Pokemon Go players report cash and coin windfalls following class-action lawsuit settlement
https://massivelyop.com/2025/03/28/pokemon-go-players-report-cash-and-coin-windfalls-following-class-action-lawsuit-settlement
#PokemonGo #Niantic

"Niantic is selling Pokémon Go, Pikmin Bloom, and Monster Hunter Now to Scopely, which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of a Saudi Arabian company called Savvy Games, which itself is owned by the Saudi Arabian government’s Public Investment Fund. Scopely, Niantic, and Savvy Games have collectively published six separate blog posts about the $3.85 billion deal, none of which specifically address what is happening with the location data of Pokémon Go’s 100 million players and none of which address how location data collected in the future will be handled under Scopely and its Saudi Arabian owners.

Two other apps, called Campfire and Wayfarer, are also part of the deal. Campfire is a tool that lets people meet up in the real world to play Pokémon Go (or other Niantic games) together, and Wayfarer is an app that specifically leverages the players of Niantic games to map real-world locations for Pokémon Go. Niantic will keep Ingress, its first augmented reality game, and another game called Peridot.

Niantic said that a knock-on effect of this massive deal is that it will be spinning off its nascent AI mapping business, which was using Pokémon Go data to create a “large geospatial model,” into a separate company called Niantic Spatial."

https://www.404media.co/saudi-arabia-buys-pokemon-go-and-probably-all-of-your-location-data/

#SaudiArabia Buys #PokémonGo, and Probably All of Your #Location Data
Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund bought most popular #AR #videogame of all time, with collective worldwide player base of over 100 million people.
An already very complicated and vast location data ecosystem that was controlled by one #American company (#Niantic) has now become a far more complicated location data ecosystem controlled by an “American” comp wholly owned by Saudi Arabian conglomerate.
https://www.404media.co/saudi-arabia-buys-pokemon-go-and-probably-all-of-your-location-data/

Niantic Labs to sell its video game division, including Pokémon Go, to Saudi Arabia-owned Scopely for $3.5B, pending regulatory approval. #Niantic #PokémonGo #Scopely #GamingIndustry #MergersAndAcquisitions #GameDev #TechNews #SaudiInvestment #VideoGames

Pokémon GO Developer Acquired by Scopely

https://fullcleared.com/news/pokemon-go-developer-acquired-by-scopely/

Niantic has indeed sold Pokemon Go, Pikmin Bloom, and Monster Hunter Now to Savvy Games’ Scopely
https://massivelyop.com/2025/03/12/niantic-has-indeed-sold-pokemon-go-pikmin-bloom-and-monster-hunter-now-to-savvy-games-scopely
#Niantic #PokemonGo

A cynical player might believe that Niantic "accidentally" gave out a bunch of rare Pokemon on Pokemon Go this week to increase MAU during sale negotiations. #PokemonGo #Niantic

#Niantic is now trending across Mastodon

Niantic is apparently in talks to sell Pokemon Go and its games div to Savvy Games’ Scopely
https://massivelyop.com/2025/02/19/niantic-is-apparently-in-talks-to-sell-pokemon-go-and-its-games-div-to-savvy-games-scopely
#Niantic #PokemonGo

Asking the question if I still want to play a game that is owned by an authoritarian regime (among many other atrocities in the business of cutting up journalists) is really answering it, isn't it? CC @andrewstroehlein

#PokemonGo #Niantic #saudiarabia

https://www.ign.com/articles/pokmon-go-developer-niantic-reportedly-in-talks-to-sell-video-game-business-to-saudi-owned-company-behind-stumble-guys

Niantic in talks to sell its games unit to Saudi-controlled Scopely for ~$3.5B, including Pokémon Go and other mobile titles. #Niantic #Scopely #GamingIndustry #PokémonGo #MobileGames #TechNews #BusinessDeal #SaudiArabia

https://posivi.com/niantic-reportedly-in-discussions-to-sell-its-gaming-division-to-scopely/

And because we really can't have nice things, apparently Niantic is about to sell Pokémon Go to Scopely that is apparently a very shitty company based in Saudi Arabia. My only hope is that The Pokémon Company vetoes this one way or the other. #Niantic #PokémonGo #Scopely #MobileGaming

Ehh?! #Niantic filtered #running activities from the Adventure Sync feature for #Ingress #ARG . I'm not sure when they did this but definitely in 2024. What a very sad reality.

friend me, fight me, trade me (whenever that ends up happening)!
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I missed the #Ingress yearly badge/medal. You only get it if you have at least a single action/activity within a set of days #Niantic determined.

Since I only logged-in today after almost a year, I just found out I missed the window. Bye Year 13 medal.

#PokémonGo Data ‘Adding Amplitude to War Is Obviously an Issue,’ #Niantic Exec Says
A Niantic executive said he could see #governments and #militaries buying Niantic #geospatial #AI trained on player data, but the company said it’s still early days.
https://www.404media.co/pokemon-go-data-adding-amplitude-to-war-is-obviously-an-issue-niantic-exec-says/

#PokemonGo Was A Plot To Use Your Data To Fast Track An #AI-Slop Google #Maps Competitor
#Niantic is using scans of the real world from the game to create an AI-based #navigation system https://jalopnik.com/pokemon-go-was-a-plot-to-use-your-data-to-fast-track-an-1851706279

Niantic admits to using Pokemon Go player data to train an AI-powered 3-D map tool
https://massivelyop.com/2024/11/25/niantic-admits-to-using-pokemon-go-player-data-to-train-an-ai-powered-3-d-map-tool
#PokemonGo #Niantic

"Niantic, the company behind the extremely popular augmented reality mobile games Pokémon Go and Ingress, announced that it is using data collected by its millions of players to create an AI model that can navigate the physical world.

In a blog post published last week, first spotted by Garbage Day, Niantic says it is building a “Large Geospatial Model.” This name, the company explains, is a direct reference to Large Language Models (LLMs) Like OpenAI’s GPT, which are trained on vast quantities of text scraped from the internet in order to process and produce natural language. Niantic explains that a Large Geospatial Model, or LGM, aims to do the same for the physical world, a technology it says “will enable computers not only to perceive and understand physical spaces, but also to interact with them in new ways, forming a critical component of AR glasses and fields beyond, including robotics, content creation and autonomous systems. As we move from phones to wearable technology linked to the real world, spatial intelligence will become the world’s future operating system.”"

https://www.404media.co/pokemon-go-players-have-unwittingly-trained-ai-to-navigate-the-world/