This afternoon, Google and the team at Niantic Labs pushed out a major update for their hit game, Ingress. Inside the update, version number 1.26, information on portal health and faction controls are placed in the inventory carousel, as well the much-needed addition of notifications for portal attacks, neutralization and @codename messages. 

After admitting that I was a self-proclaimed cave troll on last night’s Droid Life Show, a reader sent in a tip that will help me and others like me to play Google’s Ingress game that relies on actually leaving the house and walking around. The app is called Location Spoofer, which will trick apps and the device into thinking you’re in whatever spot you want to be. Smart, right? 

This morning, Ingress, the newest application from Google and Niantic Labs, went live in Google Play. The game is being met with very high praises and they do seem to be justified. It is an open-world game, revolving around certain areas that produce a mysterious energy that could threaten humanity as we know it. There are two sides to join – the Resistance and the Enlightened. The resistance struggle to defend against the mind-controlling energy to protect humanity and the Enlightened who seek to embrace it.