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Niantic enables small businesses to sponsor events in location games

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
November 6, 2019
2 min

Niantic has had big corporations like McDonald’s and Starbucks sponsor locations for some time in its location-based games. Now the creator of Pokémon Go...

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Pokémon Go will get new augmented reality features like shared AR and user-curated waypoints

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
November 6, 2019
3 min

Niantic has learned a lot about location-based gaming and augmented reality from the hundreds of millions of players in its games like Ingress, Pokémon...

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Resolution Games creates level builder for Angry Birds VR: Isle of Pigs

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
November 6, 2019
2 min

Resolution Games is launching a level builder so fans can create custom levels in Rovio‘s Angry Birds VR: Isle of Pigs. The level builder...

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GSN Games names former Angry Birds developer William Taht as Bingo Bash chief

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
November 6, 2019
2 min

GSN Games announced former Rovio executive Wilhelm Taht will be the new senior vice president and general manager for Bingo Bash, effective November 18....

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TabTale will publish movie-based Charlie’s Angels and Jumanji mobile games

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
November 6, 2019
2 min

TabTale, a maker of cartoony casual and hyper-casual games, is announcing today it will launch two mobile games based on the upcoming films Charlie’s...

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Super Evil Megacorp raises $10.5 million, moves on to new game, and hands Vainglory off to Rogue Games

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
November 6, 2019
4 min

Super Evil Megacorp has had more than 45 million players for its Vainglory multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) game on smartphones, tablets, and the...

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Brass Lion is a new diverse studio from Mass Effect 3 and Skyrim devs

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
November 5, 2019
2 min

Developers Bryna Dabby Smith, Rashad Redic, and Manveer Heir revealed the details of their new studio, Brass Lion Entertainment, today. This new team wants...

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An Apple-Valve AR headset deal makes sense given iOS 13’s StarBoard

Posted byby GamesBeat
November 5, 2019
4 min

Apple rumors are perennially popular for two major reasons: First, the company’s actual announcements are so few and far between that only “what’s next?” speculation...