Pokémon Go was revealed in September 2015, and released in July 2016, so a similar timeframe of a late 2018 release date for Harry Potter: Wizards Unite is likely.īetween Niantic Labs and Warner Bros. More details are expected to arrive in 2018, during which we expect to find out Harry Potter: Wizards Unite will release. It's also entirely possible that real-world locations from the Harry Potter series - platform 9 & 3/4 at King's Cross, for example - will be playing a part in the game, but that is speculation. Given Ingress and Pokémon Go use a similar model of the real world and the locations therein, it's likely that prominent locations in those games will remain prominent in Harry Potter: Wizards Unite. If it is following a similar route to Pokémon Go, it's likely that visiting certain real-world locations will offer the opportunity to learn these spells ahead of fighting beasts, which may well function like Pokémon Go's raids. It also has some hints as to what the gameplay itself might be like. Exactly how that is going to work, and to what extent Harry Potter: Wizards Unite will be basing itself off of Pokémon Go (or Niantic Labs' other title, Ingress) is unknown.Īn official site for Harry Potter: Wizards Unite is now online, which has a section to sign up for details on the game and, we assume, to find out where to download it when that's announced too. In collaboration with Warner Bros., Niantic Labs are making a new mobile AR game in the form of Harry Potter: Wizards Unite (although many are colloquially referring to it as Harry Potter Go).Īnnounced on Novemas a complete surprise, Harry Potter: Wizards Unite will be an AR mobile game inspired by the Harry Potter universe, using the real-world interactions of Pokémon Go as a base for a new game. ![]() ![]() The developers of Pokémon Go, the smash hit mobile augmented reality (AR) game featuring the Pokémon franchise, are tackling a different, but equally (if not more) massive property in the near future: Harry Potter.
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