The long awaited Pokemon Go was officially launched in Vietnam on August 6 (Photo: Rex)
Hanoi (VNA)ꦯ – The long awaited Pokemon Go was officially launched in Vietnam on August 6.
Android and iOS users can start downloading the Pokemon Go on the application store since the day’s morning.
Players will have full access to the game’s digital locations like the PokeStops and Gyms on a real-time Vietnam’sGPS map.
Before the sensational game officially comes to Vietnam, local Pokemon catchers as well as from other countries had to hack accounts from Australia and New Zealand where Pokemon Go was first released to play the game.
Yet Niantic Labs, the game’s distributor, soon blocked the IP hacking and left millions of global players growing restless in months to wait for the game’s official launch in their own countries.
23-year-old student Nguyen Lan Phuong said she managed to capture nine Pokemons soon after downloading the game to her smartphone.
“And I already had four rounds of walk around my residency complex on the Pokemon hunting,” she said.-VNA
Mobile games are expected to change the face of the game industry in Vietnam, according to an article published on the English language news portal VietNamNet Bridge on October 23.
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The government leader reaffirmed Vietnam’s goal of achieving self-reliance in the design, manufacturing, and test of necessary semiconductor chips by no later than 2027.
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Vietnam has issued many key policies to support semiconductor development, notably the Politburo’s Resolution 57 on science, technology, innovation, and digital transformation. Other initiatives include the Semiconductor Industry Development Strategy to 2030, with a vision to 2050, and the Human Resources Development Programme for the Semiconductor Industry.
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Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Chi Dung emphasised that Vietnam has a clear strategy and ambition in this field, and is rapidly emerging as a central hub and key link in the regional and global semiconductor value chains.
The long awaited Pokemon Go was officially launched in Vietnam on August 6 (Photo: Rex)
