![]() ![]() Pokémon fans will be glad to hear that Pokémon Go will allow them to battle the creatures they’ve captured. One reason why Google spun off Niantic Labs was so that companies like Nintendo and the Pokémon Company could acquire a stake. Google worked with Nintendo to create a April Fool’s joke featuring Pokémon in Google Maps three years ago, and is still a major investor in Niantic Labs. That the real world will be a core part of gameplay is a direct result of Niantic Labs’ high-tech focus on games that augment reality. “Very rare Pokémon may exist in very few places,” Hanke said. Players will come across different Pokémon based on where they are in the world, and will receive a notification on their smartphone or Nintendo-made bracelet prompting them to capture the digital monster.įor example, if you’re at a beach, you can find and capture water-based Pokémon. The same location-based technology that powers Ingress will be used to place Pokémon creatures in public spaces where players can find and capture them. “I feel like we’ve learned a lot of lessons from Ingress that we’ll bring to Pokémon,” Hanke said. Niantic Labs was spun off from Google in August. Niantic Labs was a Google subsidiary when it launched Ingress, a game that uses your phone’s location to battle for “control” of public spaces. The technology behind Pokémon Go was originally developed at Google. It’s the first time the Pokémon franchise has been featured in a game for mobile phones, according to a wide-ranging interview between Venturebeat and John Hanke, CEO of Niantic Labs, which is developing the game.
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