There’s lots going on with Pokemon Go right now, thanks in part to the official Pokemon Day that kicked off the week. Here’s a quick look:
- This week through March 6th, players can find special birthday-hat-bedecked Pikachu, which you must definitely go get because, um, birthday-hat-bedecked Pikachu.
- Niantic CTO Phil Keslin told GDC-goers that Pokemon Go has now been downloaded 650 million times globally — the first 500 million downloads of which were within the first two months of the game’s launch last summer.
- Niantic CEO John Hanke told interviewers at the Mobile World Conference that POGO is due to receive three more major updates this year, one each quarter. Presumably, Gen 2 counts for quarter one.
As part of the same interview, Hanke basically announced Ingress 2.0: “I can announce that there will be Ingress 2.0, and that it’ll come out at the end of this year. It will be a totally new version, something very important for the current players of Ingress, but for the new ones too. We’ve already got other projects, but unfortunately I can’t talk about them.”
