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· Bryan Ke
The moment many Potterheads have been waiting for has finally arrived! Niantic Labs, the developer of the augmented reality (AR) mobile app “Pokemon Go”, officially confirmed that a “Harry Potter” AR game is coming sometime in the near future. Niantic Labs delivered the official…
· Heather Johnson Yu
Hello, officer? I’d like to report a crime against humanity. On July 15th, 2017, the 20th Pokemon Movie will be released in Japan. It will re-imagine Ash Ketchum’s original journey through Kanto, from receiving Pikachu from Professor Oak to battling the Elite Four and everything…
· Ryan General
Months after his arrest in January, the man accused of shooting and killing an elderly Pokémon Go player has been indicted by a grand jury on a first-degree murder charge on Wednesday. Johnathan Cromwell, a former security guard, was initially charged with second-degree murder…
· Editorial Staff
Jonathan Cromwell, a security guard who gunned down a grandfather paying Pokemon Go earlier this year, will be tried in Circuit Court. In a preliminary hearing on Tuesday, a Virginia judge ruled that there is enough evidence to proceed in the case against Cromwell, 22, for…
· Ryan General
Pokémon fans have a new reason to get excited with Pokémon GO’s latest update that adds several changes to the game, including a feature that players have wished for since it first came out. As part of a larger rework on Pokémon Go Gyms, Niantic is set to add Raid Battles to the…
· Ryan General
Niantic has finally revealed how much Pokémon GO’s “sponsored locations” pay them for every visitor the popular game brings into their establishments. The sponsored locations are turned into Pokémon GO “gyms” where players can engage in virtual battle. Players of Pokémon GO…
· Ryan General
Johnathan Cromwell, the main suspect in the killing of 60-year-old Chinese grandfather Jiansheng Chen, has now been charged by authorities in Virginia. Two warrants have been issued for the security guard from Virginia who now faces charges for second-degree murder and the use…
· Khier Casino
The death of Jiansheng Chen has prompted nearly 6,000 people to sign petitions against the security guard who allegedly shot the 60-year-old Chinese man on January 26 in Chesapeake, Virginia. Chen was gunned down after an unspecified argument broke out with a neighborhood…
· Khier Casino
An attorney for Citywide Protection Services whose employee is accused of fatally shooting 60-year-old Jiansheng Chen while playing Pokémon Go said the guard’s actions were in self-defense after the elderly man tried to run him down with his minivan. Chen was gunned down after…
· Khier Casino
A Chinese grandfather named Jiansheng Chen was playing Pokémon Go to bond with his grandchildren when he was allegedly gunned down by a neighborhood security guard on Thursday. The 60-year-old man was just sitting in his minivan in a parking lot in Chesapeake, Virginia, when a…
· Ryan General
While it’s common knowledge that Pokémon are hatched from eggs, nobody really knows exactly how are these eggs formed in the first place. Aside from, of course, knowing that eggs are produced after leaving two same-species Pokémon of opposite genders at a Pokémon daycare, not…
· Ryan General
A mother in Arkansas recently found out that iPhone’s Touch ID may not really the most secure way to keep others from accessing her phone. In fact, it cost her a significant amount of money after her 6-year-old daughter used her thumbprint while she was napping to unlock her…
· Ryan General
Three giant Pokémon plush toys almost cost a Singaporean husband his marriage after his wife threatened to leave him for buying them. The falling out was somehow averted, however, after concerned netizens stepped in to help out. The man, identified only by his online marketplace…
· Ryan General
If there was something people got excited about at the recently concluded iPhone 7 Launch event on Wednesday in California, it certainly was not the new iPhone color variant, nor the ultra pricey earbuds. One of the few things that got a lot of people really stoked was finally…
· Editorial Staff
They say too much of something is never good, and one pregnant Taiwanese woman can attest to that after her addiction to Pokémon Go left her temporarily blind. Realizing she couldn’t see from her right eye, the unidentified 31-year-old woman in New Taipei City rushed to the…
· Editorial Staff
Just like everyone else in the world playing Pokémon Go, Taiwanese players know the importance of catching rare critters. Last week, we saw what seemed like thousands of people trying to catch a Snorlax, causing an epic stampede. It reminded us of a similar incident that took…
· Editorial Staff
The first fatal accident involving Pokémon Go has been reported in Japan. Police have arrested the driver responsible for killing one and seriously injuring another while playing Pokémon Go. The man, a 39-year-old farmer, was distracted by the popular augmented reality game when…
· Ryan General
A freelance model from Singapore recently landed a paid gig as a professional Pokémon Master, successfully winning the coveted job over 5,000 other international applicants. Ivy Lim, a Singaporean Pokémon Go enthusiast applied earlier this month after Funzing Singapore…
· Editorial Staff
While the Pokémon Go craze might’ve plateaued in the U.S., it’s still hot in countries where it’s newly-released. In a video taken in Taipei, Taiwan, a Snorlax allegedly appeared causing what looks like thousands of people rushing to catch it.
· Ryan General
The massively popular mobile game Pokémon GO, which is enjoying a successful run of $10 million dollars in daily revenue, is poised to earn as much as $1 billion in revenue by the end of the year, according to the latest projections provided by App Annie. “So far, the game is on…
