“The Democratic senator has written to the CEO of Niantic, the company that created Pokemon Go, concerned that the wildly popular game app is collecting a broad swath of personal information from users”. And with the game’s big security concern dissipated, who knows what’s possible.
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As of now, “Pokemon Go” is only officially allowed in three countries namely, New Zealand, Australia and the United States.
As Nintendo’s stock soars because of the game, everyone from the National Park Service to the US Marines to local businesses have jumped on the Pokemon Go bandwagon. The pirated version of the app has been downloaded by millions, and there are several unauthorised Pokémon Go files and guides explaining how to install the game all over the web.
“Don’t play Pokemon GO!!!” said user Pitaorenzhe on Chinese microblogging site Weibo. The second reason? Some people want to spoof their phone’s Global Positioning System so they can “go” to population centers because there are more Pokemon to catch in the cities.
The Pokemon franchise got its start two decades ago on Nintendo’s Game Boy handheld system. With Pokemon Go it can indeed aim to “catch ’em all”.the gamers that is.
Mr Jovian Chan, 26, is excited about other benefits of the game. Pokemon Go averages 33 minutes.
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.
“I really looked forward to playing the Pokemon artificial reality game since they first announced it. I really liked Pokemon as a kid”, said Gan Tian, a 22-year-old student at Tsinghua University.
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Where does this leave Nintendo, which neither owns the rights to the characters nor developed the game nor makes it available for download?
