Harry Potter video games be "darker and more action-oriented game(s)." In 2002, following the release of "Chamber of Secrets", EA Games worked with game developer Magic Pockets who created the GBA version, to produce a video game based on Quidditch. Following a release of a special Harry Potter themed Lego set, Lego Harry Potter, Traveller's Tales announced that a Lego Harry Potter video game would be released, in the same vein as releases for "", and "", in 2010, although news had been leaked in 2009. The series was split into two, with "" releasing in 2010, and "" releasing the following year. The
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets seven books had been published, Graeme Davis regarded "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" as the weakest of the series, and agreed that the plot structure is much the same as in "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone". He described Fawkes's appearance to arm Harry and then to heal him as a "deus ex machina": he said that the book does not explain how Fawkes knew where to find Harry; and Fawkes's timing had to be very precise, as arriving earlier would probably have prevented the battle with the basilisk, while arriving later would have been fatal to Harry