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The final section of the dev blog goes into the "united" part of Wizards Unite , revealing what are basically raid battles. Just like Pokémon GO (how many times is that now?), you have to go to a special real-world location to partake in these battles. However, instead of fighting legendary Pokémon, you will team up with other players to fight evil wizards and scary magical beasts like Dement

Ingress is Niantic's first game, and it actually became a sort of audition for Pokémon GO . The story of Ingress is that creatures are appearing through portals opening in the real world. Players use their GPS to track down the portals. Portals are fixed into real-world locations and there are te

There are even three teams. This seems particularly odd since the Harry Potter franchise has four perfect teams built into its story with the Hogwarts houses. Instead, it seems we're getting Valor, Instinct, and Mystic repeated in the form of three Professions. Wizards Unite players can choose to be Aurors, Magizoologists, or Professors, which totally fit the theme of the aggressive one, the offbeat one, and the smart one. One nice difference is that the three Professions are encouraged to work together, unlike how Pokémon GO emphasizes competition between the te

The Doom series is one much celebrated by its fans, remaining as one of the most popular and successful FPS game series of all time. These games see players jumping into the heavy boots of the unnamed protagonist as he arms himself with an entire arsenal of weaponry to send demons straight back to hell. The game thrives on buckshot, bloody action and heavy, thumping OSTs designed to get adrenaline runn

This spooky season, there are two multiplayer horror games for PC and console you might want to play with friends: Friday the 13th and Dead by Daylight . The games share a lot of similarities when it comes to their base concept — survivors are dropped into a match and one person is the killer. The aim of the survivors is to escape, and the aim of the killers is to finish the match with no one left alive. Sounds pretty simple and similar, but the games have some key differences and there are some points of contention about which of the horror games is actually better. Strap in, because we're here to decide once and for

If you're looking for something light-hearted, you're probably going to want to go with Friday. Although the game can be a bit tense the first time you're dropped into a match, it's definitely a little more fun in terms of not taking itself too seriously, so if you're cosying up on the couch with a controller to play against your friends — this may be the one for

The bulk of Wizards Unite 's gameplay seems to revolve around things called "Foundables." These are defined by the game's official website as "artefacts, creatures, people, and even memories" that are for some reason appearing in the Muggle world, aka our reality. Players are part of a special Ministry Of Magic task force on a mission to track down these Foundables and return them to the Wizarding Wo

Overall, the pattern of Wizards Unite 's gameplay looks to be borrowing heavily Pokémon GO 's. Players walk around to find collectibles, monitor their resources, and are eventually forced to visit real-world locations to replenish those resources. Then again, most mobile games have some sort of resource system. Even if Wizards Unite handles resources similar to GO, the latter still has very Pokémon -specific features like gyms and legendary battles. Surely Niantic wouldn't give us some Polyjuice Potion version of that, right? Wel

Tying back into simplicity is the difference in management between the two games. Pokémon Go is very straight forward in terms of what the player needs to manage and keep track of. The two main elements are knowing what candies you need for your Pokémon and making sure you have enough Poké balls. It’s incredibly easy. Wizards Unite has infinitely more that you must be aware of, such as items on the ground, potions, portkeys, and even your finite amount of spell energy. It’s much easier to ensure you always have Poké balls when you have no limitations, unlike capped spell ene

Niantic has a certified hit on its hands with Pokémon GO . Naysayers will cite the game's stability problems at launch, or say cheeky things like "people still play this game?," but no one can deny the phenomenon of that magical summer in 2016 when everyone under the age of 40 was stampeding like crazed herds of Tauros in pursuit of digital critters. Even today, the game makes more money than every other Pokémon mobile Adventure Game secrets combined. So, it makes sense that Warner Bros. handed Niantic the reins to the Wizarding World's first AR mobile venture, Harry Potter: Wizards Uni

Frictional Games made a name for itself with Amnesia: The Dark Descent , a title that is largely responsible for the resurgence the horror genre has enjoyed in recent years. Its followup effort, Soma , may not have generated the same kind of buzz as Amnesia , but it is arguably the better, more polished game. Set in an underwater research facility filled with strange creatures, Soma is less about jump scares and more about building tension and scaring players with pure psychological hor