Games
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Apple CEO Tim Cook outs himself as a huge 'Pokeymans' fanDoes tech chief’s butchering of word Pokémon, during company spiel about augmented reality, show he’s a true fan?
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Pokémon Go: five tricks for pro players that are almost as good as cheatsExploits for advanced players, from working out whether your Pokémon are worth upgrading to rapidly boosting your trainer level, finding specific Pokémon to picking your Eevee evolution
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Pokémon Go around the world: share your photos and storiesWherever you are in the non-virtual world, if you’re playing Pokémon Go, we want to hear from you
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Pokémon Go quiz – can you catch the fake news story?It’s been more than a week since Pokémon Go took over the world – and now the only things that are more common than a Zubat are daft stories about people playing the game. Can you tell the Pokéfact from the Pokéfib in our Pokémon Go news quiz?
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Games review roundup: Pokémon Go; Hawken; Hyrule Warriors Legends DLC pack 2Augmented reality Pokémon is a global blockbuster, but full of glitches; far better to settle down with a satisfying FPS or some Zelda-based hack and slash
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Pokémon Go players on the hunt illegally cross Canada-US borderUS border patrol agents spot two Canadian teens fixated on their phones as
the pair inadvertently walked southbound from Alberta into Montana
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If the future of video games is VR, it needs to stop making us feel sickE3 2016 saw a range of virtual reality demos, from Resident Evil to Star Trek. But with problems from motion sickness to uncertainty over formats, is the industry floundering?
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Pokémon Go transforms Republican convention into gym full of rare catchesReporters and attendees train Pokémon between votes and speeches, stalking Pokéstops instead of delegates and dueling on the convention center stage
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Detective Pikachu to launch Pokémon movie franchiseLegendary Entertainment confirmed as studio set to bring Nintendo mystery-solving game to the big screen
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The month in games: Fresh console wars and the return of a legendWill souped up Xbox and PlayStations excite the punters? Meanwhile, a surprise return to form for Resident Evil
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11 video game trends that will change the future of the industryVirtual reality is the hot topic of conversation, but here’s how other trends, from augmented reality to the rejection of ‘crunch’, could change the future of gaming
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Apple to make $3bn in revenue from Pokémon Go, say analystsThe mobile game’s 21m players are bulk buying ‘PokéCoins’ from Apple’s app store, one brokerage firm says
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Pokémon woe: player drives into police car while another is robbedElsewhere, a Pokémon trainer gets stuck in a tree as officers across the country struggle to handle continuing app-fuelled mishaps
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Milo Yiannopoulos: Twitter banning one man won’t undo his poisonous legacyBanning the ‘alt-right’ agitator from Twitter is not constructive; it stands to further wind up people who respond to humiliation by becoming dangerous
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Pokémon Go Japan launch delayed by McDonald's sponsorship leakFirst commercial partnership for hit location-based game will see 3,000 fast-food restaurants become virtual Pokémon gyms, paving the way for global rollout
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Pokémon Go: why our dark world needs escapism more than everThe wildly popular mobile game is a Pokétopian fantasy that has flooded our world with good feelings – and timing could be everything behind its success
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Pokémon Go accounts are being sold for thousands of pounds on eBayPlayers wishing to skip effort required to gain experience and capture rare or advanced Pokémon appear to be willing to pay for someone to do it for them
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Pokémon Go: eight advanced tips to prepare you for gymsRiding the Pokémon Go wave but stuck on training your Pokémon to fight in gyms? Haven’t quite mastered when to tap and when to swipe? Look no further
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Nintendo market value doubles on Pokémon Go maniaShares in the Japanese firm have more than doubled since the launch of the popular game
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Police chief warns against violent video games that reward rape and murderNSW police commissioner Andrew Scipione expresses concern about potential effects on children, saying in real life ‘game over is game over’
Chatterbox Chatterbox: Wednesday