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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

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The +Alpha Bounty Blitz for the APAC 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 50.8 - 49.2 RES

The Enlightened win the APAC Bounty Blitz and set the series score at:
ENL 859.3 - 595.2 RES

The next and final event in the +Alpha Series' is the +Alpha Anomaly in Naples today! Agents are already gearing up to claim the series in the decisive battle!

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The final battle in the +Alpha series begins in just 10 minutes in Naples, Italy! Agents are making their way to their starting positions and are warming up their scanner to ensure the best possible point gain they can archive.

Earlier in the weekend, Agents also competed in GORUCK Stealth and GORUCK Urban for some additional series points. The results are as follows:

GORUCK Stealth
ENL 4 - 3 RES

GORUCK Urban
ENL 5.6 - 1.4 RES

Just ahead of the final battle the series score therefore stands at
ENL 868.9 - 559.6 RES

We wish everyone in Naples best of luck and a lot of fun!

Ph.: @Himav

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The +Alpha Anomaly in Naples has ended!

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
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The scores for Naples are in and look as follows:

ENL 97.1 - 110.5 RES

With the +Alpha Series points standing at

ENL 966 - 670,1 RES

after the last Anomaly, we finally have our winners!

🟢 The Enlightened win the +Alpha Anomaly Series!


The Enlightened keeps going strong and wins the first anomaly series for 2025.

Congratulations Agents! It's time for celebrations!

Next up will be the +Theta Series, which will accompany us throughout Q2 2025!

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

@IUENG
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🇮🇹 +Alpha Anomaly Naples

Battle Beacons
Raw score
ENL 486 - 844 RES
Final Score
ENL 34 - 59 RES

Shards
Raw score
ENL 8 (1 unscored) - 7 RES
Final Score
ENL 49.6 - 43.4 RES

Covert Cache
% Bonus
ENL 1R | 1C, 1VR RES
Season Points bonus
ENL 1R | 1C RES

Goruck Stealth Ops
ENL 4 - 3 RES
Goruck Urban Ops
ENL 5.6 - 1.4 RES

Final Event Score
ENL 97.1 - 110.5 RES

🔵 The Resistance capture the +Alpha Anomaly in Naples!

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

@IUENG
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🥪 A Toast to Community Manager Thia

The Ingress global community is organizing a beacon lighting worldwide to honor the work of Thia, former Community Manager, who was impacted by the recent layoffs following the restructuring of Niantic into Niantic Spatial.

In celebration of her time supporting the Ingress community, join us on April 1st, all day, by deploying a Toast! Beacon in a tribute to Community Manager Thia!

We invite all of you to share a picture of your scanner and any memories you have on social media with #IngressToast!

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📖 Today, Agents have reported coming into contact with the first media regarding the Buried Memories Anomaly Series.

As always, if you are interested in lore, we are summarizing their content over on @IUENG_Extra.
A big thank you to all Agents who are sharing their discoveries with us!

@IUENG
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Portals around the world are transforming into Couch Portals (hah, get it?)!

Agents are reporting that Portals have their Portal image overwritten by an image of a couch in the respective Portals color randomly upon tapping on a portal. The pictures can be forced by repeatedly opening and closing a portal until they show up, but they don't always show. The original photos are not lost though and can still be seen through the Intel Map as well as the Portal details if there are two or more pictures on a Portal.

With this, Niantic has initiated this year's April Fools, and it remains to be seen if any other changes will be observed over the day. If that is the case we'll update you as soon as possible!

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Big changes are coming to IUENG! Since 2016, we've kept this channel free for Agents worldwide, fostering calm, collected discussions (with absolutely no problems ever). But let’s be real—free is overrated.

In partnership with Viewly Investments, we’re thrilled to announce that our beloved discussion platforms are evolving into a premium experience. Viewly’s expertise in monetizing basic human interaction ensures our communities will remain exclusive, engaging, and—most importantly—profitable.

For details, check out Viewly’s full announcement attached. Today, April 1st, we’re offering an exclusive demo of these exciting new paywalls. Don’t worry—your past messages will be preserved, for just $4.99/month.

Plus, we’re replacing our human support team with HUMAN AI Community Manager, Roger (@itsisntremy on Telegram), ensuring our revenue stays on track without pesky “human errors.”

At IUENG, we believe the best experiences are the ones you keep paying for. Get ready for the future—one microtransaction at a time.

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Want more ways to spend money? Niantic has just announced a unique opportunity to participate in a limited-time trial run of a brand-new feature: Temporary Couch Portals!

For a small fee of just $99.99 you'll be able to purchase your very own Couch Portal at a location of your choosing, as well as choose one of four Couch colors! During this trial, the portal will become active for 7 days sometime during April after purchase with automatically assigned names.

As per usual, if you believe a portal should be removed, it can be reported in the scanner, and the Ingress team may remove them at any time if they violate any of the terms laid out in the article.

Depending on the feedback of this trial, Niantic will decide if this feature will continue to be offered in the future.

Don't be late and get your own Couch Portal now: https://ingressmerch.myshopify.com/products/temporary-couch-portal

Source: https://ingress.com/news/2025-apr-couchportaltrialrun

Beware of any news on April 1st...

@IUENG
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Ingress will be separated from Niantic Wayfarer and the Wayfarer map

As part of Scopelys acquisition, Niantic Wayfarer will transition to Scopely in the coming weeks and months. As Ingress is not part of the deal, the game (and Niantic Spatial as a company) will be separated from the program and receive a new system to contribute data.

What this exactly means:
- Until the transition, Agents can continue to use Niantic Wayfarer with their account. New submissions, edits etc. will still be reviewed by the community for the time being, with all changes coming to all current games.
- After the transition, the Niantic Wayfarer map will be split from the new Niantic Spatial map. Contributions by Agents will not sync to the Wayfarer map, and contributions by Scopely players will likewise not affect the Ingress map.
- Niantic Spatial is developing a new map management system to aid in the goal of contributing map data to their database. Agents will need to use that system in the future to contribute to the game.
- While not exactly hashed out yet, the Wayfarer team is working with the Niantic Spatial team to ensure that the OPR Badge progress will be carried over.
- ⚠️ If you have created a Wayfarer account prior to the transition you will continue to have access to Niantic Wayfarer to review contributions and view your history. Remember though that due to the split, any rewards gained or submissions accepted will not be reflected in Ingress.

TL;DR: Ingress will be split from Niantic Wayfarer. New Portals and edits will be reviewed by a new tool, and accepted submissions will not be added to Wayfarer (PoGo, Monster Hunter etc.). Likewise, submissions from Wayfarer will not be added to Ingress.

The exact date of the transition is still unknown.

Source: https://community.wayfarer.nianticlabs.com/t/important-updates-regarding-wayfarer-and-ingress/83722

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The first changes to Ingress in preparation for the entrance of Niantic Spatial have been announced!

🔸Login with Facebook will be disabled. Agents who use this login method are advised to link a new sign-in platform (Google or Apple) as soon as possible to not lose access to their account.
🔸Campfire will be removed. The social will lose integration with Ingress before the end of the month
🔸Your Niantic profile will be removed from your Ingress Agent profile. Ingress ceases to be listed as a Niantic game.

The dev team also advises that the regular flow of updates may have some disruption due to the amount of work that needs to be carried out to complete the transition. This work will not impact Ingress Live events (Anomalies, MDs and so on).

Source: https://ingress.com/news/getting-ready-for-niantic-spatial

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🚨 Attention to Agents using Facebook to log into Ingress

While we have already mentioned it in the previous post, we want to make absolutely sure that everyone is aware of the following:

Facebook will be removed as a log in method for Ingress and all related services like the Intel Map and the Mission creator.

If you are currently using Facebook as the only method to log in, you must link either a Google or an Apple account to your Ingress profile as soon as possible. If you don't, you will lose access to your account.

If you are unsure how to link another log in method, you can read through this Support article: https://niantic.helpshift.com/hc/faq/418-linking-additional-login-providers-to-your-ingress-account-1600717969/

If you already have a Google or Apple account linked in addition to Facebook, we would still strongly suggest to test if you can log in without Facebook. Any problems need to be fixed before Facebook is removed, so double and triple check that your choosen method is working.

We will update you once Niantic announces when the removal will take place.

If you don't use Facebook to log in or are absolutely sure you have another method linked, you don't have to do anything.

Source: https://ingress.com/news/getting-ready-for-niantic-spatial

@IUENG
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Niantic has released an announcement on both the Ingress scanner and their Telegram channel mentioning reports of a decrease in Machina's activity and Portals returning slowly to neutrality.

At the moment no further info is available, but our Intel map screens are fired up and monitoring the situation!

Source: https://t.me/NianticOfficial/921

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The Ingress Team has highlighted the provisional playboxes for the +Theta XM Anomalies in Manila, Philippines and Providence, RI, USA on May 17th 2025!

The playbox in Manila is roughly 1.6 by 1.0 kilometers wide. In the US, the playbox is about 1.6 kilometers by 800 meters.

If you are planning to participate in one of these events, make sure to sign up to your faction's websites in order to ensure a perfect strategical and logistical organization!

🇵🇭Manila, Philippines
🔵 willbe.blue
🟢 enl.rocks

🇺🇸Providence, RI, USA
🔵 willbe.blue
🟢 enl.rocks

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The decrease in Machina's activity and diffusion has been proceeding at a steady rate in the previous 5 days.

Agents investigating the matter are speculating that in a few hours the population of Machina Portals will be at zero.
During this last period, Machina has visited many more portals but for less time, and its linking activity was much reduced due to the weakness of newly "infected" Portals.

In the image, you can see the current situation in a big city such as Milan, where the red links have been disappearing rapidly. You can also compare it with the situation on April 5th, in this post.
The latest message appeared on Niantic's Facebook page has teased a 'potential for rapid re-emergence', suggesting that the entity may re-appear stronger in the near future.

We will keep watching the Intel Map and the NIA's communication channels for more hints about this 'new phase' for Machina.

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Niantic has released the rules for the upcoming +Theta Anomaly Series, which will accompany us throughout Q2 2025!

Here are the main attention points for this series:
🔸The +Theta Anomaly Medal will be a 3-tiered one!
🥇: 6,000 +Theta Tokens
🥈: 4,000 +Theta Tokens
🥉: 2,000 +Theta Tokens

🔸+Theta Tokens can be obtained through Daily Bounties, the Global Campaign, +Theta Skirmishes and a special Anomaly Campaign! An additional campaign will grant rewards throughout Q2 2025 as Agents obtain +Theta Tokens.

🔸+Theta Skirmishes will take place in EMEA on May 24th, in AMER on May 31st and in APAC on June 7th, with similar rules to the +Alpha seasons. Differences will be analyzed in a separate post.

🔸Global Shards return! Shard Singulars are a new challenge that will take place during the Series with 16 Shards spawning around the world which will score points when they jump on links! Details to be examined in a separate post.

Source: https://ingress.com/news/2025-plustheta

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Machina has lost all its Portals (for now)!

The Now tab in Machinas profile is reporting 0 Portals Owned by our red friend, with about 1800 "Links Active" still shown likely due to a bug. From posts on Social Media by NISP it is clear that this is not the end of Machina and that it'll return soon, likely with new behavior.

Machina profile link: https://link.ingress.com/?link=https://intel.ingress.com/agent/__MACHINA__

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Niantic Spatial has shared more details about the upcoming split and its effects.

Next Tuesday, April 15th at 17:30 UTC, Campfire and the Niantic Profile will be disabled and removed from the game. In addition, new Portal Submission and edits will be paused together with the creation of new Missions and edits to them. This pause will persist until a new system is in place. This will likely be your last chance for a while to affect the game board via submissions, edits and missions!

Additionally, there will be a temporary disabling of creating, linking or unlinking accounts as well as a pause on distance tracking on Thursday, April 17th from 17:30 UTC to 23:30 UTC. During that timeframe you may also experience problems logging in with Apple, however Google should not be effected.

Finally, Facebook will be removed as a log in method starting with Ingress 2.165.1, the version after the next.

Source: https://ingress.com/news/getting-ready-for-niantic-spatial

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The NIA is detecting a "significant resurgence" of Machina activity!
Theories from the NIA predict that Machina will repopulate the Portal Network to the same levels as seen before.

This change comes shortly after the complete disappearance of Machina-controlled Portals from the network.
At this time, Machina still appears to control no portals, meaning that the resurgence of this entity should begin shortly.

Source: https://t.me/NianticOfficial/928

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