SF News Sunday Links: Pokemon Line-Cutting Dispute Leads to Stabbing Outside Colma GameStop One person was killed and four injured in an early Saturday shooting in SF's Bayview District; Oakland has received a $10 million grant to improve street safety and expand bike lanes; and someone was stabbed with a glass shard for allegedly cutting in line for Pokemon cards.
Business & Tech Nintendo Announces They’re Opening a Store in SF’s Union Square, Only Their Second Store in the US Mario, Luigi, and Pokémon are swooping in to hopefully save San Francisco’s Union Square, as the video game giant Nintendo just announced they’re taking over one of the many vacant retail spots in the beleaguered shopping district sometime in 2025.
Business & Tech SF-Based Pokémon Go Creator Niantic Labs Celebrates Game’s Seventh Anniversary After Layoff Of 25% of Staff To be fair, Niantic Labs is also doing a bunch of game promotions and specials for Pokémon Go’s seventh anniversary, but that’s probably little comfort to the 230 employees the company just laid off.
Business & Tech SF-Based Pokémon GO Creator Niantic is Laying Off Nearly 100, Canceling Games Not Named Pokémon GO Just six months after being handed $300 million, but a full six years since their last real hit, the game company behind Pokémon GO is letting “85 to 90 jobs” go.
Arts & Entertainment GaymerX Conference To Power Queer Gamers Into Multiplayer Mode Add to the list of the too many things to do this week the groundbreaking annual queer gamer conference GaymerX in San Jose (Sept. 30 - Oct. 2). The world’s first LGBT
Arts & Entertainment Brace: Pokemon Go Is Coming To The Apple Watch The Apple launch event today didn't end with Sia and the news about the iPhone 7. John Hanke, CEO of Pokémon Go game developer Niantic, took the stage to tell everyone how the
Arts & Entertainment Where To Catch All The Most Muni-Accessible Pokémon Spotted a Pokémon waiting for a Muni Bus this morning in San Francisco. Man this Pokémon Go thing is out of control. pic.twitter.com/vU2e98XdDH— Yiying Lu (@YiyingLu) July 12, 2016 For
Arts & Entertainment More Pokémon Go Crawls, Including Gay Happy Hour Edition, Planned For This Weekend The Pokémon Go crawls just keep Poké-coming. Unsatisfied by one giant celebration of the mobile app game of the moment, held earlier this week with thousands of participants, fans are demanding MOAR POKÉMON.
Arts & Entertainment Pokémon Go Crawl Achieves Peak Pikachu It will either renew or destroy your faith in modern-day San Francisco to know that several thousand full-grown adults took to San Francisco’s streets Wednesday night for a massive Pokémon Go Crawl,
Arts & Entertainment Saudi Arabia Has A Fatwa Against Pokémon Go Top clerics in Saudi Arabia have reissued a decade-and-a-half-old fatwa, originally issued against the Pokémon card game, against the popular Pokémon Go app, saying it promotes un-Islamic imagery, the concept of evolution, and
Arts & Entertainment Here's The Route For Tomorrow's Potentially Massive Pokémon Crawl Although much of San Francisco has been engaged in a de facto Pokémon Go crawl for weeks, a somewhat formal affair planned for tomorrow promises to be the real deal, if you consider
SF News Pokémon Go Creating Security Nightmare For IT People Not only is Pokémon Go probably stealing all of your personal information and sending it to Russia, but the wide popularity of the game and all the permissions it asks for on your
Arts & Entertainment Pokémon Go + <i>Black Mirror</i> = Dark Comedy? Fans of the spooky, Twilight Zone-inspired British sci-fi series Black Mirror might appreciate this dark bit of parody that takes one of the most disturbing episodes of the show, "White Bear," and mashes
Arts & Entertainment Even Stanley Roberts Is Playing Pokémon Go, While Shaming Other People For Playing Of course this week couldn't end without KRON 4's Stanley Roberts doing a "People Behaving Badly" segment about Pokémon Go players walking into lampposts and getting mugged, and indeed he uses the segment
Arts & Entertainment The Worst Habits Of Pokémon Go Players In Their SF Habitat (And A Few Upsides) San Francisco has some of the greatest scenery in the world, but this week much of the city has ignored that scenery and glued its collective noses to smartphones to play Pokémon Go.
