Will Pokémon Go make you want to catch 'em all, all over again?
by Alex Hern from Technology | The Guardian on (#1GRN1)
Ex-Google division Niantic Labs have teamed up with the Poki(C)mon Company for an augmented-reality take on the gaming franchise. Can it really take on Candy Crush in the mobile games market?
The first Poki(C)mon game for smartphones is coming this year, two decades after the RPG first came to the Game Boy. And its new incarnation all came about because of an April Fools' Day joke.
Called Poki(C)mon Go, the game is an unprecedented co-production between the Poki(C)mon Company, and a former Google division called Niantic Labs. The first seed of it was sown in April 2014, when Google teamed up with the Poki(C)mon Company to hide Poki(C)mon throughout Google Maps.
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