Google’s Pokémon Master job-opening April Fools’ joke is actually a real game

Google is building self-driving cars and wearable computers — and now, it is getting into the pocket-monster business.

The search giant released an April Fools’ Day joke today that has its Maps team inviting the public to traverse the globe to capture Nintendo’s fictional Pokémon creatures. The company updated its Google Maps app with a minigame that has players searching all across the map to find 150 of the creatures. You don’t actually have to go to the physical locations, and you can instead just search on the map, click on the character, and capture them.

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