Open Letter on Open Letters
by Dear writers of open letters on the Ingress community, While reading open letters was once a fun activity, lately it has become more of a …
Category: snark
Agent Shows Up For Hexathlon – Wonders Where Everyone Else Is
April 25, 2020 WASHINGTON, DC. – A lone Ingress Agent showed up today in the Nation’s Capital in the hopes of testing his Ingress skills …
Niantic Opens Up New Field Art Possibilities
by Agents looking to make beautiful field art have long been constrained by some of Ingress’s key linking principles. Links can’t cross other links. Fields can’t …
Ingress In/Out of 2020
The New Year is a great time to stop and make predictions for how the coming year is going to be different from the last. …
The Real Umbra Deploy Challenge
As soon as the badge tiers for the Umbra Deploy Challenge were announced, agents began talking about how easy it would be to get the …
Anomalies This Weekend = Street Sweeper
As is customary before anomalies, we expect the Street Sweeper to active this evening. That means instead of dropped items staying put for many hours …
Victoria Kureze Tessellation Broadcast
Last week, Ingress character Victoria Kureze hosted a livestream where she revealed some information about the game board called the Tessellation. While Niantic is sure …
Alliance of the Fanguards
Niantic just announced the newest members of the Alliance of the Vanguards. These agents will dutifully watch to make sure the van doesn’t get stolen …
anomalies/events / shards / snark / storyline
Quick Hacks – September 26, 2019
This is the first of what I expect to become a new recurring feature at Not Niantic Labs called “Quick Hacks.” Quick Hacks will be …
Tidying Up Your Ingress Inventory
As we enter the final month before an XM anomaly, agents around the world are looking at their inventories with fresh eyes. Team leads are …