GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. If you’ve played Pokemon Go, Pikmin Bloom, or any game from Niantic, ...

John Hanke is best known as the man behind Google Earth, but now his focus is running Niantic Labs -- a startup inside of Google, that is primarily focussed on creating and running the massively ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "'Ingress' was inspired by this idea that the world is full of interesting places that we pass by every day," said Niantic CEO ...

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 ...

Eleven of us gather deep in the enemy heartland on a balmy Sunday evening to partake in Operation: Green Court. Meeting in secret, we are agents of the Enlightened, a faction which seeks to advance ...

Before there was Pokémon Go, Niantic got its feet wet in the location-based gaming market with Ingress. And last week, the company returned to the world of its first sci-fi game with a reboot title, ...

Last week we began to see the first hints of Google’s first foray into so-called “alternate reality gaming,” in which cryptic clues are strewn about the on- and offline worlds for the perusal of ...