Deal Apr 7th, 2022

Niantic acquires New Zealand AR studio NZXR

Will become "integral part" of design and development teams for location-based augmented reality titles

News Mar 22nd, 2022

Qualcomm launches $100 million fund to invest in XR experiences

Plus partnership with Square Enix to explore virtual reality and augmented reality

Deal Feb 17th, 2022

Niantic and Sony partner for spatial audio in augmented reality

Starting with AR mobile game Ingress

Deal Dec 13th, 2021

Affyn raises $7 million for F2P P2E AR metaverse mobile game

All in-game characters will be represented as NFTs

Data & Research Nov 15th, 2021

Pikmin Bloom generated $473,000 from two million downloads

The seedling is growing

News Nov 9th, 2021

Niantic to license its Lightship ARDK dev kit to developers

Pokemon GO and Pikmin Bloom company also establishes $20 million fund to invest in AR devs

News Nov 8th, 2021

Niantic introduces Niantic ID allowing players to link accounts across titles

In-game usernames will not change

News Oct 28th, 2021

Niantic and Nintendo launch Pikmin Bloom

Will roll out globally, starting with Australia and Singapore

Deal Oct 7th, 2021

Niantic acquires developer experience firm Hoss

Will assist in accelerating development of Lightship ARDK

News Sep 21st, 2021

Niantic is shutting down Catan World Explorers

AR game has been in soft launch for over a year

News Sep 6th, 2021

Rumoured Apple AR/VR headset to require iPhone connection

Making it as power efficient as possible

News Sep 6th, 2021

Postponed Pokémon GO Safari Zone events set to return from October

Events will be held in person across three locations

Deal Aug 13th, 2021

Pokémon GO creator Niantic acquires 3D scanning app Scaniverse

Scaniverse founder and CEO will join Niantic’s AR engineering team

Job News Aug 5th, 2021

nDreams hires former Codemasters CEO Frank Sagnier

Senior management welcomes Sagnier’s wisdom and passion to the board