Pokemon Go Sneasel Research Event Set For January 30

Pokemon Go is holding a new Limited Research event starring Sneasel. The event takes place this Saturday, January 30, from 8 AM to 10 PM local time and features limited-time Field Research tasks that lead to encounters with the Sharp Claw Pokemon. Developer Niantic also says that players will have a chance to encounter Shiny Sneasel during the event.

Additionally, Niantic has announced it is rolling out a new line of Timed Research tasks. This line will be available from January 26 to February 7 and is themed after Team Go Rocket. If you’re able to complete the Timed Research while it’s available, you’ll earn a chance to catch a Ho-Oh that knows Earthquake. You can read more details on the official Pokemon Go website.

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Ryan Reynolds Makes Raunchy Twitter Joke About 2010 Sesame Street Appearance

An eagle-eyed fan watching Sesame Street reruns with her child recently spotted actor Ryan Reynolds singing while wearing the letter A way back in 2010. That’s pretty much all the setup you need to appreciate and understand the deadpan crack (no pun intended) Reynolds made when responding to the excited fan on Twitter about what a struggle it was to fit into the “A-hole.” Check out his tweet below and the originating clip as well.

Twitter user Marie Julianna summed things up best in an equally lightning-fast assertion that, “The speed at which [Reynolds can] veer back and forth between filthy and wholesome is delightful.” Given the actor’s propensity for internet gags, goofs, and pranks, this joke was a nice on-the-fly bonus. It also continues a lengthy streak of antics that include an ongoing fake feud against Hugh Jackman for who can raise the most for charity (which Jackman won in December).

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Pokemon Go Roselia February Community Day: Shiny Roselia, Event Moves, Start Time, And More

Pokemon Go‘s February Community Day is just around the corner. The event takes place next Saturday, February 6, and features the Thorn Pokemon Roselia. To get you up to speed on the event, we’ve rounded up everything you need to know about February 2021’s Community Day below, from its start time to the other bonuses that will be available.

February 2021 Featured Pokemon: Roselia

The featured Pokemon for February’s Community Day is Roselia, a Grass/Poison Pokemon first introduced in Ruby and Sapphire. Roselia will be appearing in the wild much more frequently than usual throughout the event, while its pre-evolved form, Budew, will be hatching from 2 km eggs.

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Roselia

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Billy Crystal Confirms Monsters Inc. TV Show Monsters At Work Is Still In The Pipeline

In an interview with Collider, Monsters Inc. star Billy Crystal confirmed several details about the previously announced Monsters at Work TV show coming to Disney+, including that it is still happening.

Crystal confirmed that Monsters at Work will be an episodic show, and will have him and John Goodman reprising their roles as Mike and Sully. He also gave a more solid indication of when the show will be set within the Monster’s Inc. timeline.

“It’s a series. John Goodman and I are Sully and Mike. The show, time-wise, starts six months after ‘Monsters, Inc.’ ended,” Crystal told Collider. “So now, we’re on the Laugh Floor. We’ve created all of the new, young, great characters with some great voice actors, and John and I are reprising our parts.”

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Star Wars: Battlefront 2 Reached 19 Million Players From Epic Games Store Freebie

Star Wars: Battlefront II was recently free on the Epic Games Store, and the promotional period was massively successful for the sci-fi shooter.

Publisher Electronic Arts has announced that the game reached more than 19 million players as part of the promotion. “Thank you so much for the continued support, even after our final content drop! We’ll watch your careers with great interest. May the Force be with your troopers!” EA said in a tweet celebrating the accomplishment.

It’s not clear if all 19 million of these players are new to Battlefront II or if there is overlap between people who had already downloaded the game and elected to pick it up again on the Epic Games Store. Whatever the case, 19 million is a gargantuan number.

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New To Amazon Prime Video In February 2021: Fleabag, The Prestige, And So Much More

And just like that, the first month of 2021 is nearly over, and it’s already time to start looking ahead to the shortest month of the year and what streaming content will be on offer. You can take a look at what Netflix, Shudder, and Hulu have teed up for February–here’s a look at Amazon Prime Video for the month coming up.

Prime Video is setting the mood right for Valentine’s Day by right out of the gate on February 1 offering up tons of rom-coms, romantic misadventures, and all sorts of movies and limited series that explore romantic relationships. Standouts well worth a repeat viewing–or making a point of seeing if it’s the first time–include the series Modern Love (adapted from the real-life personal essay New York Times column from the same name) and Fleabag (adapted from Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s incredible 2013 one-woman show of the same name about her quest for love). You don’t even have to wait until February 1 to watch those, and probably shouldn’t, in fact.

If romance isn’t your thing, director Christopher Nolan’s The Prestige is a definite palate cleanser. It hits Prime Video on the first of the month. A mystery-thriller released back in 2006, based on the 1995 novel of the same name by Christoher Priest, the movie follows a cutting rivalry between stage magicians in London at the end of the 19th century. There’s definitely no love between Hugh Jackman as Robert Angier and Christian Bale as Alfred Borden as they become obsessed with one-upping each other to achieve the best stage illusion.

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Fall Guys Season 3.5 Update Teased: New Level; Sonic, Godzilla Costumes, And More

The whimsical battle royale game Fall Guys is getting a new update soon that will deliver a bunch of new content, including a brand-new level and more crossover DLC.

Season 3.5 will include the following: a new level, 40+ new variations for existing levels, something called a “Fall Feed,” a new DLC pack, and Godzilla, Sonic, and Untitled Goose Game costumes. Developer Mediatonic also teased more to come over the ensuing weeks.

Season 3.5 follows on from the start of Season 3 back in December. That update brought with it a series of winter-themed content and more.

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Mass Effect: A New Garrus Figure Is Coming In February Before Legendary Edition

2021 is already a big year for the Mass Effect series, as BioWare plans to launch Mass Effect: Legendary Edition during the year. But that’s not all. BioWare has announced a new Garrus figure is also in the works, and it’s already generating a lot of buzz.

BioWare teased the new figure on Twitter, posting a black-and-white image of the figure. “We’re in the middle of some calibrations,” the tweet says, referencing the unfinished nature of the image and Garrus’ lines from the games. It seems all will be properly revealed in February.

“Garrus will be ready in February,” BioWare said.

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Rainbow Six Siege Update 4.3 Now Live On PC Test Servers, Full Patch Notes Revealed

Ubisoft has dropped a new update for Rainbow Six Siege on the PC test servers that adjusts Ranked and tweaks operators, among other things. The full patch notes for Y5S4.3 are outlined below.

The leading features of this latest update center around tweaking the game’s many operators. Ash’s Breaching Round explosive has had its area of effect reduced to two meters, down from 3.5 meters previously. Buck’s shotgun ammo capacity has been increased from 26 to 31. Meanwhile, a number of other operators–including Ela, Kali, Lesion, Lion, and three others–have had certain pieces of equipment removed, like the angled grip from Melusi’s MP5.

The patch also makes a small but notable tweak to Ranked: increasing the cancelation time. Now, disconnected players will have more time to rejoin matches. Furthermore, certain exploits that let players end the first round before it started, which effectively prevented the other team from canceling the match, have been fixed.

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