There’s a ready-made generation of fans, nurtured on playing cards, video games and cartoon shows, familiar with the storyline of finding, training and pitting “pocket monsters” against one another. The game is played by both children and adults.
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The game collects settings from users’ phones, including Global Positioning System and the local time, to detect where and when they are active in the game. “And Nintendo has proven that it can still come out with hits that have broad appeal and can earn money”.
Indeed, the city of Sokcho has been quick to capitalise on its unusual status, sharring maps on of free wi-fi areas and advertising itself on social media as “the only Pokemon GO holy land on the pennisula”. A team of developers from Nintendo, Pokemon Co.
The company, spun off by Google a year ago, created the game in tandem with Pokemon Co, a third of which is owned by Nintendo. The project had the full support of Satoru Iwata, Nintendo’s president who died past year. As mentioned in our previous Pokemon Go article, these kinds of tricks are useful for people who either can’t get the game in their region, or are stuck indoors (say, if you’re trapped at work) and/or incapacitated. We’re all about to find out, I think. “That left a strong impression on me”. Considering the fact that Pokémon Go is a game that literally tracks your movements and requires you to essentially “check in” to places to accomplish goals, it allows Niantic (whose former owner is Google) to track your location.
Yesterday I reported that mobile gaming sensation “Pokemon Go” inexplicably required iPhone gamers to give it full access to their Google accounts.
The app update was released for iOS on the App Store at the time of this writing, but was not available for Android on the Google Play store yet.
Millions of people are walking around all over the world, looking for virtual animated characters, hidden in real-world locations.
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Senator Al Franken of Minnesota sent a letter to Niantic Chief Executive John Hanke asking what user data Pokemon GO collects, how the data is used and with what third party service providers that data may be shared. That company created and sold to Google the product that eventually became known as Google Earth in 2004. Google has verified that no other information has been received or accessed by Pokémon GO or Niantic.
