Ingress In May, Nicci Kay and her wife moved 40km south to the port city of Tacoma, Washington where, in time, they planned to overtake the Resistance’s hold on the area. Kay is an Ingress player, an agent in a great and invisible cyberwar over territory that spans the globe,…
That video game was Ingress, the augmented reality game that makes battlegrounds from real world locations. People take this shit seriously. People traveled from as far flung as Germany to take place in this event.
The words “alternate reality game” were the last thing some hardcore Pokémon fans wanted to hear last night. I understand why. It’s a spin-off. It’s on mobile. You can’t play from the comfort of your own home. And yet! Pokémon Go could be the shot in the arm that the…