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Pokemon GO
Aiko TanakaGeneral

Pokemon GO announces new social features and raid updates

Pokemon GO developer Niantic has just announced new social features that will be available for players in a separate app they will need to download. Early this month, the company launched a social app experience in closed beta, which was only available for…

pokemongo
Sarah ChenGeneral

Pokemon GO still going strong, scores $5 billion in lifetime revenue

Well, what do you know? Even though we spent the past two years mostly locked up and homebound (pandemic and stuff), the AR game sensation Pokemon GO not only survived but managed to cross the $5 billion mark in lifetime revenue. According to a recent report…

Pokemon GO
Maria SantosGeneral

The most important Pokemon GO event returns in 2021

Niantic is confident that one of the worst epidemics in the last century is almost over, so it decided to greenlit its most important outdoor event, the Pokemon GO Fest. The company behind one of the most successful mobile games confirmed today that Pokemon…

pokemon
Wei ZhangElectronics

Niantic increases Pokemon GO storage limit

Great news for Pokemon GO players, especially veterans who’ve played the game for a very long time, as Niantic has just announced another limit storage increase for its mobile game. This means that Trainers will now be able to catch and store no less than…

Pokemon GO
Maria SantosGeneral

Niantic confirms Pokemon GO online player battles are coming in 2020

Niantic has been planning to implement a PvP system in Pokemon GO for quite some time now. The new gameplay mechanic is not yet ready for prime time, but Niantic confirmed that online player battles are coming in 2020. At the moment, Pokemon GO players can…

Pokemon GO
Aiko TanakaGeneral

Pokemon GO drops support for older Android smartphones

Niantic, developer of Pokemon GO smash hit, has just announced it will discontinue support for older Android smartphones after July 1, 2019. There’s no reasoning behind the decision, so we can only guess that the numerous updates the team plans to deliver in…

Pokemon Hub K11
Rajiv MenonGeneral

Pokemon GO’s best yearly event makes a return this month

Last year, Pokemon GO kicked off a special event that soon became one of the most popular Niantic, the company behind the smash hit, has ever launched. The event called Adventure Week offered Trainers sweet rewards and the possibility to catch rare Pokemon…

Pokemon GO
Aiko TanakaElectronics

Pokemon GO support for Apple Watch gets the ax

The folks at Niantic, developers of Pokemon GO, have always added support for new platforms and OSes when it was needed. The most recent announcement coming from the company does exactly the opposite though. It looks like Pokemon GO developer Niantic has…

Pokemon GO
Rajiv MenonGeneral

Pokemon GO Fest coming to USA this June

The folks at Niantic have gone a long way since their first Pokemon Fest, which was a total fiasco. After a more than decent 2018, the company is back with another series of Pokemon GO events that have already started earlier this year in South America.…

pokemon go nougat
Aiko TanakaGeneral

NBTC sort of maybe bans Pokemon Go

Thailand’s National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission announced it would not ban Pokemon Go, then went straight ahead and asked Niantic for a de facto ban in practice anyway. NBTC Secretary General Takorn Tantasit held a press conference where he…

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