PARIS, Jan 23 — Seven years ago the mobile game Pokemon Go took the world by storm, and now its creators are aiming to infuse the same “real-world” appeal into their new...
PARIS, Jan 23 — Seven years ago the mobile gametook the world by storm, and now its creators are aiming to infuse the same “real-world” appeal into their new basketball game.were guided by their mobile phones to real-world locations to collect magical creatures,John Hanke, the boss of Niantic, which produces both games, stresses that just as with Pokemon, players of the NBA game will also require only a mobile phone — no expensive VR headsets or goggles.
“I think it’s important to support what we do in the real world as human beings, like going out to the restaurant, meeting our friends and not staying at home,” he told AFP in an interview. Like many other firms in the tech sector, Niantic also made swingeing cuts to its workforce last year, slashing eight percent of its staff and halting four video game projects.
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