Niantic announced a reduction in the Access Level needed to participate in Wayfarer from Ingress.

According to Tintino's article on the Wayfarer Forum, the Access Level to Wayfarer has been reduced from L10 to L8 to allow more Agents "to contribute to the game and help build a more vibrant and engaging experience for everyone regardless if they live in major metropolitan cities or small rural communities" given the difficulty in reaching higher levels on Ingress for players who reside in rural areas.

A discussion on the topic is hosted on the Wayfarer Forums at this link: https://community.wayfarer.nianticlabs.com/t/eligibility-level-update-discussion/71066

Source: https://community.wayfarer.nianticlabs.com/t/eligibility-level-update/71065

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🇸🇪 Ingress Mission Day Malmö, Sweden - March 16th, 2025

The Swedish Ingress Community is excited to welcome all Agents once again to Malmö, Sweden for a fun Mission Day!
On March 16th, rediscover this city of parks with 18 carefully crafted missions placed in three routes through the city!

The Blue path, discovering in the West Harbor and Central Station area.
The Green path, traversing the normally green and lush kings park and Gustav Adolfs square area.
The Red path, People's Park (Folkets Park) to Willowpond Park (Pildamsparken) passing food and shopping points of interest along the way!

XF Telegram Chat
Mission Day Map

POCs
🔵 @thermoplastic_SE
🟢 @scylla39

@IUENG

With 6 days to go until the end of the +Alpha Global Campaign, Niantic shared that the score is standing at
ENL 97.3 - 102.7 RES

They also provided the info about the average number of Bounties completed by each Faction: the Enlightened average 15.30 bounties, while the Resistance averages 15.44 bounties!

Source: https://news.1rj.ru/str/NianticOfficial/867

@IUENG

🇨🇦Ingress Mission Day + Second Sunday Ottawa, Canada - February 9th, 2025

Agents, get ready for an unforgettable frosty adventure during Winterlude, Ottawa's iconic winter festival! Join the Canadian Ingress community for a Mission Day in Ottawa, where you'll discover the city's historic landmarks, hidden gems, and Winterlude magic — all in a breathtaking winter wonderland at the heart of Canada's capital!

On this day, along the Mission Day Badge tick, you'll also be able to obtain a point onto your Second Sunday badge by completing the related Campaign!

Immerse yourself in Winterlude's enchanting ice sculptures, skating on the Rideau Canal, and lively festivities while exploring Ottawa through Ingress. Bundle up, grab your scanner, and let's celebrate winter in style!

Telegram Chat

POCs
🟢 @MewRawr
🔵 @LungsMcFly

@IUENG

🇹🇭 Ingress Mission Day Salaya, Thailand - February 8th, 2025

Discover Salaya, a vibrant university town just outside Bangkok! Join the local ingress community in exploration of the Mahidol University campus, one of Thailand's most renowned institutions. Wind your way through traditional markets filled with local delicacies, visit the iconic Prince Mahidol Hall with its distinctive Thai-modern design, and experience the perfect blend of academic atmosphere and local culture.

Between missions, refresh yourself with famous Thai milk tea and street food at Salaya's beloved food courts.
Don't miss this chance to explore and make new connections in one of Thailand's most fascinating suburban districts!

Telegram channel

POCs
🟢 @bankbeaubutter
🔵 @gundumwing014

@IUENG

The Lunar New Year 2025 Medal is now available for purchase at the in-app store! The medal is sold alongside 8 Hypercubes and has a price of 7000 CMU.
It will remain posted until February 3rd @ 1600 UTC

For all details about the Lunar New Year Campaign tasks and rewards, check out our post on @IUENG_Extra!

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Niantic has announced the locations which will host an Ingress Mission Day during Q2 2025!

🇨🇱 Viña del Mar, Chile - April 6th, 2025
🇯🇵 Hitachinaka City, Japan - April 12th, 2025
🇮🇳 Hyderabad, India - April 19th, 2025
🇦🇺 Maryborough, QLD, Australia - April 26th, 2025
🇨🇴 Cartagena, Colombia - May 3rd, 2025
🇵🇭 Manila, Philippines - May 18th, 2025
🇺🇸 Providence, RI, USA - May 18th, 2025
🇺🇸 Augusta, GA, USA - June 7th, 2025
🇦🇺 Perth, Australia - June 15th, 2025
🇩🇪 Chemnitz, Germany - June 15th, 2025
🇺🇸 Tuscaloosa, AL, USA - June 21st, 2025
🇯🇵 Ube City, Japan - June 28th, 2025

If any additions were to be detected on the original list, we will update this post accordingly.

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

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🇺🇸 Ingress Mission Day + First Saturday Augusta, GA, USA - June 7th, 2025
Ingress Second Sunday Augusta, GA, USA - June 8th, 2025

🕺 We'd like to welcome you to our jam-packed weekend of Mission Day, First Saturday, AND Second Sunday on June 7th and 8th, 2025 in Augusta, GA! 💃

Discover Augusta, a city steeped in rich history and vibrant culture, known as the home of the legendary James Brown and the Masters Golf Tournament! Join the local Ingress community as we explore the city's charming views and artistic heritage. Immerse yourself in Augusta's historical sites, enjoy the scenic beauty, and experience the lively arts scene that makes this city unique.

Between missions, take a break to savor local Southern cuisine and explore the city's cultural offerings. Don't miss out on this opportunity to connect with fellow agents and experience the groove of Augusta!

Telegram channel

POCs
🟢 @concord192 (ingress: 0xC0ncord)
🔵 @MadAlyice

@IUENG

At the start of January, we have opened a survey in which we asked Agents that were subscribed to this channel for their feedback regarding how the channel is run as well as how the channel could be changed. We have read through every single submission and will therefore trial through some changes based on your feedback.

Read through this article to see how Agents have answered as well as our thoughts and reasoning behind the changes we want to try out:

https://telegra.ph/IUENG---2024-Feedback-Results-01-28

If you only want to know what is changing for now:

🔸Try to bring more community-driven content on @IUENG, such as Agent interviews at events
🔸Open applications for new writers to address bias and timezone problems (soon™)
🔸Move Update Notes, standalone Polls as well as non-Ingress news from Niantic to @IUENG_Extra
🔸Pay extra attention to keep posts impartial: for example, not declaring a faction as winner of an event/Anomaly before its end, even though mathematically it could already be called
🔸Created a way for Agents to give anonymous feedback on our posts as well as appealing a ban from the comments/Discussion group via the @IUENG_Submission_Bot
🔸Add rule to the comments/discussion group rules for agents to limit toxic or excessively sarcastic comments to the members of the opposing faction. This will allow Agents to celebrate their faction, comment fairly on the opponents and enjoy a safe environment in the group

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🇨🇱 Ingress Mission Day Viña del Mar, Chile - April 6th, 2025

Agents! Next April 6th, the Chilean Ingress Community awaits you in the Garden City to enjoy a great Mission Day! Come and visit its beautiful beaches or the famous Quinta Vergara, home of the largest Latin festival in the world.

Discover the city's iconic landmarks, from the picturesque Flower Clock (Reloj de Flores) to the Gothic-style Castillo Wulff located on coastal rocks. As you complete missions, you'll explore the avenues and gardens that earned the city its nickname "Ciudad Jardín."

Viña del Mar will welcome you with open arms to enjoy its beautiful postcard views and sunsets.

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POCs
🔵 @ShadowVcL
🟢 @FreddyMFG

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+Alpha Global Campaign Challenge Results

Niantic has published the final results of the Global Campaign Challenge for the +Alpha Anomaly Series, which reads as follows:

ENL 97.2 - 102.8 RES

🔵 The Resistance captures the +Alpha Global Campaign Challenge!

No further info on the average number of bounties completed by the Factions has been released at this time.

Source: https://news.1rj.ru/str/NianticOfficial/871

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The name of the Q2 Anomaly season has been revealed to the POCs:

+Theta

The season will run from April to June 2025 and will see XM Anomalies on the following dates:

🔸17 May 2025 @Manila, Metro Manila. Philippines and Providence RI, USA
🔸14 June @Perth, WA, Australia and Chemnitz, Germany

More details about the season as well as additional events will be revealed as we get closer to it!

(The picture in this post was created by us and is not the official Anomaly logo)

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2025 is well underway! With almost an entire year before us, we want to ask you again like last year: What are features you would like to see added, changed or removed to and from Ingress?

In addition to that, we have also collected a few ideas from around the community and last years survey of which we want to know your feelings of. You will be presented with a list of feature ideas for which you'll decide if you want to see them added to Ingress or not.

As an incentive, we are giving away 5 VR Loadout cards amongst all Agents that complete the Google Form and leave their Telegram username in the last field! After we close the Form we will randomly select 5 Agents that submitted their Telegram username and will message them with their Loadout.

⚠️ As always, do note that we have no relation to Niantic. This form has been created by Agents and we cannot guarantee that Niantic will see the results.

Fill out the form here: https://forms.gle/qGhxm1Qv6dFwEpoL9

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Agent @PkmnTrainerJ from the Ingress Insights Podcast will hold an interview with voice actress Erin Fitzgerald who played Carrie Campbell in the 1218 universe!

During this interview, they will use this opportunity to answer questions that have been asked by Agents on a dedicated Reddit thread. The questions will be checked by Erin beforehand, and they are able to decline/delete any they can’t answer or don’t know, so leave your questions accordingly.

You'll have until 21st February to come up with some questions. If you have a question you want Erin to answer, leave a comment on Reddit here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Ingress/s/hsxIZ1K6ec

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Niantic has lit ornaments on the cities in the EMEA region that will host a +Alpha Skirmish on March 1st, starting at 16:00 local time!

Beacon Skirmishes
🇦🇲 Yerevan, Armenia
🇱🇹 Kaunas, Lithuania
🇳🇴 Oslo, Norway
🇧🇪 Brussels, Belgium

Shard Skirmishes
🇹🇷 İzmir, Türkiye
🇪🇪 Tallinn, Estonia
🇸🇪 Stockholm, Sweden
🇩🇰 Copenhagen, Denmark
🇵🇱 Wrocław, Poland
🇩🇪 Augsburg, Germany
🇪🇸 Seville, Spain
🇫🇷 Nantes, France
🇬🇧 Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK

For all rules concerning these events, check out https://ingress.com/news/2025-plusalpha#skirmish-intro

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Niantic announced a new Campaign Event in celebration of Valentine's day!

On February 14th, from 0:00 to 23:59 local time, a special linking-themed Campaign will be enabled for all Agents. The Event denoscription promises "pink" rewards, possibly hinting to Very Rare items.

Additionally, the following medals will be available in the in-app store from February 13th @ 11:00 UTC to February 15th @ 11:00 UTC.
🔸+Alpha: Valentine medal (30,800 CMU)
🔸Misty Hannah 2025 Valentines medal (30,800 CMU)
🔸Re-release of Ingress Valentine’s 2022 medal (2,500 CMU)

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

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We are looking for new writers!

IUENG is the largest cross-faction news channel on Telegram, bringing you the latest Ingress news as fast as possible. As we have grown over the last 8 years the team behind it has largely stayed the same. We finally want to extend that team and include more Agents from around the world and different factions to help us out in the delivery of timely and unbiased posts.

Specifically, we are looking for Agents that want to help the IUENG project, that want to share news to all players while potentially making them available outside of our normal European timezone postings and that have a passion for the game.

Note that helping out the channel is voluntarily. As much as we would love to, we cannot compensate you for you time, be it with medals or items. On the flip side, there are no requirements or quota that you need to hit.

If you want to help out, head over to this form: https://forms.gle/wZ8spv8EYR4Ty8yr6

If you have questions, ask in the comments!

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Niantic has lit ornaments on the cities in the APAC region that will host a +Alpha Skirmish on March 8th, starting at 16:00 local time!

Interestingly, this set of Skirmishes will only host Shard Skirmishes, no Beacon Skirmishes were scheduled for this round.

Shard Skirmishes
🇰🇿 Almaty, Kazakhstan
🇱🇰 Galle, Sri Lanka
🇳🇿 Auckland, New Zealand
🇹🇭 Bangkok, Thailand
🇲🇾 Petaling Jaya, Malaysia
🇮🇩 Jakarta, Indonesia
🇦🇺 Canberra, Australia
🇰🇷 Daegu, South Korea
🇻🇳 Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam
🇯🇵 Kagoshima, Japan
🇹🇼 Zhubei, Taiwan
🇹🇼 Donggang, Taiwan
🇵🇭 Baguio, Philippines

For all rules concerning these events, check out https://ingress.com/news/2025-plusalpha#skirmish-intro

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The +Alpha Anomaly weekend in Yokosuka, Japan is kicking off with the Goruck Stealth Ops!

Agents are ready for a night of intense physical challenges which will bring up to 7 Season Points to their Faction!

Best of luck to all participating Agents!

Ph: @Himav

@IUENG

Reports keep coming in from Yokosuka, where two challenges have already been completed!
The first one, a relay race passing heavy backpacks between members of the team, was won by the Enlightened!
The second one, which had Agents draw glyphs with their bodies, was won by the Resistance!

As such, the score is currently tied, 1-1!

Ph: @Himav

@IUENG

The result for the Yokosuka Goruck Stealth Ops is now final!

Reports from the ground after the event tell us that the Resistance won 5 out of the 7 challenges played, while the Enlightened won the remaining 2!
Therefore, the Resistance brings home 4 Series Points, while the Enlightened obtain 2!

Current +Alpha Series Score:
ENL 99.2 - 107.8 RES

Many thanks to @Himav for his precious contributions!

@IUENG