Niantic Games Team

former mobile app development company, now development team inside of Scopely
Organization development_team Q13462819
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Niantic Games Team

Summary

Niantic Games Team is a development team[1]. It draws 699 Wikipedia views per month (development_team category, ranking #1 of 1).[2]

Key Facts

  • Niantic Games Team was a member of Overture Maps Foundation[3].
  • Niantic Games Team is in the country of United States[4].
  • Niantic Games Team's instance of is recorded as development team[5].
  • Niantic Games Team's founder is recorded as John Hanke[6].
  • Niantic is named after Niantic Games Team[7].
  • Niantic Games Team's headquarters location is recorded as San Francisco[8].
  • Niantic Games Team's chief executive officer is recorded as John Hanke[9].
  • Niantic Games Team's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 7424147605377357760008[10].
  • Niantic Games Team's IdRef ID is recorded as 194975193[11].
  • Niantic Games Team's IMDb ID is recorded as co0554232[12].
  • Niantic Games Team's Commons category is recorded as Niantic[13].
  • Niantic Games Team's industry is recorded as video game industry[14].
  • +2010-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Niantic Games Team[15].
  • Niantic Games Team was dissolved in +2025-00-00T00:00:00Z[16].
  • Niantic Games Team's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0t53t2k[17].
  • Niantic Games Team's parent organization or unit is recorded as Google[18].
  • Niantic Games Team's parent organization or unit is recorded as Scopely[19].
  • Niantic Games Team's official website is recorded as https://www.nianticlabs.com/[20].
  • Niantic Games Team's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Niantic[21].
  • Niantic Games Team's product or material produced is recorded as Ingress[22].
  • Niantic Games Team's product or material produced is recorded as Pokémon Go[23].
  • Niantic Games Team's product or material produced is recorded as Q109285421[24].
  • Niantic Games Team's product or material produced is recorded as Q117788817[25].
  • Niantic Games Team's product or material produced is recorded as Harry Potter: Wizards Unite[26].
  • Niantic Games Team's product or material produced is recorded as Niantic Wayfarer[27].

Body

Founding

Niantic Games Team's founder is recorded as John Hanke[6]. +2010-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of it[15].

Leadership

Niantic Games Team's chief executive officer is recorded as John Hanke[9].

Operations

Niantic Games Team's headquarters location is recorded as San Francisco[8]. Parent organizations include Google[18], a business[28], in United States[29], founded in 1998[30], headquartered in Mountain View[31] and Scopely[19], a video game developer[32], in United States[33], founded in 2011[34], headquartered in Los Angeles[35].

Industry

Niantic Games Team's industry is recorded as video game industry[14].

Ownership

Products include Ingress[22], Pokémon Go[23], Q109285421[24], Q117788817[25], Harry Potter: Wizards Unite[26], and Niantic Wayfarer[27].

Dissolution

Niantic Games Team was dissolved in +2025-00-00T00:00:00Z[16].

Why It Matters

Niantic Games Team draws 699 Wikipedia views per month (development_team category, ranking #1 of 1).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 21 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[36] It is known by 15 alternative names across languages and contexts.[37]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . lobbyfacts.eu. lobbyfacts.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [5] . scopely.com. scopely.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [6] . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] . nianticlabs.com. Retrieved . nianticlabs.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [8] . wikidata.org.
  6. [9] . wikidata.org.
  7. [10] . wikidata.org.
  8. [11] . wikidata.org.
  9. [12] . wikidata.org.
  10. [13] . wikidata.org.
  11. [14] . wikidata.org.
  12. [3] . pokemongohub.net. pokemongohub.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
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  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
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  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [28] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [31] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [32] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [33] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  7. [34] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  8. [35] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [36] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [37] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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