The dedicated sport of the wizarding world of Harry Potter is getting its own (official) video game. WB Games and developer Unbroken Studios announced on Monday Harry Potter: Quidditch Champions; It’s a fast-paced, competitive, multiplayer game based on the favorite pastime of Hogwarts wizards and witches, available for consoles and PC.
Harry Potter: Quidditch Champions will fill a gap in the latest game based on the franchise, Hogwarts legacy, which notably did not include a playable version of Quidditch. And that’s it Quidditch Champions seems to be based on the game’s FAQ
WB Games says so Harry Potter: Quidditch Champions has been in development “for several years” by Los Angeles-based Unbroken Studios, which previously published the Mad Max-y Battle Royale game broken lands and supports Rocksteady Studios in the development of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League.
players can Sign in to test the game at the official Harry Potter: Quidditch Champions Website. A release date for the game has not been announced.
How Hogwarts legacyWB Games notes in an FAQ that its new Quidditch game “remains true [Harry Potter author] JK Rowling’s original vision,” but that the studio’s projects “were not written by JK Rowling and will not be direct adaptations of the books and films.”
Some long-time Harry Potter fans have sworn off buying and playing Hogwarts legacy based on Rowling’s other writing – viz a confrontational essay 2020 posted on her personal website setting out her views on gender identity and her skepticism about transgender-inclusive laws and policies, and she repeated those views on her personal Twitter. Fans who play a version of Quidditch in real life have since chosen to distance themselves from Rowling and her work, renaming their interpretation of the sport Quadball.
Hogwarts legacy managed to outsell expectations with more than 12 million copies sold in its first two weeks. Warner Bros. is also showing no sign of slowing down in its exploitation of Harry Potter’s intellectual property as a new live-action adaptation of the seven-book series arrives for HBO. Rowling will be directly involved in this project as executive producer.
While other Harry Potter video game adaptations have included Quidditch as a playable element, including Lego Harry Potter: Years 1-4the only other official game dedicated to the sport was in 2003 Harry Potter: Quidditch World Cup, released for Game Boy Advance, GameCube, PlayStation 2 and Xbox. An unofficial Quidditch-inspired game called Broomstick League was in development, but this title was removed from Steam in 2020.
