Hack the planet, and Happy New Year, Agents! #IngressNewYear2026

The final episode of 2025 for Ingress Insights looks at what Agents want from @ingress.com in 2026. What do you want to see happen as we continue in to the new era under @nianticspatial.bsky.social? open.spotify.com/episode/4vOg...

@brianrose.bsky.social we here in NZ are now only 3.5 hours away from the new year Proposing here, that for each timezone, portals in that timezone at midnight, automatically spawn fireworks.

Tapping on these I can see there is Alt Text on all images. Very nice

So I didn’t do two episodes on 28th, mostly because I didn’t think what I had planned for the day was worth an extra episode and I think it’s a little confusing when there’s a main episode and an extra one in the same day.

A very nice gift for the downtime!

This issue is now resolved, and we've added a Free Load Out Kit to the Store available to all Agents for the next 48 hours as a token of our apology for this issue. Thank you for your patience while we worked to resolve this.

The @ingress.com issues are now all resolved. Nothing said by the Ingress team but I had fun making memes during the outage.

Well @ingress.com is down and remains down until someone from the team comes in to fix it. If you’re still wanting to hear about Ingress in the meantime, do listen to the latest episode! Maybe leave a comment about Ingress being broken? open.spotify.com/episode/6OPx...

The festive episodes are complete! Along with Episode 132 which will be out tomorrow, there’s an episode every day until (and including) December 31st all ready to go! This means the final Season 3 episode is Episode 60. Neatly ending this Season there is pleasing to me.

Happy Christmas Agents! I’ve recorded a Christmas message for the podcast which you can see here - open.spotify.com/episode/5UmW... Imagine “The King’s Speech” but for @ingress.com and also I’ve never seen “The Queen’s Speech” or “The King’s Speech”

Morning Agents! I haven’t been posting about the daily festive episodes but today I’m up early (it’s nearly 4am here) so before I head back to bed, a quick recap. The day before yesterday was my +Delta SitRep which was mostly me chatting to Cadre Cleve from GoRuck open.spotify.com/episode/24nX...

If this is our +Gamma badge, with the rainbow shining through looking cool, it would be great if the winning faction got to select the colour of XM for the next 60 days (April & May as June is Pride XM). What do you think @ingress.com ? Image cleaned up with AI

One to fix after the holidays please @ingress.com team. None of the links on the Recon/OPR homepage work since you moved the articles. Video below

Hey Agents, here’s Episode 125. A shorter episode today as we get a bit less news towards the end of the year. open.spotify.com/episode/7MRp...

Hey Agents! Episode 125 is scheduled for tomorrow at the usual time. After that, we start the usual daily festive episodes with the first one coming on 22nd December. I’ve recorded and scheduled up until 25th December and will finish off later this week to 31st December.

After being really excited about @unitedxr.eu and then not getting to go (stupid redundancy *shakes fist*) it would be great to know what @nianticspatial.bsky.social is attending in 2026 so I can go and beg, I mean apply, for Press Passes. www.nianticspatial.com/en/events Right now it’s empty.

A reminder that you have until Friday to enter the ITO EN Campaign competition over on…Twitter. @ingress.com @brianrose.bsky.social has noted that other Agents outside of the 100 that win this contest will be able to get it later on but there’s a certain “peacocking” to be in that first 100.

Looks like @bsky.app now offers importing of contacts to find your friends. I really need to use my main @pkmntrainerj.bsky.social account more as I enjoy this platform, but I don’t think any of you listening to this podcast has my mobile number.

Often one of the jokes in @ingress.com is wondering what “punishment” the Enlightened get for another Anomaly victory. What are your predictions?

Now that we have the final results of the Daily Bounty Challenge, this means that +Beta is finished! Congratulations to The Enlightened on winning the Anomaly series.

The second part of yhe @runningmanmovie.com has been announced for @ingress.com This sees us get a Campaign for the @paramountmovies.com film where you can get items that are usually premium only like Portal Frackers. ingress.com/news/running...

I’ve been busy trying to get some more @ingress.com related people on the podcast for 2026, whether that’s other members of the Ingress game team, character actors or people involved in making some of the sponsored campaigns (👋 hey Paramount people). Some success, some not so much.

Hey Agents! Yesterday was busy! Episode 124 is now available - open.spotify.com/episode/0ZMS... Also, there’s a Patreon video of me talking about the official @ingress.com Enlightened dice, and seeing how badly I can roll that’s out now!

Let’s send off 2025 and start 2026 well! ingress.com/news/2025-ne...

C.A.R.G.O. is now live in the Store. Agents can increase their inventory capacity by +100 (up to +500) for 30 days. It does not auto renew. ingress.com/news/2025-in...

+Gamma details have arrived! ingress.com/news/2026-q1... We have a tiered Anomaly medal, and a special on site only Anomaly medal as well as a tiered Global Op medal! I feel this should satisfy every @ingress.com player?

Episode 123 is now up! Going over CARGO, what’s happening with +Beta and more. I also chat about being unable to attend @unitedxr.eu which I was really looking forward to. open.spotify.com/episode/2mAY...

When you go to publish an episode of a podcast (at least on Spotify) one of the options you get is: 🔘Now 🔘 Schedule Hit Schedule and then you get the dates and times option. Well, for the first time in about 100 episodes I hit “Now”, so there was a brief 2 minute period where Episode 123 was up

ingress.com/news/2025-in... I’m not sure how I feel on this. CORE is handy for the extra space but having more to pay for than that.. Permanent storage upgrades like any other mobile game would have been preferable.

So far I’ve had Spotify, now Discord. What do I mean? Wrapped of course. Would you want to see an @ingress.com Wrapped? This year you used SoftBank Ultra Links the most and completed 167 KCaps. Your most hacked Portal was <YourCouchPortal> and you submitted 4 hours worth of scans!

Do you think @ingress.com would benefit from: • A Community Specialist/Manager • Community Forums (for Ingress & OPR) • A central Community space Right now, I understand trying to use Bluesky and it seems good. But I also remember Krug leaving, Thia leaving, Google+ closing, forums closing

For those who use Spotify to listen to the podcast, there’s now Wrapped! I’ll discuss more on Sunday but here’s some stats!

For Patreon subscribers, you’ll see a video podcast today with me rolling official @ingress.com d20 Resistance dice! What‽ There’s official Ingress dice! There are! www.patreon.com/posts/142810...

INGRESS YEAR TH1RT3EN note.com/brianrose/n/... #IngressYear13 #ingadv2025

The @ingress.com team is asking for feedback on how to improve. This happens annually but is the first time under @nianticspatial.bsky.social so make sure you complete it! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Episode 122 is now available! If you’re using a different podcast service such as Amazon Music or Pocketcast, you may not see it yet but it’ll ping in within an hour or so. open.spotify.com/episode/66vT...

I haven’t updated much here as I’ve been busy with general life, childcare and looking for a job! But episode 122 is scheduled up for tomorrow morning, going over the 6 Campaigns that @ingress.com is running over December!

This sounds…exciting and possibly profitable for Spatial. ingress.com/news/2025-gl...

Just swinging by for a quick thanks to those who listen on YouTube. There’s now 101 subscribers on there!

You may remember the “AR gaming boom” when every company seemed to have an AR game out. As you (hopefully) know, as well as covering @ingress.com I’ve had special episodes on @nba.com All-World, Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, @nianticspatial.bsky.social’s Peridot as well as

Morning Agents! Episode 121 of the podcast is now up! In this one, I go over +Beta Buildup Battles, as well as having a closer look over Recon. open.spotify.com/episode/7wvO...

The episode with Brian Rose’s interview is about to take the number 10 most listened to episode. Any guess as to what that episode currently is? I won’t make you guess really. It’s all the way back to November 2023 for Episode 6 - Who Guards The Vanguards? open.spotify.com/episode/4Oj1...

Ingress have shared the Mission Days for Q1. A few at Anomalies, a few Lites. If you can attend and tick up your badge you should! ingress.com/en/news/2026...

A quick “behind the scenes”. Yesterday was the 2nd highest number of downloads/streams of the podcast in the last 90 days! Highest was October 29th this year.

Thank you all for nice comments on YouTube & Spotify for the latest episodes. As noted in 120, I’m still carrying some awful cold, but I’ll properly look through comments on Tuesday when I’m hoping to get back to 100%

Hey Agents! A double bill for you today. Firstly you can listen to my interview with Brian Rose - open.spotify.com/episode/7E36...

Hey Agents, a family member decided to bring an awful cold home, so my eyes felt like they were on fire yesterday. I’m back to about 60% today so episode 120 is recorded and will be up tomorrow but my voice will sound very different. Next week I plan to go more in to Recon when recovered

Double AP, double hack output, Drone hack from anywhere every 13 minutes, and much more for #IngressYear13. If you're not already an Agent, now is the best time to start. ingress.com/news/ingress...

A new type of item is now available in the TeePublic shop. Keep yourself warm and toasty with some Ingress Insights socks! www.teepublic.com/socks/656923... Alas, my own feet are too large to wear these but if you have regular sized feet, let me know how they are! 🧦