Pokémon Go’s 2018 Summer Tour brings official real-world events to the world
Niantic announced details today for Pokémon Go’s 2018 Summer Tour, a series of real-world events that will encourage players of location-based AR hit to meet...
Mixed reality’s benefits — and costs — may surprise us
The last two decades have been marked by a more or less optimistic view of how technology will change our lives. But recently, we’ve...
Niantic CEO John Hanke: Games are the primordial soup for tech evolution
Niantic CEO John Hanke summoned up the ghost of Arthur C. Clarke when discussing augmented reality with the famous quote, “Any sufficiently advanced technology...
AR games live and die by location
Augmented reality gaming is in its infancy. It wasn’t until July 2016 and Pokémon Go‘s release that most people had even experienced it. Fast-forward...
Jurassic World Alive AR game is Pokémon Go with dinosaurs
Ever since Pokémon Go’s runaway success, the trend of “Take X thing and make it like Pokémon Go” is becoming more and more popular....
Cumulus author Eliot Peper dives into the future fusion of tech and games at GamesBeat Summit 2018
Our latest speaker for GamesBeat Summit 2018 event is Eliot Peper, science fiction writer and author of the upcoming novel Bandwidth. The event will take place...
16 predictions for the Chinese and Southeast Asian games industry in 2018
In celebration of 16 years of delivering market intelligence on the Chinese and Greater Southeast Asian digital games industry, we’ve put together 16 predictions...
Pokémon Go enlists Stephen Fry in spoof of nature documentaries
Nature documentaries have brought so much joy in the world, like David Attenborough’s god-tier voiceovers and Benedict Cumberbatch’s inability to say “penguin.” Today, Niantic and The...
Social play is transforming mobile gaming
Mobile gaming is a massive market with 2.6 billion players – and it’s about to get even bigger. Why? Major technology advancements and new...
AR glasses have learned from Glassholes
Despite the ambitious portrayals of the future in TV shows and movies predating it, few of the gadgets that imaginative writers dreamed of exist....