Niantic acquires Hoss to improve the Lightship developer experience
Niantic today announced that it acquired developer experience leader Hoss and that the Hoss team will help augment the Lightship ARDK platform. Hoss is...
Niantic pledges better communication for Pokémon Go changes
Niantic said it is walking back a change in its immensely popular Pokémon Go mobile game after players said they would boycott it. And...
Niantic recruits Oculus’ Dan Morris to run developer relations as it ramps third-party content
Pokémon Go creator Niantic is gearing up to recruit more developers to its next-generation augmented reality tools using its Niantic Lightship platform. And today it...
Sensor Tower: Pokémon Go passes $5B in revenue in time for 5th anniversary
Pokémon Go has earned over $5 billion in revue, according to estimates from mobile market analyst Sensor Tower. This milestone comes as the mobile...
Amazon shifts Lumberyard to open source 3D game engine supported by 20 companies
Let the OSS Enterprise newsletter guide your open source journey! Sign up here. Amazon is contributing its Lumberyard game engine to open source, and it will be...
Transformers: Heavy Metal is a real-world AR mobile game from Niantic and Hasbro
Niantic and Hasbro have partnered to make the real-world augmented reality mobile game Transformers: Heavy Metal. It’s yet another location-based game along the lines...
Game One: Gaming’s unicorns led by ByteDance are worth $192.2B
The game industry has a lot more unicorns — or startups valued at more than $1 billion — than it ever did before, according...
Niantic’s Pokémon Go Fest 2021 is July 17-18, has a music festival theme
Niantic said its Pokémon Go Fest 2021 will take place July 17 to July 18 as a digital-only worldwide event. And this year the spirit...
Niantic broadens access to Niantic Lightship AR dev tools
Niantic is expanding the developer platform to access its next-generation augmented reality tools using its Niantic Lightship platform. The platform will now be available...
Niantic makes AR demo game Codename: Urban Legends for 5G networks
Niantic has launched an augmented reality demo game called Codename: Urban Legends for 5G wireless networks. The demo is part of Niantic’s Planet-Scale AR...