New Harry Potter: Quidditch Champions Trailer Reveals More About the Game [CNET]

The new Quidditch-themed game includes a career mode as well as online co-op matches for 3-on-3 gameplay.

Warner Bros. Games dropped an official trailer for Harry Potter: Quidditch Champions on Monday, revealing some of the customizations available in the upcoming and showing off gameplay. It’s made by Unbroken Studios, which also co-developed Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League. 

In the two-minute trailer, venues on the road to the Quidditch World Cup are spotlighted, as are the different game modes, including a single-player career mode, player-versus-player modes and online co-op. You can play as characters from the franchise including Harry Potter, Draco Malfoy, Ron Weasely and Cho Chang, all featured in the trailer, or customize your own character with different costumes, hairstyles and brooms. 

Up to three players can play together on each team with online mode, and players can choose from the four Quidditch positions: chaser, seeker, keeper or beater. Skill points allow players to level up their brooms and competitors can change their flight style to suit their play. The game’s description promises that some of the gameplay venues will include “legendary Quidditch arenas, as well as maps that showcase never-before-seen areas of the wizarding world.”

The Xbox Series X and S, PlayStation 4 and 5, and Windows PC game is out digitally in $30 standard and $40 deluxe editions on Sept. 3. PlayStation Plus subscribers will be able to get the game for PlayStation 4 or 5 at no charge until Sept. 30. A retail Deluxe Edition release is scheduled for Nov. 8. A Nintendo Switch release is due sometime over the holiday season, but has no set release date yet.

The deluxe edition includes House Packs for each of the four Hogwarts Houses and 2,000 Gold of in-game currency. Preorders for both editions on Xbox, Steam or the Epic Game Store include a Firebolt Supreme Broom Skin.

PC requirements for Harry Potter: Quidditch Champions are below.

Minimum:

• Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
• OS: Windows 10
• Processor: Intel Core i7-4790 or AMD Ryzen 5 1600X
• Memory: 8GB RAM
• Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX 960, 4GB or AMD Radeon HD 7950, 3GB or Intel Arc A380, 6GB
• DirectX: Version 12
• Storage: 15GB available space
• Additional notes: Should enable 1080p @ 60 fps with settings on Low

Recommended:

• Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
• OS: Windows 10
• Processor: Intel Core i5-8400 or AMD Ryzen 5 2600X
• Memory: 8GB RAM
• Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060, 3GB or AMD Radeon R9 290X, 4GB or Intel Arc A750, 8GB
• DirectX: Version 12
• Storage: 15GB available space
• Additional notes: Should enable 1080p @ 60 fps with settings on High