Pokemon Go Incense Day: Schedule, Shiny Carvanha, And More

Pokemon Go‘s second Incense Day is just around the corner. The event takes place this Sunday, May 17, and much like the first Incense Day, it’ll bring out certain types of Pokemon at different hours, including another Shiny.

The event kicks off at 11 AM local time. Any Incenses that you use during the day will attract certain types of Pokemon–in this case, Water or Dark types–depending on what time it is. You can see the full event schedule and what Pokemon you’re more likely to find during those hours below:

  • 11 AM – 12 PM: Water-type Pokemon
  • 12 PM – 1 PM: Dark-type Pokemon
  • 1 PM – 2 PM: Water-type Pokemon
  • 2 PM – 3 PM: Dark-type Pokemon
  • 3 PM – 4 PM: Water-type Pokemon
  • 4 PM – 5 PM: Dark-type Pokemon
Carvanha
Carvanha

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Shuttered Xbox One Battle Royale Game Comes Back Online This Week

Developer Xaviant has announced that its battle royale game, The Culling, is getting a second wind on May 14 for Xbox One. The studio said that the PC release will follow sometime later.

This new version of the game is dubbed The Culling: Origins and features a number of improvements, including adjustments to A.I. behavior, graphics enhancements on Xbox One, gameplay tweaks (like stamina reduction), and more. In addition to all of this, Xaviant has removed premium items and purchasable loot boxes from the game. However, as a result, the studio notes that “past saved games will be wiped and all previous unlocks have been reset.” Check out the official relaunch trailer below.

What’s most notable about The Culling: Origins, however, is the price of entry. Those who already own it will be able to get into the game at no extra cost. Anyone who doesn’t have the game will only need to pay a nominal $6 to jump into the battle royale action. However, it’s not that simple. In order to continue playing The Culling: Origins, players will need to win matches or purchase tokens. These Online Match Tokens, which can be bought in packs or earned by winning a match, grant you access to another match. If you have no Online Match Tokens, you can’t play The Culling: Origins online. It seems there is offline play, though.

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Netflix Announces New Original Series, Based On DC Comic Book

Netflix is producing another comic book adaptation for its streaming service, and this time around, the latest original series is Sweet Tooth based on the comic series of the same name.

The first season will consist of eight, one-hour episodes and Jim Mickle (In the Shadow of the Moon) and Beth Schwartz (Arrow, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow) will serve as showrunners, executive producers, and writers on the new series. Mickle will also be directing the show. Also serving as executive producers are Robert Downey Jr., Susan Downey, and Amanda Burrell of Team Downey.

The official synopsis reads, “Sweet Tooth is the broad appeal, family-friendly, storybook adventure of Gus–part deer, part boy–who leaves his home in the forest to find the outside world ravaged by a cataclysmic event. He joins a ragtag family of humans and animal-children hybrids like himself in search of answers about this new world and the mystery behind his hybrid origins.”

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Pokemon Go May Community Day Details Announced

Niantic has detailed Pokemon Go‘s next Community Day event. May’s Community Day will take place next Sunday, May 24, and this time, the featured Pokemon will be the Grass-type Seedot.

Like April’s Community Day, this month’s event will run for six hours instead of the usual three, from 11 AM to 5 PM local time. During that window, Seedot will appear in the wild much more frequently than normal, and you’ll have your first chance to encounter a Shiny Seedot in the game.

If you can power up Nuzleaf (Seedot’s evolved form) into Shiftry by 7 PM local time–two hours after the Community Day ends–it’ll learn the event-exclusive move Bullet Seed, which it normally can’t otherwise learn in Pokemon Go. This applies to any Nuzleaf that evolve within the designated time frame, even if you’ve caught them prior to the Community Day.

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Assassin’s Creed Valhalla Has An Instakill Hidden Blade, Just Like The Old Games

Ubisoft has revealed that Assassin’s Creed Valhalla will see the return of the instakill hidden blade. Killing any enemy–regardless of who they are–with a single hidden blade assassination was once a staple of the franchise, but that aspect of the game has been a bit restrictive in the past few entries.

According to Kotaku, Assassin’s Creed Valhalla creative director Ashraf Ismail said that Eivor’s hidden blade will be lethal enough to instantly kill any target in a single blow–provided you’re assassinating them.

“We wanted to look at the old games and see the greatness that those games had and acknowledge what’s great about the updated formula,” Ismail said. “There was an identity and a uniqueness that we wanted to bring back for Valhalla.”

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Legacy Of Kain: Soul Reaver Fans Uncover Massive Cache Of Cut Content

Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver is one of the most beloved action-adventure games of the PlayStation 1 era. However, it’s also well-known for its underwhelming ending, which makes Halo 2’s “finishing this fight” cutscene look generous by comparison. If you’re familiar with Soul Reaver, you probably know that the game’s final third was slashed due to time and budget constraints, and evidence of that cut content has trickled out over the years.

Now, however, a group of die-hard Legacy of Kain fans have uncovered a large trove of unused content for the game, thanks to the discovery of several alpha versions of Soul Reaver. These include several areas that are missing from the game entirely, as well as unused boss fights with a human priestess and Raziel’s conspicuously-absent brother Turel. According to the Lost Worlds, Soul Reaver was originally supposed to end with Raziel defeating Kain for a third time, absorbing his soul, and using the Silenced Cathedral to destroy all of the vampires for good. Many of the concepts cut from Soul Reaver were later used in the franchise’s fifth entry, Legacy of Kain: Defiance.

Though fans have clamored for a remaster or a port of Soul Reaver to modern consoles, series owner Square Enix has voiced no plans for any such projects. According to reports, a sixth entry in the franchise, Dead Sun, was under development for three years by British developer Climax, but Square Enix cancelled it. The multiplayer portion of Dead Sun later became the ill-fated free-to-play game Nosgoth, which was cancelled in 2016.

Grab 8 Stellar PC Games For $15 In Latest Humble Bundle

If you play games on PC, Humble Bundle offers the chance to grab a bunch of great games for cheap while also benefitting charity. The latest Humble Bundle is dedicated to indie games on Steam, including Hotline Miami, Starbound, Gato Roboto, and more. By default, Humble Indie Bundle 21 benefits Traveling Stories, a nonprofit that builds libraries in underserved villages across the world. You get to choose how to allocate your money, though, whether that be to the publisher, a charity you like, or a mix of both.

If you pay just $1 or more, you’ll unlock Hotline Miami, Beat Cop, and Dustforce DX. If you haven’t played Hotline Miami, the $1 tier is more than worth it for Devolver Digital’s punishing and stylish top-down action game. Beat Cop is an investigative adventure that harkens back to ’80s TV shows and features gorgeous pixel art. Meanwhile, Dustforce DX is an endearing platformer starring a handy janitor.

The second tier of unlocks requires you to pay the average contribution (currently $7.33) to also get Moonlighter, Gato Roboto, and a mystery game that will be revealed next week. Moonlighter is a lovely mash-up of town simulation and roguelike dungeon crawling. You play as a shopkeeper by day, but by night you restock your shelves by waging war against monsters. Gato Roboto, another Devolver Digital title, is an adorable monochromatic platformer in the vein of early Metroid games.

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Destiny 2 Event Supposedly Unlocks Felwinter’s Lie

The Guardian Games are over in Destiny 2, and while the grind to earn the Heir Apparent Exotic machine gun has ended, a new big weapon quest has kicked off in its place: The Lie.

Hop into the game after the most recent weekly reset and you’ll be able to hit the first step in the quest, which sends you to talk to Ana Bray on Mars. Ana suggests that something is going on with Rasputin, beyond just the thing with using his huge network of satellites to shoot down the Almighty. That’s been the story thrust of this season since its start, but we’ve been getting hints that there might be more going on with Rasputin since last season, the Season of Dawn. Now, it seems, that story might be developing further.

But getting to it is going to take a while. The first step in The Lie is for players to finish the Season of the Worthy’s Seraph Tower events on Earth, the Moon, and Io. This isn’t your usual quest that requires you to complete an event a certain number of times, though: The tracker for The Lie is actually taking into account all players and their completions. It looks as though it’s going to take a while to get through these, as well.

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