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Welcome to Geek Native's hub for mobile gaming. Here we cover the latest news, reviews, and discoveries for both Android and iOS devices. Whether you're looking for the next blockbuster hit or a hidden indie gem to play on the go, this is your source for what's new and what's good in the world of pocket-sized entertainment.

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Somewhere between a game and a book: The ‘Normal Club

May 27, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Cubus Games’ gamebook lets you explore Buckcreek, a town with a lot of supernatural in it, and build your team.

Filed Under: Mobile Tagged With: previews

Minecraft meets Ingress: Minecraft Earth

May 17, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In Minecraft Earth walking down a sidewalk might be a walk through a diamond mine and a visit to the park might be race through skirmishing skeletons.

Filed Under: Mobile Tagged With: Augmented reality, Minecraft

Toast Notification: Niantic launch Ingress’ April Fools early

March 30, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Ingress Prime bugs have included words that tell players ‘Toast Notification’, and this April Fools seems to be inspired by them.

Filed Under: Mobile Tagged With: April Fools' Day, ingress, niantic

Niantic confirms the end of Ingress’s Scanner Redacted

March 23, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood 24 Comments

Niantic promises more goodies once Prime becomes the new and only way to play.

Filed Under: Mobile Tagged With: ingress

Ingress players want to make 477 changes to Ingress Prime

December 6, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

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At the time of writing, there are 477 things about the new app that Ingress players want to change. Nearly 250 of them are bug reports.

Filed Under: Mobile Tagged With: ingress

Has the Ingress Prime launch just introduced Pay to Win?

November 5, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Ingress Prime scanner screenshot

Ingress is an augmented reality game from the makers of Pokemon Go, Niantic. Ingress Prime is version 2.0, and it launched today. Mostly, Ingress Prime is a re-imagination of the user interface and lacks some features (like portal submissions). In particular, Niantic has worked hard to make it quicker to play and manage items. There […]

Filed Under: Mobile Tagged With: ingress, niantic

Ingress Prime gets a launch date

July 20, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Mobile Tagged With: ingress

Niantic create a prisoner’s dilemma at a global scale

July 16, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Mobile Tagged With: ingress, niantic

The Ingress Prime video leaks

June 1, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Mobile Tagged With: ingress

New Ingress levels expected after Ingress Prime

May 28, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood 14 Comments

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 […]

Filed Under: Mobile Tagged With: ingress

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