{"id":165517,"date":"2025-09-21T20:41:28","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T20:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/article.php?article_id=2142186"},"modified":"2025-09-21T20:41:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T20:41:28","slug":"pokemon-go-developer-niantic-is-making-a-pikmin-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/pokemon-go-developer-niantic-is-making-a-pikmin-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Pok\u00e9mon Go developer Niantic is making a Pikmin game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/pokemon-go-developer-niantic-is-making-a-pikmin-game.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A new Pikmin mobile game is in the works from Pok\u00e9mon Go developer Niantic. <\/p>\n<p>Nintendo and Niantic today <a href=\"https:\/\/nianticlabs.com\/blog\/nintendo-apps-partnership\/\">announced<\/a> they will work together on multiple new projects, the first of which will be a mobile AR Pikmin experience due to release in 2021. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The app will include gameplay activities to encourage walking and make walking more delightful,&#8221; Niantic exec Kei Kawai said. &#8220;This will be the first title created by our Tokyo Studio since it was established in April 2018.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2021-03-23-pokemon-go-developer-niantic-is-making-a-pikmin-game\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2021-03-23-pokemon-go-developer-niantic-is-making-a-pikmin-game\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new Pikmin mobile game is in the works from Pok\u00e9mon Go developer Niantic. 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