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Virtual game brings real money to NY bars

Pokémon Go draws players to specified sites in the hope of capturing virtual Pokémon, visible when looking at your surroundings through a smartphone

Published Tue, Jul 12, 2016 · 09:50 PM

    New York

    THE customers streaming through L'inizio's Pizza Bar in Queens during the weekend needed hot slices, cold beers and more PokéBalls.

    The pizzeria is one of the earliest businesses to deliberately tap into a real-world windfall from Pokémon Go, a wildly popular augmented-reality game released on July 6 by Nintendo Co Ltd.

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