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.
Has the Ingress Prime launch just introduced Pay to Win?
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 […]
Niantic and +Ultra release the Ingress anime trailer
The Ingress anime is about to air in Japan and is due on Netflix later this year. We already know a little about the Ingress anime so let’s carefully attempt to work out what the trailer is showing. Auto-English captions are not yet available. It begins by showing a three glyph message decoded Begin, Danger, […]
Ingress Prime gets a launch date
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 […]
