Hitman: Absolution screenshots arrive
Two images masquerading as screenshots for Hitman: Absolution have snuck out of IO Interactive’s secure facility and set up shop over on Joystiq. We’ve posted both of them below. We see Agent 47 hiding in an unlikely position several metres up a pillar, and undercover as a cop. We can’t wait to tell you everything we learned at last night’s IO event, but we’re embargoed for now, and don’t especially want a certain developer to put a contract out our heads.
Hitman: Absolution box art leaked in marketing survey
Some prototype box arthas been spotted by Kotaku in a marketing survey, showing three possible covers for Hitman: Absolution. Amusingly, the game’s listed in the mock-ups as Hitman: Subtitle. It’s likely they were created before the Absolution subtitle was decided. You’ll find the three pics below. Which would you choose?
Hitman Absolution first details reveal new engine and plot info
IO have followed up on yesterday’s Hitman Absolution teaser trailer with news of the sequel’s brand new engine, and a few hints about Absolution’s dark, conspiracy-laden story.
Hitman Absolution trailer arrives
VG247 have spotted the first teaser trailer for the new Hitman game. A gloved hand! A silenced pistol! A snake! It’s Hitman! To add to the excitement, there’s also a new Hitman Absolution site. There’s not much there yet, but we can expect more info on the next Hitman game soon.
Hitman 5 ARG concludes with screenshot
Last week we mentioned the start of a Hitman alternative reality game, in which members of the Hitman forums have been following real world clues to try and uncover more information on Hitman 5. Last week the community was busy deciphering a mysterious image of Agent 47′s signature black leather gloves next to what looks to be a script for a new Hitman game. Since then the plot has thickened, with encoded number-strings, references to the Berliner beer festival, a picture of CN tower in Toronto, Canada, and the first image of Hitman 5.
Hitman 5 clues include film festivals and mysterious photographs
A team of forumites have been hunting down a series of mysterious leads that seem to point to the existence of Hitman 5. A Hitman fan started following up on comments by IO Interactive’s community manager on the Hitman forums. This led him to an ad on the Sundance Film Festival site. He emailed the person who put the ad up, and in response received a photograph of a Hitman script next to a pair of Agent 47′s black gloves. Put on your detective hat and head below to see the image, and some of the clues contained within.
Kane & Lynch 2 review
Kane & Lynch: Dog Days is a standard third person shooter with amazing art direction. For every gun blast, blocky artefacts pop up, corrupting the screen like it was filmed on a cheap video camera. Light sources smear vertically, and the viewpoint lurches like the cameraman is running along behind the player. It’s brutal on the senses, but it’s startling enough to make me like the game more than I should.
Kane & Lynch 2 demo released
The Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days Demo is out now. It includes a 20 minute story skit and a taster of the Fragile Alliance multiplayer mode, where you co-operate to pull off a heist, then decide between working together to escape or betraying your friends for profit.
Betrayal abounds in Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days
Honour among thieves? Kane & Lynch 2’s multiplayer doesn’t seem to have heard of it, judging by the number of double-crossing, turncoat, backstabbing, dirty rat bastards who make up the rest of your criminal team. And those that haven’t betrayed you yet – well, they’re thinking of it. You might as well deal with them someplace quiet and pocket their loot. Hey, a guy’s gotta make a living, right?
Kane & Lynch 2: Multiplayer trailer
Kane briefs a bunch of crooks on their role in the multiplayer missions in Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days. It nicely underlines the motivations and temptations of players during the round – work together, keep safe, and split the take evenly; or shoot your fellow crooks in the back and swag a larger slice.
Kane & Lynch 2 ditches GFWL – and it’s good
I’m enjoying watching Square Enix hammer another nail into the Games for Windows Live coffin. A week ago, Bethesda announced that Fallout: New Vegas would drop Live integration in favor of Steam for all its achievement and DLC needs. Today, while getting my hands on the surprisingly promising crime shooter Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days, it came out that the cops and robbers sequel would also drop Microsoft’s reviled copy protection and match-making system.
