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Pokemon Go raised $5.8M Sunday in spite of live event catastrophe

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Pokemon Go's weekend Fest event may have been a massive and predictable failure of communication and preparation, but it wasn't a failure for Niantic's piggy...

Pokemon Go event organizers blame cell traffic overload for snafu

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The fallout and analysis of the debacle that was last weekend's Pokemon Go Fest continues, as Niantic has been pressed for answers on why such...

Pokemon Go organizers apologize for live event debacle, saying they’re ‘horrified with the results’

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Over the weekend, we reported on the distastrous Pokemon Go Fest in Chicago, where thousands of paying ticket holders spent most of the day...
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The Soapbox: The disastrous Pokemon Go Fest was just Niantic being Niantic, and that has to stop

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I know I complain a lot about Pokemon Go in my articles here, but there's a reason for this. I'm a huge fan not just of the...

Pokemon Go Fest in Chicago is pretty much a trainwreck

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If you've ever been to a massive gathering of tech-savvy people -- like say, a gaming convention -- you know better than to rely...

Pokemon Go: Milwaukee County lawsuit injunction and preparing for legendaries

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Back in February, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, tried to prevent Pokemon Go player-inflicted park damage by requiring ARG developers, including Niantic, to acquire permits before implementing games within the park....

Pokemon Go: Global summer events and which country spends the most

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If you're looking for something to do this summer and you live in a big city, Pokemon Go -- or at least gawking at...

Pokémon Go celebrates its anniversary with a hat-wearing Pikachu

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It is genuinely hard to believe that it has been a year already since Pokémon Go took the world by storm (and dominated the...

Pokemon Go’s first anniversary report card

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July 6th, 2017, marks Pokemon Go's first year anniversary. Love it or hate it, it's a game that quickly made a global impact. It's been released...

Pokemon Go: The Milwaukee lawsuit, rare Pikachu, and the gym reporting problem

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It's been almost a year now since non-expat Americans were able to play Niantic's Pokemon Go. While we're naturally seeing birthday rumors, the game's unique...
Ironically, this is the sort of controversy you'd probably rather face from inside a hot tub.

Massively Overthinking: Do MMORPGs aspire to pro-social mechanics?

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Massively OP reader and Patron Avaera has a thoughtful question for the team and readers this week. "I wish more virtual world games thought deeply...

The Chicago Pokemon Go Fest was sold out in less than a minute

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Following the huge reveal of Pokemon Go's summer content plans -- detailed in yesterday's massive overview and interview by MOP's Andrew Ross -- Niantic...

E3 2017: Pokemon Go’s raiding, gym revamp, badges, and an interview with Niantic

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Surprise! Niantic brought Pokemon Go to E3 2017 and invited members of the gaming press outside the sacred halls of the Los Angeles Convention Center...

The MOP Up: Pox Nora’s PS4 launch (May 28, 2017)

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The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some...
Don't put me in a ball dude what the heck.

Legendary pokemon are teased for Pokemon Go as a new anti-cheat measure auto-bans bots

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Remember how last summer was all about Pokémon Go? That's probably not going to happen again this year, but the team behind the game...

Niantic MMOARG Ingress plots a Magnus event series in California this weekend

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While Pokemon GO is getting a new global event, Ingress is getting a local event in the form of new Magnus events, starting with an event in...

Pokemon Go’s first Knight Foundation event is this weekend in North Carolina

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Pokemon Go really wants to get you outside and moving. That's the gist of its new partnership with the Knight Foundation, through which Niantic hope...

MMOARG dev sues Milwaukee county over Pokemon Go-inspired park ordinance

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Remember back in February when Milwaukee County in Wisconsin tried to handle the whole "Pokemon Go players are destroying parks and costing municipalities cash...

Pokemon Go interview appears to confirm gym raids this summer

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Just a week ago, Niantic told Pokemon Go players that "all new cooperative social gameplay experiences" were on the way, which led to speculation...

Pokemon Go counts 65M players, plans gym raids and co-op gameplay

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Niantic's latest Pokemon Go post might seem like a mundane thank-you note for all its many awards, but there are two bits buried within...

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