

The Pokémon games take place in a world populated by exotic, powerful monsters - they can look like rats, snakes, dragons, dinosaurs, birds, eggs, trees, and even swords. (This mix of a game and the real world interacting is known as "augmented reality." More on that later.) The idea is to encourage you to travel around the real world to catch Pokémon in the game. As you move around, different and more types of Pokémon will appear depending on where you are and what time it is. In simple terms, Pokémon Go is a game that uses your phone’s GPS and clock to detect where and when you are in the game and make Pokémon "appear" around you (on your phone screen) so you can go and catch them. It’s so popular that it’s now competing with Twitter in terms of daily active users on Android. This time, through Pokémon Go: the series’s biggest entry into the mobile space, now available for a free download on Android and iOS. Well, after a few years lying relatively low, the Nintendo-owned Pokémon, which exploded in popularity in the late 1990s, is again taking the world by storm. What the hell is going on? What is Pokémon Go? And police in Missouri claimed that four suspected robbers lured in victims with a chance of catching Pokémon in a new game called Pokémon Go. One teenage girl even found a dead body while looking for Pokémon. You may have heard stories of people hunting down Pokémon on their office desks, in hospital rooms, and even in bathrooms.
