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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Year of the Snake Celebration - Campaign details

Assignment 1/1
Complete 9 out of 9 Bounties to advance
Reward: 333 AP

- Hack 3 Portals
Reward: 3x L1 Power Cube

- Hack 6 Portals
Reward: 6x L1 Power Cube

- Hack 9 Portals
Reward: 9x L1 Power Cube

- Earn 33 Glyph Hack Points
Reward: 1x Beacon - Meetup

- Earn 66 Glyph Hack Points
Reward: 1x Very Rare Heat Sink

- Earn 99 Glyph Hack Points
Reward: 1x Very Rare Multi-Hack

- Recharge Portals with 3,333 XM
Reward: 3x L6 Power Cubes

- Recharge Portals with 6,666 XM
Reward: 6x L6 Power Cubes

- Recharge Portals with 9,999 XM
Reward: 9x L6 Power Cubes

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The Lunar New Year 2025 medal should now be available to purchase in the store for 7000 CMU, together with the rerun of the 2024 medal for C.O.R.E. subscribers.

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We have just reported on an issue that prevented some people from logging into the game. This issue has been resolved already.

For transparency sake, the main channel post has been removed as the issue was fixed within 10 minutes, leaving it up may cause confusion for other Agents even if it's edited.

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Niantic has released Update 2.159.1 into the App Stores!

When starting the app, tips will now be shown on the loading screen with the intention of helping out new Agents.

A few fixes have also made their way to the Scanner. A fix for an animation with ADA was made in the tutorial, the animation for receiving a medal in the Dispatch screen was fixed and the mission button to close the details of a Bounty was re-added.

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Agent @KodBilenAdam has reached out to us with the following message:

"We all know how valuable Media is in Ingress for some Agents. Whether it's for lore, nostalgia, or just collecting rare pieces of the game’s history, managing Media has always been a challenge due to inventory limits.

The idea? A Media Locker—a premium feature similar to Key Lockers, dedicated to storing Media separately from an Agents main inventory.

A discussion has started on Reddit, and it's gaining traction:
🔗 Niantic, we would pay for Media Lockers!

If enough Agents voice their support, Niantic might finally listen. Let’s upvote, comment, and share this idea to show that there’s real demand for it!"

We personally love the idea of Media Lockers as well, so if you want to see them, sound your support and head to the Reddit post, upvote it and comment on it!

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

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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The locations for the EMEA skirmishes are being revealed! The ornaments marking the sites of the events will light up at 4pm local time, so keep an eye out on the Intel map!

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Niantic has released the designs of the 2025 character medals that will be available to purchase over the +Alpha Anomaly season!

Source: https://ingress.com/news/2025-plusalpha#iap

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💖 Link, Laugh, Love this Valentine's Day! 💖

Join our Valentine’s Day Campaign on Feb 14th and create Links to earn pink-themed rewards. Share your pinkest Ingress moments with #IngressValentines!

Read more: https://ingress.com/news/2025-valentines

#Ingress #ValentinesDay

The Event page on the Intel map has fixed the issue with Agents in certain timezones not being able to view it, resulting in a black screen instead. Now all Agents, no matter their timezone, should be able to access it.

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Agents have spotted that Niantic has used the "Events & offers" feature on Google Play for the first time, advertising the upcoming +Alpha Anomaly to every user visiting the Ingress Prime store page.

The event page can be found here, but can seemingly only be opened if you access Google Play in English: https://play.google.com/store/apps/eventdetails/4828559785850874977

In other languages, Google Play shows an error, likely because the post hasn't been translated.

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About a week ago we asked Agents to fill out a survey about giving feedback about potential new features that they would like to see in Ingress. This table shows the average "desire" of each feature based on the results, sorted from "most desired" to "least desired".

Note that this table is biased towards a mostly "veteran" group of Agents which make up the majority of players subscribed to @IUENG, so it may not represent the playerbase as a whole.

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The Valentines Day 2025 campaign has started on the far east side of the globe! The following are the tasks and rewards that you will recieve once the 14th starts for you. Remember that you only have until the end of the day to complete all tasks!

Assignment 1/1
Complete 3 out of 3 Bounties to advance
Reward: 214 AP

- Create 2 Links
Reward: 1x Hypercube

- Create 21 Links
Reward: 1x VR Heat Sink

- Create 214 Links
Reward: 1x VR Multi-Hack

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Users using Facebook to log into services from Niantic currently have problems when trying to do so as the login application Niantic registered with Meta has been deactivated for unknown reasons.

This seems to only affects Websites that allow you to log in with Facebook using Niantics unified login screen (Niantic ID), such as the Intel map, the Mission creator and Wayfarer. Logging into the scanner does not seem to be affected.

If you need to access one of these sites you'll need to either use a connected Google or Apple account instead for now. If you have none connected you can do so via the settings in the Scanner.

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