Sensor Tower: Pokémon Go made 35% more in 2018 than 2017
Pokémon Go made almost $800 million in global revenue in 2018, according to market analysis firm Sensor Tower. That is up 35 percent compared...
Niantic games generate significant social impact in 2018
Niantic said that its games Pokémon Go, Ingress, and Ingress Prime generated a lot of social impact in 2018. Since Pokémon Go alone has more than...
Pokémon Go Trainer Battles are live for players level 10 and higher
Pokémon Go Trainer Battles are live, which means that players can engage in direct player-to-player duels for the first time. Niantic said today that...
Pokémon Go unveils player-versus-player Trainer Battles
Trainer Battles are here at last. When fans like me started playing Pokémon Go in June 2016, we asked when we could engage in player-versus-player...
The DeanBeat: How game developers can drive our platforms forward
Last night, Pokèmon Go developer Niantic announced that it was investing in a round of funding for DigiLens, a maker of holographic displays for...
DigiLens raises funding for holographic AR displays from Niantic and Mitsubishi Chemical
DigiLens has raised a new round of funding from Pokemon Go maker Niantic and Mitsubishi Chemical’s Diamond Edge Ventures to develop holographic waveguide displays...
Niantic’s Harry Potter: Wizards Unite casts its spell in 2019
Niantic announced today that Harry Potter: Wizards Unite is coming out in 2019. The location-based mobile game will be the company’s follow-up to the...
John Hanke: Niantic wants Pokémon Go to look more like its first trailer
Remember how cool that first trailer for Pokémon Go looked? So does John Hanke. The Niantic chief executive officer was onstage with Epic Games chief executive...
Sensor Tower: Pokémon Go made $73 million in October, up 67% from last year
Pokémon Go made $73 million in revenue in October, according to mobile research firm Sensor Tower — and that’s a significant boost from how Niantic’s...
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...