Eggs have little baby Pokemon inside of them! We'll help you bring them into the big, bright world.

Pokemon Go is an incredible game where you get to bring your favorite animated animals to the real world! It brings a lot of mechanics from the core series, but also makes up plenty of things for itself to keep things fresh. Eggs are a mechanic straight from the video games, though!

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Eggs in the game are items you keep in your Party until they hatch into baby Pokemon! The games can track the number of steps you take and hatch the Egg when you've gone far enough. It's the same basic idea in Pokemon Go, except you actually have to do the walking in real life! No need to worry; we'll tell you everything you need to know.

The various types of Eggs can be acquired in different ways:

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Eggs are hatched by walking with their Egg while it is in an Incubator. You need to walk a certain number of kilometres in order for the Egg to hatch, and the Egg varieties are broken up by the walking requirement. Once the Egg is in an incubator, you can play Pokemon Go like normal and let it track your steps in the background.

There are three kinds of Incubators:

Certain events may temporarily decrease the distance you need to walk in order to hatch an Egg.

In addition to receiving a Pokemon, you'll also get XP, Stardust, and Candies:

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There are a few things you should keep in mind about hatching eggs:

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Gabrielle "Belle" Huston is a writer and long-time gamer based in Ottawa, Canada. Reach her on Twitter (@TalkToGabrielle) or by email (gabrielle.h@thegamer.com). She's played video games for at least as long as she could write, and vice versa! As a current undergraduate student of journalism, she's seldom away from her computer. Belle uses what little free time she has to play Guild Wars 2 with her partner, work toward that 5-star rating in Animal Crossing, and wonder when the new Dragon Age installment is coming out.