Pokémon Go studio is closing Harry Potter: Wizards Unite
Harry Potter: Wizards Unite is coming to an end. Developer Niantic announced today that it is closing the game down on January 31. On...
Niantic’s Greg Borrud: From falling into games to making games for the real world
Niantic is known for its approach to augmented reality and location-based gaming. In the summer of 2016, Pokémon Go changed the world and how...
Niantic drove $249 million in tourism revenue with its walking events in 2019
Niantic has revealed details of its lineup of event locations for its walking games (Pokémon Go, Harry Potter: Wizards Unite and Ingress) for 2020....
Pokémon Go will get new augmented reality features like shared AR and user-curated waypoints
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...
You’re not Pokémon Go — don’t hammer AR into your mobile game
In 2018, mobile gaming accounted for over 74 percent of App Store revenue. With this gold rush comes a slew of new games, to...
Sensor Tower: Tencent’s Let’s Hunt Monsters is the king of Pokémon Go clones
Pokémon Go is a has been a phenomenon everywhere but China, because that country’s censors (aka a totalitarian government) fears this little location-based augmented...
Knights, tanks, and wizards: AR’s top 5 games
When VR headsets hit the high street in 2016, it seemed like a watershed moment for the gaming industry. But as it turned out,...
The DeanBeat: A few days without game journalism and a few days without gaming
Last week I went on my summer vacation for a few days. It was a rare victory for those of you who would like...
Harry Potter: Wizards Unite guide — Everything you need to know
It’s finally here. Last week saw the launch of Harry Potter: Wizards Unite and, ever since, I’ve been obsessed. Those who have played Pokémon...
Sensor Tower — Harry Potter: Wizards Unite is no Pokémon Go-sized smash hit
Harry Potter: Wizards Unite made about $1.1 million and got around 3 million installs during its first four days of availability, according to market...