its other co-development projects for AAA games from other studios.

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