Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery rolls out on mobile to Hong Kong and Taiwan

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
July 11, 2018
Updated June 18, 2025
2 min

Will Harry Potter prosper in Asia? That question is at hand as Jam City launches its Western hit mobile game, Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, in Hong Kong and Taiwan on the Google Play and iOS App Store. Jam City and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment’s Portkey Games launched the game in the West in April, and it quickly climbed to the top of the app stores.

In the new territories, the game is fully localized in Traditional Chinese. Starting today, players in Hong Kong and Taiwan will have the opportunity to create their own characters and experience life as a Hogwarts student.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.