In an open letter to all Hitman fans, IO Interactive has unveiled the first details for the next Hitman title. According to the development team, the new Hitman game will be coming on PC and next-gen consoles, and will feature huge, checkpoint-free, sandbox levels. IO Interactive claimed that it’s going back to the roots of the Hitman franchise, and that the new Hitman game will have an open, non-linear level design. Continue reading First Details Unveiled For The Next Hitman Game, Will Feature “Huge, Checkpoint-free, Sandbox Levels”→
IO Interactive revealed today that over six million people have enjoyed its latest Hitman game, Hitman: Absolution. To be more precise, 6,112,047 people in total have played Hitman: Absolution and over 9.5 million contracts have been played. Pretty good numbers for a game that did not meet Square Enix’s expectations, don’t you think? Continue reading Hitman Absolution – Over Six Million People Have Played It→
A lot of Hitman fans were ready to commit suicide yesterday when a rumor surfaced, suggesting that the next-gen Hitman game has already been cancelled. As always, we hesitated sharing such a thing until we were certain about it. And it appears that this rumor was not legit, as Square Enix shot it down today. Continue reading Despite Rumors, Next-Gen Hitman Is Still Under Development→
Square Enix and Nixxes Software have released a new PC update for Hitman: Absolution. According to its changelog, this patch offers performance enhancements on various hardware configurations. We’ve already seen that Absolution had some optimization issues, therefore it will be interesting to see whether Nixxes has addressed them or not. As always, this update will be auto-downloaded next time you start the Steam client and you can view its changelog below. Continue reading New Hitman: Absolution Update Comes With Performance Enhancements→
Nixxes Software and IO Interactive have released a new update for the PC version of Hitman: Absolution. According to its changelog, this patch adds an option to either lower or disable the game’s Bloom effect, improves – slightly – the general performance, and adjusts the game’s difficulty levels. In addition, the disguise parameters on ‘Professional’ difficulties have been tweaked via this update. You can view its complete changelog below. Continue reading Hitman: Absolution – New Patch Released→
IO Interactive presented a brand new trailer to promote the ‘Deus Ex Suit’ and ‘Deus Ex Zenith gun’ add-ons will allow Hitman Absolution players to dress Agent 47 in Adam Jensen’s iconic combat armor and use the Zenith handgun when competing in Contracts Mode. Continue reading Hitman: Absolution – Deus Ex DLC Trailer Released→
Nixxes Software and Square Enix have released the first PC patch for Hitman: Absolution. According to its release notes, this patch enables DX10 owners to use the simplest version of the Depth Of Field effect, fixes various startup issues, and addresses all problems with the Sniper Challenge Unlocks not carrying over into Hitman: Absolution. This patch will be auto-downloaded next time you start the Steam client and you can view its complete changelog below. Continue reading Hitman: Absolution – First PC Update Released→
Ah, Hitman: Absolution. A Square Enix game that is ported to the PC by Nixxes. Awesome, right? After all, Nixxes was behind the PC version of Deus Ex: Human Revolution, a version that featured a lot of graphical options, a FOV slider, and took advantage of quad-cores. In all seriousness (and despite the fact that there was an annoying stuttering effect that was later fixed), Deus Ex: Human Revolution is a great PC port. Therefore, we were expecting Hitman: Absolution to blow us away. However, it did not. And did you know that the PC version suffers from console optimizations? Oh, you didn’t know that, right? Well keep reading to find out why Hitman: Absolution PC is not as good as DE: HR, Max Payne 3 or Sleeping Dogs. Continue reading Hitman: Absolution – PC Performance Analysis→
As we said a couple of days ago, the Contract mode of Hitman: Absolution could very well be its most exciting thing. And although we are pretty sure that you’re already aware of the official Deus Ex DLC, we are happy to inform you about a Deus Ex Contract mission (the first interesting Contract mission) that was released a couple of hours ago. Continue reading Hitman: Absolution gets its first interesting Contract Mission; Deus Ex Contract Mission Released→
