Gaming

End of an era. Niantic Labs is selling Pokémon GO and its other AR games to a company in Saudi Arabia.

End of an era. Niantic Labs is selling Pokémon GO and its other AR games to a company in Saudi Arabia.

https://www.theverge.com/news/615267/niantic-pokemon-go-scopely-acquisition-deal

Nerd!

wow

Ingress, Niantic's test bed before they inked the Pokemon deal, was such a fun way for me to explore Eastern Europe and the Middle East back in the day

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End of an era indeed

https://warpcast.com/eirrann.eth/0xeb1b5473

They sure got some lucrative AI training data out of it for sure.

Yeah

There are areas where I added so many of the in-game locations to Ingress that became part of the Pokemon and other worlds

Never played, but sounds like a really fun way to explore unfamiliar places!

Whoa. Someone should totally recreate this on Farcaster.

While the game itself was a lot of fun, in equal parts it was about the sense of community.

There was a special kind of magic in getting people in different countries together at distant, hard to access locations, in the middle of the night, to link up portals to create networks covering large parts of countries/continents.