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(NEWSER) – The unraveling of society is continuing apace following the release of Pokemon Go. The Los Angeles Times reports two men playing the insanely popular augmented reality game fell off a bluff Wednesday in Encinitas, California. One fell 50 feet and was knocked unconscious; the other fell between 75 and 100 feet. Both suffered moderate injuries after…
It happened to me.Chris Helgren/Reuters I didn’t want to believe in the power of Pokémon Go. I grew up in a Nintendo household, playing hours of Zelda and Earthbound and GoldenEye; I spent my tween years carrying around a Game Boy on which I alternated between the red and blue versions of Pokémon, conspiring…
Future trend story: I caught all the HPV thanks to Pokemon Go! (Photo courtesy Jen Chung) The Pokemon Go zombie wave is here, with the delightful cartoon cockfighting app augmenting reality from the 9/11 Memorial to Manhattanhenge. And while some devotees of the game have publicly declared that Pokemon Go got them laid, we now…
Why catch ’em all yourself when she can catch ’em for you? via Craigslist So you see everyone playing Pokémon Go, and you’ve decided that you, too, would like to catch ’em all. On the other hand, you’re American, so you’re left crying out “Can’t someone else do it?” Well good news: Someone can,…
Sarah Jeong, a contributing editor at Vice’s Motherboard vertical, is a Poynter fellow in journalism at Yale and a fellow at the Internet Law & Policy Foundry. She is on Twitter (@sarahjeong). I’ve never spent as much time outside as I did last weekend, as evidenced by my first sunburn in years. I was playing…
“Pokémon Go” lets players catch virtual critters in the real world — but would its reach extend to space? Credit: Sarah Lewin/Space.com via Pokémon Go / NASA As people wandered our office halls, hunting tiny monsters with the newly released augmented-reality game “Pokémon Go,” Space.com had only one question: Can astronauts play it in space?…
A two-day rally for Nintendo has lifted the company’s market value by 718 billion yen, or $7.1 billion. The surge began Friday after the debut of a new mobile game app, Pokemon Go, and accelerated Monday with the shares rising by the daily limit of 25 percent in Tokyo. Watch Next: Nintendo’s Pokemon Game Tops App…
It was 3am on 14 November 2015, and I had just woken up at my home in Toronto. I couldn’t get back to sleep, so I logged on to Twitter to check my messages. As I scrolled through, I read the details of the brutal terrorist attacks that had taken place in Paris hours earlier. Then I saw that my…
Development on No Man’s Sky has finished. Hello Games founder Sean Murray confirmed in a tweet that the game, which hits PlayStation 4 and Windows PC on Aug. 9, has finally gone gold. “It’s happened,” he wrote. “No Man’s Sky just went gold. I’m so incredibly proud of this tiny team. [Four] years of emotions.” ######## END SNIPPET…
GIF Playing Pokémon Go this week has proven to be pretty difficult thanks to a wide array of issues plaguing the augmented reality game. Things got to an iffy start right from the get-go, given the lack of clarity from developer Niantic as to when the game would actually launch across various regions. Players were…