Ingress G+ update AXA Shields are now hackable from all Portals worldwide, but more frequently through +AXA Insurance Portals. With improved stickiness and damage mitigation, AXA Shields can provide Agents working to secure specific Portals with additional reassurance. AXA Press release (PDF) AXA and Google’s Niantic Labs Partner to Integrate 20,000 Global Retail Agencies into Ingress’ Interactive ‘Real World’ Mobile Gameplay Experience
An interesting development, particularly when the game (Ingress) is predicated on teamwork, collaboration and sportsmanship in a public space. A portal in public space (is regarded as public domain and open for all players) once claimed as personal or private is extremely provocative and somewhat problematic. This is not always the case, as I found out when observing an interaction between two Enlightened players. What’s a guardian portal? Well, according to Superjase on Reddit a Guardian portal can be: a portal you keep recharging with the hopes it will last for 150 (90)…
Ingress is a game based on real world locations. In a game predicated on a relationship between the physical and the synthetic, what becomes or should become of a portal that is no longer anchored by the real world location that informed its very creation? Should the portal stay as synthetic memory of a once culturally important physical location or should it be removed or allowed to slowly decay and disappear just like any other form that abides the transient nature of physical existence ? Should the game creators intervene or should the local…
