'There's a Rattata in my bathroom': how Pokémon Go can take over your life

Clem Bastow finds the augmented reality created by Nintendo and Niantic Labs absorbing, occasionally embarrassing, and above all, addictive

I'm halfway across the street - nose buried in my iPhone, tracking a rare Poki(C)mon - before I look up and see the sign affixed to the cyclone wire fence: "PATROLLED BY ARMED GUARDS". I find myself weighing up the situation: is it worth trespassing on Victoria Barracks in the possibly vain hope that I might catch, say, a Golbat?

This is my life in a post-Poki(C)mon Go world. Yesterday I said "Aha!" out loud, when a Pidgey appeared between a man's legs as we were waiting at a pedestrian crossing.