Harry Potter: Wizards Unite is the new location-based game from Niantic and Warner Bros.
Harry Potter: Wizards Unite is the new location-based game from Niantic and Warner Bros.
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Harry Potter: Wizards Unite hands-on — Stepping up from Pokémon Go

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Since July 2016, I have walked 438 miles playing Pokémon Go, reaching level 30 in the location-based mobile game. I’m not sure how much more walking I’ll be doing with the game, as I’ve downloaded its successor now.

Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, a very ambitious augmented reality mobile game from Warner Bros.’ Portkey Games and Niantic, launched on Thursday on iOS and Android after years of development. And you’ll see a lot more gameplay in this game than Pokémon Go had when it debuted.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.