Pokemon Go down: Android and iPhone users see new AR title go offline AGAIN

Shuhei Yoshida Twitter Hacked by Same Team who Took Down Pokemon Go Servers - AlphaOmegaSin

UPDATE ONE: Pokemon Go servers appear to be struggling again, with users in the US and UK reporting further issues playing the new AR mobile title.

Developers Niantic have yet to reveal why the game has seen long outages this week, following Saturday and Sundays drop in coverage.

The latest update from the support team reads: "The issue causing the server problems earlier today have been identified.

"Trainers should once again be able to search for and train Pokmon in the real world. Thank you for your patience as we worked to resolve things."

However, trainers are seeing the same old error message popping up while trying tolog in this evening.

"I want my stuff back in southern Michigan!" one fan wrote.

"Figures I used my incense and your stuff goes down. Not to mention the freaking heat I just walked around in for an hour! Ugh so frustrated!"

Fans in the UK and US are reporting that Pokemon Go is down again, following a weekend outage that hit players worldwide.

Trainers are being hit by the same error message they found during previous server problems, leaving them unable to go out and catch Pokemon.

While several hacker groups have claimed responsibility for the weekend problems, tonight"s issues may be connected to Pokemon Go"s impending release in Japan.

One user complained: "Getting fed up with a huge company like Nintendo not being able to sort their server issues, now been going on for over a week.

"Just not acceptable. Been intermittently down in Suffolk UK all evening - very frustrating when someone stood next to you is logged on and your being told there are server issues!

"Nintendo have a very large investment in said company, and this game was hyped up big time over the last couple of weeks or so - they should have been prepared, it"s just not good enough."

Fans first started reporting issues at around 8pm in the UK, it is still unclear when the game will become accessible again.

Hacker group PoodleCorp claimed responsibility for this weekend"s attacks, and are said to be planning another one for August 1.

PoodleCorp would elaborate on its plans in an interview with YouTube channel DramaAlert.

A representative for the group said: "We"ll be taking down Pokemon Go, all of the servers for Pokemon Go, all day long, for 24 hours on August 1."

It appears as though the group will perform a DDOS attack, which is when the servers are overloaded with requests.

The weekend server crash came just hours after Niantic revealed that Pokemon Go had been expanded to 26 more countries.

Yrainers living in Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Greenland, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Canada and Switzerland were able to download Pokemon Go from the Play Store or App Store.

The share price of Nintendo has soared an incredible 50 per cent since the launch of Pokemon Go to a staggering 25.7 billion.

Source: http://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/gaming/691196/Pokemon-go-down-why-is-Pokemon-go-down-Niantic-Server-Japan-launch-Nintendo

Continue Reading ..

Pokemon Go down: OurMine hacking group claims credit for latest attack on game

HOW TO PLAY POKEMON GO WHEN THE SERVERS ARE DOWN! Pokemon Go SECRET Server Glitch!

A group of hackers took down Pokmon Go to try and make the buggy game more stable, they have said.

The attack hit Pokmon Gos login servers, making it all but impossible for players to get online.

Now famous hacking group OurMine said that they launched an attack that made Pokmon Go unavailable for much of the weekend. It came just a day after another hacking group, Poodlecorp, took the app down in a similar attack and was launched in response to it, hackers affiliated to OurMine said.

The hacking group which has become famous for hacking into celebrity Twitter accounts like Jack Dorseys hopes that their attack on the app can help show the developers behind Pokmon Go that the app should be made secure.

The problems over the weekend were just the most extreme version of connectivity issues that have blighted Pokmon Go ever since it was launched. Many users have struggled to get online, and the games international rollout has been staggered to try and allow developers to cope with the huge amount of interest in playing.

The group said that it was carrying out the attack to force developers to get in touch with them.

No one will be able to play this game till Pokemon Go contact us on our website to teach them how to protect it! the group wrote on its website.

Another hacker claiming to be part of the group said that the attack had been launched after the huge outage caused by a group called Poodlecorp, on Saturday. OurMine wanted to help those behind Pokmon Go make the game more stable so that it wouldnt be attacked in the future, the group said.

The group makes money from charging for vulnerability assessment, where hackers attempt to break into corporate networks to check how safe they are.

Jeremy Corbyn tries out Pokemon Go

But a Twitter user claiming to be a representative said over direct message that the group wasnt requesting money from those behind Pokmon Go, and that OurMine just dont want other hackers [to] attack their servers.

Reuse content

Source: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/gaming/pokemon-go-down-not-working-servers-hacked-ourmine-poodlecorp-login-a7142196.html

Continue Reading ..

Pokemon Go down: How to try and fix app when it"s not working

POKEMON GO - LIVE - update Server is down

Pokmon Go is down almost all the time. But here are some tips for trying to get it back up.

The hugely successful game has struggled since it was launched under the pressure of its massive popularity.

Catch all of our latest Pokemon Go coverage

That hasn"t been helped by reported intentional attacks on the game"s servers, which have seen malicious people send huge amounts of requests in an attempt to bring down the game.

Pokemon Vaporeon appears in the middle of Central Park

Developer Niantic has promised to make the game more stable, and has stopped it being rolled out across the world until it is fixed. But neither seems to have fixed the game yet.

Sometimes it will be down entirely, and if you try these tips and find the app doesn"t load properly repeatedly, then it might be worth giving up for a while.

But here are some things worth trying.

1)Get your timing right

There are certain times when it"s impossible to get on, and others when it"s far better. They seem mostly to correlate with when people in the US are playing, and presumably putting more load on the servers. That means that you"ll find it far easier, in the UK and Europe, to play in the morning and early afternoon local time; once 3 or 4 o"clock comes around, and people in the US start having their lunch breaks, the game becomes mostly inaccessible.

Fish out of water: Magikarp found in unusual places on Pokmon Go 2) Mobile data vs WiFi

Try WiFi when you can. The problems are mostly with Niantic"s servers, it seems, and so the speed of your connection shouldn"t theoretically matter. But anecdotally it does seem easier to get on when on WiFi, presumably because all-important delays are avoided.

3) Know when to close the app

If the game doesn"t load quickly, it probably won"t load. The two initial loading screens can hang and go slowly when the game isn"t working properly, but they"ll usually load in less than a minute. It seems that if the game is taking an unusual amount of time to get through them, you"re probably not going to get through. In those situations it"s best to close the game entirely, by shutting it from the multitasking screen on your phone and then try again.

And conversely, if you"re on, you"re on. If you manage to make it through to two important screens, then there"s far less chance you"ll be kicked off. At times of high demand, you"ll find some things load slowly Pokstops might be inaccessible, and Pokmon might not appear but the game will keep you online and so it"s worth just leaving it open.

4) Know your icons

The spinning Pokball in the top left corner mostly means that the game isn"t working, not that it is. This icon is meant to be a loading message, meaning the same as the whirring circles you"ll get on other apps. But since the game doesn"t actually have to load much when it"s working, the fact you"re seeing it is probably a bad sign. If it starts popping up a lot, hold on, because your game is probably about to break down. (Not that there"s anything you can do.)

If it does stop working, check the journal to see how much of your activity has been saved. Clicking on the Pokball at the bottom of the screen will let you bring up the journal, which has a full timeline of everything you"ve been up to. From there you can see where your activity stopped saving and whether or not you missed out on that last Pokmon.

Reuse content

Source: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/gaming/pokemon-go-down-how-to-fix-app-when-its-not-working-servers-broken-how-to-play-a7141416.html

Continue Reading ..