THE FUSE

Pokémon Go has finally introduced Silicobra, a monster found primarily in desert areas in the main games. When developer Niantic announced that the snake creature was finally coming to the monster collecting app, it said players would need to seek it out in “desert-like areas.” That’s not exactly specific, so players have had to go outside and test their local geography to see if Pokémon Go would register dry, sandy areas as desert-like. Well, fans now think they may have figured out how Niantic determines which in-game biome a given real-world area will correspond to, and it’s through a United States government website.