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Studio promises series' largest levels, and draws inspiration from Contracts and Blood Money
Read More »Square Enix’s latest reboot
March 6th 2013, and Square Enix’s UK team were in jubilant spirits. The publisher had just released Tomb Raider, which achieved the highest Metacritic rating since the 1996 original and went on the sell hundreds of thousands of units in a matter of days. And that followed a 2012 where …
Read More »Next-gen Hitman game IS in the works
Agent 47 lives on and WILL be gracing PS4 and Xbox One. It was reported yesterday the Square Enix’s next-gen Hitman project had been cancelled and that the IP would in future be focusing on smartphones. This, however, is not the case. There’s a bit of confusion around the Hitman …
Read More »Square Enix Montreal’s next-gen Hitman terminated
UPDATED: Canada studio working on smartphone game, next-gen outing in development at IO Interactive
Read More »UPDATED: Next-gen Hitman cancelled, but series lives on
The online profile of a developer working on IO’s next-gen Hitman game claims the game has been cancelled. Videogamer spotted the news on the LinkedIn profile of senior game designer lists the game as having been cancelled last year. The profile of a second IO member now suggests that an …
Read More »IO Interactive cuts half of staff, cancels all non-Hitman projects
Square Enix has laid off almost half of the employees at IO Interactive as part of significant changes” at the studio. In a statement passed on toMCV, a spokesperson for the studio said the Denmark-based company was moving toward a sole focus on the Hitman franchise, and as a result …
Read More »Job losses and project cancellations hit IO Interactive
Developer to focus solely on Hitman franchise going forward
Read More »Square Enix Europe hit with job losses
Square Enix is making redundancies to its UK and European operation, MCV can reveal. It follows news that sales of Tomb Raider, Hitman and Sleeping Dogs missed their targets. Although all three games sold significant quantities around the world, they were well below Square’s very high expectations. We are reviewing …
Read More »Over 2m games sold at UK retail last week
UK retailers sold 2,075,634 games last week, generating over 50m in revenue. Sales have been steadily rising throughout December as Christmas approaches, and last week sales were driven by significant price reductions on games such as Medal of Honor, Halo, Hitman, Need for Speed and more. Unit sales rose 11 …
Read More »Hitman HD Trilogy heads to PS3, Xbox 360 early next year
Square Enix has officially revealed the Hitman HD Trilogy bundle, a three-pack of Hitman titles landing on Xbox 360 and PS3 early next year. The collection offers up Hitman 2: Silent Assassin, Hitman Contracts, and Hitman: Blood Money, all remastered in HD. According to the game’s Amazon listing, an exclusive …
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