{"id":70380,"date":"2016-07-22T10:21:02","date_gmt":"2016-07-22T14:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techvibes.com\/?p=70380"},"modified":"2016-07-22T10:21:02","modified_gmt":"2016-07-22T14:21:02","slug":"pokemon-go-homecoming","status":"publish","type":"magazine","link":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/magazine\/pokemon-go-homecoming","title":{"rendered":"Pokemon Go Makes It&#8217;s Homecoming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nintendo is feeling a little better following Friday&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/pokemongo.nianticlabs.com\/ja\/\" target=\"_blank\">release of Pokemon Go in Japan<\/a>. Niantic and Nintendo finally released the game at end of a dramatic week which\u00a0included a delayed, (then canceled) release due to leaked details of a McDonalds sponsorship deal which cause a <a href=\"https:\/\/borndigital.com\/2016\/07\/20\/nintendo-falls-mcdonalds-controvercy\" target=\"_blank\">dip in Nintendo stock<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The game developer issued and apologies with the announcement \u00a0&#8220;To everyone in Japan: I am sorry to make you wait for so long,&#8221; said Jyunichi Masuda, the head of development at Game Freak Inc., the developer of the original Pokemon game. &#8220;&#8216;Pokemon Go&#8217; can now be played in Japan.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Though the\u00a0game as been\u00a0made available in over 30 countries since its July 6\u00a0launch, this homecoming marks the first to include that includes a sponsorship deal with McDonalds. Several hundred locations of the the fast food chain\u00a0are\u00a0advertised as &#8220;gyms&#8221; where players can train up their captured monsters for virtual fights.<\/p>\n<p>The game has become an overnight global phenomenon thought\u00a0not all headlines have been\u00a0positive. A number of car accidents and robberies have bee reported in relation to Pokemon Gamers. Amidst these reports, Japan&#8217;s\u00a0National Center of Incident Readiness and Strategy for Cybersecurity released a a nine tip flier warning players of potential pitfalls which include weather warning, where they walk and to look out for scams.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nintendo is feeling a little better following Friday&#8217;s release of Pokemon Go in Japan. Niantic and Nintendo finally released the game at end of a dramatic week which\u00a0included a delayed, (then canceled) release due to leaked details of a McDonalds sponsorship deal which cause a dip in Nintendo stock. The game developer issued and apologies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76166,"featured_media":70382,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"magazine-region":[],"magazine-series":[],"magazine-topic":[],"class_list":["post-70380","magazine","type-magazine","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-News"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/70380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/magazine"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/76166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/70380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/70382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70380"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-region?post=70380"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-series?post=70380"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-topic?post=70380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}