Though everyone was expecting Hogwarts Legacy to do very well, given the substantial existing fan base for Harry Potter products, few would have predicted just how much it would chime with players.
Sony confirmed that it secured its position as the third most played single-player game on the platform, in terms of playtime, with the average player spending tens or even hundreds of hours exploring its winding corridors and wider open world.
As such, it was little surprise when Warner Bros. confirmed that we wouldn't be getting much in the way of post-launch content, with developer Avalanche Studios instead moving on to the sequel. Given how long development cycles take these days, that doesn't usually mean too much, but the next game could be coming a lot sooner than we may have expected.
Hogwarts Legacy 2 is definitely coming, and the leadership at Warner Bros. Discovery are still very much pursuing gaming moving forward, despite major issues with the division over the last year or so.
In an interview with Variety, WBD head honcho JB Perrette confirmed that, whilst 2026 is set to be relatively quiet for the gaming side of the media behemoth, big things are to...
