At its E3 conference yesterday, Sony announced a new game made in collaboration with JK Rowling, called Wonderbook: Book of Spells. The game will include brand new written content by JK Rowling about the spells in the Harry Potter universe. Here is a trailer:
Now, this game looks cool and I’d love to play it and read the new writing by JK Rowling. The problem is, I won’t be able to. You need to own a Playstation 3, a Playstation Wonderbook, a Playstation Eye, a Playstation Move controller, and of course you’ll need to buy the game itself. There is no chance I could or would pay all that money for this. And this I’m sure will be a huge issue for most fans around the world.
With the new Wizard’s Collection DVD set, the re-release box-set of the three companion books, and now this, I really feel like the fans’ enthusiasm is starting to be abused. We are not made of money.
A Bloomsbury report released this morning got fans speculating with their mysterious statement that they hope a new Harry Potter related 3-book box set will boost their sales over the coming year. No more details were given and many of us were led to believe this simply meant a new release of Quidditch Through The Ages, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and The Tales of Beedle the Bard was in the pipeline.
However, another snippet of information found by a Hypable.com reader suggests it might be something more – a ”Hogwart’s Library Box Set” written by JK Rowling. This lines up with the recent release of library book excerpts on Pottermore. From that Sharecast.com article:
Bloomsbury, which is to release a Hogwart’s Library Box Set by JK Rowling and Three Good Things by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall in 2012, said it would extend its focus on its academic business following the acquisition of Continuum.
This sounds very interesting indeed. What do you think? We will let you know as soon as we hear anything more on the subject!
Update: Bloomsbury have confirmed that this new box set is simply a repackaging of the existing three companion books listed above, which will be released in hard-back. They tweeted the following picture of the upcoming set: Get the whole story »
The Pottermore Twitter page just sent out some exciting news. The first book in the series has now been updated with brand new exclusive content from JK Rowling: excerpts from some of the Hogwarts library books!
I’ve had a look around and found two book excerpts located in the ‘Moment’ pictured below, titled ‘Harry Becomes An Outcast’. And there a couple more are in the ‘The Library’ and ‘Hagrid’s Secret’ moments.
Go and have a look for yourself and see what you find! Pottermore.com
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