I don't actually have anything to do with Pokémon, but I document the excesses of the hype surrounding the game because we have about the first mainstream application of augmented reality here and I'm the interactions of AR in combination with gamification with urban structures and city culture and, well, meatsack reality. Nintendo is happy to keep the game itself. Here's a Pokémon at a "Black Lives Matter" demo in the midst of riot cops. Eric Hu up Twitter: “This week in a single photograph”…
Incidentally, Pokémon Go gamers were lured to a place via Pokéstop and attacked there, like Vice knows to report:
According to Sergeant Bill Stringer of the O'Fallon Police Department, this is what happened to 11 people in the St. Louis and St. Charles counties in Missouri since Friday. Based on statements made by the apprehended suspects, the robbers used Pokémon Go to lure players to secluded areas where they would then rob the victims of their personal belongings. All of the Missouri victims were between 16 and 18 years old.
Although the exact method used by robbers isn't entirely clear, it appears as though they would create a beacon at the Pokéstop which would then attract more Pokémon to the beacon. And as most of us have realized by now, where there are Pokémon, there will be gaggles of teens trying to catch them in exchange for digital candy. It was this insatiable desire to “catch 'em all” that led 11 teens right into an armed robbery.