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Pokémon GO on Apple Watch /  by Kyle Johnstone

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With the Pokémon GO Plus getting an official release date of September 16th via pokemongolive.com .  John Hanke of Niantic announced that Pokémon GO is coming to Apple Watch at Apple's Special Event.  The watch app seems to offer a workout function that let's you encounter wild Pokémon, swipe PokéStops for items, hatch eggs and more!  John announced that the watch functionality will be available before the end of 2016.

Watch the whole Apple keynote presentation on demand here, with the Pokémon GO news at 28:35 if you want to fast forward. 

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Pokémon Sun & Moon /  by Kyle Johnstone

Image Courtesy of pokemon-sunmoon.com

Today we received a look into the new Pokémon series Sun and Moon!  The new region Alola appears to be Hawaiian themed.  Rowlet, Litten, and Popplio will be our 3 starter Pokémon (gallery below).  The new trailers and box art display our new main Legendary Pokémon, names have not been released, but we'll look forward to those.  Lastly, we received some in game footage and battle sequences, two characters that could potentially be the professor or professors, what our hero characters look like, and maybe a Mother and friend/rival character as well.  Pokémon Sun and Moon will be available on November 18, 2016 in North America!

I just want to add that I'm really excited to see that these games are moving away from the the top down view.  The characters look less Chibi and more proportionate.  In recent games we would see a combination of the Chibi look with proportionate battle scenes or cut scenes.  Going off this footage, the game looks proportionate throughout, similar to how Pokémon Colosseum looked in the GameCube days.  I can't wait to hear more news as we get closer to the release!

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Blog Repost, Niantic, A First Look at Pokémon GO /  by Kyle Johnstone

Images Courtesy of nianticlabs.com

Niantic has officially posted on Twitter and their blog the first look at Pokémon GO.  Battles, Pokemon Eggs, Gyms, and more all confirmed, click the link for all the details!  Click here for the official post.

Last weekend the YouTube user Eric F posted "leaked" footage from CEO John Hanke's SXSW Gaming Panel presentation.  Niantic hasn't taken it down since it was posted, check it out while it's up!

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