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Hitman 5 - Still under development at IO Interactive

Sunday 16th of August, 2009 - 22:42:37 GMT

In our first exclusive in the history of the Prey's World Gaming Magazine , our man Prey talked to Ian Livingstone of Eidos, and received the confirmation that the Hitman franchise was staying with creators IO Interactive. This was in the face of the gossip about Batman Arkham Asylum devs Rocksteady possibly taking over the franchise (instead of just making a movie tie-in game for all formats to sit alongside the first four hard core PC games in the series).

We were certainly happy that there is a greater effort to tie in the second Hitman film's release with that of the fifth game, rather than leaving the entire trilogy deleted at the time of the first movie's release. This killed the big sales push that occured with the Tomb Raider franchise on the release of the first film, back when budget games in boxes were still shifting from retail outlets. Such a sales boost from the Hitman film would have helped out Eidos when the recession was biting the company hard, before the finalisation of the Square Enix takeover.

Read the story at the link above, and you can read the companion views of other gaming sites with weekend updates (thanks all) in the trackbacks section.

- Ken

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