In-game currency is not real currency. But Sprint's offering it anyways with the still somewhat popular Niantic Labs game, Pokemon GO.
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Pokemon GO update finally allows you to replace that annoying theme music with your own
If you've been "dah-ing" and "nuh-ing" as part of your Pokemon GO withdrawals, you can come back into the game with fresh tunes and relief.
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Second-gen Pokemon launch as Pokemon GO uses Pikachu to celebrate holidays
Time to re-download that Pokemon GO game.
Niantic Labs has announced that the augmented reality game has more monsters to hatch, including Togepi, Pichu and “select others.” These creatures will need to be hatched from eggs in order to be had. We have a feeling that if you know your Johto, you’ll find these monsters familiar.
Beyond that, you can now search for some “limited edition Pikachu” wearing festive hats (Santa hats for some). You’ll need to tap into your captures with the AR camera function to see if they’re wearing them.
Sprint and Starbucks have recently pledged their stores in the United States as PokeStops and gyms.
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Pokemon GO Plus pre-orders at Best Buy will ship starting January 20
Tap and catch. Beyond the companion apps for Apple Watch and Android Wear, there is the wearable peripheral for Niantic-made augmented reality game Pokemon GO, the Pokemon GO Plus.
The Bluetooth-connected bracelet that alerts users to nearby Pokemon and let them mine PokeStops of their goods is up for pre-order at Best Buy for $34.99. First shipments should make their ways out on January 20 — the accessory has been in high demand at the outlets it is currently available at.
The game is getting more advanced trading and battle features and more business partners for PokeStops.
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Starbucks and Niantic toss in another 7,800 stops for Pokemon GO
Beyond the green and red cups, useless wireless charging pads and the never-ending line of Macbooks taking up space at table upon worktable, you’ll find teenagers with their smartphones out ordering a Frappuccino®.
Starbucks and Niantic Labs have teamed up to offer 7,800 coffee shop locations as PokeStops and gyms. Sprint and its related brands did just the same for their 10,500 or so retail spots yesterday. McDonald’s Japan started off the trend with its 3,000 restaurants.
But the most important news today is that Starbucks is debuting “a special-edition Pokémon GO Frappuccino® for everyone!”
What a time we live in.
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Sprint and Niantic partner to bolster Pokemon GO stops count
Over 10,000 Sprint, Boost Mobile and Sprint at RadioShack stores will either become PokeStops or gyms in Pokemon GO starting December 12.
The deal between Sprint and the game’s developer, Niantic, will ensure that the stores are at least one guaranteed destination for fans — ready to take on the game’s newest features like trainer-to-trainer battles and the reinstatement of the Nearby tracker — to visit. These stores will also provide charging docks to Pokemon GO players fee-free.
If anything, the deal seals a first link in a possible series of others between Sprint and Niantic. This week, Sprint’s parent company, SoftBank, pledged $50 billion of investment into the US tech environment.
T-Mobile also offered its own perks to Pokemon GO players nearer to the launch of the game.
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Pokemon GO on Android Wear is also coming
While Apple and watchOS 3 may nab Pokemon GO on the go first, Android Wear should not be too far behind. In fact, there’s code in the full Android version of the app that references the Pokemon GO Plus accessory, due out this week, and what hardware it’ll work with.Pokemon GO Hub was able obtain and decompile version 0.37.0 of the app, finding code in the ...
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Post-peak, where will Pokemon GO’s bottom be?
Pokemon GO’s first month has seen stellar growth that Nintendo couldn’t have imagined. The Pokemon Company and Niantic were riding the coattails of this windfall as did what we found out to be contingent markets.But the party has to be done soon, right? Every viral product has that top ...
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More than a million portable batteries were bought in the two weeks since Pokemon GO’s launch
In a game like Pokemon GO, where the GPS is blaring its location out constantly and the screen and the camera and the GPU and everything is going crazy and hot and tiring and ugh — yeah, batteries be runnin’ out. Fast.That’s why people bought 1.2 million portable batteries for their phones ...
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Nintendo forecasts little profit from Pokemon GO, stocks drop
Neither Niantic nor The Pokemon Company are public traded companies, but Nintendo, which has stakes in both companies, is one. The co-developers of the highly popular Pokemon GO mobile game pay licensing fees to Nintendo. That said, even with loads of in-app purchases, it appears that most of the revenue will come to The Pokemon Company, not Nintendo.That’s what the Kyoto-based videogames company stated in an investors’ note today.“Because of this accounting scheme, the income reflected on ...
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