Remember the innocent days of 2016 spent walking with the sole purpose of collecting virtual Pokemon characters, effectively isolating your friends, family and work responsibilities.
Well, your childhood nostalgia and sense of self will simultaneously diminish and intensify yet again, with Pokemon Go creator Niantic teasing the upcoming release of a Harry Potter themed AR game. Still waiting for your Hogwarts letter? This is closest you’re going to damn well get.
At its peak, Pokemon Go garnered an average of 45 million daily players and generated 1.2 billion in sales, with experts saying a ‘Harry Potter-themed game has a potential for success’. Something Harry Potter related successful? Please! That’s just unheard of!
The game is set to have players ‘find and fight fantasy beasts in real-world neighbourhoods’, which has yet to get a release date. It’ll be called “Harry Potter: Wizards UNite” and is apparently one of the many games based on the series set for a release.
You can suss out the official announcement here that details Niantic’s partnership with Warner Brothers Interactive Entertainment. We’re hoping the game provides the entire Potter experience. Will we get sorted into houses? Will we get to buy a wand? Use an unforgivable curse? Please let us live out every childhood fantasy please, Niantic.
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