First reported by Game Informer, Warner Bros. Discovery offered the slightest of acknowledgements {that a} sequel to 2023’s Hogwarts Legacy is within the works as a part of a recent letter to its shareholders.
It’s the kind of victory lap / “Gentlemen, to money!” deal you often anticipate of the shape, and I can not overstate how tiny the HogsLegs point out is. “We expect Games [capitalization theirs] to more meaningfully contribute to segment profitability going forward as our pipeline expands,” the corporate wrote, “including the second installment of Hogwarts Legacy.”
So, it exists—which you most likely might have guessed primarily based on the primary recreation’s’ explosive gross sales success again when it launched. God keen, the sequel will meaningfully contribute to section profitability going ahead.
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PCG information author Morgan Park preferred Hogwarts Legacy properly sufficient in his review, but found the experience soured by the real world context of its release. The wholesome adventures of Harry Potter and his assorted demi-human companions (who may or may not have been buried under an oil pipeline) have taken a darker cast with each passing year due to the strident anti-transgender political activism of Potter creator J. Okay. Rowling, who nonetheless owns and earnings from the Potter IP.
It’s not simply icky public statements or no matter: Rowling has been a number one voice within the international motion to get so labored up about trans folks and bogs that you just go discriminatory legal guidelines about it. She has put that Potter cash the place her mouth is as a financial backer of anti-trans causes within the United Kingdom, and recently threatened to sue Amnesty International over its criticism of a Rowling-funded, trans-exclusionary girls’s assist community.
Nasty stuff, and Rowling’s agenda has already solid a pall over HBO’s coming adaptation of the unique books. The nastiness actually did not harm Hogwarts Legacy’s personal prospects again in 2023, however anti-trans persecution has solely grown extra acute—and Rowling extra personally related to it—within the intervening years.