Pokémon Go‘s Battle League will get leaderboards in an update arriving on April 10. This means players can feel like Ash Ketchum and aspire to be the very best like no one ever was.
Users can check the new Battle League in-game leaderboard or on Pokémon Go‘s official website. Players must be above trainer level seven to be eligible, and the top 500 trainers in the world will receive the spotlight as their teams, ranks, ratings, and total matches are visible. Niantic says the leaderboard will refresh every day between 1 and 3 p.m. PT and will represent the previous day’s in-game ratings.
To celebrate the launch of the leaderboards, Pokémon Go will have a special event on Easter Sunday, April 12. The Battle League event revolves around Marill, the popular aqua mouse from the series’ second generation. Players can encounter Marill as a basic reward after their first and third wins in the mode between 11 a.m. through 2 p.m. local time. Those with a premium Battle Pass can face the rare Pokémon after every win. Catching Marill brings twice the stardust customarily earned.
Additionally, the Go Battle Day: Marill event lets players complete 20 sets of Go Battle League, up from the standard limit of five. That means players can test themselves in 100 total battles. This bonus lasts all of Sunday, so trainers will have plenty of time to challenge themselves.
The competitive Battle League mode gained prominence in Pokémon Go since Niantic retooled the mobile hit to be more easily played from home. For the Battle League, players previously had to walk three kilometers to compete in three-on-three battles. Trainers that win four matches in a row get a chance to catch a rare Pokémon.
But the Battle League wasn’t the only Pokémon Go feature changed in light of shelter-in-place order around the world. The app now gives players three times the amount of experience for their first catch of the day. Niantic also lowered the price on essential items for at-home play such as Poké Balls and incense, which lure Pokémon to a person’s current location. Trainers can purchase bundles that include both items with just one PokéCoin, 100 of which cost $1.
The Call of Duty franchise has held a special place in my heart ever since I played my first Black Ops game back in 2010. That game's campaign was something else, with twists and turns that culminated in a mind-blowing finale. We can all admit that compared to those older campaigns, the recent CODs have been lackluster at best, and a complete and utter disappointment at worst. The reboot of Modern Warfare did give me some hope, as the first two installments were actually quite good, but the third game left such a bad taste in my mouth that I wasn’t exactly expecting much from Modern Warfare 4.
After recently finishing the campaign, I can say that this installment is nothing like the recent releases and instead feels closer to the franchise’s roots. For the first time in a long while, the campaign comes across as well-crafted rather than rushed to hit a release date. It arrives three years after MW3, and you can see exactly where all that time went. It seems the studio finally made listening to player feedback a priority.
Epic Games has just announced the 2026 Epic AI MegaJam, which is looking to see how much game development can be squeezed into a very short window. This is running from November 12 through November 15.
Participants can work alone or in teams of up to five people, build in Unreal Engine or Unreal Editor for Fortnite, and bring along “as many AI agents as you want.” Epic explicitly encourages coding agents, AI-generated assets, audio tools, writing tools, and other AI systems. The official event page literally says "Vibe your way to $50k.”
It’s turning into a pretty good time to be a Monster Hunter fan who plays on a phone. Capcom has confirmed that Monster Hunter Outlanders will launch on Android and iOS on October 29, giving the series a new mobile-first game just as Monster Hunter Rise is also preparing to make the jump to smartphones through Netflix.
Outlanders is being developed by Tencent subsidiary TiMi Studio Group under license and supervision from Capcom. Unlike Rise, which appears to be the full console and PC game adapted for mobile, Outlanders is a free-to-play survival hunting game made specifically for phones.