Pokémon Go is ideal for someone who used to game but who now has a small child. Seriously. It’s like Niantic Labs designed it with middle-aged, work-at-home mothers of two-year-olds in mind.
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‘Pokémon GO’ has caught the Halloween Spirit!
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If you weren’t one of the lucky few to pre-order Nintendo’s ‘Pokémon GO’ Plus peripheral during any of its brief windows of availability, proceed to Amazon in a calm, orderly fashion.
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The latest ‘Pokémon Sun’ and ‘Moon’ trailer has revealed even more about this hotly anticipated release. And if that wasn’t enough, just yesterday we finally got a firm date for the arrival of the ‘Pokémon GO’ Plus device.
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Yesterday’s Apple event saw a number of big reveals, but surely none were as shocking as the arrival of Nintendo’s own Shigeru Miyamoto to announce the impending release of ‘Super Mario Run’ for iOS.
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The controversy of Niantic’s latest changes to ‘Pokemon GO’ is filling players full of woe. As of the removal of the flawed three-step utility, many third-party apps no longer function at all. Our family had a surprising group reaction: relief.
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This morning, gamers awoke to discover that the release of the ‘Pokémon GO’ Plus, the Bluetooth smart wearable that serves as a phone-free way to interact with the wildly successful ‘Pokémon GO’ AR app, has been delayed.
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Anika interviews a biologist to discover how Pokémon and real-world science intersect.
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Wedding rings are a precious thing. After an interpreter lost his own wedding ring at my brother’s wedding, Jenny and I considered what it would mean for us if something happened to our rings. The answer: We’d be devastated. We discovered silicone rings at the gym, and realized that that was our answer. We got rings from Qalo, a company known for durable athletic gear, and couldn’t be more pleased.
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Is ‘Pokémon GO’ an augmented reality failure? Or could it be opening the door for a whole new understanding of AR?
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We talked to Adam Reeve, whose Tumblr post alerted ‘Pokémon GO’ gamers to the risk. It has now gone viral.
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Clueless about ‘Pokémon GO’? Don’t know an Eevee from an Ekans? Fear not, fellow trainer; here are a handful of tips to get you started on the right foot.
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The world’s most talked-about augmented reality critter-catching simulator is now available. Here are five must-have items to help make your first ‘Pokémon GO’ outing a success.
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After painstakingly surveying Nintendo’s E3 output—all of which is available via the official YouTube channel—I picked the following moments as the company’s best of show.
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Over the last couple of weeks, we’ve seen a lot of news from The Pokémon Company International concerning the upcoming chapters in the ‘Pokémon’ saga.
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After no small amount of metaphorical hemming and hawing, The Pokémon Company International and Niantic Inc. are finally letting us Americans in on what ‘Pokémon GO’ truly has to offer.
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As if news of Nintendo’s plans to bring ‘Fire Emblem’ and ‘Animal Crossing’ to mobile phones wasn’t enough, today we also got a proper look at ‘Pokémon GO’ thanks to YouTube channel GAME Previews.
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Yesterday morning I awoke to a flurry of emails, texts, and Facebook posts from a wide variety of friends, family members, and PR contacts. Yet across every platform and from every source the message was the same: Pokémon are real!
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