🌍 The second Bounty Blitz of the +Alpha Anomaly has started in the EMEA Region!

Agents will have from 09:00 UTC until 17:00 UTC to complete the purposely created Campaign. 100 Series Points will be distributed between the Factions based on the number of bounties completed!

Results will be announced within one week after the end of the event.

The details of the Bounties can be found at @IUENG_Extra!

@IUENG

💪 Agent @Himav sent us his report from the GORUCK Stealth Ops in Tucson, AZ, USA!

Agents from both Factions tackled various challenges including physical ones, trivia questions about astronomy and a cards game!
The cadre organized a total of 5 challenges and in the end the score came to a total of...

ENL 3 - 2 RES

This means that the Factions have obtained the following Series Points

ENL 4.2 - 2.8 RES

Congratulations, Agents! Now it's time to rest for the GORUCK Urban Ops!

@IUENG

The +Alpha Bounty Blitz for the EMEA Region has concluded!

The score reported on the Scanner at the end of this challenge (Niantic will soon report the confirmed score on their website) results in the following series points:
ENL 43,8 - 56,2 RES

The Resistance wins the EMEA Bounty Blitz and sets the series score at:
ENL 343,6 - 275,4 RES

The next event in the +Alpha Series' is the +Alpha Anomaly in Tucson today!

@IUENG

In the meantime, the GORUCK Urban Ops challenge is ongoing in Tucson, Arizona!

12 Agents are involved in this event which will assign 7 Series Points with some physical and mental exercises.

The event should end by 13:00 local time, right before the Anomaly begins!

Ph: @Himav

@IUENG

💪 The GORUCK Urban Ops have concluded in Tucson!

It was a nail-biter, with the 7th and final challenge being the decider on which Faction would be the winner!
In the end, the Enlightened clinched the win by
ENL 4 - 3 RES
which is also the amount of Series Points that the Factions will obtain.

Big congratulations to these 12 ruckers! Now, the stage is set for the +Alpha Anomaly to begin: only 35 minutes to go until the start!

Good luck Agents! Make your Faction proud in Tucson!
Huge thanks to @Himav for his reporting!

@IUENG

The +Alpha Anomaly in Tucson ends in this moment!

It's been 3 hours of intense battle between Enlightened and Resistance. We hope great fun was had by everyone involved on the ground and remotely!
Now it's time to wind down and enjoy the after-party! 🍻

Scores should get published soon! We are going to post them here as soon as they are available.

@IUENG

🇺🇸 +Alpha Anomaly Tucson, AZ, USA

Battle Beacons
Raw score
ENL 328 - 134 RES
Final Score
ENL 66.0 - 27.0 RES

Shards
Raw score
ENL 11 (2 unscored) - 0 RES
Final Score
ENL 93.0 - 0.0 RES

Covert Cache
% Bonus
ENL - | - RES
Season Points bonus
ENL - | 1x C RES

Goruck Stealth Ops
ENL 4.2 - 2.8 RES
Goruck Urban Ops
ENL 4 - 3 RES

Total Score
ENL 167.2 - 33.8 RES

+Alpha Series Score
ENL 506.6 - 306.5 RES

Source: https://ingress.com/news/2025-plusalpha-results

@IUENG

⚠️ Niantic has corrected a rounding error in the total score of the Yokosuka +Alpha Anomaly.

The total score for the event is therefore:
ENL 151.4 - 60.6 60.7 RES

Consequently, the +Alpha Series Score is now:
ENL 506.6 - 306.5 RES

The result posts for both Yokosuka and Tucson have been updated accordingly.

Source: https://ingress.com/news/2025-plusalpha-results

@IUENG

The playbox for the upcoming +Alpha XM Anomaly in Naples, Italy has been highlighted on the Intel Map!

The playbox counts 579 portals (before adjustments) and it's approx. 4km x 3km wide.

The event will be held on March 22nd 2025! If you are planning to participate in the event, make sure to register with your Faction to ensure the best logistical and strategic organization possible!

🟢 enl.rocks 🔵 willbe.blue

@IUENG

The final results of the EMEA +Alpha Skirmishes have been published!

Beacon Skirmishes
🇦🇲 Yerevan, Armenia
ENL 3.5 (139) - (153) 3.8 RES
🇱🇹 Kaunas, Lithuania
ENL 7.2 (286) - (376) 9.4 RES
🇳🇴 Oslo, Norway
ENL 5.8 (230) - (285) 7.1 RES
🇧🇪 Brussels, Belgium
ENL 7.7 (308) - (314) 7.9 RES

Shard Skirmishes
🇹🇷 İzmir, Türkiye
ENL 6.3 (9) - (11) 7.7 RES
🇪🇪 Tallinn, Estonia
ENL 3.5 (5) - (14) 9.8 RES
🇸🇪 Stockholm, Sweden
ENL 9.1 (13) - (8) 5.6 RES
🇩🇰 Copenhagen, Denmark
ENL 4.9 (7) - (10) 7.0 RES
🇵🇱 Wrocław, Poland
ENL 5.6 (8) - (7) 4.9 RES
🇩🇪 Augsburg, Germany
ENL 8.4 (12) - (7) 4.9 RES
🇪🇸 Seville, Spain
ENL 7.7 (11) - (11) 7.7 RES
🇫🇷 Nantes, France
ENL 8.4 (12) - (3) 2.1 RES
🇬🇧 Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
ENL 4.2 (6) - (11) 7.7 RES

Total Score
ENL 82.2 - 85.6 RES

🔵 The Resistance captures the EMEA +Alpha Skirmishes!

+Alpha Series Score
ENL 588.8 - 392.1 RES

Source: https://ingress.com/news/2025-plusalpha-results

@IUENG

The full schedule of Ingress Events in Q2 2025, the +Theta season, has been published!

April
5th: #IngressFS
13th: #Ingress2S
19th - May 11th: +Theta Global Campaign
22nd: Earth Day Bonus

May
3rd: #IngressFS
11th: #Ingress2S
17th: 🇵🇭🇺🇸 XM Anomaly at Manila, Metro Manila, Philippines and Providence RI, USA
24th: +Theta Skirmish - EMEA (plus Shards around the world outside EMEA)
31st: +Theta Skirmish - AMER (plus Shards around the world outside AMER)

June
7th: #IngressFS
7th: +Theta Skirmish - APAC (plus Shards around the world outside APAC)
8th: #Ingress2S
14th: 🇦🇺🇩🇪 XM Anomaly at Perth, WA, Australia and Chemnitz, Germany

New for this season is a single +Theta medal in three tiers which will be awarded to Agents "based on their performance in Anomaly battles, Skirmish events, and other activities". This seemingly replaces the seperate Anomaly and Global Challenge medal.

Finally, the locations for Q3 2025 XM Anomalies have been published:
16 Aug 2025 @Malacca City, Malaysia and Portland, OR, USA
23 Aug 2025 @Gothenburg, Sweden and Quebec City, Canada
20 Sep 2025 @Denpasar City, Bali, Indonesia and Cambridge, United Kingdom

Source: https://ingress.com/news/2025-q2-events

@IUENG

Niantic has revealed a new event on their Intel event page: Pi Day 2025!

From the looks of it, you will receive a special Dispatch Campaign focused on capturing portals which will allow you to earn rewards.

The event will run on March 14th from 00:00 to 23:59 local time. The Assignments will be posted on @IUENG_Extra as soon as we have the info what they include!

@IUENG

Niantic has added the option to see Wayspots that are not used in Ingress when nominating new Portals!

This feature helps Agents to ensure that they don't nominate duplicate Wayspots that have already been accepted but don't appear in Ingress due to the inclusion rules. When nominating new Portals, a new toggle can now be set which shows all Wayspot in a ~200m radius around your current location.

At the moment this also includes a swath of POIs that have been automatically imported from various sources that are only used as Power Spots in Pokemon GO but don't actually appear when reviewing on Wayfarer. If you see a Wayspot that is "Used in another Niantic games" with no picture or description the chances are high that it is a Power Spot and you can actually nominate it anyway (assuming they meet Wayfarer criteria, of course)! It remains to be seen if these specific POIs will remain on the duplicate map for Ingress or if Niantic will hide them in the future.

Source: https://t.me/NianticOfficial/901

@IUENG

The preliminary results of the APAC +Alpha Skirmishes have been published!

Shard Skirmishes
🇳🇿 Auckland, New Zealand
ENL 0.0 (0) - (18) 12.6 RES

🇦🇺 Canberra, Australia
ENL 11.2 (16) - (3) 2.1 RES

🇰🇷 Daegu, South Korea
ENL 7.7 (11) - (11) 7.7 RES

🇯🇵 Kagoshima, Japan
ENL 8.4 (12) - (9) 6.3 RES

🇵🇭 Baguio, Philippines
ENL 17.5 (25) - (0) 0.0 RES

🇹🇼 Donggang, Taiwan
ENL 0.0 (0) - (25) 17.5 RES

🇲🇾 Petaling Jaya, Malaysia
ENL 7.7 (11) - (13) 9.1 RES

🇹🇼 Zhubei, Taiwan
ENL 14.0 (20) - (4) 2.8 RES

🇹🇭 Bangkok, Thailand
ENL 7.0 (10) - (9) 6.3 RES

🇻🇳 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
ENL 0.0 (0) - (18) 12.6 RES

🇮🇩 South Jakarta, Indonesia
ENL 8.4 (12) - (2) 1.4 RES

🇱🇰 Galle, Sri Lanka
ENL 11.2 (16) - (2) 1.4 RES

🇰🇿 Almaty, Kazakhstan
ENL 13.3 (19) - (3) 2.1 RES

Total Score
ENL 106.4 - 81.9 RES

🟢 The Enlightened capture the APAC +Alpha Skirmishes!

+Alpha Series Score
ENL 695.2 - RES 474.0

Source: https://ingress.com/news/2025-plusalpha-results

@IUENG

After the investigation concerning the +Alpha Shard Skirmish in Donggang, Taiwan, Niantic revised the score of the event to
ENL 0.0 (0) - (25) 17.5 RES

The previous post has been updated, and the final score of the APAC +Alpha Skirmishes is
ENL 106.4 - 81.9 RES

Source: https://t.me/NianticOfficial/910

@IUENG

New Agents that are just starting out are receiving a special, permanent Campaign that teaches them the basics of Ingress via Bounties.

The Ingress Challenge Compendium contains 34 distinct Bounties which reward 80 AP each when completed as well as an additional 10.000 AP once all Bounties have been claimed, giving them a great head start in their journey.

While veteran Agents do not have access to this Campaign it is still interesting to see which Bounties are possible in a Campaign, such as "Recycle X items", "Attempt X Glyph Hacks" or "Hack X Portal Keys", which could all be used in future Campaigns. It is also interesting to see that Assignments can be permanent which might be used to give Agents something bigger to work towards.

@IUENG

As reported by us a while back, Niantic has decided to sell Pokemon Go, Pikmin Bloom and Monster Hunter Now as well as Campfire and Wayfarer to Scopely. Niantic will also spin off their geospatial side into a new Company called Niantic Spatial.

Ingress (and Peridot) are not included in the sale and will remain under the umbrella of Niantic Spatial and John Hanke!

As mentioned by Niantic:

Niantic Spatial will continue to own and operate our other real-world AR games, Ingress Prime and Peridot, as best-in-class applications of the geospatial platform.

It is currently unknown how the sale of Wayfarer will impact suggesting, editing and reporting Portals. The main Lightship database with all of its POIs will also remain with Niantic Spartial.

Source (Niantic)
Source (Scopely)
Source (Ingress team)

@IUENG

In just a little more than 24 hours, +Alpha Skirmishes will take place in 13 locations across the Americas!

As a reminder, here is the list of involved cities:

Beacon Skirmishes
🇺🇸 Champaign, IL, USA

Shard Skirmishes
🇵🇾 Asunción, Paraguay
🇦🇷 Buenos Aires, Argentina
🇨🇱 Coquimbo, Chile
🇧🇷 Goiânia, Brazil
🇲🇽 Guadalajara, Mexico
🇺🇸 Norfolk, VA, USA
🇺🇸 Oklahoma City, OK, USA
🇺🇸 Orono, ME, USA
🇵🇪 Piura, Peru
🇵🇦 Panama City, Panama
🇺🇸 Tampa, FL, USA
🇨🇦 Victoria, BC, Canada

The Skirmishes will start at 16:00 local time and will last 1h40m in total.

Almost 6 hours of action await, starting at 19:00 UTC. Final results should be expected shortly after the last events end, at 00:40 UTC.

@IUENG

The final scores for the +Alpha Skirmishes in the AMER region were published!

Beacon Skirmishes
🇺🇸 Champaign, IL, USA
ENL (358) 9.0 - 7.6 (304) RES

Shard Skirmishes
🇵🇾 Asunción, Paraguay
ENL (19) 13.3 - 0.0 (0) RES

🇦🇷 Buenos Aires, Argentina
ENL (14) 9.8 - 4.9 (7) RES

🇨🇱 Coquimbo, Chile
ENL (18) 12.6 - 0.7 (1) RES

🇧🇷 Goiânia, Brazil
ENL (0) 0.0 - 16.8 (24) RES

🇲🇽 Guadalajara, Mexico
ENL (10) 7.0 - 9.4 (12) RES

🇺🇸 Norfolk, VA, USA
ENL (11) 7.7 - 7.7 (11) RES

🇺🇸 Oklahoma City, OK, USA
ENL (16) 11.2 - 1.4 (2) RES

🇺🇸 Orono, ME, USA
ENL (7) 4.9 - 5.6 (8) RES

🇵🇦 Panama City, Panama
ENL (1) 0.7 - 9.1 (13) RES

🇵🇪 Piura, Peru
ENL (14) 9.8 - 7.7 (11) RES

🇺🇸 Tampa, FL, USA
ENL (15) 10.5 - 2.1 (3) RES

🇨🇦 Victoria, BC, Canada
ENL (24) 16.8 - 0.0 (0) RES

Total Score
ENL 113.3 - 72.0 RES

🟢 The Enlightened capture the +Alpha Skirmishes in the AMER Region!

+Alpha Series Score
ENL 808.5 - RES 546.0

Source: https://ingress.com/news/2025-plusalpha-results

@IUENG

Over the last few days new Media items have made their way into the Portal Network containing documents reaching back to the Cryptic Memories series.

It seems like Niantic is catching up on the lore that was left at the wayside for the last few Anomaly seasons, trying to retroactively backfill it to catch up to today. As an example, in todays new Media drop we have learned that Machina is not some sort of virus or an alien force, but part of experiments conducted by the IQTech company on an XM Artifact which resonates in a way that activates dormant Portals, which in turn resonate in the same way leading to more dormant Portals activating and so on.

If you are interested in following this emerging story, keep an eye out for newly hacked media or head over to @IUENG_Extra where we will post each new Media as they appear!

@IUENG

Niantic has shared an email from John Hanke sent to Niantic employees in which it was revealed that due to the startup nature of the new Niantic Spatial company certain roles would not be required anymore and the impacted employees would be let go.

It is with a heavy heart that we report that this also incudes Thia Hightower, Operations Manager for Ingress, who has been let go from Niantic.

This follows a deletion of her Telegram account, her Telegram channel and her Twitter account that she has been using for work and for communication with Agents, as well as her Slack account that she has been using for internal communication.

Thia joined the Ingress team in June 2021 and has been a much needed link between Niantic and the Community, helping out Agents and listening to their feedback on Ingress.

From the entire IUENG team, thank you for your work these past years, and we hope that your next journey will be smooth sailing no matter where you go. ❤️

Source: https://nianticlabs.com/news/niantic-spatial-evolve

@IUENG