July 11, 2016
Robbers target Pokémon Go players in Missouri
Catching them all could be risky. Four men in O’Fallon, Missouri, have been arrested on charges of first-degree robbery and armed criminal action after having used the popular…
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July 11, 2016
Pokémon Go shouldn’t have full access to your Gmail, Docs and Google account — but it does
When you use Google to sign into Pokémon Go, as so many of you have already, the popular game for some reason grants itself (for some users, anyway)…
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Pokémon Go has an estimated 7.5M U.S. downloads, $1.6M in daily revenue
Pokémon Go is off to a big start in the U.S., but just how big? The company hasn’t yet revealed any official numbers, but we have estimates to…
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Will 22K people turn up to catch Pokémon in San Francisco on Wednesday?
The Facebook event for a San Francisco Pokémon Go crawl on Wednesday has 3,600 people confirmed in attendance, with another 18K “interested” in the event. The event is…
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Pokémon Go adds $9B to Nintendo’s value, global rollout continues this week
Nintendo rode the Pokémon Go wave that enveloped countries where it’s currently available this past weekend: The company’s stock price surged, raising its total market cap to $28…
Read articleJuly 9, 2016
Hype check: Pokémon Go says more about Pokémon than it does about AR
But before we go sagely nodding about the coming Augmented Reality revolution the Poképoaclypse foretells, maybe it’s best to take a step back and examine the components of…
Read articleJuly 8, 2016
Study of Candy Crush players finds virtual currency buyers don’t go for upsells
The upsell we all fall for at fast food joints and places like Costco doesn’t seem to work on purchasers of in-game currencies, according to a study conducted…
Read articleJuly 7, 2016
NVIDIA’s GTX 1060 promises VR-ready performance at $249
Two months and a day after launching its impressive GeForce GTX 1080 (along with the GTX 1070) at the DreamHack gaming event in Austin, NVIDIA is back with a slightly…
Read articleJuly 6, 2016
Pokémon Go has already taught me so much
I’ve been playing Pokémon Go for most of today because no force in heaven or on earth could stop me, and here are a few things that I’ve learned…
Read articleJuly 1, 2016
Games company Paradox Interactive raises $11.8M from the crowd
Paradox Interactive, best known for developing and publishing a series of popular games including Hearts of Iron, Stellaris and Europa Universalis, today announced it raised more than $11.8m…
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