Niantic

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Niantic, Inc. is an American game development company best known for developing the augmented reality games Pokémon GO and Ingress. It was founded as Niantic Labs in 2000 as a startup within Google by John Hanke, who has remained the company's CEO since.[1][2] In August 2015, the company announced plans to spin out from Google which was reorganizing to become Alphabet.[3] Niantic Labs would become Niantic, Inc. in October 2015 after leaving Google.[4]

Following the announcement of Pokémon GO in September 2015, the company announced to receive an investment of up to $30 million from The Pokémon Company, Nintendo, and Google.[2]

Games

Pokémon games

Developer

Non-Pokémon games

Developer

  • Ingress
  • Field Trip
  • Endgame (Canceled)

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