Category: Gaming

Pokemon Go Gift Event for August 5th

Pokemon Go will have an event from from Aug. 5 at 4 p.m. ET until Aug. 19 at 4 p.m. ET regarding gifts. Gifts will contain 2k eggs that will hatch 7k Pokemon. That means you’ll be hatching rarer Pokemon at a faster rate. Shiny Bonsly and Sudowoodo will also be released at this time.

Shiny Bonsly and Sudowoodo with their Shiny variants, which have pink shrubs with a yellow body, rather than green shrubs with a brown body

You’ll be able to hold 20 gifts and open 30 gifts a day during the duration of the event. I wish it was like that all the time.

This Saturday is Community day where eggs will hatch at 3x the rate. It may be worth hatching all the eggs you’re holding on to now so that you have space for the 5th.

Doom Classic accidentally forces Users to use Bethesda Log-In

Bethesda surprised fans of the old Doom series by porting Doom 1,2, and 3 for all game consoles yesterday. However, players noticed you needed a Bethesda.net account to play the game! ResetEra Nibel tweeted his experiences that you were forced to log-in to play the offline single-player game.

It is a confusing system, considering that the game has no online features. It does have an offline multiplayer for players though. Still, forcing players to create a Bethesda account is a way for the company to send users marketing emails and track active users. Bethesda has since responded saying that creating a Bethesda account was meant to “be optional.”

They are working to patch that option in. I can only speculate that Bethesda is now stating that after being caught by fans. They were hoping fans wouldn’t be mad or mind.

Twitter has obviously been making memes about being forced to create an online account for a single-player game. So I will leave them below.

https://twitter.com/smurfdanceparty/status/1154857843499122688?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1154857843499122688&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fkotaku.com%2Fajax%2Finset%2Fiframe%3Fid%3Dtwitter-1154857843499122688%26autosize%3D1

Nintendo Responds to Joy-Con Lawsuit

Have you been feeling a weird movement in your Nintendo Switch games while using your Joy-Cons? Well you’re not the only one. Many reports through Nintendo forums, Reddit and other gaming forums have complained that the Nintendo Switch Joy-Cons are defective due to unintentional in-game drifting with the analog sticks.

The lawsuit was finally filed last Friday via the United States District Court in Washington by the law offices of Chimicles, Schwartz Kriner & Donaldson-Smith (CSK&D). The lawsuit was filed done on behalf of Ryan Diaz. He purchased a Nintendo Switch back in 2017 and noticed the issues 11 months in. After sending the controllers to Nintendo to fix, the issue resurfaced after 3 months. He also noticed this issue in recently purchased Joy-Con controllers.

Now Nintendo has finally responded. Although they have not responded regarding the class action lawsuit in the US, a spokesperson from the UK told Eurogamer:

“At Nintendo, we take great pride in creating quality products and we are continuously making improvements to them. We are aware of recent reports that some Joy-Con controllers are not responding correctly. We want our consumers to have fun with Nintendo Switch, and if anything falls short of this goal we always encourage them to visit http://support.nintendo.co.uk so we can help.”

So no real solution from Nintendo just yet. Hopefully they will be able to solve this manufacturing issue in the near future for future Joy-Cons. Whether Nintendo can reimburse all the people on the lawsuit with new Joy-Cons is debatable.

If you want to join the lawsuit, you can sign up on the link below.

Diaz v. Nintendo of America Inc., 2:19-cv-01116 (W.D. Wash.)

Sources:

Eurogamer