Hitman 5

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Can you give us some details about the next Hitman game?It’s being worked on, but there’s been no announcement on the release date yet. We haven’t even announced the game yet, so everything you hear about the next Hitman game is purely speculation at this point.

Will it be IO Interactive working on this one as well?

Yes, it’s IO Interactive. They’re making Hitman, Kane and Lynch and also Mini Ninjas; all at the same studio.

It's refreshing to hear a game company big wig be so nonchalant about secrets and unannounced projects.

If Hitman 5 continues the trend of improvement from Contracts -> Blood Money this just might be the very best game ever made.

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Is Kane and Lynch 2 on schedule for release this year?There’s a target date for September, but as you understand, these games often slip because the production times are so difficult to predict due to the amount of work they have to put into them now in high-end consoles. It’s a tough business.

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We’re also looking at the possibility of a television animated series based on Mini Ninjas.

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Eidos Montreal are currently working on Deus Ex 3, and they’ve announced that they’re working on a secret second project.Yes, they are.

Could that be Thief IV?

You might think that; I couldn’t possibly comment.

Okay, do you plan to release another Thief game in the future?

Well, we did some research on all our franchises and the one that was most wanted was Thief. So you might want to draw your own conclusions, but I cannot confirm that.

Hearing fans whine about Thief 4 while knowing absolutely nothing about it is prety funny. The impression is that they don't want it in the future, or to be the same old thing, or to be just another story tacked on to Garrett but Garrett's voice actor BETTER come back! And pretty much whenever Thief 4 comes up, PC vs console arguments follow because of the blame of Thief 3's problems on the Xbox.

I really liked IOA's concept for Thief 4 of having it be set in a more modern time of the same universe, despite how horrified most fans were. I imagine it actually playing like Hitman except you're robbing the place blind instead of killing someone, and there's magic.

Well the big hits in the UK I've heard about, at least on PC (lol mmos, browser RPGs, and flash games) are Empire: Total War and football manager, I'd imagine those earn some fairly low ratings.

I'm willing to bet a respectable portion of that is brand loyalty. "Made by the Hitman guys? Hell yes brah!"