Just as the Harry Potter universe was coming to life on movie theater screens, another industry took advantage of an opportunity with tremendous potential. More than 15 Harry Potter video games have been released since 2001 allowing fans to not only read the books and watch the movies but also experience the magic themselves. So where do some of these video games fall in the history books and how well were they received by audiences around the world? We took a deep dive into the virtual side of Harry Potter games to answer that very question. But in order to do so, we had to spin our Time-Turner back to the very beginning.
Let’s head back to the year that everything changed – 2001. It was the start of the Harry Potter and the Lord of the Rings movie franchises, and graphically gawky video games ruled the cyberworld. While it was voted to be the third-best video game of…

