Niantic Might be Following up Pokemon Go with Harry Potter

<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;pokemon-go-made-love-city&sol;">I loved <em>Pokemon Go <&sol;em>for a few months<&sol;a>&period; As they continue rolling out updates with more <em>Pokemon <&sol;em>and more features&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s not surprising that the game has maintained a lot of its popularity after breaking through the zeitgeist in a huge way&period; Well&comma; Niantic Labs might be making another huge splash in the mobile Augmented Reality market with a <em>Harry Potter <&sol;em>tie-in&period; TechCrunch reports that <em>Harry Potter&colon; Wizards Unite <&sol;em>will be Niantic&&num;8217&semi;s follow-up to <em>Pokemon Go <&sol;em>and <em>Ingress<&sol;em> and is set to launch in 2018&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Unfortunately&comma; there aren&&num;8217&semi;t any details really&period; <em>Ingress <&sol;em>will be the main influence it sounds like&comma; but that&&num;8217&semi;s a given since most of <em>Pokemon Go <&sol;em>has parallels to their first AR title&comma; as well&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s easy to see the location-based software working well with the <em>Harry Potter <&sol;em>universe&comma; but I think what lends itself most is the point-based Housing system of the <em>Harry Potter <&sol;em>franchise&period; Now&comma; more than ever&comma; those quizzes that tell you what House you&&num;8217&semi;d belong to can actually make an impact on some decision you&&num;8217&semi;ll make&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>My question is how much spell casting will matter to <em>Harry Potter&colon; Wizards Unite<&sol;em>&comma; assuming all of this comes to pass&period; While <em>Pokemon Go <&sol;em>utilizes a battle system&comma; it doesn&&num;8217&semi;t really feel great to play &lpar;main reason I bailed on the game&rpar; and it isn&&num;8217&semi;t very deep for what moves you can use&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Are you excited for a potential <em>Harry Potter <&sol;em>AR game&quest; Let us know in the comments below what you&&num;8217&semi;d like to see&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Source&colon; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;techcrunch&period;com&sol;2017&sol;11&sol;08&sol;niantics-follow-up-to-pokemon-go-will-be-a-harry-potter-ar-game-launching-in-2018&sol;">TechCrunch<&sol;a><&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;