Anker is recalling their PowerCore 10000 power banks in the USA!

It has been discovered that the battery in the power bank can overheat which has led to at least 19 reported cases of fires or explosions. As a lot of Agents have been using Anker power banks while playing we believe it important to share this product recall.

The specific model that is being recalled has been sold online at Anker, Amazon, Newegg and Ebay from June 2016 through December 2022 for about $27. The specific model number "A1263" is printed on the front of the affected power banks. Only power banks sold in the US are part of this recall, and around 1,158,000 units are affected.

If you believe that you have an affected model, Anker urges you to stop using it immediately and submit a claim for either a replacement or a gift card. To initiate the process, please read through the guidance Anker has put out here: https://www.anker.com/a1263-recall

@IUENG

The +Theta Anomaly weekends in Chemnitz, Germany and Perth, Australia have officially begin with GORUCK Ops in both cities!

The Stealth Ops have now ended in Chemnitz, and the first points for this weekend have been scored by the Factions

🇦🇺 Perth, Australia
ENL 4 - 3 RESULTS

🇩🇪 Chemnitz, Germany
ENL 3 (4.2) - (2.8) 2 RES
Series points in parentheses

@IUENG

🇦🇺 +Theta Anomaly Perth, Australia

Battle Beacons
Raw score
ENL 226 - 147 RES
Final Score
ENL 56.3 - 36.7 RES

Shards
Raw score
ENL 67 - 27 RES
Final Score
ENL 66.3 - 26.7 RES

Anomaly Bounty
Average bounties
ENL 5.2 - 4.49 RES
Final score
ENL 26.8 - 23.2 RES

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

Final Event Score
ENL 156.2 - 93.8 RES

🟢 The Enlightened capture the +Theta Anomaly in Perth!

Current +Theta Series Score
ENL 914.8 - 767.7 RES

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

@IUENG

The results for the last Anomaly which was held in Chemnitz, Germany have been posted!

With the final scores now standing at 1033.8 to 898.7...

🟢 The Enlightened have won the +Theta Anomaly Series!

We hope Agents from both factions had fun fighting for their cause over the last months.

We will post the detailed score of Chemnitz, which was captured by the Resistance, in a bit.

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

@IUENG

🇩🇪 +Theta Anomaly Chemnitz, Germany

Battle Beacons
Raw score
ENL 817 - 1107 RES
Final Score
ENL 39.5 - 53.5 RES

Shards
Raw score
ENL 40 - 47 RES
Final Score
ENL 42.8 - 50.2 RES

Anomaly Bounty
Average bounties
ENL 5.16 - 3.38 RES
Final score
ENL 30.2 - 19.8 RES

Goruck Stealth Ops
ENL 4.2 - 2.8 RES
Goruck Urban Ops
ENL 2.3 - 4.7 RES

Final Event Score
ENL 119 - 131 RES

🔵 The Resistance capture the +Theta Anomaly in Chemnitz!

Final +Theta Series Score
ENL 1033.8 - 898.7 RES

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

@IUENG

XF Swag Meeting in Chemnitz!

Following Sunday's anomaly in Chemnitz, agents gathered for our traditional XF swag meetup - and what a blast it was!
Agents had an amazing time trading swag and connecting with fellow players. The excitement was contagious as everyone walked away with fantastic new items for their collections!

XF swag chats are already set up for upcoming European Anomalies in:
• Gothenburg 🇸🇪
• Cambridge 🇬🇧
• Valencia 🇪🇸
• The Hague 🇳🇱

Links will be shared in the global swag chat and faction channels soon!

Many thanks to @mimtwin, @Janis1979 and the participants to the XF swag meetup for their pictures!

@IUENG

Perceived value of +Theta rewards
For the first time Niantic has offered a paid upgrade to a Dispatch Campaign, allowing Agents to obtain more items as rewards for collecting +Theta tokens during the Daily Bounties, the Global Challenge and on-site events.

With a price of 30.800 CMU this upgrade is not the cheapest, and some Agents felt like the extra rewards offered for it do not reflect that price tag (aside from the fact that the highest reward tier is very hard to reach).

We want to know what the community thinks the rewards are actually worth in their own mind. To that end we invite everyone to fill out the following form in which you can assign each premium award the amount of CMU you would pay if you bought it in the store. Once a few days have gone by we will post the results in @IUENG_Extra.

Find the form here: https://forms.gle/W8L1yKbztsLD6RFU9

@IUENG

Niantic has revealed the details of the +Delta Anomaly Season!

As with +Theta there is one Anomaly medal in three tiers, obtainable by collecting tokens:
🥉3000 +Delta Tokens
🥈8000 +Delta Tokens
🥇15000 +Delta Tokens

The following list are all the ways you can earn these +Delta Tokens:

🔸+Delta Bounty Op
- Global
- 1 Jul 2025 (Tue) 00:00 local time to 19 Sep 2025 (Fri) 23:59 local time
- Complete a variety of Bounties, delivered via Dispatch.
- Complete the 5 Bounties in the Campaign to claim up to 3,000 +Delta Tokens.

🔸+Delta Global Campaign: Reso
- Global
- 19 Jul 2025 (Sat) 00:00 local time to 3 Aug 2025 (Sun) 23:59 local time
- Complete a variety of Bounties, delivered via Dispatch.
- Complete the 7 Bounties in the Campaign to claim up to 1,000 +Delta Tokens and restart the Campaign up to 4 additional times to earn a total of 5000 +Delta Tokens.

🔸+Delta Global Campaign: Field
- Global
- 30 Aug 2025 (Sat) 00:00 local time to 14 Sep 2025 (Sun) 23:59 local time
- Complete a variety of Bounties, delivered via Dispatch.
- Complete the 7 Bounties in the Campaign to claim up to 1,000 +Delta Tokens and restart the Campaign up to 4 additional times to earn a total of 5000 +Delta Tokens.

🔸Daily Bounties
- From 1 July to 19 September local time
- Complete your Daily Bounties to gain up to 60 +Delta Tokens each day.

🔸Anomaly Event
- Attend an XM Anomaly event in Melaka, Portland, Gothenburg, Quebec City, Denpasar or Cambridge to earn up to 5000 +Delta tokens

We will detail each event in separate posts later!
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In addition, the Ingress team will offer multiple medals and Premium Campaigns in the store. 5 new Premium Campaigns and at least 8 new badges, all for 30.800 CMU each, will be made available throughout the season.

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

@IUENG

The Ingress Insights Podcast has released their 100th Episode!

This milestone is a big one and, as such, this episode features an interview with former Technical Artist Alex, telling the audience about working on Ingress and answering questions from the community.

The entire staff would like to wholeheartedly congratulate @PkmnTrainerJ on their 100th official episode and invite everyone to listen to the podcast on Spotify below.

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/70ZZC3YK3UoiczJSgm1AeT

Audio clip attached totally chosen at random 😇

@IUENG

The +Delta Bounty Op Campaign has been revealed!

The easternmost countries of the world are starting to receive their +Delta Bounty Op Campaign as they roll into July 1st.
This Campaign will last until September 19th and will reward you with some additional +Delta Tokens as you complete your Daily Bounties!

5 Bounties are available, each rewarding 500 +Delta Tokens every 50 Daily Bounties completed. Completing all five bounties will reward Agents with an additional 500 +Delta Tokens for a total of 3000 Tokens.

This comes as an incentive to Agents wanting to help their faction, as 300 Season Points will be awarded to the factions at the end of the Bounty Op depending on the amount of Daily Bounties claimed during that time frame.

@IUENG

Heads up for Agents that want to dive head first into the Daily Bounties for +Delta!

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. If you want to maximize your +Delta Token gain you should wait with claiming your Daily Bounties until the Ingress team fixes them.

We will update you once that happens on @IUENG_Extra!

(thanks to @Zordo for the heads up ❤️)

@IUENG

🔕 Issue is now fixed!

Source: https://t.me/NianticOfficial/965

@IUENG

Niantic has revealed the full rules for Anomaly Events in the +Delta Anomaly Series!

Not much has changed since the +Theta Season as far as what challenges are going to be played at events, but a notable difference was noticed in the scoring of Shards and in the distribution of Series Points for each Anomaly Event.

As far as Flash Shards are concerned, one point will be assigned to the Faction that makes a Shard travel through a friendly link, 1 additional point will be awarded if the link is longer than 499.5 meters and terminates on another Anomaly Zone Portal. 6 Points will be awarded for scoring a Shard in a target. (Max 4 per Target per wave)

The amount of Series Points for each Anomaly Event has also been redistributed as follows:
GORUCK Stealth Ops: 10 points
GORUCK Urban Ops: 10 points
Battle Beacons: 100 points
Flash Shards: 100 points
Anomaly Bounties: 80 points

Totalling 300 points per Anomaly Event.

Source: https://ingress.com/news/2025-plusdelta-anomalysites#site-rules

@IUENG

The +Delta Reso Campaign details were published by Niantic!

The campaign will run from July 19th at 00:00 to August 3rd at 23:59 local time.

During this period Agents can earn "+Delta Reso Points": 200 Season Points will be distributed among the Factions based on the Reso Points earned.

🔸 Deploying a Level 8 Resonator: 10 Points
🔸 Upgrading a Resonator with a Level 8 Resonator: 10 Points
🔸 Owning a Portal that receives a deployed or upgraded Level 8 Resonator: 1 Point
🔸 Destroying a Resonator or any Level: 1 Point

A campaign with 7 Bounties will be available for Agents to engage, involving:

🔸 Earning “+Delta Reso Points”
🔸 Deploying Resonators
🔸 Destroying Resonators
🔸 Creating Control Fields

Completing these Bounties will award you +Delta Tokens. After completing 5 Bounties you can choose to restart the Campaign early by skipping up to 2 Bounties.

100 additional Season Points will be awarded to the factions based on the amount of Bounties claimed during the event.

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

@IUENG

Ingress is now on Bluesky!

The Ingress team has finally created an account for the Social Media platform bsky.app and has started posting there. At the time of writing this post the account has already gained over 170 followers without an official announcement by the team.

To help more people get comfortable with Bluesky we have decided to host a giveaway of 6 Rare Loadouts as well as 2 Very Rare Loadouts! To participate and win one of these Loadout passcodes you'll need to do the following:

- Post your favorite story or experience related to Ingress and include the hashtags #Ingress and #WhereDidIngressTakeYou on Bluesky
- Follow both the Ingress account and the IUENG account on Bluesky
If you are unsure how the post has to look, you can find an example here: https://bsky.app/profile/investigatexm.com/post/3ltofnkgw522s

The 4 Rare Loadouts will be distributed randomly among the posts while the 2 Very Rare Loadouts will be distributed based on our pick! Every Agent can only recieve one Loadout, so up to 6 Agents will get a passcode.

The giveaway starts now and will end on Monday, July 14th at 16:00 UTC. After that point we will distribute the Loadout passcodes to the posts that have been choosen.

Thank you to the Toast entity that delivered these passcodes, we can finally use them in the way they wished for!

Bluesky - Ingress account: https://bsky.app/profile/ingress.com
Bluesky - IUENG account: https://bsky.app/profile/eng.ingressupdates.com

(Note that this giveaway is not sponsored or endorsed by the Ingress team or Niantic Spatial)

@IUENG

Niantic has released the playboxes for Anomaly Events on August 16th!

🇲🇾 Melaka, Malaysia (left)
🇺🇸 Portland, OR, USA (right)

As always, if you are planning on participating in any of these Anomaly Events, make sure to organize with your Faction to ensure a perfect strategic planning and team coordination! Visit the links below!

🔵 RES: Melaka | Portland
🟢 ENL: Melaka | Portland

@IUENG

Agents in New Zealand are reporting that the +Delta Reso Op Campaign has not been activated at midnight local time as it was planned. If you are currently in New Zealand or are about to cross into Saturday and you cannot see the Campaign, it is not an error on your end.

At the moment, the only thing we can do is wait until Niantic fixes the issue.

Note that the two Premium Campaigns you can see in the Dispatch tab are the ones that are optional add-ons and are not the main Event Campaigns, once the event starts there should be three visible Campaigns.

@IUENG

Niantic has fixed the issues with the +Delta Reso Campaign and as such, we can now tell you the tasks and rewards for both the free and the paid Premium Campaigns. Both of the Premium Campaigns cost 30,800 CMU each and allow you to earn Weapons and Resonators while your work on the main +Delta Reso Op.

+Delta Reso Op:
- Earn 500 +Delta Reso Op Points
Reward: 100 +Delta Tokens

- Earn 1000 +Delta Reso Op Tokens
Reward: 100 +Delta Tokens

- Deploy 160 Resonators
Reward: 100 +Delta Tokens

- Deploy 300 Resonators
Reward: 100 +Delta Tokens

- Destroy 160 Resonators
Reward: 100 +Delta Tokens

- Destroy 300 Resonators
Reward: 100 +Delta Tokens

- Create 40 Fields
Reward: 100 +Delta Tokens

- Complete 5 Bounties and finish the Campaign
Reward: 300 +Delta Tokens

Details about the requirements of the Bounties after a restart will be posted on @IUENG_Extra once available!
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Premium Campaign - Reso Attacker:

- Earn 300 +Delta Reso Op Points
Reward: x200 XMP Burster, x20 Hypercubes

- Earn 600 +Delta Reso Op Points
Reward: x60 XMP Burster, x10 Ultra Strikes

- Earn 1000 +Delta Reso Op Points
Reward: x30 XMP Burster, x20 Ultra Strikes

- Complete the Campaign
Reward: x30 Ultra Strikes

Premium Campaign - Reso Builder:

- Earn 300 +Delta Reso Op Points
Reward: x200 L4 Resonators, x100 L8 Resonators

- Earn 600 +Delta Reso Op Points
Reward: x50 L4 Resonators, x50 L8 Resonators

- Earn 1000 +Delta Reso Op Points
Reward: x50 L4 Resonators, x50 L8 Resonators

- Complete the Campaign
Reward: x100 L8 Resonators

These Premium Campaigns will be available until 4 Aug 1100 UTC.

@IUENG

Niantic has revealed the badge designs for the Hank Johnson 2025, Azmati 2025 and Carrie Campbell 2025 series which will be made available throughout the Anomaly season.

Each badge series contains three separate badges, and each of the nine badges will cost 30,800 CMU (~18,48€/~$15,40*). If you want to get all nine of the new badges you will need to spend 277,200 CMU (~166,31€/~$138,59*).

(*Prices in Euro and USD assume you buy the 200,000 CMU pack, if you buy a lower pack the effective price will be higher)

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

@IUENG

The name of the Q4 Anomaly season has been revealed to the POCs:

+Beta

The season will run from October to December 2025 and will see XM Anomalies on the following dates:

🔸18 Oct 2025 @Valencia, Spain and São Paulo, Brazil
🔸25 Oct 2025 @Wellington, New Zealand and Houston, TX, USA
🔸15 Nov 2025 @Taoyuan, Taiwan and The Hague, Netherlands

More details about the season as well as additional events will be revealed as we get closer to it!

(The picture in this post was created by us and is not the official Anomaly logo or Badge design!)

@IUENG