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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[...]

" Redmayne stars in the Harry Potter prequel as Newt Scamander, a top magizoologist in the Wizarding World The actor is on the untitled third Fantastic Beasts film coming off the franchise's poorest showing in The Crimes of Grindewald in 2018, which grossed $651 million globally The 11 Wizardly World films combined for $9.2 billion worldwide[...]

Harry Potter: Wizards Unite event titles are always a mouthful Here we go The Darkness Rising Brilliant Event Part 1 is about to end in Harry Potter: Wizards Unite and it has left both casual and hardcore players concerned with the structure of these events Here's what October's first Brilliant Event got right as well as what[...]

Earlier this week, we reported on the newly released details of the Harry Potter: Wizards Unite September Makeup Community Day Now, Niantic has released information regarding the game's October Community Day, which will happen one day after the Makeup event It's going to be an intense weekend of battling, opening Portkeys, and returning Foundables for wizards[...]

They garnered an enormous amount of goodwill from the way that they adapted to the COVID-19 global pandemic, especially with the Knight Bus function in Harry Potter: Wizards Unite and Remote Raiding in Pokémon GO. However, perceptions of the company's communication practices have been recently called into question after several controversial moves in both games, including pulling[...]

It may be October, but the September Makeup Community Day is about to happen in Harry Potter: Wizards Unite It will run all day on Saturday, October 17th from 12:01 AM through 11:59 PM local time Below, find the full details of this day which will focus on the Ministry Atrium. Harry Potter: Wizards Unite September Makeup[...]

Coming from the Wizarding World of Harry Potter is Hagrid from Iron Studios A brand new magical statue has appeared for fans that stands at 10" tall The statue shows off the groundskeeper Rubeus Hagrid surrounded by pumpkins Going off the movies, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban features pumpkins at the hut They[...]

The Harry Potter: Wizards Unite community is currently uniting over one shared idea: October's Dark Arts Wizarding Weekend was an absolute trainwreck Here's where Niantic went wrong with this event that was meant to kick off their highly anticipated October festivities. Harry Potter: Wizards Unite October 2020 Wizarding Weekend promo image Credit: Niantic The Wizarding Weekend boosted certain[...]

There is just one day left until the first Brilliant Event of October begins in Harry Potter: Wizards Unite Ahead of the launch of the Darkness Rising Brilliant Event Part 1, we have the entire list of tasks and rewards for the week's Special Assignment. Harry Potter: Wizards Unite Darkness Rising Brilliant Event promotional image[...]

Dedicated players of Niantic's Harry Potter: Wizards Unite game are currently in the middle of October's Wizarding Weekend, which tasks players with returning Dark Arts Foundables to complete timed Special Assignments With this event wrapping up on Monday, there will be little down time as the month's first Brilliant Event kicks off Here are all of[...]

Harry Potter: Wizards Unite will celebrate the coming of October's Dark Arts month with a Wizarding Weekend that begins Friday, October 2nd at 11 AM Pacific You can read the full details of the event in our report here This Wizarding Weekend will feature a Special Assignment and, ahead of the event, Bleeding Cool has[...]

Yesterday, Niantic announced their full slate for October 2020 events in Harry Potter: Wizards Unite The Halloween-themed month will include two Brilliant Events featuring Dark Wizards and Witches, two Community Days, and a Wizarding Weekend The Wizarding Weekend is scheduled to debut this Friday, October 2nd at 11 AM Pacific time It will run until Monday,[...]

Niantic has announced the full details for Harry Potter: Wizards Unite for the month of October 2020 This Dark Arts-themed month, themed perfectly for Halloween, will feature a Wizarding Weekend, two Community Days, and Two Brilliant Events. Harry Potter: Wizards Unite promo image for October 2020 events Credit: Niantic In their announcement for the upcoming month of Harry[...]

The highly anticipated Battle of the Department of Mysteries Brilliant Event concludes today in Harry Potter: Wizards Unite with "Part 2" of the event Let's take a look back on what Niantic's game, which functions as a continuation of the Harry Potter novels, had to offer players with the second week of tasks. Promo image for Harry Potter Wizards[...]

So with that in mind, I took a look at some pop-culture anime heroes that have elevated the struggle of balancing family and work to a new level: Avatar: The Last Airbender, Avatar: The Legend of Korra, Naruto, and My Hero Academia, as well as some thoughts on that perspective in the "Harry Potter" franchise (a[...]

The Battle of the Department of Mysteries Brilliant Event Part 1 is wrapping up in Harry Potter: Wizards Unite Let's take a look back at this week-long event that focused on the climactic battle that saw Harry Potter lead his friends into their first, fateful clash with the Death Eaters in Harry Potter and the Order of[...]

It seemed that Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, Niantic's AR game based on J K Rowling's iconic fantasy series, was destined to take over the world the same way that Pokémon GO did in the summer of 2016 However, that vision for a real-life Wizarding World of players of all ages gathering outside to cast spells and brew potions[...]

The current Brilliant Event in Harry Potter: Wizards Unite focuses on one of the most important scenes from the books: the clash between Death Eaters and Dumbledore's Army that took place in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix As the first part of the event wraps up, Wizards Unite will shift to Battle of the[...]

The Battle of the Department of Mysteries Brilliant Event Part 2 will begin in Harry Potter: Wizards Unite directly on the heels of Part 1 The event, which will run from September 22nd to the 29th, will have another series of special tasks for wizards and witches to complete. Department Of Mysteries Part 2 Tasks In Harry[...]

If you've ever wanted to live in the world of Harry Potter, you'll want to keep an eye out for Avalanche Software and Portkey Games' upcoming Hogwarts Legacy It's the first open-world Harry Potter game of its kind, and it's headed to next-gen platforms as of next year We got our first look at the[...]

The Battle of the Department of Mysteries Brilliant Event Part One is now live in Harry Potter: Wizards Unite Along with offering event-themed Foundables, all of which we reported on here, there will be a series of tasks that witches and wizards must complete in order to maximize on this Brilliant Event before Part Two begins[...]

Other highlights include two Pops from the Wizarding World of Harry Potter featuring Ron Weasley and his childhood home, The Burrows Another Ad Icon has been revealed for NYCC with the Dum Dums mascot Drum Man and we got two new Disney Pops with Stitch and Jiminy Cricket The biggest surprise from the entire first[...]