Our favorite toys under $100 to look out for on Black Friday

Black Friday is coming soon, which means that if you haven’t already, it’s time to start picking out toys and games to give your kids this holiday season. Of course, things are looking a bit different this year and we’re all spending more time indoor...

‘Hogwarts Legacy’ will make you a wizard in 2021

The long-rumored Harry Potter open-world game finally has a release date. Hogwarts Legacy will come out sometime in 2021. Sony shared a lengthy cinematic trailer during its PlayStation 5 showcase detailing what you’ll do the game. You’ll play as a wi...

Celebs are reading the first Harry Potter novel on Spotify

The stars are coming out to bring the first Harry Potter novel to life in a new way. There have been audiobooks of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Philosopher's Stone, and (of course) a movie based on it, but this time around, big names are reading t...

Fans are creating a Harry Potter role-playing game inside ‘Minecraft’

There have been some ambitious Minecraft projects before, but this one may win for sheer sophistication. The modding team Floo Network is creating Minecraft School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, a Harry Potter-themed role-playing experience inside a Mi...

Niantic is adding gifting to ‘Harry Potter: Wizards Unite’

Taking a page from Pokémon Go, Niantic is adding gifting to Harry Potter: Wizards Unite. The next time you launch the augmented reality game, you'll be able to find different colored boxes at the game's inns, fortresses and greenhouses, and th...

Snap’s ‘Project Voldemort’ dossier detailed Facebook’s copycat moves

Facebook hasn't been subtle about duping Snapchat features and otherwise undermining its competitor. Don't think Snap just shrugged its shoulders and focused on adding and opening up features, though -- apparently, it's been taking notes. Wall Stre...

‘Harry Potter: Wizards Unite’ will track activity without running the app

Pokémon Go players have had the luxury of syncing their activity tracking with the game, but not Harry Potter: Wizards Unite fans. If you've wanted to unlock Portmanteaus or otherwise complete distance-based goals, you've had to keep the app...

Join the first ‘Harry Potter: Wizards Unite’ community day tomorrow

Harry Potter: Wizards Unite has been out for one month, and makers Ninantic and WB Games are ready to kick things up a notch. Tomorrow, they're launching the game's first community day. Similar to the way community days worked in Pokémon Go, t...

A weekend with ‘Harry Potter: Wizards Unite’

Mat Smith and Dan Cooper grew up in the UK at the right age to witness the birth of Pottermania. The Harry Potter novels are firmly encoded in their very British psyches, and both are fans of augmented reality, GPS-connected mobile games. So it made...