{"id":101322,"date":"2016-08-16T10:39:34","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T08:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=101322"},"modified":"2016-08-16T10:41:10","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T08:41:10","slug":"new-pokemon-go-glitch-lets-you-permanently-own-any-gym","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/nintendo\/101322-new-pokemon-go-glitch-lets-you-permanently-own-any-gym","title":{"rendered":"New Pokemon GO glitch lets you permanently own any gym"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pokemon GO players have found a way to permanently beat any gym in the game, reports <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2016-08-15-it-looks-like-you-can-glitch-pokemon-go-gyms-using-eggs\" target=\"_blank\">Eurogamer<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A gym with an egg placed in it instead of a Pok\u00e9mon cannot be fought or won back.<\/p>\n<p>Eggs are used for hatching Pok\u00e9mon and therefore have no character data or stats. It is only upon being hatched that they actually reveal the Pok\u00e9mon inside.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This means anyone playing nearby can&#8217;t change the gym&#8217;s allegiance or gain any XP from battling.<\/p>\n<p>The exploit follows just 24 hours after Niantic began <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/nintendo\/101272-cheating-in-pokemon-go-can-get-you-permanently-banned.html\" target=\"_blank\">issuing <\/a><\/strong>permanent bans to players for a number of Terms of Service violations, including GPS spoofing and other software techniques aimed at manipulating the base game.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the exploit in action in the video below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HEflJCtpiac\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Are you still playing Pokemon GO? Let us know in the comments below and in our forums.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to How to benchmark your gaming PC\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/100467-how-to-benchmark-your-gaming-pc.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">How to benchmark your gaming PC<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Best games you can play this week \u2013 ballerinas and bots\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/101220-games-you-can-play-this-week-ballerinas-and-bots.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Best games you can play this week \u2013 ballerinas and bots<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to This is why Nvidia is making a killing with its latest graphics cards\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/101030-this-is-why-nvidia-is-making-a-killing-with-its-latest-graphics-cards.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">This is why Nvidia is making a killing with its latest graphics cards<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This glitch lets you beat any gym in Pokemon GO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":101324,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2226,6],"tags":[31,21234,253,19819,20314],"class_list":["post-101322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","category-nintendo","tag-active","tag-egg","tag-glitch","tag-gym","tag-pokemon-go"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}