{"id":3194,"date":"2026-07-10T23:51:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T19:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/a-decade-later-pokemon-go-finally-made-good-on-its-original-promise\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T23:51:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T19:51:10","slug":"a-decade-later-pokemon-go-finally-made-good-on-its-original-promise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/a-decade-later-pokemon-go-finally-made-good-on-its-original-promise\/","title":{"rendered":"A decade later, Pok\u00e9mon Go finally made good on its original promise"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A photo of a group of people clustered into Times Square playing Pok\u00e9mon Go.\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"Photo: Carla Georgina Torres, AP Images for Scopely\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/AP26191114345728.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\t\t<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When Niantic dropped <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2015\/9\/10\/9300009\/pokemon-go-ios-android-ingress\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the first <em>Pok\u00e9mon Go <\/em>trailer<\/a> in 2015, it was hard to grasp how a bunch of players could work together to catch a pok\u00e9mon like Mewtwo. But this week at the game&rsquo;s 10th anniversary event in New York City, <em>Pok\u00e9mon Go <\/em>showed the world how it&rsquo;s done. Almost 2,000 players (many of them <em>Pok\u00e9mon Go <\/em>influencers) packed into Times Square on Thursday evening to participate in a special battle. It was cool to see Times Square briefly go dark before the billboards began lighting up, revealing <a href=\"https:\/\/us.oricon-group.com\/news\/9033\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an escaped Mewtwo<\/a> Mega Evolving, and it was even wilder to see people living the fantasy depicted in the game&rsquo;s first trailer. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even though mo \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/games\/964022\/pokemon-go-10th-anniversary-mewtwo-nyc-go-fest-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Niantic dropped the first Pok\u00e9mon Go trailer in 2015, it was hard to grasp how a bunch of players [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}