We have no idea how many mobile device owners downloaded the Pokemon GO but rumor has it that it will soon surpass the daily active users on Twitter.
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However, restaurant, cafe and bar owners are now using the same principal to a less sinister end, by planting attractive Pokemon inside their eateries to coax in new customers.
Nintendo’s newest mobile game, Pokemon Go has caused sensation and some injuries to its players.
Lost Heaven restaurant in Melbourne is offering gamers discounts off their meals if they succeed in catching some particularly rare Pokemon. And eventually players will congregate at a “Pokemon gym” where their Pokemon can engage in battles for points. It uses the Global Positioning System capabilities of your device in conjunction with Google Maps to “place” creatures in real world locations, which you then try to find them using your device as a guide.
Pokemon Go gives us the best of both worlds.
The standard trading animation for most Pokemon games. Like we said before, the game is absolutely free to download and play.
Pokemon Go players are also prone to forget about their surroundings looking for Pokemon or the next PokeStop.
Pokemon GO contains no in-app advertisements at the time at which this article is first published, and we don’t expect they’ll add any in the near future, if ever. At first you’ll have to do it with a free app to avoid having to enter U.S. payment method. Pokemon Go is available on Android so what you need to do is download the APK file and play it in an Android emulator and that is pretty much it. The connection to the real world, has trainers explore areas of their neighborhoods they usually are not visiting.
With the app releasing in Germany, a United Kingdom launch should be imminent, unless Pokemon Go experiences more issues following its latest rollout.
But its arrival also quickly came under fire, including from the Auschwitz museum in Poland, which asked the game’s makers to block players at the former Nazi death camp out of respect for the dead.
Not only is the game getting people out of the house and on their feet in search of the creatures, it’s bringing them to places they maybe wouldn’t have known existed before. Walking from PokeStop to PokeStop, finding Pokemon along the way, attempting to Catch ’em All – that’s the bulk of the game.
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Washington’s Holocaust Museum has also complained of visitors playing the game within its walls. Some players have found themselves in neighborhoods where they felt viewed with suspicion by residents.
