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Pokemon Go is a free-to-play mobile game that sees players locate, catch, train and battle virtual Pokemon who can be found in real-life locations thanks to the game's use of augmented reality.
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Pokemon GO's next Community Day event, Valentine's Day bonuses

Pokemon GO - Valentine's Day logo
Niantic's next Community Day event will go down on 24 February 2018. The event will focus on Dratini. Valentine's Day bonuses will stop being distributed on 15 February 2018.

A shiny Swablu now available in Pokemon GO

Rayquaza in Pokemon GO
Pokemon GO has a new shiny monster. This time it's Swablu and it costs 400 candies to evolve it into Altaria. The new shiny Pokemon arrived as part of the latest Rayquaza update. The update also brought some Special, Great and Ultra boxes.

Legendary Pokemon Rayquaza now a Raid Boss in Pokemon GO

Pokemon GO logo surrounded by Pokemon from the Hoenn region
Niantic announced two new Gen 3 Legendary Pokemon will be available in Pokemon GO for a limited time. The Legendaries will be accompanied by other monsters from the Hoenn region. New special boxes available at the in-game store for a limited time.

Pokemon GO's EX Raid invite blunder was caused by a bug that is now fixed

Mewtwo striking a pose
Niantic came out and apologised for the mistake they've made regarding EX Raid invites. Turns out that a bug caused the wrong invites to be sent out. In the future, more gyms will be eligible to host the EX Raid battles and more Trainers will receive invites.

Pokemon GO has a new legendary on the way and it's not Rayquaza

EX Raid logo: Mewtwo standing next to a Pokemon GO logo
Pokemon GO's dataminers have dug up a couple of hidden changes that should be coming in a future update. The most prominent of all is the addition of a new legendary Pokemon - Deoxys.

Pokemon GO makes changes to the EX Raid invite criteria

EX Raid logo: Mewtwo standing next to a Pokemon GO logo
Pokemon GO seems to have made some changes to the way players get invited to EX Raids. Many players reported that they got an invite to a gym that's far away from their home. In some cases, players haven't been to the gyms they're invited to since their summer holiday.

Pokemon GO updated to have Shiny filters and new attributes for the upcoming Legendaries

Pokemon Deoxys in its attack form
Niantic released a new update for Pokemon GO. The latest patch adds a "Shiny" filter to the game's search function. Dataminers have uncovered some new quests as well as added attributes for Deoxys and Castform.

Niantic acquires AR startup Escher Reality and adds a couple of new outfits to Pokemon GO

New Battle Girl, Jogger and Fisherman outfits in Pokemon GO
Niantic recently joined forces with augmented reality startup Escher Reality. The two will work on making a persistent, shared AR game world similar to a MMO. The cross platform technology should be available more widely to developers later this year.

Pokemon GO welcomes 23 new monsters from the Hoenn region

New monsters from the Hoenn region in Pokemon GO
Niantic has unleashed 23 new Pokemon into the wild of Pokemon GO. The latest set of Gen 3 Pokemon will include monsters from the Hoenn region in the Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire games. The upcoming Community day will focus on Dratini.

Pokemon GO's update changes loading screen and solves the Pokedex issue

2018 loading screen for Pokemon GO
The latest Pokemon GO update bids farewell to holiday decorations, adds a new loading screen, fixes some bugs and brings a few quality of life improvements to round things up.