It's the craze that's sweeping the globe, as thousands of intrepid gamers leave their traditionally sedentary, house bound lives to catch Pokémon out in the real world.

Pokémon Go is a bona fide sensation, amassing an estimated seven and a half million downloads in the US alone and bringing a 21-year-old franchise to a whole new generation.

The augmented reality game allows you to find and catch Pokémon in real situations. It has not officially been launched in the UK yet, and servers are struggling to cope with demand.

It has been touted as a way for people to experience the outside world and even get exercise while playing their favourite game.

Truly going outside and interacting with fictional cartoon monsters is the new going outside to talk to actual people, so STV News decided to give it a 'Go' to see what the fuss was about.

Could we catch 'em all? Could we lose some weight? Could we stretch this out in to a whole morning out of the office?

First of all we had to get a hold of the app itself - this was done through a complex workaround on an Android phone.

Once downloaded we decided to keep our epic journey within the confines of Glasgow, to see which 'pocket monsters' (who knew that was the portmanteau?!) we could find hidden around.

It's fair to say the game took some getting used, with a lengthy detour around the back of a hotel in a state of confusion leading to a tangle with a definitely un-augmented reality bike rack.

But eventually the first monster (a Poliwag) had been captured after a fiddly mini-game sequence where many Pokéballs were needlessly wasted.

This sparked off a veritable avalanche of Pokémon which were caught in quick succession next to Glasgow landmarks including the Finnieston Crane, the Hydro and the Armadillo.

One particularly difficult to catch star-shaped monster (Staryu) led us to more extreme methods, but our uncharitable attempt to get it run over by a truck luckily failed.

Stories have been splashed across the internet since the game's release of people going to extremes to 'catch 'em all' including a man who spent a portion of his wife's labour catching a monster by her on the bed, and a trainer who reportedly managed to snag one on the front line in Mosul while fighting ISIS.

It certainly is immersive, and blurs the line so effectively that STV News spent a minute trying to throw balls at an actual pigeon.

From then we discovered a Clefairy taking in culture at Kelvingrove museum, some sort of bat thing (Zubat) hanging out by a skate park, and another taking in a fountain.

Even STV News towers was not safe from the hordes of Pokémon. We caught these unsavoury looking characters hanging around the Clydeside building.

Glasgow's oldest university was also rife with Pokelife. The ancient seat of learning hiding a Spearow and a one that looks like a water turtle, but this was a battle too far for our tired and less-than-intrepid warriors, so we gave up and went home.