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Google’s Niantic Labs formally launches massive mobile game Ingress

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Google’s Niantic Labs has formally launched its location-based game Ingress after a huge worldwide event series wrapped up over the weekend.

Ingress has been operational for more than a year and has more than a million downloads. But now it has formally exited beta testing and is available for download on Android mobile devices worldwide.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.