Direct link to Pokémon Go on the Italy App Store. Second, you sign up as normal on the initial screen either using your Google account or a Pokemon Trainer Club account.
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According to to data from SurveyMonkey Intelligence (via Forbes), the game has garnered 21 million active daily users, edging past Candy Crush Saga’s 20 million peak active user count in the US. If you see the Pokemon Go app, than it is available in your country now and you can officially go and “Catch ’em all”.
Go download Pokemon Go on Google Play for Android, or at the Apple app store.
Ingress was a popular game but it’s not Pokemon and there will be a lot of pressure on the company to scale up quickly, adding more servers to handle the considerable load as the game breaks download records around the world.
The mobile game has become an instant hit with more users in the United States than Twitter just one week after launch.
The augmented reality (AR) app, which uses GPS-tracking and technology that superimposes a digital facade on the real world, is sending players out into their cities to capture Pokemon characters. The success of Pokemon Go is attributed primarily to the huge popularity of Pokemon, the fantasy monster characters which have been widely used on toys, T-shirts and other merchandise worldwide.
Toho has not yet released a box office forecast for the new film, but with interest in the two-decade-old franchise at a fresh high, frustrated Japanese gamers may flock to theaters to get their Pokemon fix.
City Road Methodist Church, which appears in the game as a PokeStop, has seen local players on foot and in cars appearing outside the premises, looking for Pokemon.
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We were wrong! Looking at the past 7 days, Pokemon Go has consistently been 4 times, if not more, larger than Google searches for Pizza. “In that regard, Niantic and The Pokemon Company should be commended”, he said. “We do not have any announced plans for countries beyond New Zealand, Australia, US and Germany at the moment”, wrote Chris Kramer, Vice President of fortyseven communications in an email to IGN Asia.
