Category: wizards unite

Niantic cancels ‘Pokémon Go’ and ‘Wizards Unite’ community days

[ad_1] Both titles, as well as Ingress, are designed to get people out and about, exploring their local area and teaming up in groups. That’s the opposite to what people should be doing in the face of a pandemic, with people urged to isolate and reduce close contact with others wherever possible. Community days even […]

Wizards Unite’ gathered location data while users slept

[ad_1] Kotaku looked at 25,000 location records shared with it by 10 players of Niantic games. It found that Niantic kept about three location records per minute of Wizards Unite gameplay. That was nearly twice as many records as it kept for Pokémon Go. In one case, Niantic had at least one location record taken […]