Ghostbusters World AR game lets you capture ghosts anywhere

Ghostbusters World is the latest game to try to get you hooked on playing anywhere in the world. It’s an augmented reality game, like Pokémon Go and Jurassic Park: Alive, where you can use your smartphone to see animated ghosts in the real world.

The free-to-play game from Sony Pictures Consumer Products, Ghost Corps, 4:33, and Next Age is the latest to take advantage of Google’s mapping technology, the Google Maps applications programming interface (API). It is coming out later this year, but I got a good look at it on an Android-based Google Pixel 2 smartphone. It has more of a hardcore gaming flavor to it than other games, but it only offers incremental innovation on top of the likes of Pokémon Go. If you really love Ghostbusters, then this might be for you. But otherwise, it’s one of many titles that will be using Google’s mapping technology.