Niantic will start to rollout Ingress Prime from July 28th 2018. It’s not straight-forward. Ingress 1.0 was invite only for ages. Ingress Prime will launch in waves. Wave 1 is limited to just 50 Enlightened agents who attended the Navarro 2017 event. The Enlightened beat the Resistance at the event to win the honour. Wave […]
Niantic create a prisoner’s dilemma at a global scale
If you know game theory, then you know about the prisoner’s dilemma. Why might two entirely rational sides not cooperate even when it appears it would be best if they did? The prisoner’s dilemma was codified and formalised in the 50s by scientists working at RAND. Not Iron Fist, Danny Rand’s company but the American […]
The Ingress Prime video leaks
Today a video of Ingress Prime being teased by Niantic was taken at Krakow and made its way on to the web. I first saw it on the Ingress Updates [ENG] Telegram channel but it has been deleted from there since. Once released it is pretty hard to keep videos off the web. The YouTube […]
New Ingress levels expected after Ingress Prime
Ingress is the game that enabled Niantic to take the lead in location-based augmented reality. The smartphone game has players roaming the city and the countryside marketing down places of interest to transform them into in-game portals. This database of knowledge is what enabled Pokemon Go to have gyms. This lack of information is why […]
Mad World is far darker than expected…
Last Halloween we took a peek at a preview for Mad World. Another MMO? Yawn! Not so. One of the reasons why Mad World is interesting is because it just uses HTML 5 to run. There’s no downloads needed. You can run it any modern browser. We now have a mood trailer and Jandisoft’s game […]
Halloween free alpha: Mad World MMO entirely in HTML5
Mad World MMORPG is a post-apocalyptic MMORPG from Korean developer Jandisoft. The game is significant for two reasons right now. Firstly, it uses just HTML 5 for its massively multiplayer connected world. If you’ve a modern browser for a desktop machine or mobile then you’ll be able to play without downloading any software. Secondly, until […]
Fighting Fantasy Legends launches
Tucked away in the English down of Lymm, in Cheshire, there’s a small team of veteran digital designers called Nomad Games. They’ve got their hands on the Fighting Fantasy license! Here’s what Steve Jackson had to say about that! We are proud to have been working with Nomad on Fighting Fantasy Legends. Throughout the development […]
10 ideas for new Ingress items
Ingress is the augmented reality game from Niantic that came before Pokemon. It’s less random, has only two factions and a great community. One of the clever things Niantic got right was to introduce sponsored items rather than adverts to the game play. The most powerful shield you can hope to deploy, right now, is […]
Chat app and gaming platform Plato debuts
Okay, Plato’s pitch probably doesn’t find much traction with your average reader of Geek Native. You’re above average. The chances are you’re already into social gaming. Plato is for everyone else. The concept seems simply enough. Plato has a library of casual games and has chat built into them all. These are traditional games, though, […]
We’re unlikely to see a third faction in Ingress despite New Wave rumours
There have been rumours of a third faction being added to Niantic’s Ingress since the beginning of the game. The rumours are back again thanks to Niantic actually talking about a third faction and the Via Lux plot appearing to introduce a group known as the New Wave. It’s unlikely we’ll ever see a third […]