Harry Potter online game growth cancelled after promoting 34 million copies | Gaming | Entertainment | EUROtoday

The much-anticipated growth to the wildly profitable Harry Potter online game, Hogwarts Legacy, has been scrapped. The growth, which was set to be launched later this 12 months, was anticipated to introduce new storylines to the sport that has reportedly offered over 34 million copies.

Despite Warner Bros. Discovery Inc., the publishers, not formally saying the deliberate growth, its existence was reported final 12 months. It was additionally rumoured {that a} Definitive Edition of the sport, together with all content material, would have been launched concurrently.

However, Bloomberg has now reported that the growth has been cancelled. According to the enterprise information website, the quantity of content material that will have been included within the growth “was not substantial enough to justify the price being considered”.

Despite this setback, a sequel to the sport, one of many best-selling video games of all time, remains to be in improvement, experiences the Mirror.

Warner Bros.’ video video games division had a rocky 2024.  A Suicide Squad recreation that includes DC Comics characters resembling Batman, Superman, and Harley Quinn, was a important and monetary flop, resulting in a spherical of lay-offs on the studio behind the sport.

The firm additionally axed a deliberate Wonder Woman recreation and shut down three studios. It has now acknowledged it would consider its greatest franchises, together with Harry Potter, DC, Game of Thrones, and the Mortal Kombat sequence, in response to video video games information web site Eurogamer.

Set a century earlier than the Harry Potter sequence, Hogwarts Legacy permits gamers to expertise life as a pupil on the famend faculty of magic. The recreation has been typically well-received, with followers lauding its trustworthy recreation of J.Okay. Rowling’s magical universe.#

However, it hasn’t escaped criticism, with some stating flaws in gameplay and technical elements. Controversial views expressed by Harry Potter writer JK Rowling have additionally sparked requires a boycott.