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Fancy a Dream Ball

Dream ball card

Two interesting things happened with Pokémon this week. The first is the release of Vivillon’s Fancy Pattern. Because Pokémon X and Y’s Global Trade Station had over 100 million Pokémon traded Pokémon fans will get a chance to get their hands on the newest Vivillon Patter via Mystery Gift starting July 7th to July 31st.

That’s the good news. The bad news is Ray Rizzo a three time winner of Pokémon World Champion competitions was caught with a potentially hacked Pokémon. Rizzo uses a Aegislash which had no altered stats however upon closer inspection of his battles it’s clear his Pokémon is in a Dream Ball which is a Generation 5 Pokeball and Aegislash is a Generation 6 Pokémon making it impossible to have the combination. The controversy is the fact that the stats were not altered but it’s clearly an illegal or spawn of an illegal Pokémon. As of right now no decision has been made on what to do with Rizzo’s victories. Me personally I say let it go because if the stats are not altered then there is no issue. The victories were legit and Rizzo did not have an unfair advantage.

Jacob Carpenter is the writer for TSCN.TV and also a blogger under the name JSnakeC on IGN

Updates on Pokemon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire

Mega Evolution

Update on Pokemon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire

 So as you can see from the image Swampert and Sceptile will gain mega evolutions to complete mega evolutions for all the generation three starters. Sceptile’s Mega evolution will add a Dragon type which will help with super effective fire type moves but increase the weakness to ice and add a weakness to Fairy and Dragon Type moves so overall type wise it might actually make the weaker. As for Mega Swampert it’ll still be a Water/Ground type but from how it looks it is fair to assume it’s going to be a huge increase to its defense stat.

                Three more mega evolutions have been confirmed first is Mega Diancie. Diancie is a special event pokemon not yet released in the U.S so not a whole lot is known about it, but the huge bit of news is that Groudon and Kygore are getting mega evolutions. While we don’t know what those forms look like we do know it’s going to have an ancient prehistoric theme to their appearance.

While this is all the confirmed news we also can see from the images above that the new Pokemon Games will keep the same format as Pokemon X and Y with 3D battles and gameplay.  This makes me really excited for the Secret Base aspect of the original games. Making a secret base and seeing it in 3D will really evolve an already popular aspect that we haven’t seen in a long time. I don’t count Generation four secret bases because the underground aspect really killed it for me.

Jacob Carpenter is the writer for TSCN.TV and also a blogger under the name JSnakeC on IGN

More Nintendo Board games

pokemon-monopoly

More Nintendo board games

                We’ve already seen Monopoly games that span several nintendo games at once, but at the 2014 American International Toy Fair, USAopoloy confirmed that Legend of Zelda would get it’s own Monoploy game. USAopoloy also confirmed another Pokemon Monoploy game coming out as well.

We already know that the Pokemon Monopoly game will feature the Kanto region which means we could see five more Monopoly games like this for the other regions if this one sells well. With Zelda we still don’t know much about what will be featured on this version.  With Zelda focusing on the same characters so many times it’s more likely that the Zelda Monopoly game will span multiple games.  These games will be $45.

We also know that a new version of Connect 4 featuring Super Mario will come out sometime this spring for about $25. My guess is it’ll feature red and green pieces for Mario and Luigi. As a board game fan I’m excited for this, but we’ve already seen a few nintendo based monopoly games, and while Connect 4 is a fun game it’s hard to get overly excited for it if you already own a version of it.

Jacob Carpenter is the writer for TSCN.TV and also a blogger under the name JSnakeC on IGN