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Free mobile gaming app helps combat overtourism in London

06/29/201806/28/2018 Jorge Gonzalez

Free Mobile Gaming App - London - Sign - England

A Mr. Bean-themed mobile game has been created specifically for London tourists. Central London is struggling with overtourism and a free mobile gaming app called Play London with Mr. Bean was launched last fall to help tackle the issue. The game shows tourists different city attractions. London travelers who download the free mobile gaming app will be shown different attractions around the city. If travelers visit these attractions, they can earn points and redeem them for discounts and vouchers around the city. The game features different levels. For instance, players…

Pokémon Go Valentine’s Day event is luring players with romance

02/13/201702/10/2017 Stephanie Beck

Players will see a dramatic increase in the duration of the lures as they’ll last up to six hours. A Pokémon Go Valentine’s event is under way and it will keep running until February 15. In the theme of love and romance, it will be allowing lures to last for up to six hours instead of the typical half hour limit. The Pokémon Go app still has a large number of dedicated players and the event might bring back more. This new Pokémon Go Valentine’s Day event will mean that…

The Pokémon Go app is losing its appeal

09/05/201609/02/2016 Julie Campbell

More than 12 million daily players have already given up on the augmented reality game. Approximately fifty days have passed since the Pokémon Go app took the world by storm. The need to “catch ‘em all” carried many children through their summer school breaks in several countries. People are beginning to tire of the augmented reality game app and have started abandoning it. According to reports from Bloomberg, The number of daily active users of the Pokémon Go app has been experiencing a freefall. A report from Ars Technica has…

Is Rovio using an Angry Birds QR code to jump the shark, or is it genius?

05/03/201604/30/2016 Sam Lambert

The mobile games success story is now launching new barcodes, augmented reality and a new app. Rovio had held onto the most popular mobile games spot for a long time, but as its top title started to fade it is now using gimmicks like an Angry Birds QR code as a part of a new free app it has launched to draw a whole new wave of downloaders. The massively hyped Angry Birds Action! Has now been launched and, so far, players love it. While it is clear that Rovio…

A mobile app has been released to help curtail Indonesian poaching

09/01/201508/30/2015 Julie Campbell

This gaming application has been launched by the Indonesian Society for Animal Welfare. The Indonesian Society for Animal Welfare has now launched a new mobile app that has been created as a part of a broader initiative that they are making to draw attention to the problem of poaching and to help to reduce the practice. They have worked with mobile game developers to come up with a way to boost awareness and promote education. The organization is hoping to increase the protection of the diverse and endangered wildlife within…