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How Pokemon Go should integrate Pokemon Sun/Moon
Say what you will about following tradition, but when I first heard more Pokemon would be added to Pokemon GO, the first thing I thought...
Massively OP’s Best of 2016 Awards: The Pseudo-MMO of the Year
Massively Overpowered's end-of-the-year 2016 awards continue today with our award for Best Pseudo-MMO of 2016, which was awarded to ARK: Survival Evolved last year. As you might surmise,...
Massively OP’s Best of 2016 Awards: Worst MMORPG Business Model of 2016
Massively Overpowered's end-of-the-year 2016 awards continue today with our award for Worst MMORPG Business Model of 2016, which is another new consideration for us this year...
Pokemon GO confirms rumors with Generation 2 update, 7800-store Starbucks rollout
The Starbucks leak is at least partially true: Niantic has confirmed that Pokemon Go has teamed up with the coffee company. Starting at 2 p.m. EST today,...
Pokemon Go Starbucks Event and a possible new Pokemon are rumored for December 8
Starbucks Pokemon trainers (or friends of trainers) have apparently leaked images today that purport to reveal an upcoming promotional event for Niantic's Pokemon Go. While most...
Pokemon Go preps holiday bonus event, lays groundwork for Ditto
"What better way to say thank you than to celebrate our community?" That's the question Pokemon Go's Niantic is asking this Thanksgiving week. And...
For Science: A third of our polled social media users quit Pokemon Go over trackers
Pokemon Go has received some large updates recently: the buddy system, medals, some big gym changes (twice), and now we've got dailies. We've been dazzled...
Niantic on Pokemon Go’s community struggles and WoW-like MMO nature
It's no secret that the Pokemon Go playerbase has been falling off since its summer pinnacle, and if you dig around on Reddit or...
Pokemon Go stealth-nerfs passenger and commuter play
Pokemon Go's latest patch introduces new gym- and pokestop-related mechanics that have hardcore players expressing frustration across social media. While the gym changes seem clearly...
Pokemon Go’s creator wants players to look up more often
Pokémon Go's success in 2016 has been a source of delight to one of the game's creators, Niantic's Dennis Hwang, who said that the...
Ingress player infiltrates, exposes UK cheater ring
Niantic has two games running right now, Pokemon Go and Ingress, both of which suffer significant bouts of cheating, particular in the form of...
Pokemon Go: The Dutch suspend the case against Niantic
Remember back in September when a community in the Netherlands announced it was taking Niantic to court in The Hague because the company had...
Exploring real-life PUGs, the Plus, and the antisocial nature of Pokemon Go
Although Pokemon Go isn't advertised as an MMO, both experts and players have noted it does present some interesting similarities: Both have tons of players on servers...
Pokemon Go blocks third-party apps again, buffs gym training
Just ahead of the weekend, Niantic announced some tweaks to Pokemon Go's gym training system. "In an upcoming version of Pokémon GO, when training...
Pokemon Go plans medals patch; Norwegian politicians gotta catch ’em all
Niantic announced last night that Pokemon Go is due ("soon") for a nifty new feature that introduces RPG-like skill-leveling mechanics to the game --...
The Netherlands is taking Pokemon Go creator Niantic to court
Pokemon Go's legal entanglements continue today as Niantic has been ordered to appear before a court in the Netherlands on October 11th. The California-based...
A whole bunch of people filed FTC complaints over Pokemon Go
How many times are we going to have to use the word "watchdog" this week? I believe we're on the third now, and this...
Meridian 59 continues to influence online games 20 years later
Twenty years ago this week, Meridian 59 shed its beta trappings and officially released as one of the very first graphical MMORPGs on the...
Pokemon Go stream turns into ‘mugged in Central Park’ stream
Twitch streamer Rickeybot wasn't bothering anyone; he was just streaming a session of Pokémon Go in Central Park at night. Long-time stream audiences know...
Pokemon Go has dropped 79% of its players, but it’s still making money
The number of people playing Pokémon Go has declined by 79% since its peak, according to market analysis firm Slice Intelligence. That's a pretty...