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A sequel to Hogwarts Legacy is actively in development, according to Warner Bros. The studio confirmed in a recent earnings report that a "second installment" for Hogwarts Legacy is in the works. No details were provided on what the game will look like or when it might release, but it appears to be a serious focus for the company going forward. In the earnings report, WB expected that titles like Hogwarts Legacy 2 will "meaningfully contribute" to its future revenue. "We expect games to more meaningfully contribute to segment profitability going forward as our pipeline expands, including the second installment of Hogwarts Legacy," says the report. This shouldn't come as too big of a shock, though. Warner Bros. had previously stated that a Hogwarts Legacy successor was a big priority following the success of the first game. Hogwarts Legacy is among the best-selling games of all time, with 40 million copies sold. In 2023, it was the first non-Call of ...

Halo: Campaign Evolved, the recently released Unreal Engine 5 remake of the campaign half of original Xbox killer app Halo: Combat Evolved, has sold 1.2 million copies across Xbox, PlayStation 5, and Steam, according to estimates from Alinea Analytics. Alinea estimates revenue so far – bear in mind that Campaign Evolved has only been out for two weeks so far – stands at approximately $67 million. The firm estimates the split in purchases by platform to be about 42% on Xbox, 41% on PS5, and 17% on Steam. Alinea's Rhys Elliott calls the sales figures "soft" so far, citing too high a price for a package lacking in competitive multiplayer, while also offering far less content than for more money than the $40 Halo: The Master Chief Collection, which PS5 owners don't have access to but Steam users do. Elliott offered further analysis of the PlayStation sales figures in particular, saying, "This landed with an older, nostalgia-driven crowd rather than pulling in a fres...

Bethesda staff have inflated a giant rat outside the company's offices, during a visit by the Xbox management team to play The Elder Scrolls 6 . The large expandable rodent is the work of the CWA union, whose members include current and former Bethesda staff enraged by Microsoft's recent mass layoffs. Former employees also carpeted the street outside Bethesda's building with hundreds of red flags — one for every staff member laid off by Microsoft over the past 12 months. Yesterday, Xbox boss Asha Sharma enthusiastically confirmed she had seen a "live playthrough" of Bethesda's highly-anticipated upcoming RPG — and even teased its under-wraps subtitle . Perhaps unsurprisingly, Sharma made no mention of the enormous rat sat outside. "The scale and grandeur are incredible," Sharma said — referring to The Elder Scrolls 6. "The story is even greater." Footage from the CWA shared via Facebook shows Scabby, an infamous inflatable rat who has appe...

Promising looking action game Phantom Blade Zero is getting its very own State of Play, but if the reaction to Sony’s announcement is any indication, the chat is going to be overrun with angry comments about Sony’s decision to kill PlayStation discs. Sony announced the State of Play, set for August 17 at 7pm PT / 10pm ET / August 18 at 3am UK time, across its socials and on the PlayStation Blog . As with so many PlayStation announcements these days, the replies are dominated by the continued backlash to the impending end of PlayStation disc production from 2028. And this new State of Play — the first since Sony’s announcement sent shockwaves through the video game industry — looks set to be no different. “Need everyone to spam #NODISCNOBUY in that chat,” one person said. “Oh that chat is gonna be one for the history books,” another said. “Oh, this live stream is gonna be overloaded with people telling Sony what idiots they are for not supporting physical anymore. The message will be l...

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma got to see a "live playthrough" of The Elder Scrolls 6, and she posted her reactions on social media afterwards. She also teased – in the vaguest of ways – the subtitle for the upcoming RPG. "Live playthrough of The Elder Scrolls VI: ******** this morning," she posted on her X account. "The scale and grandeur are incredible. The story is even greater." Her statement certainly poses a lot of questions, starting with, "What does ******** mean?" Did she use the exact number of asterisks for whatever the word is (it's eight asterisks, by the way)? How far along is the gameplay that she saw? What's the story about? By "incredible scale," did they show her the entire world in a flythrough? And does this mean we're any closer to getting a proper reveal? For now, those questions will have to remain unanswered, and it's not as if the CEO of Xbox would come out of that demo and publicly post anything negative...

Kazuhisa Wada, producer for Atlus' P-Studio, says he "can't say for sure" if Persona 1 and 2 remakes are coming, but said they are still games he thinks "we have to do." Wada opened up about the Persona studio's development pipeline during an interview with GamerBraves . More than two years removed from the launch of Persona 3 Reload and on the cusp of the release of Persona 4 Revival , fans naturally have one question on their minds: Where are the Persona 1 and 2 remakes? Both games – which actually released in the '90s as Revelations: Persona and Persona 2: Innocent Sin/Eternal Punishment – have, so far, been left out of Atlus' trend of remakes. There's been no word on whether modern-day reimaginings for the two JRPGs will be in the works. While Wada could neither confirm nor deny any if additional remakes are in the pipeline, it's not exactly something he'd hate to see happen either. "At this point, I can’t say for sure,...