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The Pokemon Company is rolling out a new game for mobile.  Pokemon Rumble Rush, the latest in the Pokemon Rumble series, launched on Android in Australia last week and globally Wednesday. It’ll hit iOS soon, according to the game’s site, and we’ll update as we know more. Rush is the fourth Pokemon Rumble game, and features …

Pokemon Go changed the way people think of mobile games, with its slick use of augmented reality overlaying computer-generated monsters on the real world. Now Minecraft wants to change the way we think of AR. Microsoft on Friday announced a new take on Minecraft as the game marks 10 years since its initial release. The free title, called Minecraft Earth, …

Google released Tuesday the third beta of Android 10 on the first day of its annual Google I/O developer conference. And at the event, company executives offered a glimpse at a few new features for Q, the next version of the company’s Android operating system due in the summer or fall. Among the new Android 10 features previewed are a …

Muggles in Australia and New Zealand can try out Harry Potter: Wizards Unite as the beta kicks off in their countries. Developer Niantic is warning players that this isn’t the final version of the augmented reality (AR) game, which is location-based like Pokemon Go and tasks players with tracking down magical creatures and artifacts as part of the Statute of …

Pokemon Go Fest is making its return in 2019 as part of the Pokemon Go Summer Tour.  The event, which brings together trainers to catch the fictional creatures, is headed to Chicago’s Grant Park and is expanding to four days (June 13-16) from the original two. It’s also coming to Dortmund, Germany, July 4-7, organizers said Thursday. “Last year’s Pokemon …

The two biggest topics at this week’s Game Developer Conference (GDC) have been Google’s upcoming Stadia streaming service and the stranglehold Fortnite has on the youth of America. But for those interested in mobile games, the convention this week in San Francisco offers lots of hints about where iOS and Android developers are going in 2019 and beyond. Read: Best phone …

Pirates used Apple’s enterprise developer certificates to put out hacked versions of some major apps, a report said Thursday. The altered versions of Spotify, Angry Birds, Pokemon Go and Minecraft make paid features available for free and remove in-app ads, according to Reuters, sucking revenue away from the app developers and Apple. For example, the pirated Spotify blocks the ads …

You’ve probably played Pokemon GO before, but if you let the game fall by the wayside, get ready — Niantic just gave the game a big update. Using a mix of GPS tracking and some basic AR wizardry, the game allows players to venture out into the real world to capture Pokemon wherever they went — their neighborhoods, schools, workplaces …

Pokemon Let’s Go is taking us on a nostalgic trip back to the Kanto region on Nintendo Switch, and its mobile sibling is paying tribute to the game’s first two bosses. You can now dress up your Pokemon Go avatar as Brock or Misty, the gym leaders you’ll encounter first in Let’s Go (which is a loose remake of Game …

Yesterday, we got a foldable phone. But Samsung’s Developer Conference is only half over. In addition to the very intriguing foldable Infinity Flex Display, the Korean electronics giant gave a big shot in the arm to Bixby, its voice assistant competitor to the likes of Alexa, Google Assistant and Siri. It opened Bixby up to third-party developers (the core audience at its …