In Real Life

Hitman Absolution Rips Off Red Dead Redemption In The Coolest Way

Last week, my friend and colleague Matt Cabral wrote up an excellent preview of Hitman Absolution for Kotaku. I was given the same demonstration as he by IO Interactive and Square Enix this week at CES and couldn’t agree with him more – the game is going to be absolutely bloody fantastic.


November 22, 2011
News

There Will Soon Be Two Hitman Games In Development

A new Hitman game will begin development next year in Montreal, according to the game’s publisher, Square-Enix Eidos. The game will be made by a new studio opening in 2012 called Square-Enix Montreal, a sister to Square-Enix Eidos, makers of Deus Ex: Human Revolution.


June 15, 2011
PC

Hitman Absolution Promises An Evolution In Agent 47 Kills, Skills And Personality

The most interesting thing about Hitman Absolution isn’t its new disguises or ways of killing people with a bit of cord. It’s not the decision to open the historically stealthy game up to a bit of action gameplay. It’s the insight the game’s mechanics are meant to give us into a character we’ve long controlled but known little about.


June 14, 2011
News

Hitman Absolution In One Sexy Brochure

Hitman Absolution was one of many of the games I saw at E3 that impressed me not only with its new take on an old formula, but in the new story it was trying to tell and the character it was trying to refresh.


May 15, 2011
News

Marketing Survey Leaks Cover Art For ‘Hitman: Subtitle’

Evidently circulated before IO Interactive settled on Hitman: Absolution for the title of the latest sequel, a marketing survey asked respondents how they felt about three potential cover designs for the game. All featured the wonderfully ironic Hitman: Subtitle, the naming convention for the game since Hitman: Codename 47 in 2000.


May 12, 2011
News

New Hitman Games Links With Movie, Stars A Carradine

The latest game in the Hitman series, Absolution, is taking the series in a slightly different direction than longtime fans may be used to, as publishers Square Enix seek to tie the games in with the upcoming movie.


May 11, 2011
PC

You’ll Never Believe What Hitman’s Barcode Really Means

Kotaku has confirmed the findings of a Reddit user who deciphered the hidden meaning behind the barcode appearing in the first teaser trailer for Hitman: Absolution.


PC

Agent 47 Steps Out Of The Shadows In Hitman: Absolution

Betrayed by the only people he trusts and hunted by the police, the beautifully bald and barcoded Agent 47 navigates a vast conspiracy in Hitman: Absolution, the latest adventure for IO Interactive’s killer-for-hire.


April 24, 2011
PC

‘Hitman: Absolution’ Seems To Be The Name Of The Game

Just so you know, IO Interactive was doin’ alternate-reality games before doing alternate-reality games was cool, giving up a look at what’s believed to be Hitman’s next entry. A trademark filing by Square Enix now indicates it will be titled “Hitman: Absolution.”


March 17, 2011
News

Hitman 5 Reveal At E3?

Kotaku AU

It’s been years since the last Hitman title was released, but some viral images leaking on the Hitman forums suggest that a new Hitman game is currently in the works, with signs pointing to an E3 reveal.