Pokémon Go Details Summer City Events Featuring a Big Red Truck its Driving Round Europe

Pokémon Go volition proceed its summertime events program by driving a large reddish motortruck astir 7 cities successful Europe, opening successful the UK adjacent month.

Manchester volition big the tour's archetypal stop, earlier consequent visits to London, Paris, Valencia, Berlin, Den Haag successful the Netherlands and yet Cologne, conscionable successful clip for Gamescom.

Players who marque the travel to a big metropolis volition get an array of bonuses astir the motortruck location, including Phanphy, Venipede and Wooloo spawns with boosted Shiny rates, positive raids for a costumed summertime Pikachu with the anticipation of a Location Background. Timed Research, meanwhile, volition connection up a Varoom — the engine-like Pokémon. Plus, of course, you get to look astatine the large reddish Pokémon Go truck.

Across the big city, different bonuses volition beryllium activated — including 3-hour lures and up to 5 Special Trades per day. Nationwide, meanwhile, Timed Research advertizing the upcoming accomplishment of the Road Trip volition grant the aforesaid summertime costumed Pikachu.

Earlier this week, Pokémon Go announced an unprecedented $20 lawsuit walk featuring the game's archetypal Golden Bottle Cap point — thing that volition let players to summation a Pokémon's stats until they are a uncommon 100%. Ahead of the item's introduction, fans expressed interest the diagnostic could spot the crippled straying into pay-to-win territory, thing manager Michael Steranka discussed astatine magnitude successful our exclusive interview.

Separately, IGN besides chatted with Steranka astir this year's biggest alteration — that Pokémon Go is present owned by Monopoly Go! shaper Scopely, a institution backed by the Saudi-founded Savvy Games. How volition the alteration interaction the game? IGN enactment that question to Steranka arsenic well.

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