News Jan 10th, 2025

Hitman World of Assassination hits 75m players

The title boasted one million active users during December

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• world of assassination
• data news

News Nov 27th, 2024

Hitman maker IO cuts ties with Conor McGregor

"We take this matter very seriously and cannot ignore its implications"

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• conor mcgregor

News Oct 17th, 2024

IO inks publishing deal for Build A Rocket Boy's MindsEye

This is the Hitman maker's first foray into this market

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• third-party publishing
• mindseye

News Mar 1st, 2023

Hitman maker IO confirms it is working on fantasy title

Comes two years after rumours that the studio was developing such a project

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• development

News Oct 11th, 2021

GOG pulls Hitman from sale following DRM controversy

Title removed after consumers kicked off about online requirements

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• drm

News Sep 27th, 2021

GOG says no to review bombing following Hitman debackle

Users seem to think that having to be online for some modes is "online DRM"

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• gog
• drm

News Apr 29th, 2021

IO only had three months' cash flow when it went independent

CEO Abrak admits that it was a "huge risk"

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• hitman 2
• hitman 3
• world of assassination
• independent developer

News Nov 7th, 2019

Work on next Hitman game is "well underway"

November update for Hitman 2 will be the last major patch apparently

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• game development
• hitman 2

News Jan 16th, 2019

Hitman developer IO Interactive opens office in Sweden

We will expand IOI to join a buzzing game developer community and bring our own unique IOI culture to this amazing town”

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• studio opening

News Sep 7th, 2018

Here's why IO ditched Hitman's episodic structure for the Warner-published sequel

"We wanted to break up the sequel chain a little, and it's also important for us to serve our players instead of following this trendy bubble of games-as-a-service"

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• hitman 2
• episodic

News Jun 8th, 2018

IO ditches episodic model for Hitman 2

Set to launch this November

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• business models
• hitman 2
• episodic

News Jun 5th, 2018

Warner Bros website outs Hitman 2

Logo appears on the publisher's site

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• e3 2018
• hitman 2

News Nov 15th, 2017

There’s a Hitman TV series in the works, two new Hitman games in the works

John Wick writer on board

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• video game films
• films

News Nov 14th, 2017

Hitman has 7m players, more content planned

Developer IO retains rights to Freedom Fighters as well as Hitman

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• MBO
• freedom fighters

News Aug 3rd, 2017

Hitman now has more than 5m players

Good news for a newly independent IO Interactive

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