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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…

Tim Hortons augmented reality game released

09/26/201609/24/2016 Jennifer Goula

The new mobile app is available for players using both Android and iOS based devices. Tim Hortons, the coffee chain out of Canada, has now released a new augmented reality game experience. This mobile app was launched in conjunction with its branded NHL trading card promotion. This brings two beloved Canadian brands into a single AR experience. This is the second time Tim Hortons has released the NHL trading cards, but the first with AR. This year, the company has released the Tim Hortons Augmented Reality Hockey Cards app. The…

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…

Google apologizes for augmented reality game Nazi concentration camps

07/06/201507/04/2015 Julie Campbell

The tech giant has apologized for featuring the locations as a part of its Ingress mobile app. Niantic Labs, the in-house startup at Google has now released an apology after it featured Nazi concentration camps as a part of the augmented reality game for which it is best known, Ingress. The AR tech based game allows players to decide to join either the Enlightened or the Resistance teams. From there, the players of the augmented reality game can use their smartphones to be able to track down “exotic matter” that…

Mobile app, Flappy Bird, taken down by its creator

02/13/201402/20/2014 Julie Campbell

The young Vietnamese man behind the highly popular game said that it “ruins my simple life.” Despite the fact that the Flappy Bird mobile app had surged to tremendously successful download numbers, particularly this year, the creator of the game has now taken it down from the Apple App Store and Google Play, because he feels that it has ruined his life. The creator of the game is from Vietnam and originally uploaded the mobile game last year. Though the game was available in 2013, it wasn’t until the start…