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The Pokemon GO Easter Event is now live across the world on Android and iOS and already players have made a striking discovery.

Gen 2 Starter Pokemon, including Chikorita, Cyndaquil and Totodile are now all available from hatching 5km Eggs.

Previously these three Pokemon were unavailable in eggs, but Silph Road users have now confirmed the news and posted images of their trainers' journals as proof.

Given how scarce this three starter Pokemon can be (when not found in nests) it will be fantastic news for any players looking to acquire a large quantity of candy to use for their evolves forms of Bayleef, Meganium, Quilava, Typhlosion, Croconaw and Feraligatr.

Although players would only be hatching one Pokemon, they would acquire a larger quantity of candy, and one Silph Road player noted that they received 22 candies for hatching the Totodile.

This change to the game's starter Pokemon was roughly hinted at during the release of a new Pokemon GO Plus trailer, which shows all three hatching, albeit out of 2km eggs.

Pokemon GO has revealed a brand new in-game "EGGSTRAVAGANZA" event to celebrate Easter starting TODAY and kicking off later tonight at 9PM BST.

As suspected from earlier leaks the event itself will last for one week from April 13, 2017 at 9pm BST to April 20, 2017 at 9pm BST.

Equally, the aforementioned leaked info was also correct with regards to event bonuses trainers can expect, with double XP for every action in the game allowing players to level up faster, as well as "a greater variety of Pokémon from 2 km Eggs".

As suspected, Niantic will cash in on the event through the in-game shop which will be offering 50% off for Lucky Eggs. Currently Lucky Eggs cost, 80 coins for 1, 500 coins for 8 and 1250 coins for 25.

So, given the cost of buying in-game coins it would set back players (roughly) £6 to acquire 25 lucky eggs, which isn't too bad given how rare they are in the first place and might be worthwhile for hardcore players looking to stockpile for the future.

What's more, with the double XP from the event, it means that players could earn four times the XP they normally would when using a Lucky Egg over the course of the Eggstravaganza event.

It was suspected that rare Pokemon such as Lapras and Snorlax would be more easily obtainable from 2KM eggs, but it's not known if ALL 10KM egg Pokemon will be more common.

Just in case, take a look at the below gallery to see which 10KM egg Pokemon you could be finding in 2KM eggs during the event.

POKEMON GO EASTER EVENT UPDATE 2

Pokemon GO Players won't have to "save those candies" for much longer as the new Easter Event kicks off today.

Trainers can look forward to 2XP (double experience points) and increased chances of catching rare pokemon from egg hatches.

This is all that's known so far, but it's plausible that the event could also include additional extra's such as increased spawn rates for Exeggcute, or special easter themed bundles in the shop with deals on bulk buys of lucky eggs or incubators.

This could be a clever way for Niantic to rake in more cash from the app and also would mirror a similar plan over Christmas when special boxes were available in the shop.

While Niantic has yet to officially confirm the event itself trustworthy sources with early information on past events have indicated that the validity of the information and believe it's due to start later today.

There's no official start time mentioned so far, but going off past events, we'll likely hear an announcement from Niantic in the next few hours before a full launch later tonight.

Stay tuned for more details, tips, tricks and hacks to make the most of the upcoming event!

POKEMON GO EASTER EVENT UPDATE 1

The Pokemon GO Easter Event starts TOMORROW according to a new report which claims to have inside information about the next event.

The event will give players double XP and an increased chance of hatching rarer Pokemon, such as Snorlax and Lapras while walking eggs.

Like most events so far, this will last one week and while it has yet to be confirmed officially by Niantic as of yet, however, the news comes via the same facebook group where the last 2 events were leaked before.

So there is some history to suggest this info could indeed be on the money.

A group is known as "Team Eevolution," leaked the info and here's the translated info (via The Silph Road) they provided:

"You are speaking Vaporeon Team Eevolution. First of all I have to apologize to you: some of you anticipate it but we did not have anything confirmed yet and for that we deny it. From tomorrow, there will be a DOUBLE EXPERIENCE EVENT that will last a week."There will also be better egg hatch rates. This means that there will be more chances of rare Pokemon coming out as Lapras or Snorlax more easily. (This, that we know, if it is our exclusive news). So, we encourage you to go outside and walk a lot to take advantage of it!"

ORIGINAL STORY

Pokemon GO fans are currently awaiting for Niantic to (hopefully) announce a new Pokemon GO event to mark the upcoming Easter holidays.

However, while any sort of announcement appears to be on ice until Niantic officially comes out and says anything, fans can celebrate one new addition to the game.

Niantic has confirmed that the new Twitter account, @NianticHelp, is an official legitimate customer support account of Niantic, Inc aimed at helping players with issues across both Pokemon GO and fellow AR mobile game ingress.

As if this wasn't enough reason to celebrate, the Customer support account has already voiced some positive comments - and a potentially massive new feature - which could soon help with the games pesky Spoofing issues.

When one player tweeted the support account to voice frustration at a well-known spoofer who's been flagged numerous times already, the official Niantic account replied to say:

"Thanks for reporting. We’re working to add functionality to stop spoofing, and your reports are helping us with our investigations."

Not only is this good news to have some proper feedback from Niantic with regards to spoofers in general, but the prospect of further functionality in the game to help rid the game of spoofers will no doubt be music to the ears of die-hard Pokemon GO players.

The news of this added functionality coming to Pokemon GO in the future follows some additionally intriguing comments from Niantic employee David Hollin, a game designer who recently spoke with the with A-to-J Connections YouTube channel.

Hollin many might recall as the "Save your Candy" guy and as well as clearing up what he meant when he said in earlier this year, he also shared a lot of interesting new information on the games current state, how heavily involved Niantic wants to be with fans and their future plans for the game.

We've dropped a link to the interview underneath but here are the big takeaways from the chat, complete with time stamps for when it was mentioned:

1. Legendary Pokemon: They're 100% still on the cards and in David's own words "are going to be pretty awesome!” [9:30]2. Gen 3: The Niantic team is more focused on gameplay features than on adding new Pokemon. However, future generations are not being excluded. [10:00]3. “Save your Candy”: Comment was misunderstood and was intended as advice for new players. [10:35]4. Trading, PVP and Events: “There will be events obviously tied to the calendar year and there are things on the horizon which are Trading and PvP, but these are kinda more long term. In terms of short… hm… we’ll see.” [11:35]

And when it comes to short-term plans, Pokemon GO players will be hoping that they find out something with regards to a new Easter Event in the coming days.

Niantic has made it something of a tradition to launch new events around major holidays in the calendar, including Halloween, Christmas and Valentines.

As such a large portion of the community are convinced that Niantic will release something to mark the Easter break, and should they do so, most changes will likely take place server-side.

Previously slashgear.com had reported that Niantic was considering "several possibilities" for the event with more than likely a repeat of Special Event abilities, including one or more of the following items:

• Double XP• Double Stardust• Increased Spawn Rate for certain otherwise-rare Pokemon• Halved Pokemon Egg Distance Requirements• New spawning of new Pokemon• New spawning of Shiny versions of already-released Pokemon

According to a more recent Slashgear story, the website has a "yet-unproven source" who is suggesting that the rumoured Easter event would be introducing much more than double XP awards.

Instead, the site suggests that Niantic might be looking to follow up on their Shiny Magikarp roll out with more Shiny Pokemon.

"Easter Week might well bring about another Shiny Pokemon," writes SlashGear

"We’ve had a tip from a yet-unproven source which suggests that it’ll be Exeggcute – which would make a lot of sense given the double-whammy of a Pokemon that Pokemon is for this season.

1. Exeggcute is a Grass-Type Pokemon.2. Exeggcute is a bunch of eggs.3. There isn’t yet a real Easter Bunny Pokemon in the game.4. Exeggcute isn’t overly common, nor is it super-rare."