Ingress Updates [ENG]

The full schedule of Ingress Events in Q2 2025, the +Theta season, has been published!

April
5th: #IngressFS
13th: #Ingress2S
19th - May 11th: +Theta Global Campaign
22nd: Earth Day Bonus

May
3rd: #IngressFS
11th: #Ingress2S
17th: 🇵🇭🇺🇸 XM Anomaly at Manila, Metro Manila, Philippines and Providence RI, USA
24th: +Theta Skirmish - EMEA (plus Shards around the world outside EMEA)
31st: +Theta Skirmish - AMER (plus Shards around the world outside AMER)

June
7th: #IngressFS
7th: +Theta Skirmish - APAC (plus Shards around the world outside APAC)
8th: #Ingress2S
14th: 🇦🇺🇩🇪 XM Anomaly at Perth, WA, Australia and Chemnitz, Germany

New for this season is a single +Theta medal in three tiers which will be awarded to Agents "based on their performance in Anomaly battles, Skirmish events, and other activities". This seemingly replaces the seperate Anomaly and Global Challenge medal.

Finally, the locations for Q3 2025 XM Anomalies have been published:
16 Aug 2025 @Malacca City, Malaysia and Portland, OR, USA
23 Aug 2025 @Gothenburg, Sweden and Quebec City, Canada
20 Sep 2025 @Denpasar City, Bali, Indonesia and Cambridge, United Kingdom

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

@IUENG

The final results of the EMEA +Alpha Skirmishes have been published!

Beacon Skirmishes
🇦🇲 Yerevan, Armenia
ENL 3.5 (139) - (153) 3.8 RES
🇱🇹 Kaunas, Lithuania
ENL 7.2 (286) - (376) 9.4 RES
🇳🇴 Oslo, Norway
ENL 5.8 (230) - (285) 7.1 RES
🇧🇪 Brussels, Belgium
ENL 7.7 (308) - (314) 7.9 RES

Shard Skirmishes
🇹🇷 İzmir, Türkiye
ENL 6.3 (9) - (11) 7.7 RES
🇪🇪 Tallinn, Estonia
ENL 3.5 (5) - (14) 9.8 RES
🇸🇪 Stockholm, Sweden
ENL 9.1 (13) - (8) 5.6 RES
🇩🇰 Copenhagen, Denmark
ENL 4.9 (7) - (10) 7.0 RES
🇵🇱 Wrocław, Poland
ENL 5.6 (8) - (7) 4.9 RES
🇩🇪 Augsburg, Germany
ENL 8.4 (12) - (7) 4.9 RES
🇪🇸 Seville, Spain
ENL 7.7 (11) - (11) 7.7 RES
🇫🇷 Nantes, France
ENL 8.4 (12) - (3) 2.1 RES
🇬🇧 Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
ENL 4.2 (6) - (11) 7.7 RES

Total Score
ENL 82.2 - 85.6 RES

🔵 The Resistance captures the EMEA +Alpha Skirmishes!

+Alpha Series Score
ENL 588.8 - 392.1 RES

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

@IUENG

🇺🇸 +Alpha Anomaly Tucson, AZ, USA

Battle Beacons
Raw score
ENL 328 - 134 RES
Final Score
ENL 66.0 - 27.0 RES

Shards
Raw score
ENL 11 (2 unscored) - 0 RES
Final Score
ENL 93.0 - 0.0 RES

Covert Cache
% Bonus
ENL - | - RES
Season Points bonus
ENL - | 1x C RES

Goruck Stealth Ops
ENL 4.2 - 2.8 RES
Goruck Urban Ops
ENL 4 - 3 RES

Total Score
ENL 167.2 - 33.8 RES

+Alpha Series Score
ENL 506.6 - 306.4 RES

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

@IUENG

The +Alpha Anomaly in Tucson ends in this moment!

It's been 3 hours of intense battle between Enlightened and Resistance. We hope great fun was had by everyone involved on the ground and remotely!
Now it's time to wind down and enjoy the after-party! 🍻

Scores should get published soon! We are going to post them here as soon as they are available.

@IUENG

🌍 The second Bounty Blitz of the +Alpha Anomaly has started in the EMEA Region!

Agents will have from 09:00 UTC until 17:00 UTC to complete the purposely created Campaign. 100 Series Points will be distributed between the Factions based on the number of bounties completed!

Results will be announced within one week after the end of the event.

The details of the Bounties can be found at @IUENG_Extra!

@IUENG

Niantic is updating their app to comply with upcoming changes to the Google Play Integrity API!

Next monday on February 24th, after the Tucson anomaly, Niantic will switch to the new Play Integrity API that was recently announced by Google which promises better detection while also being more reliable. As part of the change Niantic will lower detection from checking for "Strong" device integrity to the new "Basic" device integrity.

As per the definition from Google, Basic device integrity will be given to physical devices that run Android, but "may not meet Android compatibility requirements". This includes devices with an unlocked bootloader or a custom Android OS.

This basically means that once the integrity checks are updated more Android devices will be given access to Ingress! If you have a device that cannot pass the Strong integrity check currently you may be able to use it to play Ingress soon.

If you want to check if your device will pass the new checks, you can download this app and start an integrity check. Once the check has concluded, make sure to see if you get a checkmark for "MEETS_BASIC_INTEGRITY". If you are running Android 13 or above, make sure to switch to "New A13+ checks" after the check is complete. If you can currently run Ingress then you phone will be able to run the Scanner after the change as well.

Note: While the Play Integrity API still gives out a "Basic" verdict when the phone is rooted, Ingress uses additional, separate checks to detect rooted phones and disables access to the Scanner for them.

iOS devices are not affected by this change.

Source: https://ingress.com/news/updating-google-play-integrity-api

@IUENG

Last night, Niantic has lit ornaments on the cities in the AMER region that will host a +Alpha Skirmish on March 15th, starting at 16:00 local time!

Beacon Skirmishes
🇺🇸 Champaign, IL, USA

Shard Skirmishes
🇦🇷 Buenos Aires, Argentina
🇧🇷 Goiânia, Brazil
🇨🇱 Coquimbo, Chile
🇵🇾 Asunción, Paraguay
🇺🇸 Orono, ME, USA
🇵🇪 Piura, Peru
🇵🇦 Panama City, Panama
🇺🇸 Norfolk, VA, USA
🇺🇸 Tampa, FL, USA
🇲🇽 Guadalajara, Mexico
🇺🇸 Oklahoma City, OK, USA
🇨🇦 Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

With this, all 39 +Alpha Skirmishes have a hosting city! For all rules concerning these events, check out https://ingress.com/news/2025-plusalpha#skirmish-intro

@IUENG

🗣 Rumors report of talks between Niantic and Saudi-based Scopely for the sale of the former's games division.

Bloomberg reports that Niantic has entered talks for the sale of their video-game business for an estimated $3.5 billion, with a potential verdict coming in the next few weeks. Pokemon Go is included in the talks as well as "other mobile games", although there is no assurance yet that a deal will be reached at all.

As members of the community have pointed out, Scopely is known for games such as Monopoly GO which are criticized as being pay to win, filled with ads and other anti-consumer practices.

⚠️ While this news may sound less then stellar for Ingress, do note that:
- This is an unconfirmed report
- This deal has not been finalized and could fall through
- Ingress may not be included in the sale

At this point, any potential consequences for Ingress are speculation and should not be taken at face value.

You can read the report from Bloomberg here: https://archive.is/dFUAe

@IUENG

🌎 The first Bounty Blitz of the +Alpha Anomaly will start in about 40 minutes in the AMER Region!

Agents will have from 17:00 UTC until February 16th @ 01:00 UTC to complete the purposely created Campaign. 100 Series Points will be distributed between the Factions based on the number of bounties completed!

Results will be announced within one week after the end of the event.

Update: Bounties and rewards

@IUENG