Niantic announced a new free Campaign: "Hank Johnson: The Courier Files"

The campaign will be running from May 22 at 18:00 UTC to June 2 at 18:00 UTC. Completable up to 3 times, each run unlocks unique intel (we presume related to the lore).

The completion of stage 1 will reward up to 3,000 Orion Tokens. Each Assignment requires completing 3 out of 5 Bounties to proceed.

1⃣ Stage 1
Assignment 1
90 Glyph Pts · 1 Kinetic · 25 Mod Deploys · 42 Mods Destroyed · 250k recharge → 400 Tokens

Assignment 2
140 Glyph Pts · 2 Kinetics · 32 Mod Deploys · 66 Mods Destroyed · 375k recharge → 600 Tokens

Assignment 3
180 Glyph Pts · 2 Kinetics · 25 Mod Deploys · 75 Mods Destroyed · 350k recharge → 800 Tokens

Assignment 4
275 Glyph Pts · 3 Kinetics · 42 Mod Deploys · 130 Mods Destroyed · 400k recharge → 1,200 Tokens

2⃣ Stage 2
Assignment 1
210 Glyph Pts · 3 Kinetics · 55 Mod Deploys · 100 Mods Destroyed · 1M recharge

Assignment 2
320 Glyph Pts · 4 Kinetics · 75 Mod Deploys · 150 Mods Destroyed · 1.5M recharge

Assignment 3
750 Glyph Pts · 5 Kinetics · 90 Mod Deploys · 240 Mods Destroyed · 1.8M recharge

Assignment 4
1,150 Glyph Pts · 6 Kinetics · 150 Mod Deploys · 360 Mods Destroyed · 2.8M recharge

3⃣ Stage 3
Assignment 1
910 Glyph Pts · 7 Kinetics · 160 Mod Deploys · 270 Mods Destroyed · 1.9M recharge

Assignment 2
1,450 Glyph Pts · 8 Kinetics · 230 Mod Deploys · 425 Mods Destroyed · 2.9M recharge

Assignment 3
3,400 Glyph Pts · 9 Kinetics · 390 Mod Deploys · 1,020 Mods Destroyed · 7M recharge

Assignment 4
5,100 Glyph Pts · 10 Kinetics · 580 Mod Deploys · 1,500 Mods Destroyed · 10M recharge

Source: https://ingress.com/news/2026-hankcourierfiles

@IUENG

The Orion Anomaly in Prague is being plagued by heavy lag since the start of the event, both on Scanners and on the Intel Map.

Niantic replied to a user via their Twitter account saying it is being investigated.

@IUENG

Orion Anomalies in Sydney & Prague: Servers Let Everyone Down

This weekend's Anomalies in Sydney, and even more evidently in Prague, were marred by severe server issues that lasted almost exactly as long as the event itself: starting when the Anomaly windows opened and ending the moment they closed. We, voicing the concern of POCs, Anomaly participants, and players supporting the Events remotely, want to take the unusual step of publicly calling out Niantic Spatial and holding them accountable for these issues.

What happened Saturday was very frustrating to witness for the Agents on site, and a competitive disaster which invalidates much of the work and preparations put into the strategies for the fight. Agents who spent real money on flights and hotels to compete at the main Ingress Live Events found themselves fighting the servers as much as the opposing faction, with Portals unresponsive and actions timing out. That led to the coordination and cooperation between Agents that Anomalies are known and loved for becoming useless, leaving the results to be decided by how many Players were able to have their actions registered, all while the clock ticked down on a four-hour window that can't be turned back.

Niantic acknowledged the problem on social media and Telegram, noting they were investigating, and mentioned infrastructure work from March aimed at improving performance (unclear if to name a possible culprit or to reassure Agents). That context does, however, not help Agents when the game is unplayable during the only hours that matter, and the response felt hollow as no other immediate actions followed.

Regardless of faction, every Agent on the ground deserved a fair fight. They didn't get one. Niantic Spatial owes the community a guarantee this won't repeat itself in Kure, Jersey City, Geneva, Lima, and beyond.

We join voices with the other faction-oriented Ingress information channels, such as @RGNNticker, @worldingressresistanceradio and @EGR_ticker, who are also expected to report about this outage with the voices of the organizers of these Events in the coming hours or several days.

@IUENG

Niantic announced to POCs the name of the 2026 Q3 Anomaly Series!

The Series will be called Apollo!

As a reminder, the Anomaly Events for Q3 2026 will be

18 Jul 2026
🇫🇮Helsinki, Finland
🇨🇴Bogotá, Colombia

22 Aug 2026
🇰🇷Seoul, Korea
🇫🇷Paris, France

19 Sep 2026
🇸🇬Singapore
🇺🇸Denver, CO, USA

Admin really likes the nod to Space Mission names 🚀

Keep an eye on your community for signups links to these Events!

@IUENG

Niantic has published a post-mortem update regarding the server issues experienced by players during Orion Sydney and Prague.

In the update, Brian Rose pinpoints the three main causes of this scanner instability:
1) Concurrent writes in the database causing gridlock - the new database struggled under heavy simultaneous traffic, slowing the near-real-time registration of actions.
2) Ghost records pileup - The game database needs to keep track of changes in Portals, Resonators and other game objects and the way it does so causes a "ghost record" to be left behind for some time. During the events, the high number of actions caused the database to become clogged with such ghost records.
3) Slow autoscaling - The upscaling of resources is usually done preemptively before an Anomaly, to allow the servers to take the hit from the sudden rush of traffic caused by a live event. However, due to the other two issues mentioned, the automatic upscaling system could not keep up.

The Ingress team did intervene during this timeframe to force the server resources onto higher-end machines and try to handle the traffic load, and it worked to the extent of keeping the game from crashing, but didn't fix the core issues.

Brian mentioned some new works in progress to prevent this from happening in future events:
1) Move to in-memory Portal updates - allowing game action to be processed faster initially, then saved to the database.
2) Change the way the database indexes time - eliminating the ghost records bottleneck
3) Pre-split Anomaly Zones in dedicated shards - to dedicate more resources to the Live Events in advance

As a mitigation step, the Ingress team will reduce the XMP Attack range but increase their strength, to try and reduce the number of updates caused by attacks. This update will be active from May 26th @ 17:00 UTC to June 1st @ 17:00 UTC.

Talks are ongoing between Niantic and the POCs of Prague and Sydney Anomalies, about a compensation specifically for participants to these events, as well as codes for Agents who contributed to the Anomaly but weren't awarded the Orion Anomaly Badge.

A make good loadout kit will be available for free on the Store for all Agents, starting May 22nd @ 17:00 UTC and for 7 days.

Source: https://ingress.com/news/2026-nia-debrief

@IUENG

Wondering if you'll make it to Platinum this Anomaly Season?

Agent @flyjonny created the Orion Season Token Calculator, which tracks all your event completions (First Saturdays, Sakura Blossom, Orion Global Op, Nemesis Challenge Redux, Courier Files, Anomalies, and daily bounties) to project your total token count against the Bronze, Silver, Gold, and Platinum medal thresholds.

Just enter your current scanner token count, check off what you've completed, and it tells you exactly how many more days of perfect play you need to hit your next medal.

Many thanks to @flyjonny for sharing this awesome tool with the community!

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@IUENG

Niantic announced the details regarding the Summer Solstice 2026 Event!

The event, which will run from June 5th @ 18:00 UTC to June 22nd @ 18:00 UTC, was previously announced back on the quarterly schedule reveal, and now we know its full composition!

Two campaigns will be available, a free one and a premium one:
The free Campaign will award Agents with the Summer Solstice 2026 Badge in bronze and silver, along with up to 3,000 Orion Tokens.

The premium Campaign will cost 15,000 CMU and will grant the exclusive Dark Star 2026 Badge (rightmost in the picture).

During the event window, 10 Kinetic Capsule Programs will be able to be started simultaneously.

Source: https://ingress.com/news/2026-summer

@IUENG

Update on temporary XMP tuning

A new tweak to XMP tuning will be performed starting today, May 28th @ 17:00 UTC.
The data about this tuning was not disclosed, but earlier investigations by Agents reported that the range of L8 XMP Bursters was about half of the original range.

We are curious to see what these new tweaks will look like! If you spot something new, the comments are open to discuss!

Source: https://ingress.com/news/2026-nia-debrief

@IUENG

Following the Enlightened victory in the Kure City Orion Anomaly, the XM in the scanners has turned green!

It is currently unknown if this is just a coincidence and how long will the XM remain this colour.

We'll monitor the scanner in the next hours and keep you updated if we detect any changes.

@IUENG

Update: the XM has gone back to white, so we suppose it was a one-hour celebration of the ENL victory in Kure!

@IUENG

🏳‍🌈 Pride Month is here! 🏳‍⚧

Niantic has turned the XM rainbow (including the colours of the Trans Flag) to celebrate Pride Month!

To all our LGBTQ+ Agents, you are seen, you are valued, and you are an essential part of this community. No matter your faction, your identity is something to be proud of. Keep exploring, keep connecting, and keep being beautifully, unapologetically yourself!

The Ingress community has always been about bringing people together. Agents from all walks of life, different backgrounds, cultures, identities, and experiences, united around a shared passion for exploration and strategy.

Happy Hacking and Happy Pride! 🌈

A new tutorial has been added to the Scanner and is now available to all Agents, including veteran Agents!

Going forward, depending on your choosen Faction during account creation, either Devra Bogdanovich (Resistance) or Hank Johnson (Enlightened) will guide you through the tutorial and give you the basics of Hacking, Attacking, Deploying and creating Links and Fields. This Tutorial is not bound to your actual location and can be completed without moving, as you will be moved automatically through the CERN facility during it to access the required Portals.

You can replay the Tutorial at any time from the Main Menu and the new "Replay Tutorial" button right under the Settings button.

@IUENG