It’s been nearly a month since IO Interactive set us loose in Paris, and what a month it has been. Many hapless rich people have had their costumes stolen, and even more have been craftily assassinated. It’s still a while before the second instalment of Hitman arrives, but patch 1.03 should help the wait a bit:...
Alekhine’s Gun did not review well. Its Metacritic score is 38, and its Steam user review score 70%. That latter number might seem quite high, but, in Steam review terms, 70 is damning. Any lower and you’re into protest vote territory—where a single unwanted feature is seen as such an unforgivable crime to the Steam userbase...
As revealed by one of the briefest announcement teasers I’ve ever seen, the second episode of Hitman will come out on April 26. Entitled Sapienza, it’s named after the fictional town in the sunny south of Italy in which the action takes place—a lovely place for a holiday, just as long as you don’t have...
Metal Gear Solid Online is getting a new patch next week, and it’ll introduce a game mode you might recognise from previous iterations of Metal Gear (assuming you owned a console, back then). Dubbed ‘Survival Mode’, it doesn’t involve chopping down trees, picking berries or anything like that: it’s a six player free-for-all with the...
Hitman’s first Elusive Target will be appearing later than planned, closer to the launch of Hitman’s second mission, Sapienza, in April. Elusive Targets are time-limited, challenging hits set in Hitman’s existing levels—in this case, the Parisian palace that hosts Showstopper. The targets don’t show up on the minimap or in Instinct mode, requiring visual identification. I expected...
That man up there is not Ryan Barnard, former game director on Ubisoft’s The Division, but for all we know that’s how he strutted out of the building on his final day at work for the company. Which is to say, the game director of Ubi’s surprisingly massive (and Massive Entertainment-developed) MMORPG has left to join Hitman...
I got to spend a little time with a demo of Sniper Elite 4, from Rebellion Developments, at GDC this week. It was a PS4 build, and I didn’t actually get to play it personally but I watched as one of the developers gave me a tour and killed a whole bunch of Nazis with a sniper rifle, melee...
For all that its bugs and underwhelming online features do Hitman a disservice, the PCG team is in agreement that Escalation contracts make for the finest hits the series has ever commissioned. Kicking its ‘live service’ into high gear, Io has already added two more Escalations to the line-up. Escalations, as the name suggests, get tougher in five stages, adding...
Yesterday I reported on the brilliance of Realm Pictures’ live-action Hitman controlled by average Joe handlers over voice comms. In the behind-the-scenes video, Realm said it couldn’t wait to show us what it had in store next. What it had in store has exceeded my expectations. I have no clue what plane of reality I’m operating on,...
