This week's highs and lows in PC gaming

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Samuel Roberts: Pottermore

In one of those awkward leaks so convincing that everyone involved pretty much has to just keep quiet and hope the whole thing blows over, footage of a new, unannounced Harry Potter universe game did the rounds this week. And it looks pretty good in this form, letting you create a student and explore Hogwarts, while also battling wizards. All the relevant Harry Potter stuff appears to be in there. 

Harry Potter has a pretty atrocious history in games, outside of Lego, and I have no desire to play that terrible-looking Hogwarts mobile thing, so this at last looks like a 'core' game that people with taste can enjoy on some level. I'm actually looking forward to learning more about it next year. While it's unfortunate for the devs that it got leaked early, it's positive in the sense that it got so many people excited this week. A lot of people want to play something like this.

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