Pokémon GO Fest suspends gameplay round Museum Campus

Parts of the Pokémon GO Fest gameplay has been suspended close to the Museum Campus “in response to a number of overlapping occasions within the space,” organizers stated Saturday.

Gameplay was suspended for a part of Saturday and all of Sunday within the areas east of South Michigan Avenue, from south of Grant Park to barely south of East Cermak Highway, organizers stated. That features Pokémon GO gameplay on the Discipline Museum.

The actual-world GO Fest pop-up on the Discipline Museum has additionally been suspended, however the Pokémon Fossil Museum exhibit on the museum stays open.

Pokémon GO is an augmented actuality recreation that requires gamers to make use of cellular units to “hunt” actual places to search out and catch Pokémon species, prepare them and battle with different gamers.

The three-day pageant started Friday and continues from 9 a.m. to six p.m. Sunday.

Gameplay at Grant Park and different metropolis places are persevering with uninterrupted, organizers stated.

Together with the a number of museums within the space, the Past Wonderland music pageant is going on Saturday and Sunday at close by Northerly Island, and a USA soccer match was performed Saturday afternoon at Soldier Discipline.

This 12 months is the 10-year anniversary of the cellular Pokémon GO recreation and the thirtieth anniversary of the Pokémon franchise.