Harry Potter Headed to Fortnite, as Hogwarts Legacy Offered Free on the Epic Games Store

The Wizard World of Harry Potter is headed to Fortnite, arsenic Epic Games offers Hogwarts Legacy for escaped via its PC Store.

As announced past nighttime astatine The Game Awards 2025, Hogwarts Legacy is present escaped to assertion from the Epic Games Store until December 18, astatine 11am ET. Shortly pursuing the announcement, users reported that the store was struggling to load — with galore linking the troubles to a flood of wizard wannabes rushing to assertion their copy.

Anyone with much than 2 hours of Hogwarts Legacy gameplay clip connected their relationship by December 18 volition beryllium granted a Chocolate Frog Back Bling successful Fortnite, Epic Games has said. And that's not the lone Harry Potter contented coming to its conflict royale game.

Fortnite's Hogwarts pupil outfit. Image credit: Epic Games

While Harry Potter himself appears to beryllium sitting things retired for now, Fortnite skins featuring characters successful Hogwarts robes volition beryllium sold aboriginal this month. These outfits volition beryllium customizable truthful you tin formal arsenic a pupil successful immoderate of the Hogwarts houses: Gryffindor, Slytherin, Ravenclaw, oregon adjacent Hufflepuff.

Harry Potter contented coming to Fortnite is nary astonishment — fans tracking the game's files person antecedently ppointed to a collaboration coming successful the adjacent future, and expect broomsticks arsenic Mythic items wrong the game's upcoming yearly Winterfest celebrations.

Beyond this, Harry Potter is conscionable the latest successful the agelong enactment of Warner Bros. characters present arriving into the crippled pursuing the shutdown of the publisher's ain live-service effort Multiversus.

Familiar faces from DC and Adventure Time person been successful Fortnite for immoderate time, but caller months person seen the summation of the Scooby-Doo gang, Beetlejuice and Jason Vorhees — each erstwhile Multiversus veterans. Will we spot much adjacent year, specified arsenic characters from Game of Thrones, Gremlins and Looney Tunes? Time volition tell.

"In astir each way, Hogwarts Legacy is the Harry Potter RPG I’ve ever wanted to play," IGN wrote successful our Hogwarts Legacy review, awarding the crippled 9/10.

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