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Niantic Gets Surprisingly Frank About Their Failings With Pokémon Go
In June, Niantic announced they were intending to start reversing some of Pokémon Go’s measures put in place to make the game safer to play in the midst of a global pandemic. At the beginning of August, they stunned everyone by going through with it, reducing key distances from 80 meters to 40, despite huge…
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Pokémon Go Fans Mad That Niantic’s Acting Like Pandemic Is Over
After Niantic announced yesterday a rollback of socially distanced changes to Pokémon Go, fans have been reacting with surprise and disappointment. The changes appear to be designed for a post-pandemic world, and many players don’t feel as if we’re anywhere near ready for that.
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Ingress Players Use Unofficial Tools To Stalk One Another
Ingress In May, Nicci Kay and her wife moved 40km south to the port city of Tacoma, Washington where, in time, they planned to overtake the Resistance’s hold on the area. Kay is an Ingress player, an agent in a great and invisible cyberwar over territory that spans the globe, involving two factions: the Resistance…
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Here’s What We Know About Pokemon GO
Just before GDC, Niantic announced that they were scrapping their Pokemon GO panel in favour of holding a Japanese field test instead. That’s been running for about a day now, and as you’d expect fans have been data mining the game to the moon and back.