Sensor Tower: Pokémon Go made $2.65 billion in three years
Pokémon Go first launched on July 6, 2016, so Niantic‘s mobile game has now been out for three years. And the location-based experience has...
Harry Potter: Wizards Unite guide — Everything you need to know
It’s finally here. Last week saw the launch of Harry Potter: Wizards Unite and, ever since, I’ve been obsessed. Those who have played Pokémon...
Sensor Tower — Harry Potter: Wizards Unite’s first day is slower than Pokémon Go’s debut
Harry Potter: Wizards Unite launched yesterday for iOS and Android in the U.S. and UK, and Niantic‘s new game conjured about 400,000 installs and...
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....