Finally you can experience (almost) what it would be like to capture, train, and battle Pok\u00e9mon in the real world! From the Pok\u00e9mon Company, Niantic, and Nintendo, Pok\u00e9mon GO is a newly released mobile video game device that utilizes your phone\u2019s GPS along with augmented reality technology to bring you the closest thing yet to pocket monsters running around IRL.<\/p>\n
No longer suppressed to just the digital world, Pok\u00e9mon GO forces you to actually go outside in order to play. As a Pok\u00e9mon Trainer, you\u2019ll explore the vastness of the real world as you search local neighborhoods and popular hubs, trying to catch \u2018em all!<\/p>\n
John Hanke, founder and CEO of Niantic explained that, \u201cPok\u00e9mon GO is a wonderful combination of Niantic\u2019s real world gaming platform and one of the most beloved franchises in popular culture. Our partnership with The Pok\u00e9mon Company and Nintendo is an exciting step forward in real-world gaming and using technology to help players discover the world and people around them.\u201d<\/p>\n
What a novel concept! Discover the world and people around them<\/em>. What\u2019s that like?<\/p>\n \u201cOur challenge was to develop a great game for smartphone devices that expressed the core values of Pok\u00e9mon,\u201d said Tsunekazu Ishihara, president and CEO of The Pok\u00e9mon Company. \u201cPok\u00e9mon GO is the answer to that challenge.\u201d<\/p>\n And fans can\u2019t be more excited. Pok\u00e9mon GO absolutely seems like it captures the core values of Pok\u00e9mon: a chance to let players live out their destiny by becoming the very best among Pok\u00e9mon trainers, giving them a real test to catch them all, and a cause to train their Pok\u00e9mon, etc..<\/p>\n Pok\u00e9mon GO isn\u2019t staying static, either. Nintendo will eventually be releasing an add-on called Pok\u00e9mon GO Plus for smart phones that will greatly enhance player experience. Able to flash and vibrate, the Bluetooth device will notify you about events, like when you\u2019re in range of a Pok\u00e9mon center or a wild Pok\u00e9mon appears, plus it will also allow you to perform simple in-game actions, like catching a Pok\u00e9mon, with just the click of a button.<\/p>\n Now, even you can travel across the land, searching far and wide for vast numbers of Pok\u00e9mon and other players to battle to discover the power that\u2019s inside . . . of Pok\u00e9mon GO!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Finally you can experience (almost) what it would be like to capture, train, and battle Pok\u00e9mon in the real world! From the Pok\u00e9mon Company, Niantic, and Nintendo, Pok\u00e9mon GO is a newly released mobile video game device that utilizes your phone\u2019s GPS along with augmented reality technology to bring you the closest thing yet to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,2741],"tags":[1612,3243],"yst_prominent_words":[7097,6478,35087,35082,12210,35088,35084,35081,6792,6193,30965,9320,6196,35083,6645,19564,7753,35086,6101,35085],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46905"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46905"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64197,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46905\/revisions\/64197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46905"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=46905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}