Tag Archives: Pokemon Go

As long as there’s been Pokémon games, there’s been Pokémon remorse – saying goodbye to those little buddies you spent so much time with as you move from game to game. No more. Sort of. Pokémon Home is a new cloud service announced by The Pokémon Company on Twitter this …

It’s not enough to build a community for your mobile augmented reality game these days – you need to keep your users engaged to stop them drifting off to the latest Clash of Whatevers. Having built two AR game communities, Niantic certainly knows this and is launching a new monthly …

Niantic is sending Pokemon Go into its second year with some big changes to gyms with a reworked battle systems and the introduction at long last of a proper team raid feature. Seeking to balance out the gym battle system, the changes going live soon will see gyms stand or …

It’s hard to believe it’s already been one year since Pokémon GO launched the globally frenzied GPS-based game to our smart devices, but it has been that long, and in that time Niantic’s game has seen some 750 million downloads worldwide, and to celebrate, Niantic and The Pokémon Team are …

Pokemon Go has seen an update in which it sees cheaters getting lumped with crap Pokemon instead of being banned outright. The update, which has begun rolling out to users around the globe, sees users who do cheat being able to find only the fairly lousy Pokemon, like Pidgey or …

It’s a bit hard to realise that its nearly one year since Niantic and the Pokemon Company brought us Pokemon GO and the Pokemon team have taken to their blog to launch another in-game event (similar to what they have done in the past) called ‘Adventure Week.’ Adventure Week, which …

Last week Niantic and the Pokémon company announced that more creatures were coming to Pokémon Go and we would find out on December 12. Today is December 12, somewhere. New Pokémon are scheduled to start appearing today. What this means for those of you who are out to catch them …

To say that Pokémon Go has been a success is an understatement in any which way you look at it. The game has had more than 500 million downloads across all platforms and has generated an estimated US$600 million in revenue (in under a ninety days from its launch). Now …

With Halloween only a few days away, Nintendo and the Pokemon company have announced that from today, 26th October until the 31st October, users will receive additional candies and that there will be more spooky Pokémon available to catch! The additional Halloween treats will see Pokémon Go users receive six …

According to an APK teardown by Pokemon Go Hub, it looks like Pokemon Go will soon be coming to Android Wear. From the teardown it looks like the latest update to Pokemon Go (v0.37.0) brought with it full support not only for the recently announced Pokemon Go Plus first party …

Whilst the Pokemon Go fever and server issues have died down a little there are still millions of active daily users. We previously had heard about a wrist-worn device to enhance your Pokemon Go efforts, however, the device was initially delayed. Well, it’s delayed no more. The Pokemon Go Plus …

So you’re in polite company who understand your obsession with Pokemon Go, but after a while start getting a bit frustrated with your constant checking of your phone to see if any Pokemon are near by – What do you do? You install PokeDetector, that’s what! PokeDetector is a great …

Yeah Pokémon Go is going gangbusters in terms of popularity, so much so that the servers seem to be going up and down quite regularly. In fact, the mobile game has become so popular in just a few days that it’s now overtaken Tinder, and it’s likely to overtake Twitter, …

The internet has gone Pokémon crazy, and so have many of the Ausdroid writers (I’ve got 29 so far today). Many people are discussing the games ability to drain your battery, and believe us it does, or it’s relative instability, which believes us it is. However, no one seems to …

If you’ve been living under a rock, you might have missed yesterday’s news that Pokémon Go is now available widely for iOS and Android users. Built on similar concepts to Ingress, but executed in a rather different way, Pokémon Go allows users to explore the world via the app, capturing …