Junichi Masuda

Nintendo Switch gets 3 new Pokémon games this year, but not Gen 8

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
May 30, 2018
4 min

The Pokémon Company International announced that three major Pokémon games are coming for the Nintendo Switch during 2018. And these don’t include another major Pokémon game coming in...

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4 min

How Pokémon Go will benefit from Niantic’s lessons from Ingress on location-based game design

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
December 16, 2015
22 min

Niantic Labs was an oddball startup within Google. Conceived by John Hanke to promote exercise and an appreciation of public art, Niantic created a...

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22 min

Game Freak introduces new Pokémon, Honedge, and explains the inspiration for X and Y

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
July 5, 2013
1 min

Game Freak set the new game in a France-like world.

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1 min