There’s a Magikarp hovering around an elderly couple in Bell and Felix cafe in the south side of Glasgow. Uninitiated in the ways of Pokémon Go, I am unaware this fish, with its vacant eyes and gormless mouth, is a byword for uselessness, so I am excited by its presence. Jennifer Jones, a veteran gamer and my newly acquired mentor, swipes a Poké Ball towards it: our first big catch of the day. The elderly couple look on, bemused. Later on, we track an Eevee – a cute, fox-like creature with floppy ears- along Kilmarnock Road, past pubs and bakeries and a shop front full of fruit and vegetables, into Queen's Park, before claiming her as our own; and I begin to see how people...
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