ISSUE NO. 10
SEPTEMBER 2016
PAGE 3
Amazing new mobile craze: This year is the 20th anniversary of the creation of Pikachu and the rest of the Pokémon. To celebrate, Nintendo and Niantic have joined forces to release a very special game: Pokémon Go! This game is very special indeed, as it uses the GPS and camera features of smart phones in order to take the Pokémon out of the virtual world and put them into our real one. Players wander the streets of cities searching high and low for these elusive creatures, capturing them in pokéballs and training them for battle! This concept has proven to be a massive hit. Since the game launched, in fewer than two months the game has been downloaded more than 500 million times! It has also featured in countless news stories on television and the internet worldwide, and broken numerous world records! So far, Pokémon Go holds the following world records for mobile games: Most money made in one month; Most downloaded in one month; Most international charts topped (revenue); Most international charts topped (downloads); and Fastest to 100 million downloads! The incredible success of Pokémon Go is great news for gamers everywhere! Have you managed to catch all of these cute, mysterious and powerful creatures yet? Gotta catch ‘em all!
Top 5 Pokémon!
1. Pikachu
2. Eevee
3. Gyarados
4. Vaporeon 5. Dragonite