Maranda the Marauder

Episode 172: The serious hundred and seventy-second episode of the PokeProblemsPodcast! Tonight, we have a special guest! The hilarious Matt Maranda joins us tonight to talk about his latest excitement at PAX Unplugged, repping for Pelgrane Press, the publisher of 13th Age, Gumshoe, Cthulhu Confidential, Ashen Stars, and TimeWatch! He tells us about the games he played in his free time at the Con, including Honey Heist! We talk about Action Cats, First Quest, the Gamer Assembly and Gamer Assembly publications, Reaper Miniatures, his blog, which he plans on picking up more this year, and Aboleths.

We also talk news!

Pokémon GO Buddy Adventure is happening now! Check out the 2019 Year in Review! The next community day on January 19th will have different times in different hemispheres!

PowerA Controllers has some really great Pokemon Designs. There are ones for the original starters and the new generation's starters, along with many more Pokemon designs!

Play the Overwatch Winter Wonderland event until January 2nd.

They've just started announcing the comics for Free Comic Book Day, which is on May 2nd, 2020.

From @VIZMedia comes The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess and Splatoon: Squid Kids Comedy Show!

In Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, an evil menace is trying to find the fragments of the Shadow Crystal to gain the power over both the Twilight Realm & the World of Light! pic.twitter.com/zsaBMtV35o

— Free Comic Book Day (@Freecomicbook) December 17, 2019

PAX South is happening January 17th - 19th. There's a lot of good panels! Miz Sylver is one of the hosts of Nintendo Feud: Team Zelda vs Team Meowth, but she also wanted to highlight some excellent sounding panels: Zelda Universe Presents: A Musical History of Zelda, and What the Heck is Mr. Mime? A New Phylogeny of Pokémon!

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December to PokeRemember

Episode 171: the happy hundred and seventy-first episode of the PokeProblemsPodcast! So much news!

Pokémon GO Community Day at Night Weekend is today and tomorrow the 15th, 9 am to 9pm your local time. And the winter events continue on, with:

• New special research with Giovanni and Shadow Zapdos: A Challenging Development.
• Different Pokémon will be hatching from Eggs starting on Monday, December 16, 2019.
• Virizion glides into five-star raids on Tuesday, December 17, 2019 until Tuesday, January 7, 2020.
• Lugia and Ho-Oh Special Raid Weekend is December 20, 2019 to Monday, December 23, 2019.

And then, Pokémon GO Holidays 2019 is happening Tuesday, December 24, 2019 to Wednesday, January 1, 2020.

• Catch Pikachu, Raichu, and Pichu wearing beanies and Stantler wearing bells!
• Cubchoo, the Chill Pokémon will debut!
• Alolan Sandshrew, Alolan Vulpix, Pichu wearing beanies, and Stantler wearing bells will be hatching from 7 km Eggs!
• Raichu wearing beanies and Stantler wearing bells will be available to challenge in two-star raids!
• Throw a Glacial Lure Module onto a PokéStop near you, and you’ll have a chance of encountering Cryogonal, the Crystallizing Pokémon, making its Pokémon GO debut!
• Enjoy event-exclusive Field Research tasks that will reward you with the chance to encounter Pokémon like Pikachu wearing beanies!
• New Shadow Pokémon, including Delibird, into Shadow Pokémon!
• Shiny Stantler wearing bells and Shiny Snover!
• Stantler Sweater, Stantler Headband, and a Beanie Hat avatar items!
• Open twice as many Gifts each day and carry twice as many Gifts
• Receive one single-use Incubator at no cost once per day during the event by spinning a Photo Disc on a PokéStop.

And, warm up with a special winter weekend event! - Saturday, December 28, 2019, from 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. in your local time zone, with two-hour Glacial Lure Module duration which will allow you to evolve a Glaceon with Last Resort. Regice will return to raids, and you will get up to two additional free Raid Passes!

More changes are happening in Pokemon GO. Pokemon will appear more in less dense areas, in part due to the Wayfarer program that lets Pokémon GO Trainers to review nominations for PokéStops and Gyms. Also, there are updates to the battle system including new moves ahead of the new Go Battle League.

Well #pokeproblems @PokemonGoApp fans, what Pokemon can replace @elfontheshelf ?? Make your best suggestions!!!

— PokeProblems (@pokemoncast) December 14, 2019

Hey @mzsylver you better suggest #rattata on the #chibatta https://t.co/YhRjpWIIu6

— PokeProblems (@pokemoncast) December 14, 2019

Pokémon Masters has a Holiday Theme and new music, and new sync pairs of Siebold dressed for hospitality with his octillery, and Rosa with Delibird. Don't forget to finish challenging Giovonni by December 19th!

If you got a Black Friday Pokéball Plus like Miz Sylver, you can use it to get Mew in Pokémon Sword and Shield! Remember to Surprise Trade on Christmas!

Pokémon: Twilight Wings, a Galar Region Short Animated Series, is debuting in January 2020 on the Pokemon YouTube Channel.

Nintendo Indie World Presentation featured some cool games!





The Game Awards Winners have been announced! The show also featured a lot of cool performances and trailers!



Tetris 99 has had a lot going on, including a Team Battle Update and the 10th Maximus Cup!

Indy Gaming League Circuit is having a Killer Queen Competition! Sign up by December 30th.

The Overwatch Winter Wonderland is on until January 2nd.

Smite has new official and unofficial clothing! New design competition, with a Birthday theme! Submit by February 21st!

Speaking of cool clothing, check out the Danielle Nicole x Nintendo collection.



And finally, if you are in the Boston/New England area, StreetPass Boston is having a Round1 Holiday Miitup on December 28 at Round1 in Taunton!

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December Evolution Event

Episode 170: the super-duper hundred and seventieth episode of the PokeProblemsPodcast!

In Pokemon Go, the Evolution Event is happening until Thursday, December 12, 2019. If you’re lucky, you may encounter a Shiny Burmy!

In Pokemon Masters, Giovanni and Mewtwo are here! Miz Sylver finally summoned Grimsley with his Liepard!

The final year of Pikachu figure, ‘Ringing In the Fun’, from Funko is now at the Pokémon Center.

The 2020 Pokémon Video Game Championships (VGC) Format Rules have been announced. This year's rules feature Pokémon Sword & Shield doubles battles!

Pokemon Diamond and Pearl episodes have been added to Pokemon TV.

The Super Mario Maker 2 Update added a lot of cool stuff... including a bunch of Legend of Zelda items like the Master Sword! Don't forget the new Ninji Speedruns - collect stamps to get Maker outfits and more!

Enter the Nintendo Happy Holidays Sweepstakes daily through December 14.

Check out the new red Mario Switch pack. (With Bowser of course!)

Shout out to all the peeps at PAX Unplugged! Check out the Merch sheet here, and all the Pinny Arcade Pin Quest pins here!

Round1 Japan hosted their 2019 DDR championships yesterday. Check out the stream below!



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