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PokeDates – a dating service for Pokemon Go players

Louie Diangson

A new dating service has launched in the US called PokeDates, allowing players to meet up and go on a date or just catch Pokemon together.

PokeDates rides on Pokemon Go’s social gameplay and rising popularity to bring more people together. It is powered by Project Fixup, a Chicago-based dating service.

To get started, you just have to follow the following steps:

1. Sign up on PokeDates and answer a few questions to help you put up a PokeProfile.

2. Share your schedule so PokeDate can match you up with someone.

3. Confirm your PokeDate. You will get an email with details about your PokeMatch as well as the time and place to meet.

4. Show up at the right place and time and have fun.

The first PokeDate is free, but if you want to go on more PokeDates you will need to pay USD 20 per date or refer friends.

For more details on PokeDates, hit the source link below.

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Nintendo reveals Pokemon GO to be available next month

Kevin Bruce Francisco

Over at Nintendo‘s Treehouse Live event at E3, the company introduced the Pokemon GO Plus device and revealed the rollout of the awaited game.

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Let’s first talk about the introduced gadget — the Pokemon GO Plus. It is basically a Bluetooth wearable that pairs to your smart device wirelessly. Its main purpose is to notify you when a Pokemon is nearby (through vibrating and flashing a green light) so you wouldn’t have to keep on checking your smartphone.

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Using it, players trainers  can also throw Pokeballs to catch wild Pokemons. The Pokemon GO Plus lights a rainbow color if you’ve successfully caught a Pokemon, and red when you’ve failed to do so.

Nintendo is looking to release this wireless device by July for $35 and, later on, confirmed that users would be able to load the game before the wearable comes out — revealing that the game will be available in a few weeks.

The company adds that the initial set of creatures are the ones available in Pokemon Blue and Red versions.

This game is hotly-anticipated due to the success of the earlier releases so we’re anxious to test it out and see if it lives up to its hype.

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Niantic Labs officially gives us first look at Pokemon GO

Kevin Bruce Francisco

Touted as the next-gen “Real World Gaming” platform, Niantic Labs posts a first look into the upcoming Pokémon GO that has its fans waiting in excitement.

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For those still unfamiliar, Pokémon GO uses the latest technology and combines mobile location and augmented reality to simulate a different kind of gaming experience. It will not be the usual kind of Pokémon game that you could just sit and play in your house. No, this free-to-play app will require you to go out and explore places — just like how Ash Ketchum did it.

Niantic mentions that certain wild Pokémons will only appear in their native environments. For example, to catch water-type Pokémons, you would have to go near a lake or an ocean.

Poké Balls will be available at PokéStops which are real-life places such as “public art installations, historical markers, museums, and monuments.”

The game also promotes having real-life battles between other players from different teams. There will be a total of three teams where players could join in and compete over who the Gym Leader will be (inside real world locations, of course).

The blog explains that this is done by “placing their captured Pokémon in a friendly Gym or by battling with an opponent’s Pokémon in another team’s Gym.”

Basically, it sounds like they’re serious in bringing into reality the essence of the old-school game that most players today have grown up with and loved.

There will be an early field test of the game but of course, it will only be in Japan.

Just for fun, which Pokémons do you think will commonly appear in the Philippines once this game is up and running?

Stay tuned for more developments as Niantic Labs reveals more details.

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