According to Google the root cause of the outage has been found and measures have been applied, but is aware that some customers of their service are still having problems.

https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/ow5i3PPK96RduMcb1SsW

@IUENG_Extra

Very important update from Brian

https://xcancel.com/brianrose/status/1933253428995895337#m

@IUENG_Extra

Google has posted the newest update we are going to get for a while, stating that services have recovered everywhere except for products that are using the "us-central1" and "multi-region/us" region to which Ingress likely belongs to. Assuming service won't be restored before then the next update from Google is scheduled to be posted in 2 1/2 hours.

Some Agents have reported that they were able to log in, although it is still not possible to do any actions in the game and the portals are only loading very slowly.

https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/ow5i3PPK96RduMcb1SsW

@IUENG_Extra

It seems like the game is back again! The intel map is also loading again.

@IUENG_Extra

The last new badges of the season are now available in the store!

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Reports are coming in of a big wave of Agents being banned permanently from Ingress due to violation of ToS. These bans seems to be a false positive and seem to have been a result of Brian or another member of the team tweaking something in the backend.

Niantic Spatial is currently working on undoing these changes, which hopefully results in unbans to anyone affected by this issue.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Ingress/s/JhK7LfFtlR

@IUENG_Extra

If you have been banned, try logging in again! It seems like Brian acted quickly and had rolled back whatever changes were made.

@IUENG_Extra

Brian has confirmed that this was a tweak intended to better catch spoofers which overshot its mark.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Ingress/s/w8WLRVlx2E

@IUENG_Extra

Are you Enlightened and heading to Gothenburg for the +Delta Anomaly? You might be interested in this post!

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@IUENG_Extra

After 1586 hours, Agent @ItzWindyyy has finally claimed all 22 +Theta rewards for collecting 14400 +Theta tokens!

To achieve this, they had to travel to two seperate Anomalies, visit a Skirmish and fully complete the +Theta Global Challenge as well as completing all daily tasks every day. The final reward for this task awarded them with 50x Aegis Shields.

Congratulations Agent!

https://news.1rj.ru/str/itzWindyy/213

@IUENG_Extra

Re: Frozen portals

Niantic seems to have solved the problem of non-decaying portals. 
All portals that currently were unable to decay will most likely decay twice within 24 hours of the last update to Niantic Spatial. 

@IUENG_Extra

Details about the +Delta Anomaly Season have just been posted!

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

@IUENG_Extra

For +Delta, Ingress will offer Premium Campaigns and new medal series. Assuming that each medal series has at least two new medals, that means that every new thing in the store will cost a total of 338.800, aka at least 200€+ assuming you buy x2 200k CMU packs.

@IUENG_Extra

As with +Theta it will be possible to gain the gold tier without traveling to an Anomaly.

Assuming you are perfectly completing all global events you will earn a total of 17860 +Delta Tokens, putting you over the 15000 Tokens required.

If you attend all three Anomaly Weekends the maximum +Delta Tokens that you can earn is 32860 tokens.

@IUENG_Extra

We would love to bring you more information about the Global Ops and the Anomalies, but the team seems to have lost the corresponding pages during the move to Niantic Spatial. We will keep you updated once they go live!

@IUENG_Extra

Spatial has released Update 2.169.1 (nice) into the App Stores.

After 2.168.1 has been skipped, this version incudes another bug fix for the overlapping top header on the map screen which some Agents still reported to happen after the last update. In addition, support for upcoming Dispatch Campaigns was added.

Not listed but reported by Agents is that the notification dot on the Dispatch icon for completed Premium Bounties is now hidden if you haven't bought the Premium upgrade for the Campaign.

@IUENG_Extra

The German book "Computerspiele – 50 zentrale Titel" ("Video Games – 50 Key Titles"), released last month, offers a scholarly perspective on video games. Written by cultural scholars, philosophers, historians, journalists, and developers, the focus is not on technical innovation or sales, but on what games reveal about our time, ourselves, and the medium itself.

Included on pages 184 to 191 is our beloved game Ingress! It has been chosen to stand between the 49 other noscripts because, as the author says (translated and summarized from the first page):

Unlike typical computer games, Ingress is not played indoors, in isolation, or purely on a screen. It questions ideas like digital disembodiment, social isolation, and the separation between play and everyday life (the "magic circle"). As a location-based game, Ingress requires players to physically move in the real world, using GPS tracking to interact with the game. This physical engagement sets it apart from stationary gaming. While Pokémon GO (2016) is better known, Ingress is featured in the book as its predecessor—and the better game*—because it laid the groundwork for this genre.

*Yes, that is how it is written in the book. Looks like the author is an Agent through and through :D

If you can read German and want to get the book yourself you can do so at the link below for 39€.

https://www.trannoscript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-6825-4/computerspiele/

@IUENG_Extra

If you have registered an account on the Niantic Lightship platform (renamed to the Niantic Spatial platform some months ago) you might have received this email telling you about an upcoming deprecation of the "Maps SDK for Unity". As we have seen some people confused and worried that this will affect Ingress or the Geospartial Browser, we want to clarify what this SDK is.

Niantic offered this SDK as a tool to developers so that they could design a map style which they then could use in their owm projects. Think of it like the Ingress map where it shows you the streets and water features around you, but only when you're near them; to display these "tiles", the Scanner sends a request to the server for the map data which then gets interpreted and stylized based on the design choices embedded in the Scanners code. The SDK allowed an easy way to both request that map data and use it with a pre-determined design choice.

This is the part that will be sunset for independent developers. The rest of the services Niantic Spatial offered, like VPS or the Geospartial Browser, are not affected and unless you are a developer who already "knows" what that SDK was absolutely nothing will change for you. Ingress itself also won't be affected as Niantic Spatial uses an internal API to create these map tiles.

TL;DR: Nothing will change or impact you in any way unless you already actively developed a Unity App using this SDK.

Reference: https://lightship.dev/docs/maps/

@IUENG_Extra

New Zealand has received the +Delta Bounty Op Campaign which will last until September 19th! Here are the tasks you have to complete to gain some extra +Delta tokens while gaining points for your faction when completing your Daily Bounties.
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Assignment 1/1
Complete 5 out of 5 Bounties to advance
Reward: 500 +Delta Tokens

- Claim 50 Daily Bounties
Reward: 500 +Delta Tokens

- Claim 100 Daily Bounties
Reward: 500 +Delta Tokens

- Claim 150 Daily Bounties
Reward: 500 +Delta Tokens

- Claim 200 Daily Bounties
Reward: 500 +Delta Tokens

- Claim 250 Daily Bounties
Reward: 500 +Delta Tokens

@IUENG_Extra

Agents are reporting that the new daily bounties, which are supposed to award +Delta Tokens in regions in which it is already July, are still rewarding +Theta tokens instead.

@IUENG_Extra