'Pokémon Go' is out in the UK and people are losing their damn minds

This will probably not be a very productive day in the UK.
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Sam Haysom
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LONDON -- It's finally here, Pokémon trainers. The day has come.

As of roughly 9.30 a.m. this morning -- after a long, frustrating wait -- the Pokémon Go app has been made available in the UK. And needless to say, the excitement levels are already reaching fever pitch.

People simply couldn't handle the news.

Of course, plenty of people in Britain have already been playing the game after downloading the app from the U.S. store.


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This led some people to worry about what might happen when they switched apps.

Luckily, though, the game is linked to your account rather than the app itself. All you need to do is delete the U.S. app, re-download it from the UK store, sign in with the same Gmail account you were using before and you're good to go.

Happy hunting, Britain.

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Sam Haysom is the Deputy UK Editor for Mashable. He covers entertainment and online culture, and writes horror fiction in his spare time.

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