Google Launches Mobile Game You Play in Real Life

Google's smartphone app team Niantic Labs has released a new multi-player gaming platform that turns your real-world location into a virtual world.

Called Ingress -- which is available for free download on Android via Google Play -- the app is based around the premise that a strange energy has been discovered by European scientists, and it must be controlled before it controls you.

But the app isn't one you play while sitting on your coach at night. It requires actual movement and encourages you to get outside to unlock new features, weapons and adventures. For example, to control and capture things called "portals" -- which spew matter from creative places such as museums and lib…
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