Despite having been around for the past few years, it seems that Niantic’s Pokemon GO is still doing very well. This is according to data from Sensor Tower (via Variety) who has revealed that the game has managed to earn the company a whopping $2.45 billion to date, not bad for a game that is several years old.
Just like with many games that you’re playing for the first time ever, choosing a race, a class, skills, professions, and so on can be a bit confusing and sometimes even intimidating. More often than not, players usually end up regretting some of their choices later on when they gain a bit more experience, and usually, this means rerolling their character.
Pokemon GO was extremely popular when it was launched and it’s not hard to see why. This is because the game is based on the Pokemon franchise which is popular in its own right, plus it leveraged the use of augmented reality technology which gave it a bit of a novelty factor. However with Niantic delaying some of the more in-demand features for so long, we’re sure some probably wondered […]
Niantic started off as a startup formed within Google where they experimented with the use of augmented reality (AR) technology through a game known as Ingress. It might not have been particularly well-known due to the fact that the game was invitation-only at the start, plus you could almost say that society wasn’t particularly ready for AR at that time.
Ever since Pokemon GO was launched, many have been asking for Niantic to bring PVP into the game. After all being able to battle your friends in the regular version of Pokemon was what made the game so appealing to begin with, or at least that was one of the things that helped. It was earlier this month that Niantic finally confirmed the feature would be coming, and now it […]
If trainer battles/PvP was a feature of Pokemon GO that you have been anticipating, you’ll be pleased to learn that not too long after teasing the availability of the feature, Niantic has confirmed that the feature will be released by the end of the year, making it about 2 years or so since the game was first launched.
One of the appealing aspects of playing Pokemon was that you could trade Pokemon with other players as well as battle them head-on. However those two features were conspicuously absent from Pokemon GO and it took Niantic a while before trading was implemented. The good news for those waiting for PvP, it seems that it is finally here, sort of.
When Pokemon GO was first launched, due to the nature of the game it encouraged players to walk around to try and discover and capture nearby Pokemon. As a result it actually forced more people to exercise, which is a good thing, and now it seems that its creators are hoping to make it a regular thing.
No one likes cheaters, which is why to help prevent potential cheats, Niantic has recently decided to block the popular Pokemon GO from running on rooted Android phones. How this works is apparently the app will scan your phone’s internal storage system to see if your phone shows signs of having been rooted.
PVP battles in Pokemon GO is something that has been talked about for a long time. It seemed like a rather basic and straightforward feature that should have been included from the start, but yet the folks at Niantic have yet to implement it. In fact last year the company was still making promises about the feature eventually arriving.
No one likes cheaters, but the sad reality is that as much as developers try to prevent cheaters, there will always be cheaters in video games. Companies such as Blizzard have implemented a zero-tolerance policy when it comes to cheaters, banning them outright when caught, but Niantic appears to be taking a more lenient approach.