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GAME | I'm not ashamed to admit there was a time in my life when I wanted nothing more than to fling a Poké Ball into the air, unleashing my own real live Pokémon. Well, technology has finally caught up with my 11-year-old obsession. POKÉMON GO, a new augmented reality mobile game revealed last week, allows players to live in the world of Pokémon. The game will be available for iPhone and Android devices and is set for a 2016 release. Through their phones, players see Pokémon roaming throughout the real world and can catch, battle and trade with other users. Now instead of walking obliviously into oncoming traffic because you were texting, you'll do it because you were trying to catch that Pikachu over there. ♦
