READ MORE:* Security risk for Pokemon Go* Rookie's guide to Pokemon Go* ACC's tragic Pokemon Go video* 21 pro Pokemon Go tips* Pokemon: Bigger than Twitter? An augmented reality app that placed Pokemon across Google Maps and let you catch them with your phone, the prank bears no small similarity to Pokemon Go. Pokemon Go: 5 things you might not have knownONE NEWS NOW Gameplanet's Andrew Todd weighs in on the craze that has young, and not so young, hooked. A joke between Iwata, Tsunekazu Ishihara of The Pokemon Company and Tatsuo Nomura of Google Maps is said to have lead to Google's 2014 April Fools prank, called Pokemon Challenge. This is the same level of access Google apps like Chrome and Gmail get, and includes the ability to sift through emails, documents and files associated with your Google email address.

Source: Stuff July 12, 2016 04:30 UTC