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Ingress Prime: Niantic reboots its Pokémon Go precursor

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Niantic has announced that it will reboot its first augmented reality game as Ingress Prime.

The mobile AR update of the game, the Pokémon Go precursor that mixes the real world and smartphone screen animations, is built on the foundation of the science fiction game Ingress, which debuted in 2012 and has more than 20 million downloads. Ingress put Niantic, which spun out of Google, on the map. It drew hundreds of thousands of players to more than 2,000 live real world events. The new game will debut in 2018.

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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.