​Damn, 'Pokémon Go' Now Has Less Than 2 Stars in the App Store

Oh, how fickle fandoms can be. Pokémon Go, the craze that swept the globe, finds its user ratings in the UK and US bashed down to below two stars in the iTunes app storeafter recent updates peeved players big-time.

The 1.5 star rating in the UK App Store is based on just under 1,000 ratings that specifically refer to the current version of the game, the majority of which give it a measly one star—the lowest rating. The game also has just 1.5 stars in the US version of the store too. Across all the game versions, the average rating in both countries is now three stars.Why the fall in support for the amusement that surprised the world not exactly a month prior? Fans have been pissed at Pokémon Go engineer Niantic since a report on Sunday evacuated a carriage following component that permitted players to discover close-by pokémon. The organization likewise cut down outsider applications which showed where distinctive pokémon brought forth, leaving little for players to use to track their most loved beasts. 

Appraisals in the Google Play store demonstrate a four-star normal, yet late one-star surveys uncover players aren't content with the impact this has had on the gameplay. "Do you anticipate that me will walk capriciously around a territory bigger than 6 football fields in less than 6 minutes for a Pokémon I can't track?" an analyst named Dustin Clowers composed on Monday. "Get your head out of your rear ends and acknowledge what made this diversion awesome. No one needs to lounge around getting winged animals and rats. Empower following through application and outsider, or consider your 5 minutes of popularity over." 

Another analyst, Thomson Lee, resounded this slant: "What a joke. Following was a principle highlight in this amusement as it permitted us to chase for close-by pokémons that we needed."

This mobile game is using data from players to boost Alzheimer's research

LONDON — A new mobile game is aiming to further the fight against Alzheimer's by enlisting the help of thousands of gamers worldwide.

Sea Hero Quest, a puzzle game that leads players through mazes of islands and icebergs, has been produced by Deutsche Telecom in conjunction with scientists from the University of College London (UCL), the University of East Anglia (UEA) and Alzheimer's Research UK.

It aims to create a massive crowdsourced data set to benchmark human spacial awareness and navigation - both early signs of the onset of dementia.

As players make their way through the quest, navigating mazes, shooting flares and photographing creatures, their gameplay is translated into data, which is stored anonymously at a secure centre in Munich.

From there, scientists will try and work out how well people do at different ages, of different sexes, and in different parts of the world.

Sea Hero Quest involves navigating watery mazes.

IMAGE: SEA HERO QUEST

The makers of the game say that one person playing the game for two minutes equates to some five hours of traditional research.

Hilary Evans, Alzheimer's Research UK's Chief Executive, said that the scale of the experiment is unprecedented.

"Until now these kind of investigations took years to coordinate and at best gave us a snap shot of how a very small sample of volunteers behaved," she said.

"The largest spatial navigation study to date comprised less than 600 volunteers. Providing the research community with access to an open source data set of this nature, at this scale, in such a short period of time is exactly the kind of innovation required to unlock the next breakthrough in dementia research."

In the UK, 850,000 live with dementia, with that number expected to rise to 2 million by 2050, Alzheimer's UK say.

Sea Hero Quest is available on Google Play or the App Store.