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Pokemon Go Has An Online Dating Service Now

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Craig Boudreau Vice Reporter
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A dating website set to go live Wednesday will give Pokemon Go fans a chance to find love through the wildly successful new game.

Once Pokedate goes live, users will enter their idea of an ideal ‘Pokemate’, then have their ‘Pokeprofile’ reviewed by specialists who then try and team users up with what they see as a good Pokematch, reports The Huffington Post. Once a match is found, an email is sent asking to confirm where the date (a.k.a. match) is going to be set up, something the site does based on users locations and interests.

Then users can then ‘battle’ each other and build romantic connections through Pokemon. The website banner being floated has the motto “Gotta catch ’em all, together!”

The first date is free using the promo code POKEDATES2016, but subsequent dates will cost users $20. The service does say they will give free dates to users who can get others to sign up.

The service is an extension of Project Fixup, which launched in 2012 and sought to bring non-Pokemon users of its original site together by using humans to assess viability of potential partners, not computer-based algorithms. Which is pretty much the same thing they do with Pokedate, except it’s obviously centered on fans of Pokemon.

“Browsing, swiping, messaging back-and-forth starts as fun and exciting and turns into a huge time-suck,” Dank Korenevsky, “Chief Fixup Officer” at Project Fixup, said in a press statement republished by The Verge Wednesday. “PokéDates and Project Fixup give people their time back and turns online dating into offline dating.”

Pokedates has recently created a Twitter account as well. While the current number of followers is a mere 52, once the website goes live it’s sure to get a bit of a bump. For reference, Pokemon Go’s Twitter has 879,000 followers. The hashtag #pokedates is also trending on the social networking site.

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