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Pokemon GO

Postby Patches » Fri Sep 11, 2015 10:07 am

New Pokemon game in the works by the makers of Ingress. To be released in 2016:
http://kotaku.com/new-pokemon-uses-real ... 1729269893
The game is being developed by Niantic, a former Google start up known for it’s augmented reality smartphone game Ingress.

Niantic says it is working closely with the Pokémon Company and Nintendo to make a brand new style of Pokémon game. The idea is that players go outside, get some fresh air, and capture Pokemon at the same time.
The trailer is a bit lame tho...

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Re: Pokemon GO

Postby Baltimora » Fri Sep 11, 2015 10:12 am

I cannot see where the lame even starts, looks pretty awesome to me.

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Re: Pokemon GO

Postby Agro » Fri Sep 11, 2015 10:19 am

my gawd this wil be amazing!
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Re: Pokemon GO

Postby Marz » Fri Sep 11, 2015 1:19 pm

So putting a gps tracker on agro

he is gonna have no petrol left over

Maybe time to become a truck driver?

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Re: Pokemon GO

Postby Marz » Thu Apr 14, 2016 3:48 pm

Interesting updates



Oh FYI, it will release in waves, so North America, Europe and Japan first. Then us plebs

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Re: Pokemon GO

Postby Baltimora » Thu Apr 14, 2016 4:47 pm

A total of 3 pokemon will be released for non US, EU, Asian cuntries and these three will be shared between all plebs.

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Re: Pokemon GO

Postby Patches » Tue May 17, 2016 4:32 pm

Niantic Labs started rolling out early access. Signups opened up for USA today.
http://nianticlabs.com/blog/

So hopefully by 2020 us Capetonians can trade you inlanders some water pokemon.

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Re: Pokemon GO

Postby Lebunny123 » Tue May 17, 2016 6:34 pm

so when it releases you will be checking the updates like lebunny has checked into the top of the empire state building to catch a zapdos

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Re: Pokemon GO

Postby Marz » Wed May 18, 2016 12:14 am

And ill have some legendary pokemon from Nelson Mandela Square waiting for you too :)

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Re: Pokemon GO

Postby Agro » Thu May 19, 2016 9:49 am

Just get me my Charizard.
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Re: Pokemon GO

Postby Mael » Tue May 24, 2016 11:38 pm

This sounds cool. Niantic Labs made ingress and that was very popular worldwide for quite a long time.

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Re: Pokemon GO

Postby Mael » Thu Jun 23, 2016 11:16 am

So at E3 it was announced that Pokemon GO will release in July 2016, but no exact date was given.
The Verge has a short article about it but the whole 40min discussion with the creators and two field testers is available on youtube.

In the chat the rep from Niantic said last time he checked the testing data they were seeing an ave of 30 pokeball throws per second across the whole test group.

The wareable device "Pokemon GO Plus" wil become availabke later not at launch yet. It is a $34.99 device that allows you get notifications about pokemon close by and give you a chance to catch them with a button press and some RNG.

You don't need one tho, you can also catch them using your phone where you actually have sone control over your throws.



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Re: Pokemon GO

Postby Marz » Thu Jun 23, 2016 1:51 pm

July this year?
Thats sooner than I thought, nice

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Re: Pokemon GO

Postby Mael » Fri Jul 01, 2016 9:23 pm

Yep, as in this month. They just haven't said when.
I saw today however the "sign up for field testing" site stopped telling me my country is not supported and instead says "comming soon".

There will be 3 teams/factions to join, Blue, Red and Yellow.
I assume like ingress the only reason to pick one over the other will be team size in your area.

However Red sounds appealing because Sorted and Horde colours :)

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Re: Pokemon GO

Postby Marz » Fri Jul 01, 2016 9:29 pm

I like your thinking, besides im sure Agro and I would convince everyone to go Red anyway :P


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