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Pokémon Go maker Niantic is reportedly selling its games division


Niantic, the company behind the popular augmented reality game Pokémon Go, is looking to sell its game development business, Bloomberg reported.

Its first title, Ingress, was widely praised for its unique, geography-based take on territory control, but the company truly skyrocketed to fame with Pokémon Go, which took off in 2016 and quickly became a global phenomenon. Last year, it updated its Scaniverse app to let users create models of real-world objects and provide the data to developers. He is based out of India and has previously worked at publications including Huffington Post and The Next Web.

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