Pokemon players are trespassing, risking arrest or worse

Players have been experimenting with ways to fool the game into thinking they are in a different location, in a bid to try and nab better Pokemon.

As spotted a couple of hours ago by IT architect Adam Reeve, the ultra-popular monster-catching vitamin-D-injecting game for fat losers is a security nightmare on Apple iOS devices: the software gains extensive access to your Google account when you sign up.

Mcdonald’s may soon become gyms in Pokemon Go.

The new gaming app has already been downloaded more than Tinder and is ripe to surpass Twitter if the numbers keep climbing – estimates put downloads at more than 7.5 million since its July 6 launch.

Some noble and not-so noble test subjects on Reddit report that, rather than simply locking you out of the game, Pokemon Go turns cheaters’ worlds into cold and lonely places. “I think that if Android users are able to have so much more privacy – allegedly – then that is something that should also apply to iPhone users… and I’m not just saying that as an iPhone user”. Presumably, given this and the above privacy laundry list, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and NSA will be coming up with the next Pokemon title.

Similar in nature to Niantic’s approach with its fellow location-based game Ingress, Hanke told The New York Times that brokering a deal with retail establishments represents an “intriguing moneymaking possibility” that could potentially safeguard Pokemon Go’s longevity. You can see the image below to get a more clear idea about this.

You can’t catch any Pokemon, irrespective of its CP.

And people are obsessed with it. But that doesn’t appear, we’re told. This was especially frustrating for younger fans who didn’t have Google accounts to use an alternate way of logging in. An up-to-date Android Nexus 6P did not get full access.