The Resistance of Budapest invites you to their Shard Storm!

Saturday, 2025-12-13 from 13:00 local time

❄️ Cold weather, hot links, and blue victory await!

📍 1R group
https://res.blue/group/budapest-shard-20251213

🏆 Join us for:
• Anomaly Points
• Beta Tokens
• Meeting other agents

Let’s make Budapest blue! 💪💙
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C.A.R.G.O. is now available in the store!

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The official Ingress merch shop was stocked up with a few items that the NIA has found in their vaults! This includes shirts, pins and cards with passcodes on them (JARVIS, NL-Prime etc.). Take a look around: https://ingressmerch.myshopify.com/collections/all

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A small clarification was made to the weapon changes: While lower level XMPs will fire with the power of a L8, the original range will not be changed. If you want to destroy Portal farms with L1 XMPs, you'll need to get much closer to them than normal!

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With the +Beta Season nearing its end, this Sunday is/was the last opportunity to earn +Beta Tokens via the Daily Bounties. Agents in the earlier timezones can now confirm that the Daily Bounties are back to "normal", with all four of them awarding items again and the AP bonus being reinstated for completing 2 or 4 Bounties!

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The Recursion dialog has been updated with a bit of new flavor text! Feature wise there are no changes, but the text now explains the Recursion progress in a bit more detail.

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We're aware of an issue that is blocking Agents from signing into Ingress, and we're investigating. Thank you for your patience.

As Part Of The Collaboration With Paramount It Seems Like We Will Get A New Campaign In The Scanner Related To THE RUNNING MAN Movie!

Starting today at 18:00 UTC and running until the December 31st, 18:00 UTC Agent are able to take on a "Quest" (likely a Dispatch Campaign) and earn a Portal Fracker, an Apex and a Kinetic Capsule when completing it.

The event hasn't been officially announced yet and has only appeared on the Events tab on the Intel Map, so the exact details are still unknown. We will let you know here and on @IUENG once more details are available!

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Bounties for the Campaign

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+Beta Daily Bounty Challenge has concluded with ENL 146.0 : 154.0 RES.
Congratulations to the Resistance!

Thank you to all Agents who participated and contributed to their Factions' success.

For full results please go to: https://ingress.com/news/2025-plusbeta-results

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The "Walk 2 kilometers" task is currently not counting. The Ingress team is aware and investigating.

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Loosing track of all the Events and Campaigns going on at the moment? We have just updated our Google Calendar which includes all currently known events. You can either view the Calendar in your browser or add it to your own Calendar.

For more details, see this post on out main channel: https://t.me/IUENG/5914

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With the recent Ingress 3.1.2 update Agents on Android have reported that the Portal Nomination flow is broken. Specifically, once you need to enter the Portal Title and press OK, the title automatically clears up and doesn't save and it is impossible to even start typing the Portal Description, breaking the Nomination flow.

A workaround until this is fixed is to use the "Enter" button on your phones keyboard instead of the OK button that most people normally press. This saves the Portal Title as expected and you can continue with the Nomination flow as normal to submit your Portal.

This does not seem to work for everyone and might depend on the keyboard you use. If you have issues with this workaround, try installing a different Keyboard from Google Play such as SwiftKey.

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As a compensation for the earlier problems with accessing the game, Niantic now offers a free bundle to all agents. The bundle will be available in store during the upcoming 48 hours.

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The 100 lucky Agents that have been selected in the recent ITO EN Dispatch Campaign lottery have received the passcodes required to activate said Campaign and can now complete it to earn the new ITO EN medal! If you have participated in the lottery, check your DMs on Twitter for a message from ITO EN.

If you haven't gotten lucky, don't worry! Brian has announced on Bluesky that other Agents will be able to earn the Campaign and Medal later in 2026.

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An in-lore document detailing why the Ingress scanner went offline for multiple hours last week was posted by the team.

https://bsky.app/profile/ingress.com/post/3mbs3ajzylc2m

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Agents on iOS have been having issues with Ingress randomly and rapidly flashing and flickering during gameplay. After Brian has acknowledged the issue a few days back on Reddit it seems like the team is now testing a potential fix supplied by Unity, which may or may not work. From this post however we can also see that the fix either didn't make it into the next update or the next update is still a few weeks out.

https://bsky.app/profile/ingress.com/post/3mbs4nffh7s2m

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The medal designs for the +Gamma Season medal were revealed!

https://ingress.com/news/2026-plusgamma

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Gamma: A Hint at Something Bigger?

The latest anomaly series introduces a medal named Gamma, and its meaning may go beyond a simple title. Based on its design, the name likely references gamma rays—the most powerful form of radiation in the universe.

The medal also resembles astronomical depictions of TON 618, one of the largest known black holes, supporting a possible space-related theme. This aligns with Niantic Spatial’s announcement that this year’s anomalies will be space-influenced.

At the same time, Gamma fits into a familiar pattern. Earlier 2025 anomaly series—Delta, Theta, Alpha, and Beta—all reference brainwaves. Gamma waves, the highest-frequency brainwaves, are linked to peak focus and heightened awareness, suggesting Gamma could mark both a conclusion and a transition into something new.

In space science, gamma-ray bursts are the brightest and most powerful explosions ever observed. Could this be hinting at stronger anomaly effects—or even the introduction of an entirely new in-game weapon?

👀 What do you think Gamma really represents?

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