Niantic reboots Ingress, out now on Android and iOS

Pokemon Go may be the game that made Niantic Labs hugely popular, but before it partnered with Nintendo to create a mobile spin-off of one of the most popular franchises in gaming, the Google startup had developed another AR game, the one that started it all – Ingress.

The original Ingress was launched in 2012 and took players on a real-world object hunt. It was received positively and garnered quite the player base, though by the time Pokemon Go came out in 2016, ...