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The +Alpha Global Challenge is (kind of) visible in the Campaign tab once your local time hits Sunday! As it only appears on midnight local time we can assume that it'll be another Campaign with local timing.

We will update you once Niantic updates the Campaign tab with the missing text!

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The text has been updated by Niantic. It doesn't confirm anything major, but it does confirm that the Campaign once again counts towards the faction score by completing Bounties.

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If you have subscribed to C.O.R.E. for 48 months, you'll receive the new Quad-Core badge!

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The playbox for the +Alpha anomaly in Yokosuka, Japan has been lit up!

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The winners for competition have been drawn! Congratulations to the following Agents:

MjkingSF
OriginCode
13a13
gnarfer
Kyrio1007

We will contact you shortly to check which medal you want!

All in all, we had 453 entries.

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Niantic has announced the rules for +Alpha while we were asleep!

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

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Update 2.158.1 has been released for Ingress.

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After being used last in 2020 for the Perpetua Hexathlon, 5 years ago, the Ingress team is using their first party ticketing system again!

Before, Niantic has mostly used a third party site called Splashthat to sell tickets or add-ons to Events, like Swag kits, access to the after party and so on. This has now shifted back to the first party platform Niantic is managing themselves.

At the moment, the "Events" button in the main menu which lead to this first party platform in the past still links to the events news site, but in the future, it might allow Agents to buy tickets directly from the Scanner again.

Attending the after party in Yokosuka? You can get the tickets for the event here: https://tickets.nianticlabs.com/events/#/eventlisting?appId=ingress

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In preperation for the +Alpha Global Campaign three item bundles has been marked as "featured" in the store, including the 5x Kinetic Capsule bundle. This leads us to believe that at least one of the Bounties for the Campaign could involve completing Kinetic Capsule programs.

If you want to prepare, make sure to have one or two Kinetic Capsules ready to claim!

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+Alpha Global Challenge - Campaign details

Assignment 1/3
Complete 5 out of 7 Bounties to advance
Reward: Bronze +Alpha Challenge medal

- Earn 200 +Alpha Op Points
Reward: 1x Common Shield

- Earn 500 +Alpha Op Points
Reward: 3x Common Shield

- Deploy 20 Portal Mods
Reward: 1x Common Multi-Hack

- Deploy 40 Portal Mods
Reward: 3x Common Multi-Hack

- Destroy 20 Portal Mods
Reward: 1x Common Heat Sink

- Destroy 40 Portal Mods
Reward: 3x Common Heat Sink

- Claim 5 Kinetic Capsule Programs
Reward: 5x L4 Power Cubes

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+Alpha Global Challenge - Campaign details

Assignment 2/3
Complete 5 out of 7 Bounties to advance
Reward: 1x Rare Kinetic Capsule

- Earn 220 +Alpha Op Points
Reward: 1x Common Shield

- Earn 540 +Alpha Op Points
Reward: 3x Common Shield

- Deploy 22 Portal Mods
Reward: 1x Common Multi-Hack

- Deploy 44 Portal Mods
Reward: 3x Common Multi-Hack

- Destroy 22 Portal Mods
Reward: 1x Common Heat Sink

- Destroy 44 Portal Mods
Reward: 3x Common Heat Sink

- Claim 5 Kinetic Capsule Programs
Reward: 5x L4 Power Cubes

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+Alpha Global Challenge - Campaign details

Assignment 3/3
Complete 5 out of 7 Bounties to advance
Reward: Silver +Alpha Challenge medal

- Earn 240 +Alpha Op Points
Reward: 1x Rare Shield

- Earn 540 +Alpha Op Points
Reward: 3x Rare Shield

- Deploy 24 Portal Mods
Reward: 1x Rare Multi-Hack

- Deploy 48 Portal Mods
Reward: 3x Rare Multi-Hack

- Destroy 24 Portal Mods
Reward: 1x Rare Heat Sink

- Destroy 48 Portal Mods
Reward: 3x Rare Heat Sink

- Claim 5 Kinetic Capsule Programs
Reward: 5x L4 Power Cubes

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Here is a table with all the requirements for completing the Assignments!

(now with 100% less errors!)

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The +Alpha Supporter Medals are also now available on the Store until the 31st of March. They cost 30,800 CMU each.

Note that the Elite medal is only visible if you have 40 million (or more) AP, the C.O.R.E. medal is only visible if you are currently subscribed to C.O.R.E.

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Niantic has released some small details about the Year of the Snake event!

Apparently, it will run from the 29th to the 31st local time and focus on Glyphing and Recharging, likely with rewards given out via a special Campaign during the event.

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The Year of the Snake Celebration event has started to appear in the Campaign tab, giving us (probably) a glimpse at the newest Festive Badge, celebrating the year of the snake. If we take the past badges into consideration, this badge should be available for 2500 CMU, likely once the event starts.

Ph.: @oscarc1

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Here is a better look at the badge! Obviously it is missing details like its color, but the motiv itself should be the same.

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By popular demand, the "Lunar New Year 2024" (Year of Dragon) medal will return to the in-app store for a limited time.

Available from January 25th, 16:00 UTC to January 28th, 16:00 UTC, this offer is exclusive to C.O.R.E. subscribers who have not yet acquired the medal.

Heads up! Niantic lowered the requirements for accessing Niantic Wayfarer down to Level 8, but introduced a bug which applies the new, lower restrictions to Recursed Agents as well.

If you have Recursed but have not yet reached Level 8 again you're currently locked out of submitting stuff or accessing Wayfarer via your Ingress account.

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