Open World Harry Potter Game “Hogwarts Legacy” Announced

If you’re a Harry Potter fan, chances are you’ve daydreamed about attending Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry for yourself and getting to learn all about spells, potions, and more at the iconic castle. Well, you will soon be able to get an experience of the castle for yourself, as you attend Hogwarts as a student in the new game ‘Hogwarts Legacy’ that was just announced yesterday.

The game is developed by WB and Portkey Games, and will be set in the 1800s, long before the events of the Harry Potter novels. So while you won’t find yourself befriending the iconic trio or battling Lord Voldemort, you will have other perils and challenges.

It’s an open-world game, which means you are free to explore the castle as you like, and I guess you can bunk classes to hang out with your pals? Not that I endorse that, but still. What’s more, you also get access to Hogsmeade and the Forbidden Forest. Presumably you will have to sneak into the forest since it’s, you know, forbidden, and Hogsmeade might be closed to people below third year, but that’s something we will find out when the game releases.

Speaking of which, while we don’t have an exact schedule for the release, the developers have said that it will make its way to thePlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox One,Xbox Series X|S, and PC sometime in 2021.

Akshay Gangwar

Greetings, tech titans and fellow literary time-travelers! I’m Akshay, your tech-whisperer and Harry Potter’s number one stalker – seriously, don’t ask me how many times I’ve read those books; it’s borderline unhealthy.

Working in the tech journalism industry since 2016, I have 7 years of experience covering everything from technology news, to well-researched resource articles. Now the Content Strategist at Beebom, I often pen down op-eds for our website, sharing expert commentary on the latest in technology, AI, and electric cars.

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