Pokémon GO – maybe it’ll be out this week… and maybe it won’t

The biggest mobile app of the year is still not available in the UK, with conflicting rumours about whether it’ll be out this week or not.

Pokémon GO was released in Australia, New Zealand, and the US last Wednesday, but there’s still no word on when exactly it’ll be out in the UK and the rest of the world.

The overwhelming success of the app has been such that on Friday developer Niantic were saying that they’ve ‘paused’ the rollout to other countries, until they’re ‘comfortable’ with how the game is working in the US.

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Connection problems have bugged the app ever since it launched, and things would only get worse if they went ahead with a global launch straight away.


Thank you for your patience. We have been working to fix the server issues. We will continue rolling out #PokemonGO to new countries soon. — Pokémon GO (@PokemonGoApp) July 8, 2016

And yet today The Wall Street Journal, while reporting how Nintendo’s shares have skyrocketed since last week, claims that ‘people familiar with plans for the game’ indicate that it will be released in Europe, Japan, and other Asian nations ‘within a few days’.



Hopefully that means this week, but as you can see it’s all pretty vague at the moment.

The alternative option is to use one of two (weird) tricks to get the game working on either iOS or Android, which we’ve described in detail for you here.

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