A decade later, Pokémon Go finally made good on its original promise
When Niantic dropped the first Pokemon Go trailer in 2015, it was hard to grasp how a bunch of players could work together to catch a pokemon like Mewtwo. But this week at the game's 10th anniversary event in New York City, Pokemon Go showed the world how it's done. Almost 2,000 players (many of them Pokemon Go influencers) packed into Times Square on Thursday evening to participate in a special battle. It was cool to see Times Square briefly go dark before the billboards began lighting up, revealing an escaped Mewtwo Mega Evolving, and it was even wilder to see people living the fantasy depicted in the game's first trailer.
Even though mo ...