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At Least One Twist, One Upgrade For Kane & Lynch 2

5:40AM Stephen Totilo | This time you’re Lynch, and you’ve got online co-op More »

Square Enix Makes Kane & Lynch 2 Official

2:20AM Mike Fahey | After trademarks and teases and rumours of naked grizzled men, Square Enix finally announces Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days, with developer IO Interactive taking inspiration from documentary filmmakers and the user-generated era. More »

Hitman Devs Working On Something New

1:00AM Luke Plunkett | IO Interactive, the guys behind the Hitman series and the excellent Mini Ninjas, have moved on to something else. Something that’s nothing like either of those games, apparently. More »

Mini Ninjas Review: Hitman: Lunch Money

4:30AM Luke Plunkett | Strange one, this. Mini Ninjas is, at first glance, clearly aimed at children. Or at least children at heart. Big-eyed characters, cute design. But it was also made by the same guys who did Hitman. More »

Eidos Prez: Rocksteady Is Not Doing Hitman 5

5:00AM Owen Good | A British actor listing voice and mo-cap work for Hitman 5 through U.K. dev Rocksteady sent around the buzz that series developer IO Interactive might be off the case. Not so, says Eidos chief Ian Livingstone. More »

Mini Ninjas Sneak Up On September Release

5:40AM Mike Fahey | IO Interactive’s tiny little messengers of death are launching an all-out assault across multiple gaming platforms next month, as Eidos cuts down a September release date before it even has time to scream. More »

Next Hitman Game Due “Late 2010″, Movie Sequel Will Tie In

11:00AM Luke Plunkett | The sequel to the Hitman movie, which is still in its early stages, won’t be just a sequel to a pretty crummy movie. It’ll also be a marketing tie-in for the next Hitman game, which is due out next year. More »

Snowbound Mini Ninja Screens

4:20AM Mike Fahey | A ninja is at home in any environment, as evidenced by these frosty screens for Eidos’ Mini Ninjas for the Nintendo Wii, DS, and Xbox 360. More »

Mini Ninjas Make Happy Pandas

6:20AM Mike Fahey | IO Interactive takes a step away from their popular Hitman franchise to introduce us to an all-new, all-tiny brand of hero, with the announcement of Mini Ninjas More »

GameSpot’s Kane & Lynch Review Hit The Dev Team ‘Like A Hammer’

9:40AM Michael McWhertor | Generally, we would suspect that any unfavourable review of one’s video game creation would be quite the bum out. In the case of IO Interactive’s Kane & Lynch: Dead Men, however, team members say that GameSpot’s damning review of the Eidos published crime epic knocked the wind out of them and that being caught up in the “conspiracy theory” brouhaha that surrounded the review was “surreal”. Jens Peter Kurup, Director of Kane & Lynch at IO, tells GamesRadar that “there was something in the tone of that review that was tough on people, and on me”. Calling the GameSpot thrashing of Kane & Lynch — a nasty 6.0, when many reviews range from 7.0 to 10 — “a review that I would like to forget”, Kurup is surprisingly honest in his feelings about the judgement. More »