Official Site: Pokemon Go
Studio: Niantic
Launch Date: July 6, 2016
Genre:Â MMOARG
Business Model:Â F2P (Cash Shop)
Platform: Android, iOS
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Pokemon Go: Corporate espionage, bots, and Uranium
There are a lot of unofficial Pokemon games out there on the internet, including MMOs, games that filled the gap Nintendo left. One such...
Pokemon Go: Account auctions, ‘real world social,’ and Canadian police humor
Remember Pokemon Go, that thing everyone played before No Man's Sky took over the news cycle? Good times.
CNBC reports that y'all have way...
Pokemon Go: Sightings, Hiroshima, and the five domains of play
Happy Pokemon Go patch! Yes, Niantic released a patch last night with some new visuals, a warning about not playing while you drive, and an...
Pokemon Go: The San Francisco murder, the Iranian ban, and Twitch’s cheater crackdown
Pokemon Go has now been out for a whole month. Here's a look at the app's news from the weekend:
The Guardian reports that...
Leaderboard: Will Pokemon Go and the ARG genre stand the test of time?
GamesIndustry.biz has an interesting piece out this week examining the bandwagon effect of a game like Pokemon Go, as investors and venture capitalists begin...
Five IPs that could tackle ARG gameplay features Pokemon Go lacks
Following the news that Niantic is now in fact working on a Harry Potter AR game, I realized that even as someone who enjoyed the...
Here’s why Niantic shut off Pokemon Go’s third-party apps
Niantic has a fresh blog post out (communication! yay!) that takes a stab at explaining just why it put the kibosh on third-party Pokemon...
Pokemon Go: New scanning rates, South America, and $160M revenue
This roundup is dedicated to all the people who are learning about video game "grind" for the first time thanks to Pokemon Go. Welcome!
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Pokemon Go: Suing Nintendo, Pokemon insurance, and the Ohio Articuno controversy
This one goes out to all the people who are still obsessively playing Pokemon Go after giving it a one-star rating. You show 'em!
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Pokemon Go: Niantic addresses community, New York panics over sex offenders
Niantic has finally addressed the Pokemon Go community's uproar over the weekend patch that fixed the three-step-bug by taking it out and silenced location...
Pokemon Go: The fake Harry Potter rumor and the patch of doom
The Harry Potter  Pokemon Go clone widely reported over the weekend was a hoax, guys. JTHX News originally claimed IGN posted the news, but...
Pokemon Go: Building bridges, crashing cars, and whitehat hacking
I almost start to worry about Pokemon Go when we have only a few stories to report and not so many that I am...
Pokemon Go: Drones, Tesla autopilot, finding Ditto, and dirty cheaters
Hands at 9 and 3, Poke trainers, and no cheating!
If you're too lazy to actually go play Pokemon Go but don't want to...
Pokemon Go: Swatting, Fukushima, pay-to-win, and accessory delays
Still playing Pokemon Go? You and 75 million other people, apparently.
Colorado Twitch streamer Summit1g was swatted while streaming his Pokemon Go play when...
Pokemon Go: A Vegas shootout, trolling the White House, and 50M Google Play downloads
The Pokemon Go news never ends. Here's the best of it from the last 24 hours.
A shootout at the Pokemon Go corral took place...
Pokemon Go: Stock plummet, trolling, design fails, and crossing the Canadian border
Here's our near-daily smorgasbord of inane Pokemon Go stories. I'm sorry.
Two kids from Alberta, Canada, crossed the border into the US state of...
Pokemon Go: Fatwas, maps, lawsuits, and Kirby’s call-out
Happy Friday! Please don't die in 100 degree heat this weekend playing Pokemon Go, OK? We'd miss you.
It's all over, guys: Someone has...
The Daily Grind: Did MMOs displace local co-op?
The first month or so after I tried out my first MMORPG, my boyfriend at the time and I actually shared an account. One...
Massively Overthinking: The golden age of MMORPGs
This week's Massively Overthinking is a serious one from our dear Patreon patron Duane. Here's the jumping off point for his topic:
"There has lately...
EverChaosing: Adapting Pokemon Go for The Secret World and EverQuest II
So there's this thing right now. It's kind of a craze. Maybe you've heard of it? Pokemon Go? Yeah, I thought so. The thing...