Between 85-90 To Lose Jobs
Niantic lays off 8% of its workforce, as it cancels four projects
Between 85-90 staff members affected by layoffs as numerous projects, including a Transformers title already in beta, are shuttered
Company Profile
Niantic
Website
www.nianticlabs.com/
About
We are a geo-focused developer and the creator of Pokemon GO, helmed by John Hanke.
We believe we can use technology to lean into the ‘reality’ of augmented reality — encouraging everyone to get outside and connect with the world around us. It’s our responsibility to consider user privacy, responsible use, inclusive development processes, and AR’s potential impact on the world now, not after the fact.
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Kirsten Koa
Senior Software Engineer
John Hanke
CEO
Matt Ein
Senior Game Designer
Karla Reyes
Growth Product Manager
Ziah Fogel
Senior Producer
Laura Warner
Senior Game Designer
Karen Tong
Senior Director of Product Marketing
Kellee Santiago
Head of Developer Relations
Anne Beuttenmüller
Product Marketing Manager
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Accolades
Articles featuring Niantic
Bouncing Into Basketball
Niantic partners with the NBA to create an AR basketball game
Basketball in the "real-world metaverse"
Roe Vs. Wade
Mobile games developers come out in support of abortion rights
Niantic, Innersloth, Ubisoft and more speak out, while Activision Blizzard, Apple, Netflix, and others add financial support for affected employees
Prospering Pikachu
Pokémon GO celebrates lifetime player spending of $6 billion
Sensor Tower data reveals the game has averaged $1 billion per year since launch
Gaming And Golfing
New PGA golf game utilises Niantic Lightship AR tech
Developer by Trigger as an educational, utility game
Join Us
Niantic wants you in its social AR network
The Campfire social app, currently live in Ingress, and Lightship VPS was revealed at Niantic Lightship Summit
Join The Coven
Can we create a more equitable mobile games industry? Niantic’s Karla Reyes may have the answer
Code Coven and Niantic’s Karla Reyes details how she found her place in the games industry, and her extensive efforts to make sure the door didn’t shut behind her
Pokemon To Peridot
Niantic unveils latest AR game Peridot
Pokémon Go creator's latest AR title harness original IP
Niantic Adds Nzxr
Niantic acquires New Zealand-based AR studio NZXR
Will become "integral part" of design and development teams for location-based AR titles
Mobile Games Awards 2022
Space Ape Games, inkle, Genshin Impact, Kwalee, and more celebrated at the Mobile Games Awards 2022
Space Ape’s Beatstar – Touch Your Music wins coveted Game of the Year, as we celebrate the mobile games industry with 23 categories
Gdc
GDC snapshot: keeping Pokémon GO alive during the COVID pandemic
Light bites from Niantic’s panel detail managing the world’s largest AR game during a global lockdown
Gdc
GDC: Niantic, ustwo games, Junub Games, and more on the responsibilities of the games industry
Reyes, Mensah-Bonsu, Estaris, Mayen, and Pollack discuss creating mission-driven games
Gdc
GDC: Niantic talks keeping redlining out of the metaverse
The metaverse cannot recreate the prejudicial problems of the games industry, says Niantic’s John King and Kellee Santiago
Ar Acquisition
Niantic acquires 8th Wall to empower AR metaverse
Expanding the reach of Niantic Lightship tools
Ar Audio
Niantic and Sony partner for bring hi-fidelity audio AR
Starting with AR mobile game Ingress
Meet The Experts
Speaker Spotlight: Niantic’s Karla Reyes on sustainable approaches to blockchain gaming at Pocket Gamer Connects London
Learn about creating and cultivating blockchain-based game ecosystems with sustainable approaches of environmental, economic, social, and governance perspectives
Building On Blockchain
Learn the best practices of blockchain gaming at Pocket Gamer Connects London
Get insights into how crypto works with games at next month’s conference
Tencent On Top
More than $1 billion generated by eight mobile games each in 2021
PUBG Mobile is the highest-grossing for a second year
Lowkey Hires
Niantic hires the majority of social platform Lowkey's staff
Hired the majority of the team
Bitcoin Battling
Niantic partners with Fold to create AR Bitcoin metaverse experience
Gameplay involves finding and protecting your Bitcoin from other players
Big World
Niantic raises $300 million to build out a real-world metaverse
Pokemon Go developer now valued at $9 billion
A Slow Bloom
Pikmin Bloom generated $473,000 from two million downloads
The seedling is growing
Merging The Worlds
Niantic to license its Lightship ARDK dev kit to developers
Also establishes $20 million fund to invest in devs
Id Now
Niantic introduces Niantic ID allowing players to link accounts across titles
In-game usernames will not change
Obliviate
Why Harry Potter: Wizards Unite failed to find the magic
Nearly two years on, Niantic's game is moribund
The End Game
Harry Potter: Wizards Unite shutting down on 31 January 2022
Location-based wizarding game fails
Bloomin' Lovely
Niantic and Nintendo launch Pikmin Bloom
Will roll out globally, starting with Australia and Singapore
Accelerate Development
Niantic acquires developer experience firm Hoss
Will assist in accelerating development of Lightship ARDK
Catan Down
Niantic is shutting down Catan World Explorers
Has been in soft launch for over a year
Best Of 2021
The Top 50 Mobile Game Makers of 2021
The movers, the shakers, and all those funky moneymakers
Safari Zone
Postponed Pokémon GO Safari Zone events set to return from October
Events will be held in person across three locations
Expanded Reach
Niantic restores 80m interaction radius in Pokémon Go
The increase was initially implemented to encourage social distancing
Very Onix-pected
Pokémon Unite mobile launch, Pokémon GO introduces Galar region and Pokémon Café Mix gets rebrand
Latest Pokémon Presents goes big on mobile
Winner Winner
PUBG Mobile dethrones Honor of Kings for July global revenue
The battle royale jumped ahead by almost $70 million
Scanning The Market
Pokémon GO creator Niantic acquires 3D scanning app Scaniverse
Scaniverse founder and CEO will join Niantic’s AR engineering team
Cheaters Bewear
Niantic combats wave of false bans in Pokémon GO
The ban prevents players from accessing their accounts for seven days to permanently
Fifth Annual
Pokémon GO Fest 2021 generated over $20 million in two days
$731.3 million in global spending from 2021 alone
Winner Winner
Introducing the winners of the Pocket Gamer Mobile Games Awards 2021
Celebrate the big wins and catch up with all the highlights
Hiring Now
10 games industry jobs to apply for this week
Job vacancies from King, Zynga, Niantic and Playrix
"hooked"
Mario maker Shigeru Miyamoto obsessed with Pokémon GO
"The average person playing Pokémon GO in Japan is probably around 60 years old"
Bagon In Bagram
Pokémon GO spotted at former US military base in Afghanistan
"We can’t have no IED Pokémon on the FOB"
Victory Road
Pokémon GO shows no signs of slowing down with $5 billion revenue in five years
Another $1 billion in seven months
Get Moving
Pokémon GO starts to reset for a post-lockdown world
Changing coming to US and New Zealand in July
Soft Launch, Roll Out
Niantic partners with Hasbro to launch Transformers: Heavy Metal in 2021
Studio confirms around a dozen games in development
Move Over, Glastonbury
Niantic confirms Pokémon GO Fest 2021 will be music-themed
Taking place on July 17th and July 18th
Quiz Questions
Pokémon, Call of Duty, PUBG and which other 2 IP-based games generated $1.4 billion in the US during 2020?
Pokémon GO earned close to $480 million
Private Beta
Niantic renames Real World Platform to Lightship, offering more access
Access to suite of tools that power Niantic games
New Reality
Niantic launches 5G-optimised demo Codename: Urban Legends
Working with telecoms
Adventurers Assemble
As Niantic soft-launches Pikmin AR game in Singapore, new details sprout
Pre-registration available across iOS and Android
Listen Good
Niantic teases image of gaming headset
Hardware features speakers