{"id":562847,"date":"2026-03-13T10:30:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T10:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/raise-and-breed-creatures-in-niantics-new-ar-game-peridot\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T10:30:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T10:30:31","slug":"raise-and-breed-creatures-in-niantics-new-ar-game-peridot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/raise-and-breed-creatures-in-niantics-new-ar-game-peridot\/","title":{"rendered":"Raise And Breed Creatures In Niantic&#8217;s New AR Game Peridot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/raise-and-breed-creatures-in-niantics-new-ar-game-peridot.png\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" alt=\"\" typeof=\"Image\" class=\"image-style-body-default\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>Niantic Labs is no stranger to cute creatures featured in\u00a0AR mobile games; it popularized the genre with games like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/product\/pokemon-go\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pok\u00e9mon Go<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/2021\/10\/26\/pikmin-bloom-early-impressions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pikmin Bloom<\/a>. But now, Niantic is betting on its own IP with the new AR experience called Peridot.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The game is named after the critters at the center of the game. Peridots, or Dots as Niantic also calls them, are to be raised from birth to adulthood and can be bred to create new variations of Peridots. Because it&#8217;s an AR game like\u00a0Pok\u00e9mon Go, you&#8217;ll be able to travel with your Dots, who will help you find items in the world or can be used for a photo-op at a local landmark.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/2022\/04\/13\/raise-and-breed-creatures-in-niantics-new-ar-game-peridot\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to watch embedded media<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lifting some features from the Tamogachi or Nintendogs crazes (or, you know, real pets), you&#8217;ll be spending time with your Dots by teaching them tricks, feeding them, and, yes, you can pet the Peridots. When breeding the Dots, you can mix and match them with your friends&#8217; creatures with different characteristics\u00a0to create entirely new creature archetypes and combinations to\u00a0diversify the species further.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/2022\/04\/13\/raise-and-breed-creatures-in-niantics-new-ar-game-peridot\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to view embedded media<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>Niantic is looking to soft-launch Peridot in select territories and countries soon, although no exact locations or release dates have been specified yet. You can pre-register for Peridot\u00a0on the <a href=\"https:\/\/playperidot.com\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game&#8217;s website<\/a> to get updates on when it&#8217;ll be available. Expect the game to launch on iOS and Android devices when it becomes available.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>Are you excited for this breeding twist on the creature collection genre? Let us know if you&#8217;re going to be playing Peridot in the comments below!<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/2022\/04\/13\/raise-and-breed-creatures-in-niantics-new-ar-game-peridot\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Niantic Labs is no stranger to cute creatures featured in\u00a0AR mobile games; it popularized the genre with games like Pok\u00e9mon Go and Pikmin Bloom. But now, Niantic is betting on its own IP with the new AR experience called Peridot.\u00a0 The game is named after the critters at the center of the game. Peridots, or Dots as Niantic also calls them, are to be raised from birth to adulthood and can be bred to create new variations of Peridots. Because it&#8217;s an AR game like\u00a0Pok\u00e9mon Go, you&#8217;ll be able to travel with your Dots, who will help you find items in the world or can be used for a photo-op at a local landmark.\u00a0 Click here to watch embedded media Lifting some features from the&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/raise-and-breed-creatures-in-niantics-new-ar-game-peridot\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":562848,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-562847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-informer"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Raise And Breed Creatures In Niantic&#039;s New AR Game Peridot | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Niantic Labs is no stranger to cute creatures featured in\u00a0AR mobile games; it popularized the genre with games like Pok\u00e9mon Go and Pikmin Bloom. 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