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Niantic Labs raises $30 million in funding from The Pokemon Company, Google, and Nintendo

Niantic Labs nhận thêm 30 triệu USD tài trợ để phát triển game
[dropcap style=”style1″]N[/dropcap]iantic Labs has announced that they have received funding to the tune of $30 million from Google, The Pokemon Company, and Nintendo.

Vietgame.asia – Recently Google did that corporate restructuring of all their companies, creating a new top-tier company called Alphabet. When that happened, Niantic Labs actually was removed from being owned by Google, becoming their own true entity. Today the Ingress developer has announced that they have received funding to the tune of $30 million from Google, The Pokémon Company, and Nintendo. It is a pretty interesting mix.

So what is this funding for? Well the funding is split into a couple of parts. Niantic Labs gets $20 million upfront, with another $10 million to be dished out in parts as certain milestones are reached. Part of this funding is to push further and future development of Nintendo‘s and The Pokémon Company‘s upcoming Pokémon GO mobile game, which is Niantic Labs‘s current project. The funding is also for continued support of Ingress, increase Niantic Labs‘s location-based platform in general, and bring new games to market as well.”Pokémon’s strategic investment in Niantic paves the way for a social mobile experience the world has never seen before. The Pokémon Company is committed to partnering with companies like Niantic Labs that share the same spirit of community and innovation,” – Tsunekazu Ishihara, president and CEO of The Pokémon Company.

As mentioned earlier, part of the reason for the funding happens to be for bringing new games to market. Unfortunately no other games were mentioned, which means either Nintendo, Google, or The Pokémon Company have something else up their sleeve besides Pokémon GO. It will be interesting to see exactly what that is.[su_icon_panel background=”transparent” border=”1px none #cccccc” shadow=”0px 0px 0px #eeeeee” icon=”icon: html5″ icon_color=”#1f6dc9″ icon_size=”70″ url=”http://www.nianticlabs.com/”][/su_icon_panel][su_icon_panel background=”transparent” border=”1px none #cccccc” shadow=”0px 0px 0px #eeeeee” icon=”icon: facebook-square” icon_color=”#1f6dc9″ icon_size=”70″ url=”https://www.facebook.com/nianticlabs”][/su_icon_panel][su_icon_panel background=”transparent” border=”1px none #cccccc” shadow=”0px 0px 0px #eeeeee” icon=”icon: twitter-square” icon_color=”#1f6dc9″ icon_size=”70″ url=”https://twitter.com/NianticLabs”][/su_icon_panel][su_note note_color=”#D9EDF7″] Thanks, DroidGamers[/su_note][su_note note_color=”#FCF8E3″] Images by DroidGamers[/su_note]

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