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According to British GP (primary care physician) Dr Margaret McCartney, writing in the British Medical Journal, via The Telegraph, the Pokémon Go craze is helping children to get fit by encouraging them to play outdoors. Dr McCartney said, “We all need real life connectivity, and the net can...

Pokémon Go has just had a new update that has brought back the popular Battery Saver feature, which is now mended and working correctly, as well as various other improvements and alterations, such as giving Trainers the chance to change their nickname on one occasion; adding pictures of the...

CNN has a great report about how Pokémon Go is having a really positive effect on some children with autism and Asperger’s syndrome. CNN talked to the mom of a 12-year-old boy with Asperger’s, Ian, who told them that since he started playing the game he has been wanting to go outside and...

Pokémon Go has finally arrived in the App Store in 15 more countries and regions in Asia and Oceania today, including Singapore, Cambodia, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, and Indonesia. Writing about the game’s launch in Singapore, specifically, Mashable reports on the blatant...

BGR writes that Pokémon Go developer Niantic has promised to fix the problems that some Pokémon Go players are reporting with catching Pokémon. What this basically means is that at the moment, Pokémon Go players will likely be using up far too many of their precious supply of PokéBalls trying...

BGR writes that Pokémon Go developer Niantic has been addressing fans concerns about recent developments in the game, including the fact that it removed the Battery Saver mode in the most recent update. Prior to its removal, this mode worked by automatically dimming when you put your phone...

Pokémon Go continues to top the iTunes charts and shows no sign of slowing its remarkable roll anytime soon, despite recent moves by Niantic that have angered many of the game’s most devoted fans. 9to5 Mac reports that 3 weeks after its launch, Pokémon Go has already broken through the 100...

MacRumors reports that the massively popular Pokémon Go app has just had a big update that has introduced some new features as well as removing a couple of other features. Probably the biggest, and most welcome, of the changes is the ability to customize your avatar, which until the update was...

The incredibly successful launch of Pokémon Go around the world marches on, with the game arriving in App Stores in France and Hong Kong over the weekend, with Hong Kong being the first Asian location other than Japan to have the game. Meanwhile, MacRumors reports that at San Diego Comic-Con...

Jim Dalrymple of The Loop reports that Apple has told him that Pokémon Go has smashed the record for more downloads in its first week than any other app in App Store history. Apple also revealed that it had paid out $50 billion to developers overall. Dalrymple says that Phil Schiller told him...

The extraordinary success of Pokémon Go shows no signs of abating at the moment, reaching into many different areas of society way beyond mobile gaming and smartphone use, with even stores such as Asda (the UK version of Walmart) putting up guides for Pokémon trainers in the stores and promising...

AppleInsider reports that Pokémon Go is now finally out in the UK, following on from yesterday’s rollout in Germany, and hopefully then onward to other countries over the next few days. Downdetector.com has reported that there are some areas in the UK with server outages due to the overwhelming...

Those of us in the territories where Pokémon Go is not yet released are having to watch patiently as folks in the US, Australia, and New Zealand are having the most awesome time playing Pokémon Go. As is always the way with App Store releases, we currently don’t even have a firm date to fix on...

Business Insider has a great interview with John Hanke, CEO of Niantic, the company behind the wildly successful Pokémon Go. Hanke said that Niantic had three main goals when it was developing Pokémon Go: Exercise, “To see the world with new eyes” and encouraging people to team up and meet up...

Bad news today for all those of us who are waiting for Pokémon Go to be released in their country, as demand has been so great for the game in the few territories (US, Australia, New Zealand) where it has been released that servers are crashing under the strain. Business Insider reports that...

The Pokémon Company and Niantic Labs have started to roll out the much anticipated augmented reality game Pokémon Go on iOS. It’s currently only available in Australia, New Zealand, and some US markets, but that should expand soon. The free-to-play game enables players to find and catch more...

The Pokémon Company and Niantic Inc. today announced some new details about the forthcoming mobile game Pokémon GO, which is due to launch later this year. The game encourages fans to search for Pokémon in the real world. The game is currently still being developed, with an early-user test...

The Pokémon Company, Niantic and Nintendo have today announced a new free-to-play app, due for release in 2016, where fans will be encouraged to search real-world locations to find Pokémon. Called Pokémon GO, the new app will use location information to enable Pokémon fans to catch, trade and...