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 first look — Warner Bros. and Niantic show off long-awaited mobile game

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Niantic and Warner Bros.’ WB Games studio showed off the first gameplay for Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, a mobile game that is based on the same location-based technology behind Pokémon Go and Ingress. It’s time for all of us to be spellbound.

The long-awaited game has been in the works for a few years, and it will debut on iOS and Android in 2019, according to a press briefing led by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment president David Haddad and Niantic CEO John Hanke in San Francisco. Niantic provided the underlying Niantic Real World platform for augmented reality and map-based gameplay while WB Games in San Francisco created the game. The publisher is Portkey Games, a Warner Bros label.

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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.