Harry Potter: Wizards Unite hands-on — Stepping up from Pokémon Go
Since July 2016, I have walked 438 miles playing Pokémon Go, reaching level 30 in the location-based mobile game. I’m not sure how much...
Pokémon Company unveils a bunch of games, including Pokémon Quest China and Pokémon Sleep
Tsunekazu Ishihara, CEO of the Pokémon Company International, said the company has partnered with China’s NetEase in making the first official Pokemon game for...
Niantic’s view of the future of augmented reality
Ross Finman grew up on a llama farm. He studied robotics, started an augmented reality firm called Escher Reality, and sold it to Pokémon...
Cloud gaming like Stadia will need novel tech solutions
Two recent announcements signal games developers are realizing that, for cloud gaming, matching a player to their location and then placing game servers closer...
Sensor Tower: Pokémon Go’s 2019 spending up 33% from first 4 months of 2018
Pokémon Go reminds us that just because a game isn’t dominating the news as it once did doesn’t mean it can’t still pull in...
Remote AR will make it so we can work — or play — anywhere
Augmented reality has been something of a trailblazer in the gaming industry in recent years. The technology has been hovering around the periphery of...
How Niantic is preparing for AR’s ubiquitous future
When he was a child, John Hanke was obsessed with pull-out maps from National Geographic magazines, spending hours poring over names and topographic features....
Niantic lines up real-world global events for Pokémon Go
Niantic and The Pokémon Company International have announced they will continue to build on their real-world events with the Pokémon Go Summer Tour 2019....
Sensor Tower: Pokémon has made $2.5 billion on mobile
Pokémon games on mobile have made about $2.5 billion worldwide, according to market analyst Sensor Tower. They have also achieved 640 million downloads. These numbers...
Apple is prioritizing AR — and that’s a good thing
Until recently, it was easy to dismiss augmented reality as at best a luxury add-on to cellphones, at worst a gimmicky marketing stunt. From...