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In Niantic’s popular mobile game Pokémon GO, people pit Pokémon against each other in battles to determine which one is stronger. In this incident, however, the
trainers were the ones exchanging blows.
Andrew Otton and his friends were playing in Vancouver, Washington, when a man pulled up and started threatening him with a tyre iron. “Hey, did you just take this gym from me? That’s pretty messed up, man,” said the man very angrily.
But things didn’t stop there. According to one of Otton’s friends, the man punched Otton several times before he was stopped.
Apparently this wasn’t the first incident involving this man – when they shared his license plate on social media, it was revealed that the man had gone on Pokémon GO-related rampages before.
All this comes in the middle of discussions on whether video games encourage violence among youths. However, as there are no real elements of violence in this game (besides making creatures battle each other), perhaps it’s the player and
not the game that we need to look at here.
Article via Tech Times
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