Calling all Potterheads!

You don’t have to re-read the books or re-watch the movies anymore to get that fix of magic in your daily life anymore because Harry Potter: Wizards Unite is already available in Australia and New Zealand… and it’s great!

After their huge success with Pokemon Go, Niantic Inc. have released their newest stroke of genius in Wizards Unite. Just like Pokemon Go, Wizards Unite transforms the world we live in into something magical using Augmented Reality. The main idea of the game is that you have to find traces of magic that have escaped into the real world and use spells which you trace on your mobile screen to return them to their places.

What I really liked about this game which isn’t in Pokemon Go is the variety of movements you can do on screen symbolising the different spells, in addition to the battle structure in the Fortresses. On the other hand, what I ddn’t appreciate much were the Portkeys which force you to use augmented reality. What I would like to see later on is definitely some PVP (Player Vs. Player) because I think this would just be awesome!

Even though Niantic claims that the game is still in beta mode and may be buggy, I have personally experienced only 2 minor glitches during my almost 2 hours of game play. Compared to the hell we went through at the launch of Pokemon Go, this is butterbeer!

All in all, I think that Niantic’s Harry Potter Wizards Unite is an amazing game; however, I now have to see how to splite my time between this and Pokemon Go!

Originally posted on May 6, 2020 @ 4:57 am

Note: If you haven’t seen the movie yet, you can watch it below. 

As a Harry Potter fan, I think I speak for all of us when I say that we missed it, be it the movies or the books. This is why “Voldemort: Origins of the Heir” is a very welcome fan-made movie.

As the title suggests, the story takes us back in time to way before Harry was born and shows us how Tom Riddle became the notorious Voldemort. Through it, we meet the heir of each of the four Hogwarts houses and how they came together to try to make the world a better place… we all know how well that ended.

For a fan made movie, I was expecting something cheap and lame; however, I was positively surprised to see the great storyline, wonderful effects and good acting. It is obvious that the director Gianmaria Pezzato and the executive producer Stefano Prestia went to great length to insure that this dark fantasy was both up to par and in line with the original franchise. On the other hand, it is sad to see that the movie was a bit too short to satisfy the cravings of Harry Potter fans worldwide. Regardless, “Voldemort: Origins of the Heir” is a nice reminder to bring back our Harry Potter nostalgia.

Originally posted on October 20, 2020 @ 9:42 am