Fun New Features Come to Pokémon GO

The Pokémon GO phenomenon keeps growing, with millions of players exploring and catching Pokémon around the world! In fact, Pokémon GO has surpassed more than 500 million downloads across the globe since its launch in July. Get ready for new features that will help you bond with your favorite Pokémon and prepare to face tough Gyms.

With the Buddy Pokémon feature, you can choose a favorite Pokémon from your collection to travel at your side, opening up in-game rewards and experiences. Your Buddy Pokémon will appear alongside your Trainer avatar on your profile screen and reward you with helpful bonuses—including Candy—as you walk with it. And there's even more in store for the Buddy Pokémon feature—coming soon!

Now you can get help preparing for Pokémon Gyms from your Team Leader before facing battle. In a new feature called Pokémon Appraisal, your Team Leader Candela, Blanche, or Spark will let you know which of your Pokémon have the best attack and defense capabilities for potential upcoming battles.

At Apple's recent event in San Francisco, Niantic unveiled early details about Pokémon GO for Apple Watch. Fans can look forward to Pokémon GO for Apple Watch to launch later in 2016.

These are just a handful of cool features that the Pokémon GO team has been hard at work developing. Look forward to even more exciting additions coming soon!

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Your best hunts on Google Maps

Your best hunts on Google Maps

The mystery is lifted on Pokéball found in the source code of Google Maps: mobile appears the "Hunt Pokemon"! In the tab "your paths" you can indicate which shift you were hunting. Traveling is a space in the navigation application to trace the history of displacement. So you can save your best runs. Those where there is the most Pokéstop to go to work or school. Or those who take you through the best spots.

A good way also to hatch eggs since the indicated mileage is ... You can record paths 2, 5 and 10 km, depending on the egg to school and study the route to pass by the spot or the most pokestop interesting.

Google Maps gadget or not?

The most addicted hunters can actually use this to optimize their journeys in these days of return ... not always easy to reconcile hunt Pokemon and mandatory paths towards work or school ... the bitterest leave earlier home to pass by a maximum of Pokestop before arriving ... the Google Maps option will set up timing and distance parcourue.PG_google_maps_illu

It is certain that by doing the same trips, we can end up storing all these elements ... For these champions of memory, Google Maps will not necessarily be useful ... By cons if you regularly different paths and you in a good spot, you can easily do it again. Local groups on social networks regularly indicate where to find a particular Pokemon. With this option it becomes easy to create a trip that goes through the right places ...

Many will not notice a gimmick but ultimately, good trainers are sure to use this option. And finally Pokemon Go was born of an April Fool on Google Maps, it is quite normal that the app follows the movement!