Never PokemonGo anywhere without a buddy!

Howdy doody, Gamelings!

Another day has come and, as such, so has another Pokemon Go update.

Now, I must be honest with you, Gamelings.

If I'm not honest with you, what kind of journalist would I be?

Anyway...

To be completely honest...

I am a bad PoGo player.

I used to play constantly.

We'd go on family walks just to go catch Pokemon.

Now, though?

I've been stuck at 7.7km out of my only 10km egg for about 3 weeks.

I know...

I know...

What am I doing with my life?

Unfortunately the answer to that question is: Adulting.

So, naturally, when I saw that there was a new update available for PoGo my emotions ran the gamut from regret to guilt to apathy. 

I clearly didn't have time to play this game so why should I care?

Also, being reminded that it exists made me feel kinda guilty for ignoring it and it made me regret all of the time spent staring into the black abyss of "I'm so tired I could die" instead of playing PoGo.

I clicked on the "What's new" option to see what cool new feature they had added.
As usual it started with "bug fixes".

Ah, good ol' bug fixes.

Then it listed "Buddy Pets".

I read on to find out that "buddy pets" allows you to equip a certain pet as a "buddy" and earn candy for that pet as you travel certain distances.

This is friggin phenomenal for people, like me, who live in a less-populated area and STILL HAVEN'T EVOLVED THEIR FRIGGIN EEVEE! 

Your buddy will either stand behind you, beside you, or sit on your shoulder depending on how big they are!

PoGo screenshots courtesy of me and Bri. ;)

SO yea... this is now a thing.

"But how will I know just how far I have to walk to get candies for my Poke-dudes?"

Well HERE is a wonderful link that has them all listed!

You'll notice that the legendaries and ditto are listed.

Super cool!

It makes a lot of sense that buddy system would be put into place.

It would probably be the only way to get candies for legendary Pokemon.

Unfortunately this update also blocks root/jailbroken users!

I mean, that never stopped anyone before and it certainly hasn't stopped them now!

Now, while we DEFINITELY DO NOT endorse cheating, stealing, or any such stuff...
THIS LINK gives info on how to get around the user block.

You do you, booboo.

One final thing that users have noticed is that the game has Android Wear compatibility which enables users to use their android smartwatches as Pokemon Go Plus devices!

Super neato!

So...

I guess, now that I've updated my PoGo, I have no excuse.

It's time to get out there and

CATCH

THEM 

ALL!

Source: ComicBook, LifeHacker, Heavy

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

Mario 2.0?

Nintendo is on fire this year at E3!

First, we get news about the new Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.
Now, Shigeru Miyamoto (the creator to the Legend of Zelda games and Super Mario games) has announced that, much like the Legend of Zelda, Mario will be getting an upgrade!

He hinted in an interview that we will be hearing about a "new kind of Mario" in a year or two!

Who-whaaaaat?!

So there's a possibility that we may hear news as soon as next year's E3!

More than likely it will be available on all of the latest consoles including the NX console which is said to be released globally March 2017!!!

Look at that bad boy!!! 

Who else is super pumped?!?

What games are you hoping they will release on the new NX console? Let us know in the comments!

Source: trendread, cnet

Super Big Exciting News Announcement!!!

We have officially moved from pinupgamer.tk to www.thepinupgamer.com!

A HUGE Thank you goes out to "The Grand Geezer of Gaming" for purchasing this domain name for us! It's good for 5 years so lets get this blog to superstar status by then, okay?

We will keep the .tk up for a while to wrangle in the business connections we are setting up with it, but we have an official paid domain name!
This is just one of the many upgrades that we plan to enact so keep your eyes peeled for more awesome news and some pretty cool new features soon!

Thank you to those of you that read our blog, share our posts, and support us!

We will be bringing you more to love soon! 

Dear Bethesda: A Love Letter and A Request

My dearest Bethesda,

You have given me hours of entertainment playing your games. We've shared laughs and tears. I've rage quit a few times but you have always been there for me when I was ready to stop being a butt.
Now I hear that one of my favorite mobile games is expanding and I just can't control my emotions.

Not only that, but you have just teased us with the release of a few new games and the super upgrade of many others!
The 90's game "Quake" is getting your delicate touch in "Quake Champions". Lending to it, not only your amazing graphics capabilities, but e-sport level multi-player gameplay and unlocked framerates.



Next we have Skyrim. Ah, the beautiful, wondrous world of Skyrim.
What's that?
It's more beautiful now?
How is that even possible?





oh...
That's how...
In the Skyrim Special Edition upgrade the graphics quality increases immensely AND gamers are 100% allowed to use fan-made mods...
You've even built that into the game options.
Wow.



Not only did you just announce those things, but you also announced the final 3 DLCs for Fallout 4 (Including the ability to build your own vault,  some super sweet rube goldberg machines, and the ability to experiment on Dwellers)!


Not to mention tons of news for Fallout Shelter which now has 50 million players! WOW!




The updates to this wonderful game include:
send dwellers on quests
explore new locations
battle new enemies
all-new combat system
meet new characters
play on PC


WHAT?!?! I can play this on my PC soon?!? ARE YOU KIDDING?!?!


I love you, Bethesda. I love you so much.
You are so good to me and many millions of people around the world!

Now here's my only request:

Team up with our good friend J. K. Rowling  and let's get this Harry Potter world underway.

What do you say?

If you want to watch Bethesda's E3 video, check it out below!





Source: engadget, the Guardian, Bethesda on Facebook