Pokemon Go fever may as yet prove to be a fad, but Niantic’s Nintendo-branded reskin of its augmented reality game Ingress has already surpassed Tinder, Twitter, and every mobile game app to become the most popular mobile game in the USA – of all time.
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As of Thursday morning, Pokemon GO is now officially available in one more market, as aspiring trainers in the United Kingdom can now download the game directly from the Google Play and Apple App Store without any extra hassle.
Pokemon Go has become a sensation, and you can bet we’ll see copycats soon enough.
Now the second most popular app in China is “Go Catch ‘Em All”, with no prizes awarded for guessing what series that game is trying to emulate.
“People seemed to really love that combination of Maps and Pokemon”, Niantic Labs chief executive John Hanke said.
The store’s manager spent $10 to have a dozen Pokemon characters placed in the location.
Certainly, it’ll be impossible for Nintendo to remove all APKs from the web, especially because the files are also stored in locations that aren’t necessarily known for serving files to Android users, and the majority of players have already downloaded the APK and saved it locally on their devices.
Pokemon Go comes with warnings for players to remain aware of their surroundings.
“While insurers will be there to help customers when they have accident or are victims of crime, it’s best for everyone if risks are avoided in the first place”. A phone’s Global Positioning System and camera let the phone know where the player is, and players can then interact with their real-life surroundings while playing the game.
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“With Pokemon GO, you are seeing it as bypassing a lot of digital (marketing) channels that the brick and mortar shops have been relying on for the past few years”.
