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Google and Taito’s Space Invaders AR Game Lets You Defend Your Own City From Aliens

Space Invaders World Defense will turn the real world into an intergalactic battleground.

Playstation Inventor Thinks the Metaverse Sucks

Instead, the gaming legend is focusing on a robotics company aimed at helping transform real-world objects into computer-readable data.

Tech News Mack DeGeurin

10 Companies That Think Following Facebook Into the Metaverse Is a Good Idea

There's no shortage of companies expressing interest in the metaverse, but here are the top 10 that may make it past the hype stage.

Tech News Mack DeGeurin

Don’t Cross the Pokémon Go Picket Line

Players are protesting Niantic for rolling back changes that made it easier for everyone to catch 'em all.

Gadgets Florence Ion

Mesh Is Microsoft’s Vision for Sending Your Hologram Back to the Office

Today at Microsoft’s annual Ignite conference, the tech giant revealed a bold glimpse at the future of digital collaboration with Mesh, a new mixed reality experience set to shape how people work and socialize online. Powered by Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform and designed to run on a range of devices, including Microsoft’s Hololens headsets, traditional…

Tech News Sam Rutherford

People in Taiwan Can Ride the Subway and Pay for Snacks With Poké Balls

The NFC-powered payment cards used to pay for public transit in Taipei, Taiwan, are so popular that not only have other businesses (like convenience stores) started accepting them, they’re also available in endless shapes and sizes, including an official Poké Ball-shaped smartcard that lights up when you’ve successfully made a purchase. Taipei’s EasyCard was first…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

The Creators of Pokémon Go Are Now Working on a Settlers of Catan AR Game

In a blog post on its website yesterday, Niantic, the company behind the somehow-still-popular Pokémon Go augmented reality smartphone game, revealed it was working on at least 10 new AR games including one that turns your neighborhood and city into one of the most popular board games since Monopoly: Settlers of Catan. Niantic promises the…

Games Andrew Liszewski

Pokémon Go Somehow Still Relevant in the Year of Our Lord 2020

Remember the bygone era of 2016? Oh, to return to that sanguine time, where instead of fretting over deadly vaping illnesses and the possibility of World War III, we all held hands and sang kumbaya united by a serious case of Pokémon Go fever that swept the globe. But if you, like myself and scores…

Games Alyse Stanley

This Harry Potter Mobile Game Trailer Is a Better Wizarding World Movie Than Fantastic Beasts

Not gonna lie: I can’t say I’m all that excited for Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, the new game from the people behind Pokémon Go that is basically Pokémon Go but with British wizards. But this launch trailer for the game really, really has me hankering for a modern Potter movie with this sort of premise.…

Games James Whitbrook

The Harry Potter Equivalent of Pokémon Go Looks Exactly Like You’d Expect

What if, instead of catching Weedles, wandering around in Pokémon Go got you the chance to save Harry Potter from being nibbled on by a Dementor? That’s basically what Harry Potter: Wizards Unite is. Announced by Niantic back in 2017 when Pokémon Go was still near its apex—not to say that it’s not popular anymore,…

Games James Whitbrook

An Anime Based on Ingress, the First Game by the Creators of Pokémon Go, is Coming to Netflix

Ingress: The Animation will be coming to Netflix in October. Created by animation studio Crafter, with character designs by Takeshi Honda (Neon Genesis Evangelion) and directed by CG artist Yuhei Sakuragi, Ingress: The Animation will be an adaptation of the augmented-reality game Ingress. Ingress, created by Niantic, the company behind Pokémon Go, tells the story…

Television Julie Muncy

Latest Pokémon Go Challenge Is Literally Just Picking Up Garbage

Pokémon Go developer Niantic thinks being the very best like no one ever was should include a bit of community cleanup in honor of this year’s upcoming Earth Day. Niantic, in partnership with conservation organization Mission Blue, is encouraging players to participate in local cleanup events with some in-game incentives. As some may know, however,…

Tech News Patrick Lucas Austin

Niantic Will Reportedly Settle for Nearly $1.6 Million Over Bungled Pokémon GO Festival

App developer Niantic has settled a lawsuit over a botched Pokémon GO festival in Chicago’s Grant Park in July 2017 for nearly $1.6 million, TechCrunch reported on Saturday. Some among the estimated 20,000 festival-goers got very disappointed when the heavily promoted event was rife with internet connectivity problems and in-game crashes, with one who traveled…

Games Tom McKay

Study Estimates That Pokémon GO Has Caused More Than 100,000 Traffic Accidents

The Pokémon GO phenomenon has mostly faded, but the destruction left in its wake could be far larger than anyone imagined. Two professors from Purdue University have attempted to get an idea of the game’s effect on traffic accidents by studying data from one county in Indiana. The results don’t reflect well on Pikachu and…

Tech News Rhett Jones

Pokemon Go’s Wearable Goes on Sale Next Week

Mere hours Niantic appeared on the stage at Apple’s iPhone event to show off its new Apple Watch app, Nintendo and The Pokemon Company announced the release date for Pokemon Go’s wearable: the Pokemon GO Plus. It’s only a week away. There is no detail on pricing, but the wearable, which looks like a Pokeball…

Tech News Alex Cranz

Pokémon Go Desperately Needs a Bug Bounty System

This past weekend, many Pokemon Go gyms were rendered unplayable. Players trying to battle at sites like Big Ben were greeted not by a ‘mon but by an egg that glitched the game, protecting these gyms from being defeated. Eggs appeared in New York City, London, and elsewhere—and almost all of them were placed there…

Tech News Avery Ellis

Niantic Says It’ll Perma-Ban Pokémon Go Cheaters

Niantic Inc., the company behind that app you won’t stop hearing about Pokémon Go, has taken a stand against cheaters in the past, or anybody who violates its terms of service, such as sending out cease and desist letters to tracker apps. Now the company has stated that it will outright ban users for those…

Tech News Carli Velocci

🔥HOT TAKE: Pokémon Go Is a Bad Game🔥

Woah buddy it’s 10:30am on a Monday and this hungover blogger has something to get off his chest. After writing no fewer than 17 posts in the past few weeks about our nation’s newest craze, I have some sad news to report to you all: Pokémon Go is a bad, bad game. Why, you ask,…

Tech News Avery Ellis

New York’s Governor Wants to Ban Sex Offenders From Playing Pokémon Go

What do Rio Olympians and New York state sex offenders have in common? Soon, neither will be playing Pokémon Go, or at least that’s the hope of Governor Andrew Cuomo. In a letter sent to Niantic CEO John Hanke, the developers of the massively popular game, Cuomo asked for help in having sex offenders barred…

Tech News Avery Ellis

Meet the Guys Who Cracked Pokémon Go Wide Open

I’m in the back of a Gregory’s Coffee in New York’s midtown across from Dronpes and flanked by Moots7, who are careful to tell me as little about themselves as possible. From what I can gather Moots works in finance and comes from rural Colorado, while Dronpes is a developer at a tech company, hard-working…

Tech News Avery Ellis

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Google and Taito’s Space Invaders AR Game Lets You Defend Your Own City From Aliens

Playstation Inventor Thinks the Metaverse Sucks

10 Companies That Think Following Facebook Into the Metaverse Is a Good Idea

Don’t Cross the Pokémon Go Picket Line

Mesh Is Microsoft’s Vision for Sending Your Hologram Back to the Office

People in Taiwan Can Ride the Subway and Pay for Snacks With Poké Balls

The Creators of Pokémon Go Are Now Working on a Settlers of Catan AR Game

Pokémon Go Somehow Still Relevant in the Year of Our Lord 2020

This Harry Potter Mobile Game Trailer Is a Better Wizarding World Movie Than Fantastic Beasts

The Harry Potter Equivalent of Pokémon Go Looks Exactly Like You’d Expect

An Anime Based on Ingress, the First Game by the Creators of Pokémon Go, is Coming to Netflix

Latest Pokémon Go Challenge Is Literally Just Picking Up Garbage

Niantic Will Reportedly Settle for Nearly $1.6 Million Over Bungled Pokémon GO Festival

Study Estimates That Pokémon GO Has Caused More Than 100,000 Traffic Accidents

Pokemon Go’s Wearable Goes on Sale Next Week

Pokémon Go Desperately Needs a Bug Bounty System

Niantic Says It’ll Perma-Ban Pokémon Go Cheaters

🔥HOT TAKE: Pokémon Go Is a Bad Game🔥

New York’s Governor Wants to Ban Sex Offenders From Playing Pokémon Go

Meet the Guys Who Cracked Pokémon Go Wide Open

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Trump Drops $1B to Kill 2 Wind Farms, Then Watches a Bigger One Go Online

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White House’s Mysterious ‘Covfefe Moment’ Was Stupider Than We Imagined

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The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

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Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

Nintendo’s Talking Flower Is Annoying as Hell. I Love It

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