{"id":231885,"date":"2016-07-18T06:49:13","date_gmt":"2016-07-18T06:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=231885"},"modified":"2016-07-18T06:49:13","modified_gmt":"2016-07-18T06:49:13","slug":"pokemon-go-goes-down-after-european-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=231885","title":{"rendered":"‘Pok\u00e9mon Go’ goes down after European launch"},"content":{"rendered":"

Those Saturday plans to track down Pikachu may have to wait.<\/p>\n

The creators of the hit mobile game Pok\u00e9mon Go\u00a0<\/em>said they are working to resolve server issues making it unable for users to play the game. “Thank you for your patience,” reads a statement on the game’s Twitter page.<\/p>\n

The technical problems arrive after studio Niantic Labs\u00a0launched a major European\u00a0expansion to its blockbuster game. It’s now available in 26 additional countries, including Austria, Norway and Sweden.<\/p>\n

Pok\u00e9mon Go<\/em> is currently available in a handful of countries worldwide, including the U.S., U.K. and Germany. It’s still not available in Asia, most notably Japan, a key market for the classic video game and TV franchise.<\/p>\n

The likely reason for the down servers is the meteoric rise in the game’s popularity. It officially entered phenomenon status earlier this week, as countless players explored landmarks and other spots across the U.S. in search of the “pocket monsters.”<\/p>\n

–<\/p>\n

Source: USA today<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Those Saturday plans to track down Pikachu may have to wait. The creators of the hit mobile game Pok\u00e9mon Go\u00a0said they are working to resolve server issues making it unable for users to play the game. “Thank you for your patience,” reads a statement on the game’s Twitter page. The technical problems arrive after studio […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":231887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=231885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/231887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=231885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=231885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=231885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}