The DeanBeat: What Pokémon Go, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, and Mafia III share in common
It’s hard to see the common thread between the wildly popular Pokémon Go, the console/PC blockbuster Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, and the upcoming Mafia III...
Nintendo will launch Pokémon Go Plus on September 16
Nintendo and Niantic Labs want to keep the Pokémon Go phenomenon going. And they’ll do that with the launch next week of the Pokémon Go...
The DeanBeat: Where Pokémon Go should go next
Niantic Labs is riding a rocket, generating an estimated $200 million in revenue in its first month with Pokémon Go. It grew faster to 10...
The accidental history of Niantic’s Pokémon Go, as told by John Hanke
John Hanke put in his time evangelizing location-based gaming and augmented reality. He spent six years refining Ingress as the first AR game from...
Here’s our agenda for GamesBeat 2016: The Platform Awakens — with 93 speakers
I’ve worked for months to recruit, and sometimes re-recruit, 93 speakers for GamesBeat 2016, our game conference that runs August 1-3 at the beautiful...
Pokémon Go creator John Hanke talks game’s success and future at Comic-Con
(Reuters) — The creator of the wildly popular Pokémon Go gaming app received the celebrity treatment on Sunday at the final day of San Diego’s...
The DeanBeat: Pokémon Go has a chance to change the world
Everyone is talking about Pokémon Go as if it is changing the world. And it is. I don’t mean that I absolutely believe all...
Pokémon Go creator John Hanke of Niantic to speak at GamesBeat 2016
John Hanke has come a long way with Niantic Labs, the creator of the mobile gaming sensation Pokémon Go. That augmented reality game is...
Niantic raises $5 million to forge ahead with Pokémon Go
Niantic, the former Google division that is working on a Pokémon Go location-based mobile game, has raised $5 million in an expanded seed funding...
How Pokémon Go will benefit from Niantic’s lessons from Ingress on location-based game design
Niantic Labs was an oddball startup within Google. Conceived by John Hanke to promote exercise and an appreciation of public art, Niantic created a...