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Pokémon Masters will soon let you pick your partner Pokémon

You’ll soon be able to select your own partner Pokémon in Pokémon Masters, thanks to the brand new eggs feature coming soon. When it arrives, you’ll be able to select from one of three gen one monsters: Bulbasaur, Charmander, or Squirtle, at which point your chosen monster will hatch from its egg and you can form a sync pair with them.

Developer DeNA has also revealed three more eggs planned for a future date, which appear to feature Meowth, Scyther, and Tauros. Even more eggs will arrive in future updates too, so it seems like you’ll soon have a huge list of Pokémon you can partner up with.

In other news, DeNA has also revealed that the next legendary event will feature Ho-Oh, and will debut a brand new feature: the prize box. This allows you to collect prize coins by participating in the event, which will allow you to progress further in the event. This event will also see the introduction of the reward boost ticket, an item that boosts the rewards of a battle of your choosing.

DeNA has also detailed plans to make sync orbs easier to obtain by introducing the following measures:

  • You’ll no longer have a chance to get sync orbs from single-player and co-op battles
  • Sync orbs can now drop from supercourses
  • The chance of sync-orb drops from events has been increased

In short, you’ll now be able to get a fixed number of sync orbs for specific sync pairs from supercourses, and you’ll get more from events too.

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Looking forward, a legendary arena mode is coming soon, though we likely won’t hear about it until mid-May, when DeNA will provide the next message.

If you’d like to get back into Pokémon Masters, you can grab it right now on iOS or Android via the App Store and Google Play respectively.

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Dead by Daylight Mobile is out now

Behaviour Interactive’s mobile port of the multiplayer survival horror game, Dead by Daylight, is out right now. The mobile version plays almost exactly the same as the original, with four players taking on the roles of survivors and a single player acting as murderous psychopath. Survivors attempt to escape without getting killed, the killer does the killing.

It’s not as simple as running to the exit or chopping heads off though, as both survivor and killer have a bunch of mechanics to keep in mind that help them complete objectives. Survivors, for example, can’t harm the killer at all. Instead, they have to use the power of stealth to avoid the enemy, hiding behind or inside objects, and moving as quietly as possible.

However, you won’t always be able to visually see the killer, which is where your terror radius comes in. When you get close to the killer, you’ll hear a heartbeat sound. This becomes louder as you get closer to the killer, at which point you’ll be able to see where the killer is looking thanks to a red cone of light in front of them.

While survivors can’t actively attack the killer, you can help your fellows to escape capture by temporarily blinding or stunning the killer. You can also heal your teammates when they get injured. In terms of actually escaping though, you have to attempt to repair five generators dotted around the map. Doing so makes a lot of noise, which can attract the killer to your position. Once you’ve repaired all of the generators, you can head straight towards the exit gates.

Meanwhile, killers have their own set of mechanics to help them hunt and butcher survivors. Due to your heightened senses, you can see tracks and bloodstains left behind by survivors, as well as track their location when you hear a loud noise. You can also run faster than a survivor, which helps you catch them when spotted. If you do catch them, you’ll have to attack them to knock them down, and you’ve got both a short-range and lunge attack to help you. Two hits, and the survivor is down.

To actually kill a survivor, you have to carry them to one of the various sacrificial hooks dotted around the map. You’ll have to be quick and careful though, as survivors can wriggle free, stunning you in the process, or be saved by their fellows. If you manage to successfully transport a survivor to the hook, you’ll still have to be on your guard, as survivors can still attempt to escape and their teammates can rescue them.

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Dead by Daylight Mobile is basically the same game, just redesigned for mobile. You’ll find the progression system, which provides a bunch of different characters, perks, and cosmetics to unlock, intact, as well as a redesigned UI and controls for mobile. If you’d like to check it out, go ahead and grab Dead by Daylight right now on iOS or Android via the App Store or Google Play respectively.

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Pokémon Go gets an online leaderboard later today

Right in time for the bank holiday weekend (depending where you are), Niantic is gearing up to drop an exciting new feature in Pokémon Go: online leaderboards. These tie into the Go Battle League feature, and provide you with a list of the top 500 players statistically. The leaderboard hasn’t gone live yet, but you’ll be able to see it at the official Pokémon Go live website as soon as the Go Battle League changes to Master League from Ultra.

The leaderboard will detail the top 500 players’ nicknames, teams, ranks, ratings, and the total number of battles played. This information is taken from the previous day’s statistics, and will update between 20:00 and 22:00 UTC each day. If you want to make it on the leaderboard, you’ll not only have to be a good enough battler, but you’ll also have to ensure that you don’t have an offensive nickname.

To celebrate the launch of the Go Battle League leaderboards, Niantic is hosting a Go Battle Day event on Sunday, which features the Pokémon Marill. The more battles you perform between 11:00 and 14:00 in your local time zone, the higher the chance you’ll have of encountering the fan-favourite Pokémon.

Marill will also appear as a guaranteed reward after your first and third wins, though those who own a premium battle pass will get Marill after every single win. All players will also receive twice the normal amount of stardust for catching Marill.

Niantic is also extending the number of battles you can perform for the entirety of Sunday (in your local time). Rather than the five sets of battles you can typically perform, Niantic is increasing this to 20. That’s a whopping 100 battles for those who want to participate.

If you’re interested, you can go ahead and grab Pokémon Go from the App Store or Google Play right now and get ready for the online leaderboards going live later today. The Go Battle Day event happens on Sunday.

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Door Kickers: Action Squad is now available on Android

April 8, 2020 KillHouse Games has just confirmed that Door Kickers: Action Squad is finally available on Android, and that many of the bugs users over on iOS have been experiencing, including crashes, have been fixed.

April 3, 2020 Door Kickers: Action Squad isn’t available on Android in all regions yet, and we apologise for the confusion. KillHouse Games has confirmed that the release is still pending on Google’s side. We’ll update you all further when it’s actually available.

If you’ve ever wished that the real world resembled that found in ’80s police movies, Door Kickers: Action Squad is the game for you. It’s a pleasingly-retro side-scrolling shooter in which you direct a SWAT trooper on a murderous rampage across Nowhere City USA. Bullets will fly, heads will roll, and many doors will be kicked.

Like any self-respecting SWAT member, you’ll begin by selecting your gear. There’s a wide variety of weaponry and useful items, like health packs or refills, and each gun has its own unique set of recoil and reload speeds. Given that this is a sequel to the deeply-strategic Door Kickers, you can expect to develop some level of mastery over time.

Because while, on paper, it looks like a Contra-style shoot-’em-up, it’s actually an experience that requires a fair amount of thought. The action might fly in thick and fast, but those that go in prepared will have a much easier time. You can use cover to stay safe, utilise a variety of strategic abilities to turn the tide, and unleash your ultimate skill to clear out a room.

There are six different characters to select from too, which each have their own playstyle. You can level each of them up individually, with different improvements available per character.

In terms of gameplay, there’s a single-player campaign to beat that features a whopping 84 explorable levels, an endless tower mode, and a zombie invasion mode, which remixes the base campaign to include the shambling undead.

It’s an intriguing sequel in that it maintains much of what we loved about the original, the strategic play, while changing pretty much everything else. If you’d like to check it out for yourself, you can grab it right now on iOS via the App Store and Android via Google Play. It’s a premium app at $2.99 (£2.99).

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Legends of Runeterra launches April 30 on mobile

Riot Games has announced that Legends of Runeterra, the upcoming League of Legends card game, will officially launch on mobile on April 30. That’s a simultaneous launch with the PC version, which is just rather lovely. If you’re not sure what this is, it’s a brand new card game by League of Legends creator Riot, who is clearly on a mission to beat Blizzard at its own game. Literally. It draws a lot of inspiration from Hearthstone, you see.

It’s free-to-play and you can earn cards by simply playing or purchasing them from the store. You’ll be able to directly purchase the cards you want, as well rather than rely on whatever you can get out of card packs. The ability to have that much more control over your decks will likely appeal to fans who are tired of bad luck.

Aside from that, though, it’s all very business as usual. You’ll craft a deck out of a wide variety of cards, each of which comes from one of six different regions. Regions behave similarly to classes in Hearthstone, providing a variety of different play styles. You can combine cards from different regions to create your own strategy.

You can also pick a champion, which is a powerful card that you’ll likely build your deck around. There are six champions in total, with each one hailing from one of the different regions available in the game.

Legends of Runeterra is currently available in open beta on PC, and you can still earn a limited-time Moonstruck Poro at launch if you check it out ahead of the full launch. That’s on April 30, when it will launch across PC, iOS, and Android simultaneously. You can pre-register right now on Android via Google Play, but will have to wait until the official launch to grab it on iOS.