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Platform Android Publisher Google Developer Niantic Labs Release Date Nov 15, 2012

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Ingress relaunches as Ingress Prime, includes 100 percent more anime

By Allegra Frank on Nov 05, 2018 11.05.18

Niantic’s newest real world-based game also has a Pokémon Go promo

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Wish Pokémon Go were better? Welcome to Ingress

By Helen Rosner on Jul 15, 2016 07.15.16

I hit level 17 in Pokémon Go earlier today. It felt pretty good! Leveling up isn’t that big a deal in this game — levels and XP are, for the most part, just markers along the mostly linear path of...

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Ingress developer Niantic Labs no longer part of Google

By Michael McWhertor on Aug 12, 2015 08.12.15

The internal Google startup that developed augmented reality massively multiplayer mobile game Ingress is being spun off from Google to be an independent company. In a post on Google+, developer...

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Google's mobile augmented reality game Ingress is now on iOS

By Alexa Ray Corriea on Jul 14, 2014 07.14.14

Ingress, the smartphone augmented reality massively multiplayer game from Google's Niantic Labs, is now available on iOS, the company announced today. In Ingress, players worldwide use their...

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Google's Niantic Labs creating AR tie-in game for Endgame trilogy

By Dave Tach on Jan 15, 2014 01.15.14

Ingress developer and Google subsidiary Niantic Labs is developing an augmented reality game that ties in with author James Frey's young adult Endgame trilogy. The upcoming game "builds on the...

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Catch up on the plot of Google's real-world MMO Ingress

By John Funk on Jan 02, 2014 01.02.14

A pair of videos recaps the past year of Ingress, a massively multiplayer alternate reality game from Google's Niantic Labs played in the real world on smartphones. The first video, above, catches...

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Google gathering gamers in San Jose Oct. 12 for Ingress event

By Dave Tach on Oct 10, 2013 10.10.13

Google and Ingress developer Niantic Labs are inviting players to San Jose, Calif., Oct. 12 for a game-themed event. That Saturday, Niantic hopes to have hundreds of Ingress players gathered for...

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Report: Apple acquires Locationary for location data

By Dave Tach on Jul 19, 2013 07.19.13

Apple acquired Locationary, a Toronto, Canada-based company that provides a way to aggregate and centralize data about businesses, according to an All Things D report. Locationary's Saturn...

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Google game designer pens principles for the future of gaming

By Dave Tach on Jan 02, 2013 01.02.13

In the wake of Google's first game, Ingress, project lead on the mobile alternate reality game John Hanke suggests three principles for gaming's future, according to an article in Co.Design. H...

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Google launches Ingress, a mobile alternate reality game set in the real world

By Tracey Lien on Nov 15, 2012 11.15.12

Google launched a closed beta for a free mobile app today for Android called Ingress, which is an alternate reality game where activities accomplished in the real world directly impact what happens...