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Google’s Ingress April Fools joke – Pac-man take over

March 31, 2015 by Andrew Girdwood 9 Comments

Google’s put their April Fools joke live for their mobile alternative reality game live. Ingress players have their cursor turned into Pac-man and portals are now ghosts. This shouldn’t muck up gameplay too much but it’s certainly going to confuse players who forget what day it is. In Ingress there are two sides who complete […]

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6 gifs only Ingress players will understand

March 29, 2015 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Have you succumbed to the lure of Google’s location based alternative reality game Ingress? There are two factions in a struggle against one another; The Enlightened (green) who believe the newly discovered “exotic matter” should be free and that the world can be a better place and The Resistance (blue) who oppose those ideals and […]

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Google’s Ingress ARG partners with Schuh

March 2, 2015 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Google’s alternative reality game announced today a deal with shoe retailer, Schuh, that turns their stores into portals in the game. On Google+ the Niantic Project wrote; MI20, a secret British Intelligence Agency, uncovered a series of XM Powerspots across the UK. It is unknown if the Agency still exists, but it seems that part […]

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