Pokémon Go rivals Rio Olympic Games in popularity
RIO DE JANEIRO (By Anthony Boadie for Reuters) — Forget beach volleyball, soccer or tennis, not to mention the steeplechase or discus. Pokémon Go is challenging...
The DeanBeat: Where Pokémon Go should go next
Niantic Labs is riding a rocket, generating an estimated $200 million in revenue in its first month with Pokémon Go. It grew faster to 10...
Pokémon Go down for some: Map shows no PokéStops or gyms
Players of the Google GPS-powered monster-catching game are reporting a number of errors when they boot up the game. Most people are getting maps completely devoid of monsters, PokéStops, and gyms. This essentially turns Pokémon Go into a useless Google Maps alternative.
The Pokémon Company sees no need for a QuakeCon-style fan convention
Pokémon Go is so popular that it is leading to a number of fan meetups around the world almost by accident, and that led...
‘Detective Pikachu’ movie was in the works long before Pokémon Go
Hollywood is making a Pikachu movie, and not only because of the success of Pokémon Go. While Legendary Entertainment and The Pokémon Company revealed they are...
Before Pokémon Go, Pikachu was always a star under The Pokémon Company
Pokémon is back! Only, of course, it never went away. And after 20 years, we wanted to talk with some of the people responsible...
The accidental history of Niantic’s Pokémon Go, as told by John Hanke
John Hanke put in his time evangelizing location-based gaming and augmented reality. He spent six years refining Ingress as the first AR game from...
Former Sega chief Tom Kalinske wants someone to create Sonic Go
Twenty five years ago, Nintendo owned the game industry. Sega was an upstart challenger, and it could only compete by breaking the rules. Tom...
Creativity: What’s diversity got to do with it?
Megan Gaiser, co-CEO of Spiral Media Ltd. and principal at Contagious Creativity, believes that creativity is the mother of diversity. And vice versa. If you lead...
Pokémon Go developer tests big changes to tracking with ‘Nearby’ and ‘Sightings’
I know. You hate Pokémon Go’s broken tracker, but it looks like the developer has some crucial changes coming soon. Developer Niantic is sending out...