Scopely Explore

Scopely Explore スコープリー・エクスプロア
Scopely Explore logo
Founded	2010
Headquarters	San Francisco, California
Type	Private
Owner(s)	Google (2010–2015) Scopely (2025–present)
Industry	Video games
Website Worldwide: nianticlabs.com

Niantic logo

Scopely Explore (Japanese: スコープリー・エクスプロア Scopely Explore) is an American game development team within Scopely best known for developing the augmented reality game Pokémon GO.

It was founded as Niantic Labs in 2010 as a startup within Google by John Hanke, who remained the company's CEO. In August 2015, the company announced plans to become independent, which it did in October 2015, as Niantic, Inc. Following the announcement of Pokémon GO in September 2015, the company announced it had received an investment of up to $30 million from The Pokémon Company, Nintendo, and Google.

On March 12, 2025, Niantic, Inc. announced that they had sold their games business to the mobile game company Scopely for $3.5 billion. This purchase included the games Pokémon GO, Pikmin Bloom, and Monster Hunter Now, as well as the development teams for each. Simultaneously, their geospatial AI business would be spun off into a new company called Niantic Spatial, Inc., led by John Hanke as CEO. The acquisition was completed on May 29, 2025, with Niantic, Inc. now operating their games and apps as a part of Scopely. On June 6, 2026, it was announced that the Niantic games team would be renamed to Scopely Explore.

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• Games
  • Pokémon games
    • Developer
    • Publisher
  • Non-Pokémon games
    • Developer
• External links
• References

Contents

Games

Pokémon games

Developer

• Pokémon GO

Publisher

• Pokémon GO

Non-Pokémon games

Developer

• Field Trip (ended service in 2019)
• Ingress (2013-2025, before it was spun off with Niantic Spatial)
• Endgame: Proving Ground (canceled)
• Harry Potter: Wizards Unite (ended service in January 2022)
• Pikmin Bloom
• Campfire
• Peridot (2023-2025, before it was spun off with Niantic Spatial)
• Pikmin Finder (ended service in December 2024)
• Monster Hunter Now

External links

• Official website
• Niantic, Inc. on Wikipedia

References

Companies The Pokémon Company The Pokémon Company International (The Pokémon Company International Ireland • The Pokémon Company International Mexico • Millennium Print Group) • Pokémon Korea • Pokémon Center Co., Ltd. • Pokémon Singapore • Pokémon Shanghai • Pokémon Taiwan • Genius Sonority • The Pokémon Works • Pokémon with You Foundation Animation & movies 4Kids Entertainment • Bang Zoom! Studios • Deluxe • DuArt Media Services • Framestore • Iyuno • Miramax • Moving Picture Company • OLM, Inc. • TAJ Productions • Toho • Universal Pictures Home Entertainment • The Walt Disney Company • Warner Bros. Books & strategy guides Golden Books • Media Factory • Prima Games • Scholastic • Simon & Schuster (Pikachu Press) • Studio BentStuff Collectible cards Artbox • ConceptLab • D.A.G Inc. • Edibas Collections • Excell Brands • KASSEN • Meiji • N-DESIGN Inc. • Studio Bora Inc. • Topps • Toyste Beach • whomor Inc. • Wizards of the Coast Manga Chuang Yi • Outland forlag • Panini Comics • Shogakukan (Shogakukan Asia) • VIZ Media Merchandise & retail Blokees • Funko • GameStop • Good Smile Company • Hasbro • Jakks Pacific • Jazwares • Jollibee • JR Kikaku • Keeppley • Kotobukiya • Play by Play • Re-Ment • RK9 Labs • Takara Tomy • The Hershey Company • Toy Factory • Uniqlo • Zanzoon Video games Bandai Namco • Creatures, Inc. (Ambrella) • DeNA • Denyusha • Game Freak • HAL Laboratory, Inc. • Hudson Soft • ILCA • Jupiter Corporation • Koei Tecmo • Nintendo (Mario Club • Nintendo of America • Nintendo System Development) • ORBITALLINK Inc. • PLANETA • Scopely (Scopely Explore) • Sega • SELECT BUTTON inc. • Spike Chunsoft

This article is part of Project Mass Media, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on official Pokémon publishing, broadcasting, communications, and other media.