Pokemon Locations

As part of April Fools, Google Maps has received an update which has put 150 Pokémon on Google Maps. You can actually capture these by going to the set locations and tapping on them. You then click the capture button in the bottom of the screen and congratulations, you're a Pokémon trainer.

Please keep in mind that you can only do this from your mobile device!

1. Absol at F.D.R. Golf Club
2. Aegislash at Montevideo
3. Aggron at National Food Authority, Manila
4. Ampharos East of Pokelab (click Search, then click return to Pokelab)
5. Audino is near Charing Cross Road, London
6. Banette at Milan
7. Bayleef North of Pokelab (click Search, then click return to Pokelab)
8. Beautifly is at Puerto Ayora, Ecuador  (Northeast of Pokemon Lab building)
9. Blastoise at Galapagos - Isla Santa Cruz (East Coast) - zoom in really close to the water
10. Blaziken North of Tokyo Tower
11. Braixen at Diamond Head, Honolulu
12. Buizel at Charleston Slough, Mountain View (zoom 500ft)
13. Bulbasaur at West of Googleplex
14. Buneary is at the Statue of Liberty
15. Bunnelby at West of Roppongi
16. Chandelure at Tower of London
17. Charmander at Sydney Observetory
18. Charmeleon - wink wink**
19. Charizard at Mount Yasur
20. Chatot just west of the Sydney Opera House
21. Chesnaught at Bird Safari Regent's Park, London
22. Chespin at Kuritsu Kashinomiya Park
23. Chikorita at Bedwell Bayfront Park
24. Chimchar at Mount Kilimanjaro alpine service
25. Cofagrigus at Bran Castle, Bran
26. Combee East of Parliament of New South Wales
27. Combusken at far north of Mt. St. Helens
28. Croagunk at East of Parliament of New South Wales
29. Croconaw at Lake Lagunita
30. Cubchoo at The Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise (In Lake)
31. Cyndaquil at Sakurajima, Kagoshima, Japan (East of Mt. Ontake, in the cloud, zoom)
32. Dedenne at Nintendo Japan
33. Deerling at Roppongi
34. Delphox at Saitama
35. Dewott at Niagara Falls
36. Donphan at The Alamo
37. Dragonite is at the Pokémon Company, Seattle
38. Eevee at Yankee Stadium
39. Emboar at Odessa Meteor Crater, TX, USA
40. Emolga West of Pokelab (click Search, then click return to Pokelab)
41. Emopoleon at Sutro Baths, San Francisco
42. Espeon at South East of CERN
43. Fennekin at Ushuaia
44. Feraligatr at Pulu Blan Cocos (Keeling) Islands
45. Ferrothorn at Asukayama Park, Tokyo
46. Flareon - Sydney (Kirby Walk)
47. Froakie at South Charles Darwin Research Station
48. Frogadier at The Bellagio
49. Garchomp at East Great Wall
50. Gengar is at the Nelson Atkins
51. Glaceon - Mount Everest
52. Gogoat at Minato Park, Chiba
53. Goodra near Luxembourg Gardens
54. Greninja at West of The Alamo
55. Grotle at Kasairinkaikoen Station
56. Grovyle at far South of Sydney Observatory
57. Gyrados at Tel Aviv, Isreal
58. Haxorus at Taronga Zoo Sydney
59. Helioptile is at the Eiffel Tower, Paris
60. Heracross at Ulaanbaatar
61. HootHoot at JFK International Airport
62. Hydreigon at Louvre Museum
63. Infernape is North of Kinkakuji Temple, Kyoto
64. Inkay at East of Sydney Observatory
65. Ivysaur at Japanese Tea Garden, San Francisco
66. Jigglypuff at South of Sydney Observatory
67. Jolteon at Spasskaya Tower
68. Joltik - Googleplex
69. Kecleon at the Stadium Santiago Bernabeu
70. Kirlia at North-West of Area 51, Nevada
71. Lapras at Lake Mendota (Zoom in)
72. Leafeon at Setagaya Park, Tokyo
73. Lotad South West of Three Palace Sanctuaries Tokyo
74. Lucario at Shibuya station
75. Luxray and two others at Googleplex in Mountain View, California
76. Mamoswine at Whistler Mountain, BC (South)
77. Marill at Crater Lake
78. Marshtomp at Little Manly Cove
79. Mawile at the Palace of Versailles
80. Meganium at the White House
81. Meowstic (Female) and Helioptile at 1 Infinite Loop
82. Meowstic (Male) is at South St. John's Smith Square in London
83. Meowth at Sydney Observatory
84. Metagross at South of Pokelab (click Search, then click return to Pokelab)
85. Minccino at Saint-Gervais Church, Paris
86. Milotic South West of Kyuinao Shrine, Tokyo
87. Miltank at Arc de Triomphe, Paris
88. Minun at Google San Francisco
89. Monferno - East of Nagashio Hospital
90. Mudkip at North Johnstons Creek East Path
91. Munchlax at the Empire State Building, New York City
92. Munna at West Vauxhall Station in London
93. Noivern in Oslo, Norway
94. Oshawott in Singapore Bay
95. Pachirisu in Bletchley Park
96. Pancham at Bran Castle, Bran
97. Pichu at CERN Building 868
98. Pidgey is in Toronto at the CN Tower
99. Pidove at Anchorage Airport (west of marker, on lower runway)
100. Pignite at Meteor Crater, AZ, USA
101. Pikachu is over at Tokyo Tower, Tokyo
102. Piplup at South Basin, San Francisco
103. Plusle- McMurdo Station, Antartica
104. Porygon - Copacabana
105. Prinplup at North Basin, San Francisco
106. Psyduck at Pike Place
107. Pumpkaboo is at Red Square, Moscow
108. Quilava at Monaco
109. Quilladin at Boronia Park South Wales
110. Raichu at Cafe du Monde in New Orleans.
111. Rotom at Rockefeller Center, New York City
112. Sableye near La Fayette, Paris
113. Salamance at 16th Street and 8th Ave in New York City
114. Samurott at East of Sydney Observatory
115. Sceptile at Cocos Island, Puntarenas
116. Scizor at North of Austin
117. Scraggy at Alcatraz
118. Serperior at Central Park
119. Servine at Royal Observatory Greenwich, UK
120. Snivy at Rockefeller Garden, Jerusalem
121. Snorlax at The Vatican
122. Spiritomb at Catacombs de Paris
123. Spritzee at the Ghibli museum
124. Squirtly at Grand Hyatt Tokyo
125. Staraptor is at the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco
126. Steelix at Germantown, Ann Arbor
127. Stunfisk is at Marchena on Galápagos Islands (Zoom In Really Close)
128. Sudowoodo is at Pinta on Galápagos Islands (Zoom In Really Close)
129. Swampert at Alan Davidson Oval (south east)
130. Swirlix at West of Christ Church Cathedral in Dublin
131. Sylveon at Central Park
132. Taillow at Kathmandu
133. Talonflame Far East of the Grand Hyatt Tokyo
134. Tepig at Bordeaux, France
135. Togepi at Sagrada Familia, Barcelona
136. Torchic is at mount Vesuvius
137. Torterra Far South of the Grand Hyatt Tokyo
138. Totodile is in the Hoover Dam
139. Treecko at Gas Works Park
140. Turtwig at Parque Nacional do Jaú  (2 mile zoom)
141. Typhlosion - Krakatoa, Indonesia
142. Tyranitar is at Pompeii, Italy
143. Umbreon at Amazon Theatre, Brazil
144. Unown at West of Area 51, Nevada
145. Vaporeon - The Palm Jumeira
146. Venusaur at Alberta Legislature
147. Wailord at The Little Mermaid, Denmark
148. Wartortle North of Coloseum in Rome
149. Wobbuffet in Glasgow
150. Zoroark at Hotel Andreas Tulum (South of Marker)

Polk Audio headset hitting Xbox One in March

Not a lover of the stick Xbox One headset?

What about the Xbox One Stereo headset being released in March? No?

Nor am I.

What am I do like is the new '4 Shot' Xbox One compatible headset hitting the shelves on March 6th.

This gorgeous looking headset is a collaborative effort between Polk Audio, Halo Developer 343 and Forza's Turn 10 Studios.

The 4 shot has a retractable near-field mic, pivot ear cups, spring steel headband and connects directly to your Wireless Xbox One controller.

It launches at select GameStop locations and on the official Polk Audio website from the 6th of March.

RRP is looking in around the €159.99 mark.

Microsoft's new headset is due to be released on the same day while the Turtle-Beach Xbox One designed headset is due for release on the 7th of March

All in time for Titanfall Mania!!!

Mario Kart just got real...well at least for 3 year olds!

Looking for some new wheels?


Sadly mine are all too grown up at this stage for it as the guide age is for children between 2-4 but at $199.99 it's almost a must for avid gamers with small children.


Those of you who know me, Mario is one of my all time favorite gaming characters so when I saw this I almost pee'd myself.


The replica of Mario's kart is rechargeable and can hold up to 70lbs . It features a cartoon style horn as well as several Mario Kart 7 sounds.


Would you..?

Twitch game streaming coming to Xbox One on March 11

Twitch gameplay streaming is confirmed to be coming to Xbox One with the 11th March update.

Associated Press reports that finally Xbox One will give gamers the ability to live stream the action they are currently experiencing on their Xbox One

The feature will be patched in time for North America's release of Titanfall but will be available around the globe."It's complete integration"

More details to follow...

PvZ Garden Warfare Review

Did you enjoy the Plants v Zombies series on Apple and Android devices over the past few years..?

Frankly, it doesn't matter if you did or not. Garden Warfare in vastly different to that of both the original PvZ and PvZ2 games we all know.

Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare is an idea that on paper at least swings wildly between stupid and obvious.

On the one hand, Plants vs. Zombies as a series has been a charming casual success, full of bright, fun character design and easy-to-grasp mechanics — none of which seems all that suited for a shooter powered by the same tech behind the Battlefield series. But Plants vs Zombies is also a game about militant plants that destroy zombies by blasting them apart, smashing them or otherwise ruining their day.

So, here we are.

The good news? The alternately great and weird idea of moving PVZ into the third-person shooter space works. Garden Warfare artfully starts with great shooter chops and uses PVZ to take bold risks with its design, with inspired twists on multiplayer conventions.

Straight off the bat...Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare is strictly multiplayer so there is no campaign mode. You get to play on either the Plants or the Zombies side. I suppose think of it as Battlefield 4 only with...well Plants and yep, Zombies! Complete with it's very own kill-cam, Garden Warfare holds up against other less 'odd' shooters.

Anyone would tell you, I am not a big FPS fan but adore 3rd person shooter/platformers. So to me this is one of the best shooters I have gotten my hands on and therefore it definitely had scope for the unheard cross-over between avid shooter fans and the more casual players who love everything about Plants vs Zombies(me)

The competitive multiplayer Team Vanquish (think Team Deathmatch) as well as the objective based, capture and progress Gardens and Graveyards (think Rush in Battlefield) would be for the former. Garden Ops would be for the latter. Mostly!

Garden Ops is a co-op wave based survival mode where each player chooses a plant character as part of a flora team asked to defend a garden from wave after wave of zombies. Quite similar to the version on an iPad but also very different. I found it tirelessly difficult and if you do not have the full complement of team members fighting for the same cause, you are not going to complete the mission. Even on easy with just 2 crew members it was exceptionally difficult but beatable.

This seems counter to how aggressively Garden Warfare courts a broader and maybe younger audience than just about any other third person shooter. This is especially apparent in the surprisingly robust and compulsive Sticker Store. Each match and mode in Garden Warfare doles out PVZ coins, which can be used to by sticker packs of increasing rarity and price. Stickers can provide packs of single-use items — defensive plants to put in pots for Plant players and classic PVZ zombies to call forth from graves for the Undead — or permanent limited ability bumps for specific classes. There are also alternate character skins that can be collected piece by piece. It's a fun system that doesn't currently have a pay-mium model in place, though I have to wonder how long it'll be before that changes.

The Sticker Store underlines the glue that holds Garden Warfare together. The aesthetic of Plants vs. Zombies is so vital to the series' appeal, and budding from every surface of the game. It really ties the room together, if you will — even though the newly "realistic" renditions of the titular Plants turned out much more terrifying than the walking dead did in the transition to third-person shooter.

Disc or Digital?

Are we finally entering the Digital Age?

If Digital games were €15-€20 cheaper - would you cease buying disc versions in favour of digital?

The Digital era is fast approaching and I think if Sony and Microsoft waited a year or two to bring out their infamous PS4's and Xbox One's I think we would be looking at a vastly different machine. Not to mention the spec. would have an extra's 2 years development but with Broadband speeds increasing year on year both companies would more than likely have done away with their disc drives.

Microsoft have already started to embrace the digital era starting last week, Ryse - Son of Rome was reduced to €39.99 for digital download on the Xbox One Store. That's a huge saving of €20.00 on disc format from recognized retailers. Microsoft are actively looking into releasing digital versions of games at a reduced rate when the games are launched on disc but nothing concrete yet.

What would you prefer? To pay €59.99 - €64.99 per game to to have it on disc format and the possibility of reselling or paying €39.99 to download it in the comfort of your own home?

The way I see it...there are pro and cons to both sides.

Disc version

Ok, so you are paying €60 but with the possibility of selling it on as a trade in against another game or 2nd hand for €30, you are effectively only paying €30 once you sell it within a certain period - otherwise, the price will continue to drop and you are losing out.

Digital version

No resale on digital versions of the game for obvious reasons but is that really a bad thing? From time to time, people enjoy going back and trying out previous games. Only yesterday I took to playing FIFA 12 with my 7 year old(who scored after 30 seconds I might add) and enjoyed the simplicity of the game, all be it, only 2 years old, games have come on leaps and bounds since the 2012 version. There is also the fact that if you enjoy racking up achievements and your gamerscore, you can always go back to previous games and try getting that illustrious 1000 GS per game.

Disc version

Those dreaded scratches - thankfully havent had too much an issue with this but there have been certain instances when a game gets left out of it's box and gets a huge scratch down it rendering it useless. You can always pay the €3 insurance Gamestop are offering but that then bumps up the game price to nearly €70(on €64.99 games)

Digital Version

You'll never scratch a game and if your hard drive dies...the games are downloaded to your xbox profile and therefore you can port them to a different xbox in the future.

Disc version

Not too sure RE: PS4 load times but with the Xbox One, all games are installed or part installed on the Xbox One hard drive prior to being allowed play the game.

Digital Version

Once the game starts to download from the digital store, depending on your download speed, you can access a lot of the game content within the first 10-15 mins of the game downloading and like the disc version you can continue to play while the game is downloading in the background

Disc Version

Obviously discs are compatible with every Xbox One machine and for people in insufficient broadband areas, the disc version is the only way to go.

Digital Version

Digital whereas it would appeal to a lot of gamers with speeds of 3 Mbps or more, you can really only benefit if you have download speeds of at least 15 Mbps.


Conclusion

As I've stated already...digital is not for everybody but my suggestion would certainly be...if you've access to it - EMBRACE IT. Personally, it's the only way I game.

Phineas and Agent P coming to Disney Infinity

Phineas and Agent P coming to Disney Infinity on April 1st


Two of the characters from one of Disney's most popular franchises is coming to Disney Infinity's Toy Box format. Phineas and Agent P are part of Disney's 2nd wave of Disney Infinity Characters to hit the shelves.

Disney's hit show Phineas & Ferb are getting a 3D make over - gaming style! The supposedly 'leader' of the two Phineas and his secret agent platypus Agent P will be making an appearance in a couple of months time and not a minute to soon in my eyes.

Since the unveiling of these at D23 expo people have been crying out for these guys. Phineas comes with a baseball shooter to try stop his enemies and while there is no confirmation of what Perry will have, we seem to think that he'll be armed with nothing other than his trademark Fedora and his beaver like tail.

Also not confirmed but from the trailer it looks like Agent P and Phineas will come with both floor and sky customization power discs.

RRP for a 2 character playset is normally priced at €39.99 but no guide price has been set yet.

Disney Infinity is available across several platforms and both Agent P and Phineas will be available on Xbox 360, PS3, Wii U and 3DS

For more information on the Phineas & Ferb Toybox and or on Disney Infinity, why not check out the Disney Infinity Wiki Page. You'll find all your How To guides and much much more here.

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