Niantic wants to roll out Pokemon GO in 200 markets soon
Kuwait is saying “no” to “Pokemon Go” in certain places.
The city of Sulphur Springs also jumped at the opportunity once they were alerted Monday that Celebration Plaza was battle central for the game.
The popularity of “Pokemon Go” says much about the untapped value of cultural properties – at least when you’re lucky enough to deploy them in the right place at the right time. “You could end more than just your game”, they said.
Nintendo has enjoyed its biggest weekly share price gain in more than 30 years following the launch of Pokemon Go.
The Pokemon Go mobile gaming craze reached European fans on Wednesday, with players in Germany the first to get their hands on the augmented reality sensation.
Both locations feature in the new smartphone game.
“You now have a much safer area because you’ve got all these people in here doing something that’s basically a fun legitimate easy going goal and it’s going to displace in a lot of times a criminal from wanting to enter that area or to be there”, says Diller.
Nintendo’s original “Pokemon” game featured adventurous wanderings through a fantasy world to collect cute, imaginary monsters. He’s also in line for multiple traffic tickets, and police are going to release his name once they’ve concluded their investigation, which will be super embarrassing.
Mind that Pokemon Go now makes money from in-game purchases, but this is set to change soon.
Meanwhile, in western Pennsylvania, one woman told a local TV station that her 15-year-old daughter was hit by a vehicle while playing the game and crossing a busy highway.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
The Pokemon Go craze is blamed for several robberies of distracted mobile phone players, but the game’s cartoon characters have also helped US police improve strained community relations and even arrest wanted suspects.
“Please don’t make us have to create a campaign called ‘Don’t Pokemon-Go and Drive.’ We know you have to catch them all, but only look for Pokemon when you are not behind the wheel”, wrote TxDOT on social media.
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But there is another risk of the app that is less tangible but potentially more serious: the amount of personal information users unwittingly give to the app’s developers.