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 Russians Apparently Also Used Pokemon Go To Create Division, Promote Black Lives Matter Well, this is insane. In addition to creating fake Facebook and Twitter accounts, creating events, and buying Facebook ads to sow division and influence the 2016 election, Russian agents apparently also created a
SF News $50K Reward Offered For Last Year's Mysterious Pokemon Go Murder Remember Pokemon Go? Well last year someone got shot while playing it in San Francisco, as you may or may not recall. 20-year-old Calvin Riley was playing the flash-in-the-pan, augmented reality game on
SF News Have You Seen This Man? Police Release Sketch Of Fisherman's Wharf Homicide Suspect Police are seeking the public's help to find the suspects in an apparently random slaying of a college student at a popular tourist attraction last month, releasing a sketch of a man they
SF News Day Around The Bay: Teen Sues Parents Over Facebook Posts Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. An Austrian teen is suing her parents for posting
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
SF News Man With 'Numerous' Outstanding Warrants Arrested In Mission District Pokemon Go Theft The suspect in a August 4 strong arm robbery of a Pokemon Go player is a wanted man in three other cities, police announced Wednesday night. According to San Francisco Police Department Spokesperson
SF News Investigators Puzzled After 20-Year-Old Randomly Killed While Playing Pokemon Go Spoke with Calvin Riley's coach at San Joaquin Delta College. "Great kid. Great competitor." #abc7now pic.twitter.com/DeTzkgBLvB— ElissaABC7 (@ElissaABC7) August 7, 2016 A man killed Saturday evening in a popular tourist
Arts & Entertainment Jane Kim Beats Scott Wiener In Pokémon Go Contest A couple weeks back, Jane Kim challenged Scott Wiener to a Pokémon Go race, and Wiener accepted. The two rivals for one of SF's state senate seats held their contest Saturday, and with
Arts & Entertainment Werner Herzog Seems Disappointed That Pokemon Go Players Don't Murder Each Other German filmmaker Werner Herzog was once described by François Truffaut as "the most important film director alive," and given how busy the 73-year-old is, its unsurprising that he doesn't have much time for
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
SF News Pokemon Go Player Mugged On Busy Chinatown Street A Pokemon Go player attempting to catch 'em all in Chinatown found herself in a much less pleasant battle, when a duo of thieves took advantage of her distraction to rip her phone
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 Pokémon Go Crashes After Hacker Attack, Sending Millions Into PokéPanic Pokémon Go players had to go back to interacting with a Pokémon-free world for several hours Saturday after hackers took the mega-popular game out of commission. As ABC 7 reports, this all happened
SF News Day Around The Bay: Reward Offered For Leads In Massive Emeryville Fire Though Bastille Day has already become a cause for mourning in France, with as many as 70 people possibly killed after a truck ran into a crowd of revelers in Nice, there are
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.
SF News [Update] Man Offers Up His Services As Pokémon Go Bodyguard On Craigslist Pokémon Go was developed right here in San Francisco by Niantic, Inc., so it seems only fitting that the next big disruption to come to the world of augmented reality gaming should also
SF News Sen. Al Franken Comes After SF-Based Creators Of Pokemon Go Over Privacy Issues You know that bug we mentioned the other day with Pokémon Go on the iPhone that causes it to get full access to all your Google data and Gmail without asking permission? That,
