Pokemon GO Plus pre-orders at Best Buy will ship starting January 20

Tap and catch. Beyond the companion apps for Apple Watch and Android Wear, there is the wearable peripheral for Niantic-made augmented reality game Pokemon GO, the Pokemon GO Plus.

The Bluetooth-connected bracelet that alerts users to nearby Pokemon and let them mine PokeStops of their goods is up for pre-order at Best Buy for $34.99. First shipments should make their ways out on January 20 — the accessory has been in high demand at the outlets it is currently available at.

The game is getting more advanced trading and battle features and more business partners for PokeStops.

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Pokemon GO on Android Wear is also coming

While Apple and watchOS 3 may nab Pokemon GO on the go first, Android Wear should not be too far behind. In fact, there’s code in the full Android version of the app that references the Pokemon GO Plus accessory, due out this week, and what hardware it’ll work with.Pokemon GO Hub was able obtain and decompile version 0.37.0 of the app, finding code in the ...

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Pokémon Go Plus companion device has a new, firm release date: September 16

Yesterday was as much Apple’s big day as it surprisingly was Nintendo’s, with Mario’s own “father”, Shigeru Miyamoto, dropping by San Francisco to let the near-resigned mobile world know the best-selling video game franchise ever is finally extending iPhone users an olive branch.Oh, and Pokémon Go is headed for Apple Watches, in ...

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Pokémon Go Plus wearable accessory is officially pushed back two months

Let’s be honest, no one could have predicted the rampant, record-breaking success of Pokémon Go, a “freemium” augmented reality mobile game that’s ambitious in concept but ultimately simplistic in its execution. Not Niantic, not Apple or Google, and certainly not Nintendo, which isn’t making as much money here as investors originally ...

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