Ingress Prime 2.18 to Bring Capsule Renaming, For Real!

Niantic announced in a new Ingress Prime Insights post that they have indeed figured out a way to add the capsule renaming feature before the server upgrade. It appears the smart engineers who were working on the agent tutorial are utilizing tech from that feature to be able to get the capsule renaming added to […]

Darsana Prime Unique Hack Global Challenge Update

Niantic has clarified the ruleset for the upcoming Darsana Prime Unique Hack Global Challenge. Agents, We know many of you have questions on the upcoming unique hack challenge. The number being measured will be the number of different portals hacked per faction: each portal will count towards the faction’s total if it is hacked by […]

Ingress Prime Update: 2.16.2

Nianticlabs is trying to keep Ingress Prime on a 2 week sprint update cycle and here’s what you can expect in the latest update, v. 2.16.2 ================ Ingress Prime Release Notes v. 2.16 ================ WHAT’S NEW IN 2.16.2? Performance: Changed the technical way XM is displayed, distributed, and collected. Agents should now see XM more […]

January AMA Responses Posted!

Andrew Krug, The Global Community Manager for Niantic Labs has posted the answers to January’s AMA. Almost 3 weeks after the initial post might seem like a long time, but due to Niantic employees getting back from the holidays, it took a bit longer to get responses to some of the questions. This week, Andrew […]

Ingress Prime v. 2.15.1 Release Notes

Bug: Fixed an issue where AP was not being awarded during certain steps in Agent Primer Bug: Added support for the Android back button during parts of the Agent Primer. Bug: Fixed an issue where the countdown box covered the Glyph dots Bug: Fixed an issue that caused Resonator neutralizations to not play at the […]

Ingress Prime Update Incoming

Niantic announced an update to Ingress Prime which includes some interesting changes, as well as quite a few bug fixes.  Before you read the changes, remember that they are listening to feedback, so don’t just freak out.  Voice your concerns.  I’ll discuss on the next show why I think these are actually good changes.  Below […]

39: Ingress Prime During 6 Year Anniversary

Today on the show :   Ingress Prime Recursion Prime 6 Year Anniversary Event Listen on iTunes SITREP Read about Agent GoonieGuy’s experience with Intel Ops in Austin, TX during Recursion Prime Get all the great ingress passcodes we discuss on the show this week Year 6 Livestream AP bonus coming for deploy & destroy […]

38: Ingress Prime is Here! Recursion, Pay2Win Claims and Charlie Puth

Today on the show :   Ingress Prime Charlie Puth Much Much More Listen on iTunes SITREP Niantic Listens to Agents on Pay2Win Items: https://www.agentacademypodcast.com/ingress-news/niantic-listens-to-vocal-agents-and-is-removing-certain-items-from-store/ Beacons Pack in Store: https://www.agentacademypodcast.com/ingress-news/limited-time-item-in-the-ingress-store-all-the-beacons/ Scanner [REDACTED], Unpublished now Available on Google Play: https://www.agentacademypodcast.com/ingress-news/scanner-redacted-unpublished-available-in-google-play-store/ Andrew Krug’s monthly AMA started Tuesday: https://www.agentacademypodcast.com/ingress-news/its-that-time-of-the-month-ask-krug-anything-november-2018/ Ingress Prime Released: https://www.agentacademypodcast.com/ingress-news/ingress-prime-released-restart-at-level-1-new-items-in-the-store/ Simulacrum – Recursion Item Bundles […]

Niantic Listens to Vocal Agents and is Removing Certain Items From Store

In an announcement on the Ingress G+ page, Niantic says they are removing certain items from the new bundles on the store, such as Aegis and Level 7 and 8 items. You can read the full post below, and be sure to tune into the Agent Academy Podcast to hear our views on the subject. […]

Scanner [REDACTED] Unpublished, Available in Google Play store

We told you recently about a new app that will replace the original Ingress app for agents that have upgraded to the Prime scanner.  It’s called, “Scanner [REDACTED]” and it is now available in the Google Play store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nianticlabs.ingress.prime.qa&rdid=com.nianticlabs.ingress.prime.qa This app will only be available for current Ingress Agents and will be removed once feature parity […]