Niantic has revealed the designs for the Zion Kunikida 2024 and the Makoto Midorikawa 2024 badges!

Both of them together with the Cryptic Memories Supporter badge will be available in the store for 30,800 CMU each starting tomorrow. They will remain in the store until March 31st.

Source: https://ingress.com/news/2024-crypticmem/

@IUENG

Niantic has also rereleased the Ingress Valentine's 2022! It will be available for three days from today and can be purchased for 2.500 CMU!

Note that if you have already bought the badge, it will not appear for you you again in the store.

Source: https://t.me/NianticOfficial/658

@IUENG

Niantic, in collaboration with the Ingress community, has unveiled the list of Mission Days for Q2 2024!

April 2024
🇭🇺 April 6: Miskolc, Hungary
🇺🇸 April 6: Huntsville, Alabama, United States
🇯🇵 April 13: Oyama-cho Subashiri, Japan (Mission Day Lite)
🇬🇧 April 13: London, United Kingdom
🇩🇪 April 20: Buxtehude, Germany
🇰🇷 April 27: Goyang-si, South Korea
🇩🇰 April 27: Copenhagen, Denmark
🇺🇸 April 27: Nampa, Idaho, United States

May 2024
🇯🇵 May 4: Tachikawa City, Japan
🇮🇹 May 4: Alessandria, Italy
🇺🇸 May 4: Riverside, California, United States
🇹🇼 May 11: Hengchun, Taiwan
🇷🇸 May 11: Niš, Serbia
🇯🇵 May 19: Naha, Japan
🇺🇸 May 26: Chicago, Illinois, United States

June 2024
🇪🇸 June 2: Leioa, Spain
🇳🇴 June 8: Stavanger, Norway
🇲🇾 June 16: Kuching, Malaysia
🇭🇺 June 16: Budapest, Hungary
🇫🇷 June 22: Le Havre, France
🇯🇵 June 29: Kamakura, Japan

Applications for Q3 and Q4 2024 close respectively on March 3rd and June 4th. There is still time to organize a Mission Day in your city!
Learn more at https://ingress.com/news/2024-mission-day/

Source: https://ingress.com/news/2024-q2-md

@IUENG

The Anomaly weekend starts early this time!

The first Cryptic Memories Shard Night is tonight and will involve 13 cities across Europe!
Later on, Adelaide and Santiago will host their Anomaly Event.

Here are the relevant times for this long Anomaly Weekend!

16/02, 16:00 UTC (3 hours to go)
Istanbul, Turkey

16/02 17:00 UTC (4 hours to go)
Athens, Greece
Bucharest, Romania
Vilnius, Lithuania

16/02 18:00 UTC (5 hours to go)
Bielefeld, Germany
Brno, Czech Republic
Dresden, Germany
Geneva, Switzerland
Lille, France
Lodz, Poland
Wroclaw, Poland
Zaragoza, Spain

16/02, 19:00 UTC (6 hours to go)
Bradford, UK

17/02 03:30 UTC (14.5 hours to go)
Adelaide, Australia

17/02 17:00 UTC (28 hours to go)
Santiago, Chile

We will update you on the scores for these events as soon as they become available!

Good luck to all Agents involved in the Cryptic Memories Anomaly! Have fun and make your Faction proud! 🔵🟢

@IUENG

The Night has only just begun!

Istanbul was the first city to conclude their Shard Nights event and the Resistance emerged victorious!
Agents are reporting a score of
ENL 3 - 8 RES!

@KodBilenAdam sent us this nice picture from the Turkish city depicting the Resistance Agents after their evening of action on the field.
Congratulations, Agents!

📸 Send us your pictures from the events! Reach out in the discussion group or in the comments of our posts!

@IUENG

Niantic released the official scores for the first phase of Cryptic Memories Shard Nights!

Athens, GR
Points:
ENL 1.4 – 8.6 RES
Shards:
ENL 1 – 6 RES

Bielefeld, DE
ENL 4.5 – 5.5 RES
Shards:
ENL 5– 6 RES

Bradford, GB
ENL 8 - 2 RES
Shards:
ENL 8 – 2 RES

Brno, CZ
ENL 3.3 – 6.7 RES
Shards:
ENL 2 – 4 RES

Bucharest, RO
ENL 10- 0 RES
Shards:
ENL 11 – 0 RES

Dresden, DE
ENL 1.7 – 8.3 RES
Shards:
ENL 1 – 5 RES

Geneva, CH
ENL 5 - 5 RES
Shards:
ENL 1 – 1 RES

Istanbul, TR
ENL 2.7 – 7.3 RES
Shards:
ENL 3 – 8 RES

Lille, FR
ENL 8.2 – 1.8 RES
Shards:
ENL 9 – 2 RES

Lodz, PL
ENL 4.3 – 5.7 RES
Shards:
ENL 3 – 4 RES

Vilinus, LT
ENL 5.5 – 4.5 RES
Shards:
ENL 6 – 5 RES

Wroclaw, PL
ENL 2 - 8 RES
Shards:
ENL 2 – 8 RES

Zaragoza, ES
ENL 6.7 – 3.3 RES
Shards:
ENL 6 – 3 RES

Sites Won
ENL 5 - 7 RES

Total Points
ENL 63.3 – 66.7 RES

🔵 Congratulations to the Resistance for taking home the most won sites, and the most points for the first round of Shard Night! 🔵

Together with the score from the Global Op and Cell Battles, the Series score now stands at:
ENL 278.9 – 246.1 RES

Source: https://ingress.com/news/2024-crypticmem

@IUENG

Agents in Bucharest, Romania also had their dose of Shards on this special night!

The score in this city was 10-0 for the Enlightened and this caused many smiles to appear on the face of these ENL teams, captured in photos by @sanshine!

We hope you all enjoyed the event! Have fun tonight!

📸 Send us your pictures from the events! Reach out in the discussion group or in the comments of our posts!

@IUENG

Shard Night in Dresden, Germany was very involving for all participants! Much fun was had by Agents of all Factions and these photos are proof!

A very cool biocard was also distributed to local ENL to celebrate this unique event in the German city which the RES won with a score of 8.3 to the ENL 1.7!

A big thank you to Agents @Dremosdur and @Squamp for sending us these pictures! Enjoy your night!

@IUENG

The Cryptic Memories Anomaly saw the end of its first Anomaly Event earlier today. Agents in the land down under gave it all for the cause of their Faction, but only one can come up on top!

🇦🇺 Adelaide, Australia

Stealth Ops
ENL 4.7 - 2.3 RES
Urban Ops
ENL 1.8 - 5.3 RES

Shard Battle
Raw score
ENL 31 (2 unscored) - 0 RES
Final score
ENL 62 - 0 RES

Beacon Battle
Raw score
ENL 276 - 125 RES
Final score
ENL 64 - 29 RES

Total points
ENL 132.5 - 36.6 RES

🟢 The Enlightened capture the Cryptic Memories Anomaly in Adelaide!

Series Score
ENL 411.4 - 286.7 RES

@IUENG

Hello Switzerland! We saw you take part in the frenetic activity in Geneva last night! Shards always emanate this attractive aura... 👀

These Resistance Agents answered the call to action for yesterday's Shard Night, and gathered to score as many as possible. Some nice badges were also created to distribute among the local participants.

The final result was a perfect draw, but smiles and cheers were not missed as Agents enjoyed a gorgeous night with their friends!

Many thanks to Agent @Godstar0 for sending us these pictures!

@IUENG

Santiago, Chile is warming up for the imminent Anomaly Event!

In about 3 hours, the Chilean capital will experience the second event for this Anomaly Weekend but, in the meantime, the GORUCK Urban Ops are getting underway! This challenge, together with the Stealth Ops (which Agents are reporting as won by the Enlightened by 4-3) will assign the first points for the city, the remainder being decided by the Shard Battle and the Beacon Battle.

Many thanks to Agent @Ajorquerap for reaching out and sending us these pictures!

@IUENG

GORUCK Urban has concluded in Santiago! The Resistance takes home the victory with a score of RES 4 - 2 ENL with a tie for one of the challenges as well.

Agents are now gearing up for the final Anomaly event this weekend which will start in about 15 minutes. We are expecting the final results of the weekend later today. Good luck, Agents!

@IUENG

The second Cryptic Memories Anomaly in Santiago, Chile has come to a close! At the end of the first Anomaly weekend, Agents can finally relax a bit and prepare for the next round.

🇨🇱 Santiago, Chile

Stealth Ops
ENL 4 - 3 RES
Urban Ops
ENL 2.3 - 4.7 RES

Shard Battle
Raw score
ENL 16 (1 unscored) - 12 RES
Final score
ENL 29 - 29 RES
(3 Shards did not land on any Target Portal)

Beacon Battle
Raw score
ENL 265 - 296 RES
Final score
ENL 43.9 - 49.1 RES

Total points
ENL 79.2 - 85.8 RES

🔵 The Resistance capture the Cryptic Memories Anomaly in Santiago!

Series Score
ENL 490.6 - 368.5 RES

Source: https://ingress.com/news/2024-crypticmem

@IUENG

Niantic has released the playboxes for Anomaly Events on March 16th!

🇵🇹 Porto, Portugal (left)
🇲🇴 Macau, Macau (right)

As always, if you are planning on participating in any of these Anomaly Events, make sure to organize with your Faction to ensure a perfect strategic planning and team coordination! Visit the links below!

ENL: enl.rocks
RES: willbe.blue

@IUENG

🟢🔵 Ingress Mission Day + First Saturday Alessandria - May 4, 2024

We look forward to seeing you in Alessandria, a historic and vibrant city in the heart of Piedmont. Here you will be able to admire the Baroque cathedral of St. Peter and its tall bell tower, and the legendary Cittadella, a magnificent star fortress that dates back to the 18th century and houses a military museum with more than 1,500 uniforms, weapons and other memorabilia.
Alessandria is also home to the Borsalino Museum, a historic luxury hat manufacturer that displays more than 2,000 pieces of italian high-quality headwear!

In short, to spend a beautiful day exploring this beautiful Piedmontese city, the date to mark on your calendar is May 4, 2024!

Info Channel
Chat
Web
Bannergress

POC:
ENL: @Danynad
RES: @Fr3nk1

@IUENG

Niantic has released the 13 cities which will host a Shard Night on March 1st, 19:00 to 20:30 local time.

The cities are:
🇳🇿 Auckland, New Zealand
🇰🇷 Suwon, Korea
🇯🇵 Tsu, Japan
🇯🇵 Toyama, Japan
🇯🇵 Kochi, Japan
🇮🇩 Bekasi, Indonesia
🇮🇩 Bogor, Indonesia
🇹🇭 Nonthaburi, Thailand
🇹🇼 Changhua, Taiwan
🇲🇾 Johor Bahru, Malaysia
🇵🇭 Pasay City, Philippines
🇦🇺 Perth, Australia
🇦🇺 Canberra, Australia

These cities will have an ornament spawn on them and you will be able to see them when you boot up your Intel map!

As a reminder, AMER region cities will host the Event on March 15th

Source: https://ingress.com/news/2024-crypticmem/

More info on the Shard Nights challenge: https://t.me/IUENG/6552

@IUENG

🟢🔵 Ingress Mission Day + First Saturday Miskolc, Hungary - April 6, 2024

The Hungarian Ingress community is looking forward to welcoming you to their spring-greeting Mission Day.
The event will be played between two locations within the city, the first is traditionally the downtown, with most of the missions, but 6 of these missions and the more social part of the event(s) will be in Lillafüred, a cozy recreation and leisure district of Miskolc.

X-faction chat
Info channel
Web

POCs
RES: @M4tyi
ENL: @MontyBishop

@IUENG

Niantic has released Update 2.135.1 to the App Stores!

Several updates have been made to the new Bounties feature, including adding sound and vibrations as well as automatically resyncing with the server once you open the Bounties screen.

Bug fixes include an updated Portal Key scrollbar to prevent accidental jumping in the key list as well as a check for sufficient XM levels before you attempt a Glyph Hack via the Dronenet.

@IUENG

🟢🔵 Ingress Mission Day Copenhagen, Denmark - April 27th, 2024

Copenhagen is ready to throw away winter and to celebrate the spring. And Mission Day is just the way to do it!
The Danish capital is a vivid city to visit with lots of iconic places, great foods, an easy commute and lots of portals and missions ready to explore.
Copenhagen Mission Day 2024 will mainly be held in the inner city and will give you an opportunity to tour some of the castles, museums, landmarks and gorgeous parks that the city offers!
And if you can't get enough, the Mission Day 2015 missions and many great banners are available for your mission-addiction.

Both factions will hold an afterparty on Saturday evening, well deserved after the Mission Day!

Info Channel
XF Telegram Chat

POCs
ENL: @mnyxr
RES: @schatchaos

@IUENG

🟢🔵 Ingress First Saturday Portugalete + Mission Day Leioa - June 1st and 2nd, 2024

Portugalete and Leioa, two captivating towns nestled along the Estuary of Bilbao. Each has its own unique charm, and together, they create a tapestry of history, innovation, and natural beauty.

On June 1st, Portugalete will host an Ingress First Saturday! The perfect opportunity to marvel at the intricate Gothic and Renaissance architecture of the 15th-century Basilica of Santa Maria or behold the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Bizkaia Bridge, affectionately known as the Hanging Bridge.

On June 2nd, Leioa - in which you’ll find a harmonious blend of ancient traditions and modernity - will take over by hosting an Ingress Mission Day!
Explore the University of the Basque Country, venture to the Ayuntamiento de Leioa, pulsing with civic pride.
When hunger strikes, Pintxos and a taste of the unique Txakoli wine await at local taverns.

Info channel
Twitter
Facebook

POCs
ENL: @purpletime
RES: @KurkUdi

@IUENG

We are one third of the way into the second wave of Cell Battles for the Cryptic Memories Anomaly!
Let's take a look at the provisional score until now thanks to the data from Agent @Danynad!

🔸AMER region
AM01-MIKE-03 - Hartford, CT, USA
ENL 12.2 (1,451,161) - (338,632) 2.8 RES

AF02-HOTEL-03 - Fortaleza, Brazil
ENL: 1.5 (19,460) - (175,502) 13.5 RES

AM02-KILO-00 - Cincinnati, OH, USA
ENL 8.1 (263,011) - (225,405) 6.9 RES

🔸EMEA region
NR02-BRAVO-02 - Tbilisi, Georgia
ENL 14.9 (3,262,762) - (14,140) 0.1 RES

NR01-GOLF-10 - Luxembourg, Luxembourg
ENL 0.9 (159,098) - (2,552,057) 14,1 RES

NR02-ECHO-01 - Lublin, Poland
ENL 4.7 (141,989) - (311,367) 10.3 RES

🔸APAC region
AS12-KILO-13 - Chiang Mai, Thailand
ENL 15.0 (80,722) - (52) 0.0 RES

AS16-ROMEO-03 - Ulsan, Korea
ENL 1.4 (282,284) - (2,766,713) 13.6 RES

AS14-FOXTROT-06 - New Delhi, India
ENL 15.0 (2,466,367,591) - (496,548) 0.0 RES

PA01-ALPHA-14 - Nagano, Japan
ENL 10.4 (1,327,544) - (578,210) 4.6 RES

PA03-NOVEMBER-10 - Townsville, Australia
ENL 0.0 (138) - (536,761) 15.0 RES

AS10-ROMEO-12 - Davao City, Philippines
ENL 8.3 (410,533) - (329,729) 6.7 RES

AS14-BRAVO-15 - Abu Dhabi & Dubai, United Arab Emirates
ENL 14.1 (338,693) - (21,037) 0.9 RES

At the moment, the total score stands at
🟢 ENL 106.5 - 88.5 RES 🔵
but we're just at CP 12 of 35, the scores can and will vary wildly with the passing of time!
The cycle ends on February 29th @ 7:00 UTC!

Agents, it's time to move!

@IUENG