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Watch a Stampede of Pokémon Go Players Descend on Central Park
Don’t think for a second that what you’re seeing here in New York’s Central Park is a contained incident. Pokémon Go is drawing tremendous crowds to the parks and piers of cities across this once-great nation as smartphone-wielding adults venture into the concrete wilderness under the cover of darkness to capture rare collections of pixels. … Continued
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Donald Trump Enslaves Helpless Staff to Make Apparent Pokémon Go Parody
Earlier today Donald Trump said that he doesn’t have time to play Niantic’s hot new game. But it seems like he did have time to approve an attack ad based around Pokémon Go. Trump’s official Facebook page posted a video approximately a few minutes ago that is an apparent parody of the game called Crooked … Continued
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Hillary Clinton Enslaves Helpless Pokémon In Desperate Attempt To Seize Presidency
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have finally broken their silence on Pokémon Go. Their statements today are about what you’d expect. A new page on the Clinton campaign website directs Ohio voters to meet up this Saturday at the “Madison Park Pokestop & PokeGYM” to “put up a lure module, get free pokemon, & battle … Continued
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ISIS Will Use Pokémon Go to Murder Innocent Christians and Spawn Demons (Says Radio Host Pastor)
Everyone loves Pokémon—everyone except radio show host and pastor Rick Wiles. He recently recounted a story on his show about how he called police on a man he saw taking photos of his office building, only to learn the suspect was playing the popular new app Pokémon Go. “These Pokémon creatures are, like, virtual cyber … Continued
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Pokémon Go Partnership With McDonald’s Is On, Source Says
Several Redditors discovered decompiled code in the Android and iOS versions of Pokémon Go earlier this week that indicated a potential sponsorship deal with global burger chain McDonald’s. Now a well-placed source has confirmed with Gizmodo that the sponsorship is moving forward, and is set to launch in one country in Asia. Gizmodo has learned … Continued
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Pokemon Go Is About to Overtake Snapchat and Google Maps
Pokemon Go has been taking over our lives for a week already, but there are no signs of mercy. First it beat Tinder, but the hookup app was just small fish. The game’s daily active users have already skyrocketed to 21 million and look likely to overtake Snapchat and Google Maps. There are about 11 … Continued
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It Looks Like Pokémon Go Is Pursuing a Partnership With McDonald’s
In the wake of its tremendous popularity, everyone’s wondering about is how Pokémon Go intends to make money. In addition to in-app purchases, Niantic chief John Hanke has said that the game intends to create “sponsored locations,” as they did with their earlier game Ingress. And a few enterprising Redditors apparently figured out who the … Continued
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Pokemon Go Maniac Refuses to Go to Hospital After Stabbing So He Can Keep Playing
It’s unclear whether Michael Baker is the very best Pokemaster, like no one ever was, but he might be the most dedicated. The 21-year-old was stabbed at 1 a.m. while looking for Pokemon, but refused medical attention because he wanted to keep playing. Baker was in Oregon’s Forest Grove when he came across someone he … Continued
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Hollywood Is Once Again Chasing a Pokémon Movie, Thanks to Pokémon Go
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’re aware that the game Pokémon Go has become a pop culture phenomenon. (Hell, even if you are under a rock, you may know about it … there could be Pokémon under there.) Now, due to the app’s success, Hollywood has once again begun chasing a live action … Continued
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Al Franken Demands That Pokémon Go Creator Explain Its Data Policies
Senator Al Franken, best known to the internet as a champion for net neutrality, wants answers from Niantic, the developer of Pokémon Go, about how exactly it’s collecting and storing user data. “I am concerned about the extent to which Niantic may be unnecessarily collecting, using, and sharing a wide range of users’ personal information … Continued
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You Can Thank an April Fool’s Joke for Bringing You Pokemon Go
Everyone who spent the past week in the throes of Pokemon Go has an April Fool’s joke to thank—or blame, depending on whether you were robbed—for the phenomena. Two years ago, Google’s annual April Fool’s joke was a Pokemon challenge integration with Google Maps. In its promotional video, a man claims that “using the technology … Continued
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Pokémon Go Was Never Able To Read Your Email [Updated]
There’s no question that Pokémon Go has taken over the world in just a few short days. The app now has more users than Tinder, and single-handedly increased Nintendo’s market cap by $7.5 Billion over the weekend. But users have started turning on its creator, Niantic, after a blog post by a former Senior Engineering … Continued
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This Post Has Nothing to Do With Pokémon Go, I Promise
It’s been a wild couple of days and we’re not going to talk about it at all here. This is a space for silent reflection—respite from one popular mobile game which will remain nameless, and the viral content encircling it like so much frothy scum on top of a simmering pot of chicken stock. Why … Continued
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Black Mirror‘s Smartphone Dystopia Is Here, Thanks to Pokémon Go
As someone living in a country where Pokémon Go has yet to come out, it’s been certainly something to be an outsider looking in upon the sheer Pokémania that has gripped the U.S. this weekend—a touch disconcerting even, which this brilliant mash-up between the app and Black Mirror highlights to hilarious effect. The footage, which … Continued
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Pokémon Go Is Secretly Teaching Americans the Metric System
How many kilometers are in a mile? If you’re like most Americans, you have no fucking idea. But if you’re one of the millions of Americans playing Pokémon Go, you’re about to find out. For the uninitiated, Pokémon Go is an app that uses your phone’s GPS to detect where you are in the real … Continued
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Police Believe Pokémon Go Murder Video Is Hoax [Updates]
An Uber driver was livestreaming Pokémon Go this weekend when he said that he saw someone push a dead body out of car. Now the driver has reportedly been fired from Uber and a member of the local police believes it’s a hoax. And it only gets weirder from there. AlexRamiGaming, a small-time Youtuber, was … Continued
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Entrepreneurs Are Offering Uber-Style Rides For Pokémon Go Players
Are your legs getting tired from all the Pokémon Go? Well, some entrepreneurs have the solution for you. They want to be your personal Pokémon Go driver. That’s right, for just $20-$25 per hour a driver will now chauffeur you around to play in cities like New York, Portland, and Baltimore. The ads are slowly … Continued
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Pokémon Go Took This Flagging Tech Mainstream
Augmented reality—the ability to witness an altered version of our world via a smartphone display, goofy glasses, or through a camera—is not new. Thanks to Pokémon Go, though, people might actually start to care about it. Early AR has taken many forms. It was a terrible HUD on the Pontiac Grand Prix and Aztek, for … Continued
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Did You Get Laid Playing Pokémon Go?
The Pokémon Go craze is sweeping the nation. But is it also helping people get laid? We’re trying to find out. It looks pretty promising that there was some Pokémon Go related fornication this weekend. Did you get lucky? Did your friends? Is it possible that there are dozens of fewer virgins in the world … Continued
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Pokemon Go Added $7.5 Billion to Nintendo’s Value in Two Days
It’s been a strange week for Pokemasters, dealing with armed robberies, dead bodies, and even accidental exercise. And nobody is happier than Nintendo, whose market value grew by $7.5 billion in two days as stock surged because everyone got hooked on Pokemon Go. Nintendo’s shares jumped by more than a quarter, to their highest level … Continued
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