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Pokémon Go developer Niantic created a ‘sexist boys club’ environment, new lawsuit says

The anonymous former employee is seeking class action status for ‘systemic sexual bias’

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Pokémon Go maker Niantic laying off hundreds, cancels NBA and Marvel games

Pokémon Go is the studio’s ‘top priority’

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Ingress relaunches as Ingress Prime, includes 100 percent more anime

Niantic’s newest real world-based game also has a Pokémon Go promo

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Wish Pokémon Go were better? Welcome to Ingress

I hit level 17 in Pokémon Go earlier today. It felt pretty good! Leveling up isn’t that big a deal in this game — levels and XP are, for the most part, just markers along the mostly linear path of...

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Ingress developer Niantic Labs no longer part of Google

The internal Google startup that developed augmented reality massively multiplayer mobile game Ingress is being spun off from Google to be an independent company. In a post on Google+, developer...

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Google's mobile augmented reality game Ingress is now on iOS

Ingress, the smartphone augmented reality massively multiplayer game from Google's Niantic Labs, is now available on iOS, the company announced today. In Ingress, players worldwide use their...

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Google's Niantic Labs creating AR tie-in game for Endgame trilogy

Ingress developer and Google subsidiary Niantic Labs is developing an augmented reality game that ties in with author James Frey's young adult Endgame trilogy. The upcoming game "builds on the...

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Catch up on the plot of Google's real-world MMO Ingress

A pair of videos recaps the past year of Ingress, a massively multiplayer alternate reality game from Google's Niantic Labs played in the real world on smartphones. The first video, above, catches...

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Google gathering gamers in San Jose Oct. 12 for Ingress event

Google and Ingress developer Niantic Labs are inviting players to San Jose, Calif., Oct. 12 for a game-themed event. That Saturday, Niantic hopes to have hundreds of Ingress players gathered for...

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Report: Apple acquires Locationary for location data

Apple acquired Locationary, a Toronto, Canada-based company that provides a way to aggregate and centralize data about businesses, according to an All Things D report. Locationary's Saturn...