The Information’s sources (via The Verge) claim Google and its in-house game studio Niantic Labs is working with production firm, the Sean Daniel Company, in order to develop the concept for TV.
That’s the company behind The Mummy movie franchise and a new show The Expanse, a miniseries about to debut on the ScyFy network in the United States.
For those unfamiliar with Ingress, the science-fiction game involves gamers on iOS and Android traveling to actual locations (landmarks, monuments, etc) called ‘portals’ as if they were working as real world operatives.
Players join one of two factions and are charged with taking over or defending these physical locations.
The game launched as a closed beta for Android in late 2012, before going public in December 2013. An iOS release came in July last year and, just recently, Niantic launched an Android Wear version of the game. It has been downloaded more than ten million 10 million times.
