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...
NPD: U.S. games spending up 1% in Q3 as live-services offset consoles
The U.S. gaming industry generated $9.18 billion in the third quarter of 2019, according to industry-tracking firm The NPD Group and its most recent...
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...
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...
3 problems studios face when developing games for famous IPs
Branding is a powerful thing. Back in 1976, Sega’s The Fonz arcade game was the first-ever licensed game. And ever since, games based on...
Sensor Tower: Dragon Quest Walk has second-best AR game launch
Pokémon Go’s success has brought about a wave of other AR exploration games, like Jurassic World: Alive or Harry Potter: Wizards Unite. But none...
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...
Accessibility finally matters to the game industry — but it needs to do better
Globally, 2.6 billion people spanning across geographical regions, generations, and socioeconomic backgrounds take part in digital gaming. This is a big portion of our...
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...
Sensor Tower: Tencent’s Let’s Hunt Monsters is the king of Pokémon Go clones
Pokémon Go is a has been a phenomenon everywhere but China, because that country’s censors (aka a totalitarian government) fears this little location-based augmented...