From Poké Balls to basketball. Buoyed by the global success of “Pokémon Go” in 2016 and its hordes of hunters, Niantic is renewing the mobile exploration game experience with another equally popular license: the NBA, the American basketball league. Available since Wednesday on iOS and Android, “NBA All-World” benefits from a preview launch this week in France – with the backdrop of the NBA match in Paris between Chicago and Detroit this Thursday evening – before a release worldwide next week.
