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 […]
Ingress anime in 2018; what we know
Niantic, now more famous for Pokemon Go than Ingress, has an impressive anime deal lined up. The show will air on Netflix this year and is all about Ingress. In fact, the Ingress anime will probably coincide with the launch of Ingress Prime (aka Ingress 2.0). We’re going to make some wild guesses about the […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Ingress sub-factions could turn politics and plot into gameplay
I’m fond of the augmented reality game Ingress, recently suggested some shard alternatives even though they may well be controversial or dismissible and expressed my concerns about the Resistance plot. I think those Resistance concerns have been validated. Since the original box post more plot politics have been revealed. We now know that Resistance founder, […]
4 alternatives to Ingress’ Shard anomalies
I’m a fan of Niantic Lab’s augmented reality game Ingress. Players belong to one of two teams and compete to capture portals, places of interest in the real world, and link them together to form triangular ‘control fields’. Throughout the year Niantic organises events in which cities become centres of “anomalies” and hundreds of agents […]
Ingress mistake threatens Oxfordshire’s man job as augmented reality goes wrong
A player of Niantic’s augmented reality game Ingress is appealing to the game’s moderators to help remove a “portal” he created. After leaving Google, Niantic suspended the ability of players to suggest new portals – points of interest and locations to battle over – in the game. Before the (temporary) suspension came into force players would […]