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Click here to watch embedded media Hitman 3 is the highly anticipated finale to IO Interactive’s expansive World of Assassination Trilogy that began back in 2016. The game will take Agent 47 on an adventure across the globe as he eliminates the leaders of a menacing organization that runs the world in secret – and it all...

Click here to watch embedded media On this week’s episode of The Game Informer Show, All Elite Wrestling’s project coordinator and referee extraordinaire Aubrey Edwards joins us to talk about some of the best games of 2020, including: Ori and the Will of the Wisps, Half-Life: Alyx, The Last of Us Part II, Streets of Rage 4, Crash Bandicoot...

At this point in the studio’s history, the Hitman series has been with IO Interactive longer than anyone working in its office; no one at the company has worked on every single entry in the franchise. For 20 years, the name IO has been synonymous with Hitman and its protagonist Agent 47. While the developer...

This wasn’t the type of year any of us could have anticipated and we were all forced to make changes in our lives due to COVID-19. We had to get creative about how we worked, socialized, and met other daily needs. The quarantine is necessary to stop the spread of the virus, but that doesn’t...

Every Wednesday, I travel to my local comic book shop to pick up nearly a dozen books, most coming from Marvel and DC. I’m a big fan of the classic superhero formula, and have been reading about capes and masks every week since I was eight years old. My first ongoing series was Captain America,...

✖ Scuf Gaming’s H1 headset released at the perfect time for many people who were likely in the market for a change. With the new PlayStation and Xbox consoles releasing in November and tons of games on the horizon, why not look to invest in a new headset as well? The H1 boasts both comfort...

When it comes to Hitman VR, IO Interactive owes a lot to the game Firewall: Zero Hour, the PlayStation VR game from First Contact Entertainment. As Eksil Møhl, a senior game designer at IO, tells it, the studio’s interest in VR started two years ago with his coworker Oliver Winding, a senior writer at the...

During the development of Rocsktar’s now long-missing spy game Agent, Rockstar San Diego project leader Luis Gigliotti had to do something far outside his typical job description: Call the United States Embassy in Cairo, Egypt. But he needed help. A small team of artists – his fellow coworkers at Rockstar – were being held under...

Animal Crossing: New Horizons delivered a diversion when I needed it most during the pandemic. The real world was bubbling with stress and anxiety, but that wasn’t the case on an island governed by raccoons. While I questioned their money making schemes, those little critters put my mind at ease with escapism that hit like...

Many of the games we played this year were full of great stories and compelling characters. But we also saw our fair share of goofy-looking, embarrassed chowderheads. Whether lovable or loath-able, here are some of our favorite dorks of 2020. 10 Ares Immortals Fenyx Rising Eons ago, Zeus imprisoned Typhon under a mountain. Naturally, when...