Full Coverage: The Pokemon Go craze
On July 5, 2016, Niantic, Inc. released the smartphone game “Pokemon Go” to app stores and unwittingly created a nationwide craze of gamers roaming the outdoors (and indoors) with their smartphones searching for and catching Pokemon.
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The wait is over for “Pokemon Go” fans in Japan.
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Three House lawmakers have written to the chief executive of Niantic Inc. questioning the effect of the company’s blockbuster “Pokemon Go” app on consumers’ mobile data usage.
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“Pokemon Go” players will go anywhere to catch a virtual fictional character, even if it’s a trip to jail.
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“Pokemon Go” appears to have done something its predecessors on Game Boy and Nintendo DS could not — attract a diverse fan base to the Pokemon universe.
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The little girl with chipped pink polish nails stopped short of a picnic table outside of the Jordan Downs Recreational Center in Watts, scaring a cat as she approached — hands glued to a phone — in search of a magical creature.
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The magic of “Pokemon Go” is in the way it overlays the Pokemon world atop the real world.
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Three women playing “Pokemon Go” and hunting for virtual fictional characters found a dead body Thursday near a creek bed in a San Diego park, police said.
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The mania surrounding “Pokemon Go” continued Thursday as more users found themselves in precarious situations while playing the augmented reality game.
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“Pokémon Go” seems to have taken the world by storm — or at least the countries where it’s been released.
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The Metropolitan Transportation Authority has joined the “Pokemon Go” craze, dedicating a separate Twitter account for players of the popular reality-based mobile game.
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Javier Soch and Seth Ortega went to downtown Fullerton on Tuesday hoping to hunt monsters on the new “Pokemon Go” smartphone game.
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Almost overnight, “Pokemon Go” has become the nation’s bestselling mobile game, lifting the outlooks for Nintendo and the small San Francisco gaming start-up that licensed the animated franchise.
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The “Pokemon Go” craze has players roaming the streets in large numbers – and that has led to some brushes with law enforcement, both good and bad.
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It’s only been released for a week, but the augmented reality smartphone game “Pokemon Go” is already causing concerns among law enforcement agencies that report seeing an uptick in calls and crimes.
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Dan De Vaul isn’t up to speed with much of the new technology out there.
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The “Pokemon Go” game now sweeping the nation urges its players to venture out into the real world in search of virtual creatures.
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Four teens robbed victims after luring them to a specific location using the new “Pokemon Go” smartphone game, police in Missouri said.
