Niantic drove $249 million in tourism revenue with its walking events in 2019
Niantic has revealed details of its lineup of event locations for its walking games (Pokémon Go, Harry Potter: Wizards Unite and Ingress) for 2020....
The DeanBeat: My favorite games of the decade
Here are my favorite games of the decade. They’re in chronological order. 2011 was not a good year. But 2013, 2016, and 2018 were...
The DeanBeat: 13 humble predictions for gaming in 2020
I’ve never been good at making predictions about the game industry, but I enjoy it. I figure if I make enough, some of them...
Pokémon Go’s Buddy Update brings a new way to play with your monsters
Niantic revealed today that the Buddy Adventure update for Pokémon Go is coming by 2020. It will give players new ways to interact with...
Niantic and Qualcomm will build AR glasses for world-scale games
Fresh off today’s announcement of the Snapdragon XR2 mobile platform, Qualcomm has revealed an impressively ambitious early partner for its latest mixed reality effort:...
Niantic sets up $10 million third-party developer fund and names first dev contest winner
Niantic has scored hundreds of millions of players and billions of dollars in revenue from games like Pokémon Go. And now it is using...
Niantic enables small businesses to sponsor events in location games
Niantic has had big corporations like McDonald’s and Starbucks sponsor locations for some time in its location-based games. Now the creator of Pokémon Go...
Pokémon Go will get new augmented reality features like shared AR and user-curated waypoints
Niantic has learned a lot about location-based gaming and augmented reality from the hundreds of millions of players in its games like Ingress, Pokémon...
You’re not Pokémon Go — don’t hammer AR into your mobile game
In 2018, mobile gaming accounted for over 74 percent of App Store revenue. With this gold rush comes a slew of new games, to...
Pokémon Go adds critters from Black and White’s Gen 5 roster
Pokémon from the franchise’s fifth generation will start showing up in Niantic‘s hit mobile game Pokémon Go today. Gen 5 encompasses Pokémon Black and...