15 Jul 2016

Gamers Gaming Pokemon Go

From Afternoons, 1:21 pm on 15 July 2016
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Pokemon Go is an augmented reality mobile game, in which players capture, battle, and train virtual creatures, called Pokemon who appear throughout the real world - via your screen. It makes use of GPS and the camera of smart phones and has been taking the world by storm.

Simon Morton from This Way Up has been looking into Pokemon Go, and has found out that some players have managed to hack into the game to cheat.

He talks to Jesse about how they do it.

 

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