Pokémon Go Sees Biggest Week of 2020

"This like the exact opposite of that pokemon go summer." @NerdyAndQuirky's viral tweet is hilarious, but au contraire, the Pokémon kids are alright.

Pokémon Go made a big splash when it launched in 2016, then followed up with a Wailord-sized cannonball last year—grossing a record $894 million. The momentum continued last week: The AR mobile game had its highest-earning week of 2020, per analytics firm Sensor Tower.

• The appheld a large in-game event that likely contributed to its haul.

The big overhaul: playing inside

Pokémon Go's developer, Niantic, is shipping updates to its slate of adventure mobile games, which also include Harry Potter: Wizards Unite and Ingress, to make them conducive to indoor play.

But...some users are still playing outdoors. British police stopped a man playing Pokémon Go in a Stevenage, England, park, to remind him that catching them all is not essential travel.

+ While we're here: Yesterday, Niantic said it acquired 6D.ai, a spatial mapping startup spun out of Oxford University, to build a "3D map of the world" to enable "new kinds of planet-scale AR experiences."