Leaders On Social Media

Pokemon Go has made everyone Pokemon-go-nuts!
Recently the leaders of each team have been publicized (YAY COMICON!).

Team Valor- Candela

Team Mystic- Blanche

Team Instinct- Spark

Team Valor believes that power is the most important thing in the Pokemon world and Candela mentions in her intro that she is researching ways to increase the Pokemon's natural power.

Team Mystic believes that knowledge, reason, and a cool head rule over all in the Pokemon world. They believe that you can unlock a Pokemon's true potential through evolution.

Team Instinct believes that trusting in the Pokemon's natural abilities, instinct, and decisions is the way to go. They think that the Pokemon's intuition is linked to how they were hatched.

While most people are fiercely loyal to their team, the team leaders seem to be less than competitive. In fact the majority of the internet seems to think that they are all friends. This, if you ask me, is awesome!

These characters have gained such a huge following that you can even follow them on  Facebook!

Candela

Blanche

Spark

They all have quite a friendly vibe about them.

Enjoy, everyone!

Source: Heavy, Pokemon Go

Trainers Rejoice In Trading

Let the Pokemon Trading Commence!

According to Niantic CEO John Hanke, players will soon be able to trade their Pokemon to other trainers in a future update to the wildly popular mobile game Pokemon GO.

We do not have even a guess-timation on the release date, time or even millennium that the patch will be released, but we have been assure that it WILL in fact happen. All we can hope for is that it will be sooner than later.

Now, if we could just get some server stability that would be nice too!

Source: Comicbook

Lightning, Water, Fire, and Air! We Love Our Eevee-Lutions and We Don't Care!

Pokemon Go has created a lot of buzz (both negative and positive).
The memes alone number in the thousands at LEAST!
Along with such a craze is sure to come rumors, theories, and conspiracies.

The latest theory seems a bit far-fetched but who knows? Maybe it works.

This theory suggest that, in order to obtain the Eevee-lution that you desire (between jolteon, flareon, and vaporeon), you must nickname the Eevee Sparky, Pyro, or Rainer.

That's right...
You have to name the Eevee after the original Eevee trainers, The Eevee Brothers, to obtain that type of Eevee-Lution.



Redditor SmithNigel came up with the theory and made this post to inform people.

PSA - How to force your Eevee to evolve into your choice of Eeveelution! from pokemongo

After receiving, what seems to be, a massively positive response the theory seems to have some solid base. It will only work once for each Eevee-Lution, though, it would seem.
Have you tied this theory out?
Did it work for you?
Let us know in the comments!
We will update this post with each experience!




Update: Our very own writer Bri has confirmed that this works!!!! Here is a ScreenCap of her Jolteon!

Update #2: We have an anonymous comment that confirms that it works but only the first time!

Source: Thrillist, Reddit

Wait, They Don't Catch You Like I Catch You. Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaps. Wait...

THE MAPS ARE FINALLY HERE 

While searching the web this evening trying to see if anyone has started tracking their Pokemon sighting at all, I stumbled across something called PokeCrew. It is a map that piggybacks off of Google Maps to give a startlingly accurate world map where people all over the world are reporting their Pokemon sightings. All you have to do is look up your location, and see what people in your area are finding. I highly recommend creating a free account yourselves and reporting your findings as well, as helping other trainers out is the wonderfully nice thing to do! 

You can find the PokeCrew maps →  HERE  ←   

HAPPY HUNTING

The Pokemon Sun Is Rising!

A few weeks back we hit the tip of the Pokemon Iceberg with news about Pokemon Sun and Moon. Today we have a bit more information about the upcoming releases from Nintendo. 

A tentative release date has been set for November 18, 2016 for Japan, Australia, Canada, and the United States, with a release a few days later in Europe hinting at the 23rd. 

There have been a plethora of new Pokemon that have been made public from Nintendo since our last update as well. There are just so many I cannot list them all here, and will provide a link to Nintendo’s official Pokemon website at the end of the article.  

Nintendo seems to be doing a very good job of keeping the flow of information going rather than keeping a tight lid on the projects (Looking at you Pokemon Go!).  We here at the pinup gamer will do our best to keep you all up to date with the newest information as it becomes available. 

Source: Pokemon Official US Website