Could Hogwarts Legacy 2 actually be already under development?

Hogwarts Legacy was the biggest-selling game in the world in 2023. So let’s get one factor straight, it is going to be getting a sequel. Shareholders don’t sit on that type of success story with out making an attempt to eke out as a lot money from the cow as probably.

The upside for players? Hogwarts Legacy was an excellent sport. Was it the very best sport ever? No. Was it the very best Harry Potter sport ever and loads of enjoyable to play? Completely.

Despite the fact that Harry Potter is saddled nowadays with the controversy round JK Rowling and her views on transgender, the broader gaming public lapped up Harry Potter within the hundreds of thousands.

So yeah, we’re getting a sequel it’s only a case of when. We already know that there’s zero DLC coming for Hogwarts, the very best PC gamers are getting is the beforehand PlayStation-exclusive content material Haunted Hogsmeade being added to the bottom sport, so have the devs at Avalanche merely been squashing bugs and dealing on issues such because the Change model within the meantime? Presumably not.

A brand new job advert noticed by the oldsters at Tech4Gamers is on the lookout for a Senior Character Artist with expertise in not solely Unreal Engine 4 however 5 as properly, resulting in ideas that any sequel might be set to be produced within the awesome-looking UE5. Luckily, with the state the trade is in, it ought to be fairly straightforward to recruit one. Or a 100.

The one point out of a sport is Hogwarts Legacy however this nonetheless proves nothing, devs nowadays can typically work on a number of initiatives, particularly artists, however all of the geese appear to be getting in a row and suggesting that Warner Brothers Discovery and Avalanche could also be making preliminary strikes in direction of a follow-up.

In fact, understanding how lengthy Hogwarts Legacy took to achieve the cabinets we’re doubtless taking a look at a timeline of years for a blockbuster follow-up – and we’re nonetheless ready on the Quidditch spin-off sport we had been promised when it was absent from Hogwarts, however our Spidey senses are tingling on this one, however simply don’t maintain your breath.

Paul McNally

Gaming Editor

Paul McNally has been round consoles and computer systems since his mother and father purchased him a Mattel Intellivision in 1980. He has been a distinguished video games journalist because the Nineteen Nineties, spending over a decade as editor of well-liked print-based video video games and laptop magazines, together with a market-leading PlayStation title revealed by IDG Media.

Having hung out as Head of Communications at knowledgeable sports activities membership and dealing for high-profile charities such because the Nationwide Literacy Belief, he returned as Managing Editor accountable for giant US-based expertise web sites in 2020.

Paul has written high-end gaming content material for GamePro, Official Australian PlayStation Journal, PlayStation Professional, Amiga Motion, Mega Motion, ST Motion, GQ, Loaded, and the The Mirror. He has additionally hosted panels at retro-gaming conventions and might usually be discovered guesting on gaming podcasts and Twitch reveals. He’s obsessive about 3D printing and has labored with a number of main manufacturers up to now to create content material

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