{"id":106501,"date":"2016-10-03T15:42:40","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T13:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=106501"},"modified":"2016-10-03T15:43:24","modified_gmt":"2016-10-03T13:43:24","slug":"an-entire-country-is-now-suing-pokemon-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/nintendo\/106501-an-entire-country-is-now-suing-pokemon-go","title":{"rendered":"An entire country is now suing Pokemon GO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s no secret that Pokemon GO has caused previously peaceful areas to become bustling hubs of activity.<\/p>\n<p>One such area, the Kijkduin beaches south of the Hague, are spawning hundreds of Pokemon GO\u2019s most popular creatures each day resulting in thousands of visitors, reports<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2016\/sep\/29\/niantic-labs-dutch-pokemon-go\" target=\"_blank\"> The Guardian.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s only one problem &#8211; the sand dunes are a protected wilderness area.<\/p>\n<p>In order to combat this onslaught, authorities in The Netherlands are now suing Niantic, developers of Pokemon GO in order to have the location and other like it removed from the game.<\/p>\n<p>They don&#8217;t want to stop foot traffic completely, but rather \u201cwant to ban these small virtual animals in protected areas and in the streets from 11:00 pm to 7:00 am.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKijkduin will remain an attractive place for Pok\u00e9mon hunters, but there will be less trouble for the residents and the damage to protected areas will be limited,\u201d the municipality said.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Which brand of graphics card should you buy?\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/98724-which-brand-of-graphics-card-should-you-buy.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Which brand of graphics card should you buy?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Highest-rated video games of 2016 (so far)\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/99002-highest-rated-video-games-of-2016-so-far.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Highest-rated video games of 2016 (so far)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to How to buy an Oculus Rift in South Africa: what it will cost\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/99350-how-to-buy-an-oculus-rift-from-south-africa-what-it-will-cost.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">How to buy an Oculus Rift in South Africa: what it will cost<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s why this one country is taking on Pokemon GO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":106505,"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":[31,20460,19359,11291,20314,22455],"class_list":["post-106501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","category-nintendo","tag-active","tag-country","tag-law","tag-netherlands","tag-pokemon-go","tag-suing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106501","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=106501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106507,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106501\/revisions\/106507"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}