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Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery shows what happens after you don the Sorting Hat

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Jam City unveiled a new trailer for its Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery mobile game, showing new gameplay features and opening signups to download the game on Google Play. This represents a chance for Jam City to move further into the big time of mobile games, which has become a $50 billion annual industry, according to market researcher Newzoo.

Los Angeles-based Jam City is making the mobile game about attending the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry under a license from author J.K. Rowling and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment’s Portkey Games label. By signing up for it, fans can get notified when it launches this spring.

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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.