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WB Games and Niantic have decided to put out the call to wizards everywhere as they release a new promo video for Harry Potter: Wizards Unite The trailer is basically a fan service teaser showing off all sorts of references to the Harry Potter universe, encouraging players to pre-register for the game Which, at the[...]

credit// Niantic Pokémon Go developer Niantic has announced a crossover event with the Detective Pikachu movie which is scheduled to hit theaters later this month The event will run from tomorrow, May 7th at 1pm PDT to May 17th at 1pm PDT. The Detective Pikachu event will increase the encounter rate for Pokémon that appear in the movie as[...]

Niantic will be taking Pokémon GO Fest international as they will bring the event to Europe in July, setting up in Dortmund, Germany The event will take place from July 4th-7th in Westfalenpark, which was chosen after the company ran a successful Pokémon GO Safari Zone event there in 2018 that brought it over 170k[...]

credit// Netflix Nettflix's Ingress takes inspiration from Niantic's AR mobile game of the same name, but you wouldn't quite know that from the first episode The show starts off with a bit of narration that tells us the basic premise: there's an energy called XM that affects some humans and gives them special abilities, and can[...]

credit// Netflix The Netflix Anime Series Ingress is a CG-animated series developed in collaboration with Fuji TV and Craftar Studios in Japan, and is based on Niantic's augmented-reality mobile game of the same name The show is dropping tomorrow on Netflix, and we got to preview the first three episodes Even from the first few minutes of[...]

credit// Nintendo Niantic is making a few tweaks to Pokémon Go in the next few weeks to tweak research breakthrough rewards and eggs for the next couple of months. As far as research breakthroughs go, Lugio, Ho-Oh, Latios, and Latias will all appear as breakthrough reward encounters from May 1 at 1pm PDT through the end of[...]

It appears Niantic is going to be preventing scalpers and others who don't even play the game from being able to cash in on the Chicago summer event by making it so that you have to register through the game's app to be entered into a ticket lottery Those who win the lottery will be[...]

credit// Niantic To celebrate the Pokémon Go Safari Zone event in Singapore, a few rare Safari Pokémon will be available worldwide, including Shuckle and its shiny variant. According to Newsweek: Starting Saturday, April 20 at 6 a.m local time to Sunday, April 21 at 10 p.m local time, Pokémon Go trainers will notice an increase in Shuckle spawns in the[...]

In what feels like a really weird marketing campaign to find cities for events, Niantic is asking fans of Pokémon GO to do the work for them The company has launched a new social media effort with the hashtag #NianticLive2020 to get you to decide where they should hold events The company even released a[...]

credit// Niantic Announced on the Pokémon Go blog, Niantic will be making a few changes to the AR game which allow for further player customization option and add a new dimension to your friends list Yes, Avatar Poses and Lucky Friends are coming to Pokémon Go. Avatar Poses are the next level of player customization for PokéGo, which[...]

Niantic officially announced this week that Pokémon GO Fest 2019 was officially returning to Chicago in Grant Park from June 13th-16th While the company didn't give major details behind the events, it did list off some activities that would be taking place, which we have for you below The Chicago event will be the kickoff[...]

This morning, WB Games and Niantic finally released details about their upcoming Harry Potter-based app game, Harry Potter: Wizards Unite The company launched a new page for the game's website showing off gifs and giving descriptions about what exactly you'll be doing in the game And as you might suspect considering it involves Niantic, it plays[...]

credit//Pokémon Café Niantic is currently testing special lunch time raids for Pokemon Go with possible intent to make the raids a permanent feature The lunch raids are being tauted as the "Legendary Lunch Hour" to get players out and walking to raid events on their lunch breaks The raids will go live next week as a test,[...]

credit//Niantic In a report by The Wall Street Journal, Nintendo sources claim the gaming company is worried microtransactions will ruin its reputation The publisher has gone so far as to ask its mobile game development studios to curb player spending. One of the sources for the WSJ article hails from Dragalia Lost developers Cygames' parent company CyberAgent Inc[...]

Niantic revealed details of what Pokémon GO will be doing for Pokémon Day 2019, as the event comes up this week on February 27th This year will be the 22nd anniversary of the event as they celebrate the release of the first Pokémon games on the Game Boy back in 1996, so every year the company does something[...]