GAMETECH: Pokémon Go takes over the world

IF YOU haven’t yet seen the footage, find it. Hundreds of people streaming towards Central Park, New York, abandoning their cars and friends, like the gates of heaven had opened for three minutes only. 

GAMETECH: Pokémon Go takes over the world

One man even left his car running. And it was all for a Vaporean, a rare Pokémon, that had suddenly appeared by the water nearby. Not ten or twenty or thirty people, but hundreds of them.

Pokémon Go has taken over the world. That much, we know. The question now is — how did it happen? And has it been done ethically?

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