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Dozens of young gamers playing Pokemon GO are ending up - at a SEX SHOP.

The latest craze game uses local businesses and popular landmarks as users try to find characters.

The app, which has not been officially released in the UK but has already amassed a large following, sees users track down Pokemon stars on their phones.

It uses GPS to pinpoint the users' exact location while distributing random Pokemon across the city for you to catch, keep, train and trade with other players.

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But staff at the 'Private Shop' in Plymouth, Devon, says people keep coming into the sex store asking about Pokemon.

One said: "I have noticed. There are people coming in talking about it. I didn't know what they were talking about, as I'm not really into games."

The staff member said no Pokemon-related products were available inside the shop.

The app was released in Australia, New Zealand and parts of the US by developers Niantic last week, with the promise of a UK release date "soon".

But as the game continues to scale the App Store in countries abroad, local gamers have found a way to download Pokemon GO! to their phones by other means.

Last week Shayla Wiggins was using the mobile phone app to find virtual Pokémon but instead found a dead body.

The 19-year-old from Wyoming, US, told KTVQ the body was floating in a river near to her home on Friday morning (July 8).

She said: "I was trying to get a Pokémon from a natural water resource.

"I was walking towards the bridge alone the shore when I saw something in the water.

"I had to take a second look and I realised it was a body."

The teenager described the incident as "pretty shocking" and immediately called authorities to indicate what she had found.

She said the body was floating about three feet from the shore and it looked like a man's body.

Detectives told Shayla that they thought the body had been there for less than 24 hours.

An investigation by authorities is still ongoing and further information is yet to be released.

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Pokémon GO is a new free augmented reality game that lets you capture vitual Pokémon hidden in real world locations.

Built as an augmented reality adventure, Pokémon GO is basically a real life treasure hunt and designed to get players out of the house.

Running on a smartphone, GO will keep you notified of how far away a nearby Pokémon, rival trainer or group event is.

Players can scan their surroundings while out and about and if they’re lucky, a wild Pokémon might pop up on their screen for them to grab. They can then throw a ‘Poke Ball’ at it in an attempt to capture the Pokémon and add it to their collection.

The game is already proving insanely popular.

Within 24 hours of its launch, it has crashed company servers and caused shares in Nintendo to surge by 10 per cent.