Pokémon Go may get PvP play down the track

15 Sep 2016

Steve Wright

Niantic boss John Hanke has told TechCrunch that the developer talks “quite a lot about” player-versus-player (PvP) action in Pokémon Go.

“I have 10 year old son – he’s my Pokémon expert, we play together – he wants to battle his friends in Pokémon Go,” Hanke said.

“Battling is something we talk a lot about. It’s probably something that will make its way onto our roadmap.”

As you may expect, there’s no timeframe on — or official confirmation of — the addition.

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Steve's the owner and Editor-in-Chief of Stevivor.com, the country’s leading independent video games outlet. Steve arrived in Australia back in 2001 on what was meant to be a three-month working holiday before deciding to emigrate and, eventually, becoming a citizen.

Stevivor is a combination of ‘Steve’ and ‘Survivor’, which made more sense back in 2001 when Jeff Probst was up in Queensland. The site started as Steve’s travel blog before transitioning over into video games.

Aside from video games, Steve has interests in hockey and Star Trek, playing the former and helping to cover video games about the latter on TrekMovie.com. By day, Steve works as the communications manager of the peak body representing Victorians as they age.