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Pokémon 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...
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Today’s Stories YouTube TV triples its footprint with launches in 10 more U.S. markets Legendary Pokémon are headed to Pokémon Go Movidius launches a $79 deep-learning USB stick Elon Musk says he has...
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...
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Here’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...
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Escher Reality is building the backend for cross-platform mobile AR
The potential of mobile augmented reality is clear. Last summer Pokemon Go gave a glimpse of just how big this craze could be, as thousands of excited humans converged on parks, bus stops and other...
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...
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Preschoolers 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 ArticleNiantic’s follow-up to Pokémon Go will be a Harry Potter AR game launching in...
Niantic Labs had tremendous success with Pokémon Go, which paired their expertise in building location-based augmented reality mobile experiences with a top-flight IP with a ravenous fan base. So, it...
View ArticlePokémon Go creator raises $200 million ahead of Harry Potter game launch
Pokémon Go creator Niantic has raised a new $200 million in funding, reports The Wall Street Journal. The Series B raise was led by Spark Capital, and includes participation from Founders Fund,...
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Pokémon GO gets a surprise new legendary: Ho-Oh
A bit of a surprise just dropped for everyone poking around Pokémon GO this holiday season: a new legendary Pokémon, Ho-Oh. Niantic usually debuts legendary Pokémon (the massive, super strong Pokémon...
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Hands-on with Nintendo’s Poké Ball Plus
Nintendo doesn’t come out with a ton of hardware in-between system launches, but the peripherals it does come out with have a history of being pretty quality. That being said, the Poké Ball Plus may be...
View ArticlePokémon Quest hits app store with a jolt
Coming just shy of a month after its original release on the Nintendo Switch, Pokémon Quest has hit the the App Store and Google Play Store today with an impressive response. According to analytics by...
View ArticleNiantic explains how and why it bans players in Pokémon GO
Getting banned for cheating is nothing new in Pokémon GO. There’ve been big ol’ ban waves every few weeks for ages now. The policies have never been totally set in stone, however — at least not...
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Pokémon GO is getting PvP by the end of the year
As popular as Pokémon GO is, it has always been missing one major feature: pitting your Pokémon directly against another trainer’s. Strange, since that was the entire basis of the franchise to begin...
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Twitch will livestream Pokémon TV series and movies, while viewers ‘catch’...
Twitch has teamed up with The Pokémon Company to allow viewers to binge watch the Pokémon: The Series TV show and related movies on its site, and “catch” Pokémon badges along the way. While the former...
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That weird nut Pokémon that showed up in Pokémon GO? It’s official now
This past Saturday, something pretty weird happened in Pokémon GO: Immediately after the monthly “Community Day” event came to a close, a strange, new, never-before-seen Pokémon showed up. And by...
View ArticlePokémon GO will get Gen IV Pokémon “soon”
It’s been about 10 months since the last big batch of Pokémon (Gen III, as it’s known) started rolling out in Pokémon GO. At this point, if you’re still playing GO, you’ve probably caught just about...
View ArticlePokémon GO update bringing ‘mon from the Sinnoh region is live
If you’ve been laying off the Pokémon GO for a while due to a lack of new monsters, prepare to be glued to your phone again. Niantic is now adding pokémon from the rugged Sinnoh region that first...
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Niantic confirms that Pokémon GO is getting PvP battles ‘soon’
Two and a half years after the launch of Pokémon GO, it’s still missing one major staple of the main series games: player versus player battling. That’s about to change. In a series of teaser tweets...
View ArticleNiantic finalizes its Series C at $245M with a valuation of nearly $4B
We’ve known since around December that Niantic (the company behind Pokémon GO and the soon to be released Harry Potter Wizards Unite) was in the middle of raising a ton of money for its Series C round....
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