Ingress Insights: An Ingress Podcast
Episode 90 - How COVID-19 changed Ingress forever

This is the 90th episode of Ingress Insights, as well as Season 3 - Episode 15, and was recorded on 1st April 2025 and released on 6th April 2025.
It covers a (rough) timeline of Ingress during COVID-19 and the changes that happened.
Show Notes
- Embracing real world gaming from home
- March 2020 updates to events, Requiem postponed
- What was Requiem?
- March 2020 Temporary Changes to Ingress
- Virtual NL-1331X event
- APEX added to the game
- Virtual First Saturday begins
- Double Recon points
- No Anomalies for 2020
- Fireworks added to the game
- Updates to Portal Decay
- Temporary game changes in October 2020
- Re-embracing the real world
- Battle Beacons added to the game
- Kinetic Capsules added to the game
- EOS Protocol
- Kureze Effect Anomaly
- March 2022 updates to the game
- Kythera Anomaly
- Requiem Anomaly revived as Superposition
- MZPFK Anomaly
- Virtual First Saturday no longer awards the medal tick
- COVID changes that remained in Ingress
Social Media
- Subscribe to the Ingress Insights Insider mailing list
- Buy an Ingress Insights mug, t-shirt or pin
- Threads
- BlueSky
- Instagram
- YouTube
- TikTok
If there is something you'd like to hear us chat about or cover, or news you think we missed, let us know.
- Broadcast on:
- 06 Apr 2025
This is the 90th episode of Ingress Insights, as well as Season 3 - Episode 15, and was recorded on 1st April 2025 and released on 6th April 2025.
It covers a (rough) timeline of Ingress during COVID-19 and the changes that happened.
Show Notes
- Embracing real world gaming from home
- March 2020 updates to events, Requiem postponed
- What was Requiem?
- March 2020 Temporary Changes to Ingress
- Virtual NL-1331X event
- APEX added to the game
- Virtual First Saturday begins
- Double Recon points
- No Anomalies for 2020
- Fireworks added to the game
- Updates to Portal Decay
- Temporary game changes in October 2020
- Re-embracing the real world
- Battle Beacons added to the game
- Kinetic Capsules added to the game
- EOS Protocol
- Kureze Effect Anomaly
- March 2022 updates to the game
- Kythera Anomaly
- Requiem Anomaly revived as Superposition
- MZPFK Anomaly
- Virtual First Saturday no longer awards the medal tick
- COVID changes that remained in Ingress
Social Media
- Subscribe to the Ingress Insights Insider mailing list
- Buy an Ingress Insights mug, t-shirt or pin
- Threads
- BlueSky
- Instagram
- YouTube
- TikTok
If there is something you'd like to hear us chat about or cover, or news you think we missed, let us know.