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Pokémon GO anticipates the Valentine’s Day celebration with its Carnival of Love: all the Pokémon, bonuses and rewards


February 14 is approaching, also known as Valentine’s Day or Valentine’s Day, a date that couples take advantage of to express the love they feel for each other. At Niantic they are aware of this and that is why they wanted to get ahead of this celebration with a new Pokémon GO event called Carnival of Love 2024.

From today, from 10:00 a.m. until 8:00 p.m. on February 15, this festival will remain active in which for the first time Oricorio may appear with its shiny version in any of its forms, although it will depend on the region in which each one resides. For example, in Europe the one with the Passionate Style appears, in America the one with the Lively Style, in Asia the one with the Refined Style and in the African, Asian and Caribbean islands the one with the Placid Style.

Oricorio will appear more frequently than normal during these couple of days, although it is not the only one, because all of these will also be seen on the street: Flabébé, Luvdisc, Furfrou, Stufful, Skitty, Snubbull and Quaxly. Furthermore, the new field research tasks They will unlock encounters with many others, such as Clamperl, Roselia or a very special Spinda with a heart symbol.

Along with all this, a bonus will be activated to have a better chance of get Candy++ by evolving any Pokémon or by walking with a companion, as well as a new collection challenge can be carried out in order to obtain experience points, Stardust and the appearance of a Roserade.

On the other hand, those who want to go even further can access the game’s internal store to purchase a pass to a new temporary research task for only one euro, although it is necessary to carry it out during the duration of the event.

For the rest, players will have two ways to share your love. One of them will consist of going to a PokéStop to host a Pokémon partner with whom you have reached a level of Super Buddy or higher, while the other requires going to the checkout to buy a new animation for the avatar in which it comes out hitting a tambourine in the shape of a heart.

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The bearish firm that brought down Gowex attacks the Spanish company Grifols and anticipates its collapse


In 2014, the analysis firm Gotham Research pointed out Gowex as a fraud whose accounts were falsified, bringing its value to 0, bringing down the entire company and ending the bones of its CEO, Jenaro García, in prison.

Ten years later, Gotham points this time to Grifols as the next company whose shares will lose all their value. Grifols, whose market capitalization before this news was known is around 9,000 million euros, is a company that develops plasma-derived medicines and transfusion diagnostic solutions.

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The causes of this accusation by Gotham are not very comparable to those made at the time against Gowex, although the effects will probably be similar. This time, Gotham explains that Grifols manipulates its reported debt and its EBITDA (gross operating profit).

In this way, according to the firm, would artificially reduce your leveragesetting it at 6x, when according to their estimates it would be much higher, between 10x and 13x.

The report reflects a series of movements between Grifols and Scranton Enterprises, a family vehicle that is the majority shareholder of the company, aimed at covering up the former’s accounts. For example, with a loan from the first to the second worth $95 million in 2018 that appears in Scranton’s presentations, but not in those of Grifols. Scranton would have, according to this analysis, a leverage that is still much higher than Grifols’ actual leverage, which is 27x.

Gotham draws a simile with the case of NMC Health, an international healthcare group controlled by investors from the United Arab Emirates that went bankrupt in 2020. On that occasion it was also accused by bearish firms of falsifying its accounts, as is now the case with Grifols.

Gotham, as a bearish firm, tracks companies for suspected irregularities in their accounts. When he discovers them, he invests short (against) those companies before making his discovery public. If the stock falls or loses all value, as happened with Gowex, Gotham makes a profit.

Just a few days ago we learned that Grifols was moving towards reducing its debt with the sale of 20% of its Chinese business, which was going to cost it around 1.8 billion dollars. The company is one of the most indebted on the IBEX, close to 10,000 million euros.

This level of debt has led to several stock market punishments in recent years that have been jibarizing the value of its action. From its all-time high in February 2020, higher than 34 euros per title to the slightly more than 14 at which it was trading in the hours prior to hearing this news… and we will have to see how it evolves in the coming days, starting today same.

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SCS Software anticipates changes for version 1.5 of Euro Truck Simulator 2 and its possible launch on consoles



SCS Software is working on the game engine and along the way there have been references to a possible future release on consoles.

SCS Software is very active these days, and is usually a studio that periodically shares news with the community. On this occasion, there are many new features, but the information about version 1.5 and, with it, a wink referring to American Truck Simulator, Euro Truck Simulator 2 and its possible launch on consoles. It all starts from the foundation, from the renewal of a graphics engine that could be laying the foundations for a long-awaited port to be executed.

It takes a long time, in fact, more than 10 years waiting for a step forward from SCS Software to become interested in the console market. But it has not happened due to the complexity of the matter and because they use their own graphics engine, Prism3D. They have realized that a game that is more than 10 years old can suffer from the changes that other games of this genre are making with engines like Unreal Engine 5 and are working to give their proposals a better look.

SCS Software anticipates changes for version 1.5 of Euro Truck Simulator 2 and its possible launch on consoles

And that is where a new change comes in to the base of the graphics engine, pointing to version or update 1.5 for American Truck Simulator and Euro Truck Simulator 2. In a video, from a channel that follows this study, it has been collected the information referring to this change that would be gradually being implemented in the studio in order to implement a code capable of adapting new technologies to the game. And there is open talk of a new rendering engine as the future goal and as part of that version 1.5

He did not want to enter to anticipate any date for this update, in a year in which there have been numerous powerful changes to the game. It seems like this is an important moment, and the next update may take a little longer. Although he is really happy with what has been achieved, despite the fact that there is no talk of having improved anything, but of having transferred pixel by pixel everything that has been done, that it continues to work and new options are enabled in the future, it is a great step for SCS Software.

And the application of this new engine implies new code and also seems to open doors that remained closed. A question on many minds, American Truck Simulator, Euro Truck Simulator 2 and its possible launch on consoles. Well now it seems that the door is not closed, although other aspects, such as working on optimizing the use of multi-core processors and making good use of them to implement general improvements, may have priority.

But the fact that the studio itself is talking about this possibility, not as a possible distant wish, but as a real effort that seems to be getting closer with these changes, can give hope to those simulator players who see many alternatives being released on console, but not one of them. the most famous. We hope to be able to provide more concrete information in the near future. Maybe to Throughout 2024 let’s know more about Euro Truck Simulator 2 and its possible launch on consoles.