Hogwarts Legacy: 5 Things We Know And 5 Questions That Need Answers

The upcoming Hogwarts: Legacy game is one of the most hyped upcoming video game releases. The video game will take the player into the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, finally giving fans of this incredible universe a chance to explore the world that they have admired from childhood into adulth


Without the haunting specter of fascist racists threatening to kill Harry and overrun the government, who are the baddies? Also, are those basilisk fangs on that dark wizard's bandolier? Since the reveal trailer dropped in September 2020, fan theories abound about how the dark wizards with skull masks fit into the narrat


Will the development team have the freedom to add new spells to the Harry Potter universe? Can players use an unforgivable one, and will it change how people view that character at school? Screenshots from early gameplay show a usual suspect of available spells, but how Hogwarts Legacy approaches this is crucial to its succ


The 70th Potions Championship was held in 1890. 1891 was around the time when 6-year-old Ariana Dumbledore was attacked and traumatized by Muggle boys after seeing her do underage magic. Soon after, Percival Dumbledore - her father - was sent to Azkaban for seeking a brutal revenge on the boys. Albus Dumbledore started his first year at Hogwarts a year later, in 1892. It's possible he could make a youthful appearance in Hogwarts Legacy Missions Legacy , if it takes place in this decade. In 1897, the 71st Potions Championship occurred, and famed Magizoologist Newt Scamander was b


The release of this game has also led some fans to imagine other incredibly popular movie universes that would make for fantastic open world games. Some of these universes would be so well suited to an open world game that it is shocking they haven’t been made


It has been over a year since the game's announcement and reveal trailer, and while most fans were expecting the unreleased title to be featured at E3 2021 , WB Games focused on Back 4 Blood instead, sharing no new updates regarding the production of Hogwarts Legacy . With a postponed release to 2022 and some hints dropped in recent interviews and leaks regarding the official launch date, what we know about this title is still heavily centered on what was initially unveiled when the game was first announ


Reports have emerged today that the upcoming Harry Potter RPG Hogwarts Legacy will include a trans-inclusive character creator . Usually, when I hear that a video game is going to be trans-inclusive, my first thought is "oh that’s good, I hope they don’t mess it up." With Hogwarts Legacy, it’s a lot more complicated than that. Harry Potter as a franchise - and this game in particular - has a lot of red in the ledger when it comes to trans inclusivity. Not only is there JK Rowling’s history of transphobia to consider, there’s also the fact that the game’s lead designer Troy Leavitt used to run a GamerGate-adjacent, anti-SJW YouTube channel. It would be disingenuous to suggest that Hogwarts Legacy is building off a blank slate when it comes to including trans charact


I’m not sure Hogwarts Legacy’s trans character creator makes that big of a difference to the game’s place in the industry, what it represents, or whether it absolves the game of any of JK Rowling’s baked-in guilt. It certainly doesn’t change how I feel about it. Hopefully, though, it can at least be a helpful stepping stone for a triple-A game to one day get trans representation right from start to finish. Until then, yet again the game industry is moving two steps forward, one step b


The narrator in the reveal trailer states that "The choice you make now will define the legacy of Hogwarts." While suggestions that you can change the future may sound intriguing, what matters is how it lands while playing the game. Developers have to give us more than a so-so reason to stop doing things like adding floating candles to Minecraft to make video games more Harry Potter-l


Cyberpunk 2077 is easily the biggest game to push a transgender character creator to the forefront, and I’ll be returning to that in time, but first I think there’s a big question to be asked: does Hogwarts Legacy’s trans inclusive character creator make any difference? My answer is a rather blunt ‘no


In 1876, Caretaker Rancourous Carp unsuccessfully tried to rid Hogwarts of the pesky ghost Peeves , resulting in Headmistress Eupraxia Mole giving Peeves special privileges within the castle. Another Potions Championship also happened this year. Next, 1877 was an interesting time for Quidditch. Since 1473, the Quidditch World Cup took place every four years without fail, but this 393rd World Cub became known as The Tournament that Nobody Remembers, as nobody did. A few Quidditch players that were to perform ended up beaten or bound, but even they had no memory. One theory suggests the Goblin Liberation Front cast a mass Memory Charm as they were active sometime during the 1870s, while another pins it on an outbreak of a fungus that causes forgetfulness and confusion. The Quidditch Cup was rescheduled to the following y