'Pokémon GO' Has Made $1.8 Billion As It Turns Two Years Old

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"People still play that game?"It's the first comment on any Pokémon GO story I write, to which the answer is yes. Sensor Tower has done a two year retrospective on the game to estimate that it's pulled in $1.8 billion in revenue since its launch on July 6, 2016. For comparison's sake, $1.8 billion is more than every movie ever released has made outside of Titanic, Avatar, The Force Awakens and Infinity War. All in all, Pokémon GO is still making $2 million a day, so yes, people still play this game. A Chinese launch is still coming down the line, opening the game up to a billion plus microtransaction-friendly playersAnd that's just what we know about.


Celebi Is Live In 'Pokémon GO' Now, Global Release Coming Soon

Pokémon GO Fest is entering its second day in Chicago, and while I'm not there this year, it looks like a much better time than last year. Like last year, attendees are getting a crack at a special prize as well: Gen 2 mythic Pokémon Celebi is available in the park right now, with a global release following after. People started catching Celebi after what seemed like a pretty brief and park-specific special research questline yesterday. The exclusivity won't last all that long, however: Celebi will be seeing a global release at some point, and likely soon. We'll let you know what the Celebi questline is as soon as it goes live.

Celebi Is Live In 'Pokémon GO' Now, Global Release Coming Soon

How to Get Raikou, Spinda, Shiny Snubbull, and Shiny Houndour in 'Pokémon GO'

referring to How to Get Raikou, Spinda, Shiny Snubbull, and Shiny Houndour in 'Pokémon GO' Everything you need to know. Pokémon GO is celebrating August with a new Field Research challenge that's all about Raikou, the legendary Electric-type dog Pokémon from Pokémon Gold and Silver. However, that also means a bunch of other Pokémon and special Pokémon variants are joining the game, including Spinda, Shiny Snubbull, and Shiny Houndour. Since the odds of any Pokémon showing up as shiny are randomly generated and very rare, you'll just have to rinse and repeat until you luck out and find a Shiny Snubbul (purple)l, and Shiny Houndour (blue). If you stick to it, you should get four chances to catch Raikou this month.

'Pokémon GO' Community Day: How To Get A Squirtle With Sunglasses

Pokémon GO community day comes a little bit early this month. Sunglasses Squirtle will be made available through field research, so getting it is a little more complicated than just wandering around until you encounter a shiny. When community day starts, you'll want to spin photo discs to get new research tasks. Fans of the Pokémon anime will know the sunglasses from Squirtle's introduction in the original, Kanto based series from way back in 1997. The real prize here, one assumes, will be a shiny sunglasses Squirtle.

'Pokémon GO' Community Day: How To Get A Squirtle With Sunglasses




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