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(Bloomberg) – Niantic Inc., the company behind the 2016 hit Pokémon Go, is in talks to sell its video-game business to Saudi Arabia-owned Scopely Inc., according to several people familiar with the discussions.

Representatives of Niantic and Scopely declined to comment. Scopely is owned by Savvy Games Group, a subsidiary of Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund.

  • @RebekahWSDEnglish
    3•1 day ago

    Can’t wait for the one free pokestop spin a day and one free Pokémon in a gym a day. Better hope multiple Pokémon don’t come home at once, you’ll be charged to let them come back and still won’t get any extra coins for it. Coins from gym are put into escrow until your watch ten ads.

  • @CarmakaziEnglish
    53•2 days ago

    Saudi Arabia-owned Scopely Inc.

    Are they buying it for the business opportunity or the massive amounts of geolocation data to assist in kidnapping and murdering women and dissidents around the world?

    • @[email protected]English
      31•2 days ago

      to assist in kidnapping and murdering women and dissidents around the world?

      Gotta catch 'em all. Pokémon!

      The plot is right in the catch phrase.

      • @[email protected]English
        10•2 days ago

        to assist in kidnapping and murdering women and dissidents around the world?

        I will travel across the land Searching far and wide

        They even specified their tenaciousness

  • @robbinhoodEnglish
    9•2 days ago

    I missed “Go” and thought they meant Game Freak and I was quite shocked lol

      • @[email protected]English
        5•1 day ago

        They turned Stumble Guys p2w, not to mention that when you open the game you get like 4 pop-ups for real life money stuff

        There are emotes that can punch or kick a player to get them eliminated, and these are OP and locked behind the battle pass

        • @[email protected]English
          2•1 day ago

          Some people say Pokemon Go is already P2W. But as long as Community Days/shinies are still as available as they are with F2P, then I’ll stick around and even give them some of my Google Play money, lol