Pokémon Go is sweeping over Isla Vista like an unsuspecting tidal wave, leaving the residents permanently changed.
The interactive video game, released in July to players in the U.S., Australia, and New Zealand, gained so much popularity in the last few weeks that the Pokémon Go servers crashed repeatedly from overcrowding within the game.
Pokémon Go, for those who haven’t heard, allows players to become trainers within the Pokémon universe, catching different breeds of monsters, leveling them up, and joining one of three teams to take over gyms. All of this seems to be an attempt by Nintendo to get video game players off their couches and out into their neighborhoods.