Vatican releases its own 'Pokémon Go' app that lets you chase Jesus and it's just as unbelievable as it sounds - Business Insider

Pope Francis is reportedly a fan of the game. The Vatican has released a game called "Follow JC Go" based on the augmented reality game "Pokémon Go." Rather than chasing Pikachu and Squirtle, the Vatican version involves collecting saints and other Biblical figures. Once players "catch 'em all," their spiritual squad becomes an "evangelization team" that follows Jesus together. ....
https://observer.com/2018/10/pokemon-go-catholic-church-jesus-follow-jc-go-pope-francis-millennials/

Russian propaganda even infused Pokémon Go—and it was not child's play

The limits of Russian intrusion into the 2016 election have not even been glimpsed.

One Russian-linked campaign posing as part of the Black Lives Matter movement used Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, Tumblr and Pokémon Go and even contacted some reporters in an effort to exploit racial tensions and sow discord among Americans, CNN has learned.....
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/10/12/1706467/-Russian-propaganda-even-infused-Pok-mon-Go-and-it-was-not-child-s-play

Exclusive: Even Pokémon Go used by extensive Russian-linked meddling effort - Oct. 12, 2017

Russian efforts to meddle in American politics did not end at Facebook and Twitter. A CNN investigation of a Russian-linked account shows its tentacles extended to YouTube, Tumblr and even Pokémon Go.
http://money.cnn.com/2017/10/12/media/dont-shoot-us-russia-pokemon-go/index.html

The Weekend Pokémon Go Took Over America

Customers were pouring into Supreme Beans Coffee Shop in Daytona Beach—happy for the free Wi-Fi and the hot and frozen espresso-based drinks, but much more interested in the gaggle of Rattata—enough to start a small army. “People were coming into the shop saying we were a ‘gym,’” says Supreme Beans’ co-owner Brandy Glenos. “I had no idea what it meant.”

What it meant was Pokémon Go, a game that turns people’s phones into cameras on an parallel universe, one in which mythical cartoon beasties with Harry Potterish names frolick amid familiar landmarks and places. Download the game, hold the phone up, and you see them—and can “capture” them and train them to fight in “gyms,” also locked to real-world locations. What it meant was that, this past weekend, crowds of people went outside to play a game, alone, together, in the real world and in an augmented reality....
http://www.wired.com/2016/07/weekend-pokemon-go-took-america/