Wednesday, July 18, 2018

Niantic Acquires Seismic Games

San Francisco-based Niantic, the maker of Pokemon Go, said this morning that it has acquired videogame maker Seismic Games. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. Seismic was founded in 2011, and has received backing from such investors as DFJ Frontier and venture capitalist Tom Matlack. The acquisition is the fourth acquisition in the last year by Niantic, which pointed out Seismic's work with such partners as Marvel, FoxNext, Sony Television, Alcon Interactive, and others. Seismic's titles include such VR and mobile games as Marvel: Strikeforce and Blade Runner: Revelations.