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 …
Read More »Pokemon Go’s Gym upgrade finally promises to be the experience you wanted from the beginning
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 …
Read More »Pokémon GO celebrates its First Birthday with real world and in-game events
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 …
Read More »Pokemon Go gets an update which sees cheaters get some lousy Pokemon
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 …
Read More »A new Pokémon GO adventure awaits
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 …
Read More »New Pokémon Arrive On Pokémon Go
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 …
Read More »Pokémon Go To Get New Pokémon
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 …
Read More »Pokémon Go users get some spooky treats for Halloween
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 …
Read More »It looks like Pokemon Go is coming to Android Wear
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 …
Read More »Nintendo’s Pokemon Go Plus is coming to Australia and New Zealand on 16 September
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 …
Read More »PokeDetector helps you play Pokemon Go and maintain awareness
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 …
Read More »Pokémon Go on iOS requests more permissions than it needs, but Niantic is working on a fix
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, …
Read More »PSA: Remember Pokémon Go uses Mobile data
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 …
Read More »Darwin Police warn people playing Pokémon Go to be careful trying to catch ’em all
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 …
Read More »Niantic’s Pokemon Go field test is heading to Australia and New Zealand
Following March’s field test of Pokemon Go in Japan, Niantic is heading down under to field test their forthcoming game in our part of the planet. A brief update on the company’s blog states that The Pokemon Company and Niantic are inviting users to field test the game in Australia …
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