The Pokémon Go developer Niantic has not only released a brand-new update for their game, but have now come to put a crackdown on cheaters.
They announced on a reddit page that:
“Starting today, Pokémon caught using third-party services that circumvent normal gameplay will appear marked with a slash in the inventory and may not behave as expected.”
Later in the post they mention that it is just the beginning of their commitment to the game. From what they stated, it seems that any third- party app is now no longer welcome, if it ever was. Also, we can guess that the not behave as expected part would mean that it would just be wasting space in your inventory and [...]
Zynga have confirmed that Don Mattrick is their new CEO effective 8th July.
Don takes up this post at Zynga following his 6 years at Microsoft (last 3 in charge of the whole interactive entertainment division – basically XBOX) and a stint at EA.
There’s no word from Microsoft as yet as to who will replace Don as head of the IEB, however it was expected that Microsoft were going to announce a reshuffle of their heads of departments in the coming weeks.
We’ll have more on this as and when Microsoft comments.
I’m not sure any of us asked for this, but Square Enix have announced that a new Deus Ex game is coming.
It’s subtitled ‘The Fall’, is coming to iOS in the summer (missed opportunity there, but SE do need the money ASAP) and there’s a video of some guys talking about it and staring quizzically at an iPad after the cut.
