Niantic, Inc. was an American software development company and video game developer based in San Francisco that made the augmented reality mobile games Ingress, Pokémon Go, Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, Pikmin Bloom and Monster Hunter Now. It was formed as Niantic Labs in 2010 as an internal startup within Google and became an independent entity in October 2015 when Google restructured under Alphabet Inc. In 2025 Niantic was acquired by Scopely, with its game team operating as Scopely Explore and its non-game business spun off as Niantic Spatial.
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