{"id":95310,"date":"2019-06-19T09:42:28","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T09:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pockettactics.com\/articles\/harry-potter-wizards-unite-release-date\/"},"modified":"2019-06-19T09:42:28","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T09:42:28","slug":"you-can-be-a-wizard-harry-this-coming-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/06\/19\/you-can-be-a-wizard-harry-this-coming-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"You can be a Wizard, Harry, this coming Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/you-can-be-a-wizard-harry-this-coming-friday.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Games like <em>Pok\u00e9mon GO<\/em> aren\u2019t for anyone, but I\u2019ve always quietly admired Niantic\u2019s marriage of a popular IP, AR tech and incentive design. Sure, its grindy in the way the worst F2P games could often be, but I explored so many parks and places I\u2019d never seen before when I dabbled in <em>Pok\u00e9mon GO<\/em> a few years ago, and the game in general never made me feel pressured into spending money. Plus, you know, Pok\u00e9mon!<\/p>\n<p>Niantic\u2019s latest foray into IP-based AR will be&nbsp;<em>Harry Potter: Wizards Unite<\/em>. You get to rock around being a wizard, basically, which I imagine is going to make some people unreasonably happy come the end of the week as the developer have just announced that the magic will start on <strong>Friday, June 21<sup>st<\/sup>, 2019. <\/strong>For US and UK-based gamers, that is.<\/p>\n<p>[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MyZpNZbuEF8?controls=0]<\/p>\n<p>We will be joining the ranks of the Australians and New Zealanders who\u2019ve already been enjoying a soft-launch period for a while, and more regions are due to come online although we don\u2019t have any details on the timetable.<\/p>\n<p><em>Harry Potter<\/em> is not my favourite IP \u2013 I think I\u2019m actually a bit more excited about the <em>Minecraft<\/em> one \u2013 but I\u2019ll probably jump into this for some tinkering on my shiny new Pixel 3XL, and you can expect more coverage from us going forward as this is something we want to keep on top of, at least for the short-term.<\/p>\n<p><em>Harry Potter is due for release at the end of this week on iOS &amp; Android.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Games like Pok\u00e9mon GO aren\u2019t for anyone, but I\u2019ve always quietly admired Niantic\u2019s marriage of a popular IP, AR tech and incentive design. Sure, its grindy in the way the worst F2P games could often be, but I explored so many parks and places I\u2019d never seen before when I dabbled in Pok\u00e9mon GO a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95311,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile-game-releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}