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Here we Pokemon-go again

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Before Nintendo, there was Niantic Labs.  Before Pokemon Go, there was Ingress. All of this has happened before, and all of this will happen again. Okay, I admit. I went a bit overboard with that last line. Maybe it's because you just can't escape those pesky Pokemons at the moment. They, or at least the people hunting for them are all over the city, or more precisely, all over the country. And they're certainly all over the media, with every publication and TV station apparently jumping onto the bandwagon. What pretty much nobody seems to remember is that this type of augmented-reality game isn't exactly new, far from it. Back in early 2013, Niantic Labs, then a Google subsidiary, published a game called Ingress. In...what? Well, originally called Google Ingress, it was the first really big augmented-reality title. It can be best described as the older, nerdier sister of Pokemon. The premise of the game is simple. During a series of experiments with the Lar...