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Pokemon Go may ink sponsorship deal with McDonald’s in Asia

on Jul 18, 2016 | 0 comments

By Rebecca Stewart

Gamers may soon be able to get a side of Pokemon with their Big Mac, with reports suggesting that Nintendo’s wildly popular Pokemon Go mobile game is poised to ink a sponsorship deal with McDonald’s.

The partnership has yet to be confirmed but a snippet of code found in the Pokemon app hints that McDonald’s could soon be a sponsored location within the augmented reality title which lets users catch virtual Pokemon in a real-world setting.

Several Redditors discovered the coding in the Andriod and iOs versions of Pokemon Go, with a “well-placed” source confirming to Gizmodo that Read full story ›

Source: The Drum