{"id":99260,"date":"2016-07-20T09:05:58","date_gmt":"2016-07-20T07:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=99260"},"modified":"2016-07-20T09:06:29","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T07:06:29","slug":"pokemon-go-launch-in-japan-delayed-after-e-mail-leak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/nintendo\/99260-pokemon-go-launch-in-japan-delayed-after-e-mail-leak","title":{"rendered":"Pokemon GO launch in Japan delayed after e-mail leak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Niantic has delayed the launch of Pok\u00e9mon Go in Japan, which was set to happen later today,\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2016\/07\/19\/pokemon-go-launch-in-japan-postponed-after-email-leak\/\">TechCrunch reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>This comes after an e-mail from the game\u2019s sponsor, McDonalds Japan, which contained\u00a0the launch date, leaked on various forums.<\/p>\n<p>McDonalds has agreed to become the first paying sponsor of the game, turning its 3,000 stores in Japan into Pok\u00e9mon gyms where players can battle.<\/p>\n<p>A morning launch was pushed back to the afternoon when the leak went viral,\u00a0but the launch was postponed indefinitely over concerns that the hype generated would overload the game.<\/p>\n<p>Citing sources, TechCrunch said that the launch was \u201cimminent\u201d, but unspecified, The Nikkei newswire reported that the Japanese launch could happen as early as Thursday (21 July).<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Pok\u00e9mon GO<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/nintendo\/99248-the-fastest-way-to-level-up-in-pokemon-go.html\"><strong>The fastest way to level up in Pokemon GO<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/nintendo\/99224-players-are-selling-their-pokemon-go-accounts-for-over-r5000.html\"><strong>Players are selling their Pokemon GO accounts for over R5,000<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/nintendo\/99066-this-pokedex-battery-case-is-the-ultimate-pokemon-go-gadget.html\"><strong>This Pok\u00e9dex battery case is the ultimate Pokemon GO gadget<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/nintendo\/99024-this-is-why-businesses-want-you-to-keep-playing-pokemon-go.html\"><strong>This is why businesses want you to keep playing Pokemon GO<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/nintendo\/99012-how-to-add-gyms-and-pokestops-in-pokemon-go.html\"><strong>How to add Gyms and Pokestops to your area in Pokemon GO<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the leak of an internal e-mail from a sponsor, the launch of Pok\u00e9mon Go in Japan has been delayed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":96973,"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":[31,20418,20380,20314],"class_list":["post-99260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","category-nintendo","tag-active","tag-mcdonalds","tag-niantic-labs","tag-pokemon-go"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99260","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\/173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}