Gaming

Hooray, The ‘Pokemon Go’ Game For Harry Potter Fans Is Out Now

It's called 'Harry Potter: Wizards Unite' and it's going to dominate your life.

by Tom Clift  2 May 2019
Harry Potter: Wizards Unite

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Wingardium Leviosa, mugglefathers!! Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, the wizarding world-themed augmented reality game from the makers of Pokemon Go, is now available to play in Australia and New Zealand.

A beta version of the game is currently available in the App Store and through Google Play. In a blog post, the game’s creators warned that as it was still in beta, the game might be “buggy and unstable at times”. But hey, it still beats real life any day, amiright folks?

As we’ve written about previously, Harry Potter: Wizards Unite invites users to join the Statute of Secrecy Task Force, whose job it is to protect the wizarding world from discovery by Muggles. With the aid of Harry Potter himself, players collect enchanted artefacts and fight fantastic beasts, which appear in the real world just like Pokemon do in Pokemon Go. You can also make magic potions, uncover Portkeys, and generally have a grand old magical time.

In other words, RIP my spare time.