Google Celebrates Two Year Anniversary of ‘Ingress’ with 120 City Event Series

Google Celebrates Two Year Anniversary of ‘Ingress’ with 120 City Event Series

Ingress , the real-world adventure game from Google\'s Niantic Labs, is celebrating its second birthday this November with a special series of live player-driven events along with in-game rewards and medals to be unlocked during play. Come November 1st, Niantic Labs will kick off an all-new monthly event series called "First Saturdays" to celebrate and initiate new Ingress agents. "First Saturdays" will run simultaneously in more than 120 cities across the world including, Irvine, California to Bangkok, Thailand to Chennai, India to Perth, Australia, and more. Each meetup will be led by Ingress agents who will help new players learn the basics of the game while getting them up to speed. During these events, players from Ingress\' competing factions -- the Enlightened and the Resistance -- gather together for group meetups before starting a friendly game. For the full list of information, you can see the official post on the Google+ page for Ingress. The team behing Ingress also provided us with a full list of what special rewards players can get leading up to November 1st.

1. Agents will earn double AP points on all actions for the next two weeks.


2. Ingress agents will earn triple the rewards for portal hacks for the next two weeks. These rewards will include:
   
   
   
   • 3X more Rare Heat Sinks and Multi-hacks to help agents replenish inventory and stock up.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   • 3X Resonators to help agents capture more portals.
   
   
   • 3X more XMPs from enemy Portals to help agents in stagnant areas turn the tide for their faction.
   
   
   
   


3. Agents that reach a certain level before Saturday, November 15th, 2014 will get a special Ingress "Innovator" medal, an exclusive in-game badge available for a limited time. The "Innovator" medal will be awarded to players based on the following levels:
   
   
   
   • Bronze "Innovator" medal: all agents that reach L3 and above.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   • Silver "Innovator" medal: all agents that reach L9 and above.
   
   
   
   

As of now this is all the information we have available, however, you can download Ingress on the App Store by clicking here.

Google’s Niantic Labs Brings ‘Ingress’ to iOS!

Google’s Niantic Labs Brings ‘Ingress’ to iOS!

Just yesterday, Google\'s Niantic Labs launched their hit Android real-world adventure game -- Ingress -- onto the iOS App Store for the first time ever at no cost. Downloaded more than 4 million times on Android, iOS gamers can now join forces with a massive global community of Ingress agents for seamless cross-platform play. What makes the game unique is that it uses geo-location technology in mobile devices to make the world into a virtual game. Real world locations ranging from historical sites, landmarks, parks and artwork become different "Portals" for Agents to capture and control, encouraging players to get active and moving. Players can either side with the Enlightened or the Resistance factions, then both iOS and Android players can engage through cross-platform action. From what we were t0ld, in the first half of 2014 players have also achieved some pretty impressive milestones in the real world. For a quick rundown, be sure to check the list below.

• During Ingress live events coordinated by Niantic Labs in 2014, more than 12,300 Agents have gathered in 65 cities across the globe - from Santa Fe, New Mexico to Amsterdam, Netherlands; Auckland, New Zealand to Ishinomaki, Japan.


• More than 74,000 miles (more than three times the circumference of Earth) have been walked, ran and biked during the 65 live events hosted around the world.


• Agents around the world in 2014 have made more than 22,400,000 in-game actions (hacking) while visiting "Portals" disguised as real-world art, architecture and landmarks.

Interested? Ingress is available to download on the App Store for free by clicking here.