Pokémon Go is available to download in the UK, making the country the fifth place worldwide where the wildly popular augmented reality game is officially available.
The international release of the mobile game that lets users catch Pokémon in real life had been delayed following an unexpectedly high volume of downloads in the US, Australia and New Zealand which caused it to crash.
Just over week after its release in Australia and New Zealand it finally launched in the UK last week. Germany was the first European country to get the game last week.
Niantic, a Google startup that became independent in 2015 and createdPokémon Go with Nintendo, is attempting to bolster its server's capacity. At peak times, some users have received an error message saying "Our servers are experiencing issues. Please come back later", when they tried opening the game
Thousands of Pokémon Go users had reported problems accessing the game in Australia, according to Aussie Outages, which tracks digital service disruptions.
An update to the iOS version of the app, designed to help fix numerous issues including the server outages, apparently locked users registered with a Pokemon Trainer Club account out of the game.
And a hacker group known as PoodleCorp has claimed responsibility for outages over the weekend, threatening to take the game offline on August 1.
In spite of numerous controversies, the game is making an estimated $1.6 million (£1.2 million) a day from iPhone users in the US alone, and Nintendo's shares have more than doubled since the game was launched. It now has more users than Tinder and searches on Google for Pokémon Go have outstripped those for "porn".
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