Monday, March 18, 2013

Google’s Niantic Labs Will Soon Launch An eBook Spin-Off Of Its Ingress AR Game

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This is a bit of an odd story: according topaidContent – and as first reported by toPublishersLunch – Google’s Niantic Labs, the somewhat mysterious division of Google that is home to Field Trip, the Niantic Project andIngress, will soon start co-publishing a series of eBooks based on Ingress, its popular augmented reality game. A Google spokesperson confirmed to us that this report is indeed correct.
The series, which, according to PublishersLunch, will be called ALIGNMENT and written and co-published with the help ofThomas Greanias; the first installment (ALIGNMENT: Ingress) will be published in April. The books are supposedly designed as prequels to Greanias’ Raising Atlantis series.
It looks like Greanias has long been interested in the Ingress story, and the overall theme of the game seems to fit in well with his earlier books. For Google, though, this – just like Ingress and most everything else that has come out of Niantic Labs – is a bit of a departure. The company isn’t exactly known for launching games. And to then turn the game into a series of books is obviously new territory for Google, though Niantic Labs does seem to operate pretty independently from the rest of the company.

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