Niantic shutters LA office, lays off 230 employees
Niantic is shutting down its LA-based studio, it announced today. As part of a restructuring, the company is sunsetting and canceling two major projects...
Gaming’s direct-to-consumer pipeline is shifting to webstores
Direct-to-consumer marketing is becoming a more important part of gaming’s economy, as a panel of experts discussed at this week’s GamesBeat Summit 2023. Ron...
HypGames goes to the court with Niantic for NBA All-World
Pokémon Go developer Niantic Labs is collaborating with sports-gaming developer HypGames on a new project. Working alongside the NBA, the companies are creating a...
“We’re only just scratching the surface”: The potential of 5G in creating the metaverse
5G is the next big frontier in enabling new forms of entertainment — especially the metaverse. The technology is starting to catch up with...
Sensor Tower: Pokémon Go made $2.65 billion in three years
Pokémon Go first launched on July 6, 2016, so Niantic‘s mobile game has now been out for three years. And the location-based experience has...
Pokémon Go studio Niantic rekindles its first game with launch of Ingress Prime
Pokémon Go creator Niantic has rebooted its original location-based game with the launch of Ingress Prime. Like its predecessors Ingress and Pokémon Go, Ingress Prime is...
The DeanBeat: Apple’s iPhone XS Max is great for games, but they’re still catching up
The first thing I did when I got the flagship iPhone XS Max was try out some games. I’ve been playing around with Apple’s latest...
The DeanBeat: Yep, I’m still playing Pokémon Go
I’m one of those people who is still playing Pokémon Go, the location-based mobile game that set the world on fire in July 2016. If you...
Thanks for coming to GamesBeat Summit 2018: The Future of Games
Thank you to those who came to GamesBeat Summit 2018. We had 264 attendees, compared to about 200 in our first summit in 2015....
Pokémon Go creator Niantic acquires social mechanics startup Evertoon
Pokémon Go creator Niantic Labs has acquired a startup called Evertoon, which is exploring ways to add “social mechanics to digital products.” CEO Niantic...