Over the past few weeks, Google has been posting a series of cryptic videos, images and messages on the social media accounts of its Niantic Project offshoot. On Thursday, the search giant revealed just what all that was leading up to: “Ingress,” a massive multiplayer smartphone game (Android only for now) that has players using their phones to walk around to and scan real-world sculptures and locations in order to stop or embrace a “mysterious,” mind-controlling energy force (fictional).
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