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LEGO wants Harry Potter fans to bring their love of Hogwarts home with new buildable sets Four new sets have been revealed, letting fans and collectors build iconic classes straight out of Hogwarts, covering various Harry Potter films Each magical set is packed with amazing detail, characters, and find some wizarding surprising that will please[...]

In what Niantic refers to as the "biggest feature release of the year" for Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, the mobile developer has announced the details for a new featured called Adversaries. Harry Potter: Wizards Unite promo for Adversaries Credit: Niantic The Adversaries feature will be a new type of encounter for Harry Potter: Wizards Unite players that will be[...]

The latest Brilliant Event in Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, Hogwarts for the Holidays Part 1, is wrapping up tomorrow As this Christmas-themed event ends, kicking off the final month of Niantic's second year of this game continuing J K Rowling's iconic novels, let's take a look back on this Brilliant Event and see how it measured[...]

Voldemort is dead… right? Harry Potter: Wizards Unite from Niantic, known for their historic smash hit Pokémon GO, continues J K Rowling's novels In the game, the player teams up with an older Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, and more to help the Ministry of Magic take on a major magical problem known as the Calamity[...]

Niantic has announced their full slate of December 2020 events for Harry Potter: Wizards Unite They will soon kick off their first of two Holiday-themed Brilliant Events, but that is just the beginning There will also be a Community Day and a special week-long (and then some) Holiday Event. Harry Potter: Wizards Unite upcoming events[...]

Harry Potter: Wizards Unite hosted its November 2020 Wizarding Weekend this… er, weekend It focused on Hagrid-themed Foundables, including Hagrid himself, the Baby Norweigan Ridgeback Dragon, Grawp, the Dragon Egg, and more Was this event an improvement over the past few Wizarding Weekends, which were deemed too difficult to complete by many players? November Wizarding Weekend[...]

On December 1st, the first Brilliant Event of December 2020 will kick off in Harry Potter: Wizards Unite The Hogwarts for the Holidays Brilliant Event Part 1 will feature Brilliant Foundables from the Moving Staircase and will task players with completing a Special Assignment Ahead of the event, we have the full questline for this Special[...]

This week, Niantic tried out something new in Harry Potter: Wizards Unite Two Spotlight Events, similar to those in Niantic's other game Pokémon GO's weekly spotlight hours, debuted in-game with a Wednesday event focused on Tonic for Trace Detection and a Thursday event focused on the Knight Bus Should Niantic make these events a permanent and frequent[...]

Niantic switched things up a bit with their Harry Potter: Wizards Unite announcement Instead of laying out the whole month of events as usual, the mobile developed instead announced the details for just the next Brilliant Event, which will kick off a month of in-game holiday celebration Here's the newly announced details of the Hogwarts for the[...]

Harry Potter: Wizards Unite is trying out a new type of event this week Ahead of the monthly Wizarding Weekend which will launch in-game this Friday, there will be two Spotlight Events coming to Wizarding World fans by surprise this week in Niantic's game continuing the story of J K Rowling's iconic novels. Knight Bus in[...]

Niantic has announced details for the November Wizarding Weekend in Harry Potter: Wizards Unite Get all of the details for this four-day, Care of Magical Creatures-themed event right here. Harry Potter: Wizards Unite November Wizarding Weekend graphic Credit: Niantic The November Wizarding Weekend in Harry Potter: Wizards Unite will run from Friday, November 27th at 11 AM Pacific through[...]

Harry Potter: Wizards Unite has been taking some daring narrative turns with their Brilliant Event recently Now, in the Dumbledore's Army Brilliant Event Part 2, some of the game's biggest ever revelations are made… but was it fun to play? Harry Potter: Wizards Unite Dumbledore's Army Part 2 Brilliant Event image Credit: Niantic The Gameplay Not a complaint[...]

The all-day November Community Day event is wrapping up in Harry Potter: Wizards Unite After a highly controversial October Community Day with prohibitively difficult tasks in the Special Assignment, was Niantic able to improve this monthly event? Let's dive in. Harry Potter: Wizards Unite November 2020 Community Day promo artwork Credit: Niantic The Good: Wow, the Special Assignment for[...]

Dumbledore's Army Brilliant Event Part 2 will run in Harry Potter: Wizards Unite from Tuesday, November 17th at 11 AM local time until Tuesday, November 24th at 11 AM local time In addition to event-themed Brilliant Foundables on the map, there will also be, as with every Brilliant Event, a Special Assignment that wizards and[...]

The second part of the Dumbledore's Army Brilliant Event will begin in Harry Potter: Wizards Unite on Tuesday, November 17th at 11 AM local time and will run for a full week, until Tuesday, November 24th at 11 AM local time This follows up on last week's Brilliant Event, which saw an interesting narrative twist come[...]

Harry Potter: Wizards Unite has announced details for their November 2020 Community Day This all-day event will take place on Saturday, November 14th from 12:01 AM – 11:59 PM Local Time and will focus on the Chess Chamber. Harry Potter: Wizards Unite November 2020 Community Day promo Credit: Niantic Details released in the Harry Potter: Wizards Unite[...]

The Dumbledore's Army Brilliant Event Part 1 is wrapping up in Harry Potter: Wizards Unite. Did this Brilliant Event live up to Niantic's promise to keep improving these events based on fan response? Dumbledore's Army Brilliant Event Part 1 promotional graphic in HPWU Credit: Niantic The Dumbledore's Army Brilliant Event Part 1 was a fun, rewarding, well-paced, smooth event[...]

The surprise Halloween event, Darkness Unleashed, is wrapping up in Harry Potter: Wizards Unite This was essentially structured as a Wizarding Weekend, with a boost in a certain type of Foundables and a one-page Special Assignment Considering how the October Wizarding Weekend was the beginning of the major backlash against Niantic for the difficulty of recent Harry[...]

Ahead of the upcoming Dumbledore's Army Brilliant Event Part 1 starting in Harry Potter: Wizards Unite on November 3rd, Bleeding Cool has the full breakdown of the event's Special Assignment Prepare for the tasks below. Dumbledore's Army Brilliant Event Part 1 promotional image Credit: Niantic The full Special Assignment for this upcoming Harry Potter: Wizards Unite Brilliant Event includes: Page[...]

Niantic has announced the next Brilliant Event in Harry Potter: Wizards Unite The first of a two-part surge in the Calamity will happen in November with Dumbledore's Army Brilliant Event Part 1 We have all the details for this upcoming week of magic, including a few details not included in the official announcement. Dumbledore's Army Brilliant Event[...]

Niantic has announced the full details for events happening in Harry Potter: Wizards Unite in November 2020 Focusing primarily on Dumbledore's Army, the month will include two Brilliant Events, a Community Day, and a Wizarding Weekend Read on for the full details. Harry Potter: Wizards Unite Dumblesdore's Army Brilliant Event promotional image Credit: Niantic Niantic announced the following[...]

Mobile game developer Niantic has games featuring two of the world's most iconic IPs under its banner: Pokémon GO and Harry Potter: Wizards Unite. It's no secret that Pokémon GO is a much larger success than Wizards Unite, but there are ups and downs to both of these games[...]

The Harry Potter: Wizards Unite Darkness Rising Brilliant Event Part 2 is winding down The first part of this Brilliant Event was maligned by players casual and hardcore alike for its nearly impossible-to-complete Special Assignment This is a critique that Niantic has received on their other recent events, including the October Wizarding Weekend and both Community[...]

Niantic has announced a surprise Halloween Event taking place in Harry Potter: Wizards Unite Not included in their announcement of the Darkness Unleashed Halloween Event, however, was the breakdown of the Special Assignment that will task players with returning Legends of Hogwarts Foundables We have the full questline for this Special Assignment, including rewards, which you[...]

The Darkness Rising Brilliant Event isn't all that is happening in Harry Potter: Wizards Unite for spooky season Niantic has announced a Halloween event, ominously titled "Darkness Unleashed," that will task players with battling against a particularly dark surge of the Calamity. Harry Potter: Wizards Unite Darkness Unleashed Halloween Event promotional image Credit: Niantic Darkness Unleashed will run[...]

Coming out of the Wizarding World of Harry Potter we travel back in time for the newest Nendoroid figure Straight out of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is the magical and wondrous Newt Scamander Good Smile Company brings the Magizoologist back and this Nendoroid is packed with detail and articulation Newt Scamander comes[...]

The Darkness Rising Brilliant Event Part 2 will begin in Harry Potter: Wizards Unite this Tuesday at 11 AM Pacific It will run for one week and will feature a Special Assignment, for which we have the full tasks and rewards for ahead of launch Wizards and witches can prepare themselves for the full Brilliant Event[...]

A double Community Day weekend is wrapping up in Harry Potter: Wizards Unite After Niantic frustrated the game's community yesterday with a September Makeup Community Day focused on the Ministry Atrium page, today's October 2020 Community Day switched focus to Weasley's Wizarding Wheezes, the magical joke shop owned by J.K Rowling's iconic ginger twins, Fred and George[...]

The details are out for the new Brilliant Event in Harry Potter: Wizards Unite It's called "Darkness Rising Brilliant Event Part 2," and it picks up where last week's Part 1 left off, as what Harry Potter and the game's other characters refer to as a "malicious" surge in the Calamity comes to the game It's[...]

Today's September Makeup Community Day in Harry Potter: Wizards Unite comes at a critical point for the game, at a time when the community seems frustrated with Niantic's events to the point where many are claiming they're done Niantic proclaims that they are listening, but does this Community Day show evidence to support that? Let's take[...]