Pokémon GO will get its first huge update this week: 80+ new Pokémon, new...
“When is another generation of Pokémon coming to Pokemon GO?!” It’s a question that the game’s players (including myself) have been shouting since… well, pretty much immediately after the game...
View ArticleThe new Pokémon just went live in Pokémon GO and the servers are melting again
The good news: the 80+ new Pokémon that were supposed to hit Pokémon GO “later this week”? They just went live. I caught a Chikorita! The bad news: If you were a player in the early days, things might...
View ArticleRevenue, I choose you! The Pokémon Company’s profits jump by 2,500 percent
It’s been a banner year for The Pokémon Company: Pokémon GO was a global phenomenon and the latest full-on Pokégame for the 3DS sold very well indeed. One would expect the company to be doing well...
View ArticlePokémon Go is getting cooperative play and a new gym system. Here’s how they...
Just about a year ago, Pokémon Go came out of nowhere and took over the world. If you lived in any sort of big city, you probably couldn’t go a block without seeing a Go player sprint by, staring at...
View ArticleCrunch Report | Elon Musk Wants To Make Infrastructure Great Again
Legendary Pokémon come to Pokémon GO, Elon Musk says he has verbal OK to build tunnel on the East Coast, YouTube Live launches in 10 more markets and Intel launches deep learning on a stick with...
View ArticleI went to Pokémon GO Fest to (try to) play the game with thousands of others....
“Do people still play Pokémon GO?” It’s a question that pops up pretty much any time the game gets mentioned. The answer: yep! It’s rarely the sidewalk-filling, flash mob-inducing hype monster that it...
View ArticleHere’s the schedule for when Legendary Pokémon will come and go in Pokémon GO
Ever since the first Legendary Pokémon (read: ultra strong, ultra rare Pokémon that require groups of 10-20 players to capture) appeared in Pokémon GO shortly after the upset that was GO Fest, one...
View ArticleEscher Reality is building the backend for cross-platform mobile AR
Y Combinator-backed, MIT spin-out Escher Reality is building a cross-platform toolkit and custom backend for mobile AR developers — aiming to lower the barrier to entry to building “compelling...
View ArticleNiantic’s postponed European Pokémon Go events will now take place in October
Good news for Pokémon Go fans in Europe: Niantic has announced new dates for the events in Europe that were postponed following the disastrous outcome of the first-ever Pokémon GO Fest in Chicago in...
View ArticlePreschoolers get their own Pokémon game with launch of Pokémon Playhouse
A new app called Pokémon Playhouse from the Pokémon Company, released this week, is bringing Pikachu and friends to preschoolers. Unlike the augmented reality game Pokémon Go, a collaboration between...
View ArticlePokémon GO fitness gains were short-lived
During the supreme madness of the Pokémon GO season this summer, it wasn’t uncommon to hear people talk about how the insanely popular game was boosting activity levels and making people walk miles...
View ArticlePokémon Go arrives on the Apple Watch
Following an erroneous report claiming that Niantic’s plans to bring Pokémon Go to the Apple Watch were canceled, the company today put those rumors to rest with more than a mere statement: it has now...
View ArticleDeepMind’s updated AlphaGo has been secretly savaging pro players online
Pokémon GO might have been the most talked about “Go” game of 2016, but the world of AI remains fixated on another Go — AlphaGo. Last spring, Go-playing AI AlphaGo made headlines when it defeated world...
View ArticlePokémon launches Duel, a new free iOS and Android strategy battle game
Pokémon has another official new mobile game that isn’t Pokémon GO – it’s a strategy battle game called Pokémon Duel where you collect virtual figures and fight them in an attempt to take over...
View ArticleNintendo reports $569M profit as Pokémon game sales get off to good start
Nintendo only takes a fraction of the revenue from Pokémon Go, the smash hit game of 2016, but its popularity has certainly boosted its own Pokémon games as evidenced by the company’s latest financial...
View ArticleReport: Pokémon Go has now crossed $1 billion in revenue
Pokémon Go was 2016’s rocket ship — it broke download records and it raced to $500 million in revenue quicker than any app in history. Now it won yet another accolade, the fastest game to reach $1...
View ArticleWatch how Portal would work in the real world thanks to Microsoft HoloLens
Valve’s Portal series is one of the more beloved in PC gaming, thanks to its debut of unique puzzle mechanics to inject some fresh life in the tired first-person action genre. The game looks even more...
View ArticlePokémon GO will get its first huge update this week: 80+ new Pokémon, new...
“When is another generation of Pokémon coming to Pokemon GO?!” It’s a question that the game’s players (including myself) have been shouting since… well, pretty much immediately after the game...
View ArticleThe new Pokémon just went live in Pokémon GO and the servers are melting again
The good news: the 80+ new Pokémon that were supposed to hit Pokémon GO “later this week”? They just went live. I caught a Chikorita! The bad news: If you were a player in the early days, things might...
View ArticleRevenue, I choose you! The Pokémon Company’s profits jump by 2,500 percent
It’s been a banner year for The Pokémon Company: Pokémon GO was a global phenomenon and the latest full-on Pokégame for the 3DS sold very well indeed. One would expect the company to be doing well...
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