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Pokémon GO celebrates lifetime player spending of $6 billion News Jun 8th, 2022

Pokémon GO celebrates lifetime player spending of $6 billion

Sensor Tower data reveals the perennially popular augmented reality game has averaged $1 billion per year since launch

Niantic wants you in its social AR network News May 25th, 2022

Niantic wants you in its social AR network

The Campfire social app currently live in Ingress, and Lightship VPS was revealed at Niantic Lightship Summit

Pokémon GO forays into the metaverse with in-game Ed Sheeran concert News Nov 19th, 2021

Pokémon GO forays into the metaverse with in-game Ed Sheeran concert

Catch shiny starter Pokémon during the event, new clothing code

Pokémon GO shortlisted for Golden Joystick’s Ultimate Game News Nov 15th, 2021

Pokémon GO shortlisted for Golden Joystick’s Ultimate Game

Other shortlisted games include Minecraft and Zelda: Breath of the Wild

Niantic to license its Lightship ARDK dev kit to developers 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

Niantic introduces Niantic ID allowing players to link accounts across titles News Nov 8th, 2021

Niantic introduces Niantic ID allowing players to link accounts across titles

In-game usernames will not change

Niantic acquires developer experience firm Hoss Deal Oct 7th, 2021

Niantic acquires developer experience firm Hoss

Will assist in accelerating development of Lightship ARDK

Postponed Pokémon GO Safari Zone events set to return from October News Sep 6th, 2021

Postponed Pokémon GO Safari Zone events set to return from October

Events will be held in person across three locations

Pokémon GO creator Niantic acquires 3D scanning app Scaniverse Deal Aug 13th, 2021

Pokémon GO creator Niantic acquires 3D scanning app Scaniverse

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

"Investigating is a natural human interest": the Silent Streets creator talks about bringing puzzle games to life Interviews & Opinion May 6th, 2018

"Investigating is a natural human interest": the Silent Streets creator talks about bringing puzzle games to life

With the latest episode of the indie AR detective game available now, we spoke to Funbakers CEO Demid Tishin about what ARKit brings to the series

Niantic Superstar Session at Pocket Gamer Connects San Francisco News Apr 6th, 2018

Niantic Superstar Session at Pocket Gamer Connects San Francisco

Ross Finman will reveal the company’s plans for AR and how it plans to build on smash hit Pokemon GO

Pokemon GO Gets Research And Story-Driven Quest Systems News Mar 28th, 2018

Pokemon GO Gets Research And Story-Driven Quest Systems

Players will also be able to capture Mew when the update goes live later this week

AR+ Comes To Pokémon GO News Dec 22nd, 2017

AR+ Comes To Pokémon GO

Apple’s ARKit enables new update, which brings true AR to the wildly popular mobile title.

$1 Billion VR/AR Investment In Last Quarter Data & Research Dec 7th, 2017

$1 Billion VR/AR Investment In Last Quarter

Magic Leap and Niantic lead the way, with a total of $702 million invested between them, bringing annual total to $2.5bn.

Niantic's Next Game Is Harry Potter: Wizards Unite News Nov 8th, 2017

Niantic's Next Game Is Harry Potter: Wizards Unite

Pokemon GO developer working on Harry Potter AR game for 2018.

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