'Catan' AR game could ride on Niantic's tech

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If you're Niantic and you're planning a follow-up to augmented reality hits like

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, what famous property do you work with next? Apparently, the answer is a hardcore board game. A

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suggest that Niantic is partnering on Catan: World Explorers, an AR title based on the classic colony-building game

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. While the game's mechanics aren't completely clear, it looks like it really is an attempt to squeeze Niantic's basic formula into Catan's world of hexagonal grids, road building and resource trading.

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