Niantic has cast the avada kedavra spell and will be shutting down its Harry Potter app for good.
After a long and successful run, Niantic and Warner Bros Entertainment are saying goodbye to their collaboration project Harry Potter: Wizards Unite.
The AR game that saw the Wizarding World come to life will be removed from apps by the end of this year and the servers will shut down completely by next year. Fear not though, there’s still plenty of upcoming events players can enjoy before the killing curse hits.
Harry Potter: Wizards Unite
The AR game launched back in 2019 and was created after the success of Pokémon GO and is situated in the muggle world (our world) where witches and wizards (the players) must come together to solve “The Calamity”, overcome the confounding chaotic magic that surrounds the “Foundables,” and return them to their rightful place, keeping them safe from Muggle eyes.
Harry Potter: Wizards Unite received regular updates and fixtures since its initial release and maintained a decently-sized community online. The development team confirmed the game was downloaded by millions of fans around the world, unlike other games Niantic has had to shut down in the past, like their Catan mobile AR game, which was shut down still in its beta testing phase.
A reason for this decision was not provided, however, it is speculated whether the release of Hogwarts Legacy in 2022- an open-world, action role-playing video game set in the late 1800s.
Harry Potter: Wizards Unite will be removed from the App Store, Google Play and Galaxy Store on December 6 and players will be unable to make in-app purchases. The game will shut down fully on January 31, 2022.
However, there’s still time to take part in events during the months of November and December, including the Half-Blood Prince Brilliant Event Part 1 this month and the Voldemort Lethal Adversaries Event next month.
In what is more hopeful news for Niantic, the company have just released another AR game situated in the world of Pikmin titled Pikmin Bloom, which was recently made available in the UK, and is making a series of apps together with Nintendo.
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