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Niantic acquires Mayhem to boost social gaming communities

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Pokémon Go creator Niantic has acquired social gaming community platform Mayhem.

Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the acquisition is Niantic’s seventh. Niantic’s fortunes have been sustained by multibillion-dollar revenues from the Pokémon Go location-based game. Mobile measurement firm Sensor Tower estimates that players worldwide have spent billions of dollars on the game since 2016.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.