Harry Potter’s Book of Spells on Ps3

As I mentioned within my post about Sony’s E3 press conference, WonderBook was one of many highlights of E3 in my opinion. I'm sure that some questioned whether E3 was the right spot for a really family-oriented announcement. Also, I was a trifle disappointed JK Rowling wasn’t there personally to talk about her new book within the peripheral, Harry Potter’s Book of Spells. But beyond these minor quibbles WonderBook promises to inject result-oriented life into Sony’s PS3 Move Accessoriescatalog.


I involved with Russell Harding, creative director on WonderBook and also the Book of Spells title, to learn more around the cool product and why they chose E3, instead of the Big apple Toy Fair to make their announcement. Essentially inside the video, he outlined that they were keen to get the new accessory while watching biggest videogame audience possible and E3 was obviously a good fit for the.

He talked us through what sort of Book of Spells was created and drew on previous experience with Eye Pet — the augmented reality virtual pet to the wii gun controllers and Move combo. My kids really enjoyed Eye Pet and that i’ll become to determine the direction they fancy WonderBook.

While reading around the subject for this post, I used to be surprised to discover that there are already other Harry Potter Book of Spells titles available. For instance, it has an electronic game from Tiger called Harry Potter Book of Spells that promises a “personalized electronic encyclopedia on book one in the series. Find complete biographical and history whenever you highlight a principal character, creature, item or location featured inside book.” Certainly looks like there could be some overlap.

Industry experts Harding in regards to the a higher level original content in the game and the man was reassuring. Especially there's a combination of original poems published by R K Rowling which are won right at the end of each and every level. Gleam match for the Pottermore online website, although I’m expecting more information regarding how this works currently. Provided the quality of involvement on the author have been high throughout, it looks like this can be a necessity buy for Potter fans.

For me the important winner here's the content. Not only have they were hook in a very big named to get rid of the product, but the quality and ingenuity of how that content is presented is excellent. They key will probably be whether Video game accessory can continue to provide a stream of equally excellent (and profile) titles to the WonderBook once it launches later this year.