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THE TRUTH ABOUT: Hitman org - The Untold Story

John Wick creator says the Hitman TV show is "dead in the water": "It's a little bit of a dagger in the chest"

It's the end of the road for the Hitman video game adaptation

Total Film

007: First Light will be less stealthy than Hitman because IO is pushing "forward momentum gameplay all the time"

"We want to reduce that decision-making time to always keep moving forward and be a little bit faster"

GamesRadar

007 First Light will do something no Bond game has done before – slow down: "Players might be surprised at how much they enjoy those quieter experiences"

Big in 2026 | "Being Bond [is] something that hasn't been explored before in video games": Interrogating 007 First Light's Martin Emborg and Andreas Krogh on how the Hitman developer is tackling the world's most iconic spy

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Hitman at 25: Celebrity crossovers, co-op chaos, and the future of Agent 47

The IO Interactive team behind the longstanding assassination sim talks Eminem and Milla Jovovich collaborations.

TechRadar

Eminem enlists Agent 47 to kill Slim Shady in HITMAN World of Assassination

Will the real Slim Shady stand up one last time?

Dot Esports

007 First Light might have its own James Bond, but the Hitman studio is borrowing from "the Daniel Craig era" in one major way: his physicality

But it isn't a "one-to-one" comparison for IOI, either

GamesRadar

"Don't make him a killing machine!": Hitman developer IO Interactive got the James Bond gig because its games are more about creativity and stealth than shooting

Just because he has a license to kill doesn't mean he needs to go overboard

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007 First Light could feature live-service missions in the vein of Hitman, as IO Interactive teases "you could expect that we'll be applying some of our learnings from World of Assassination to Bond"

Maybe costume DLC to make him become Robbie Williams instead of just looking like him

GamesRadar

If Assassin's Creed isn't going to bring back the multiplayer we all loved, there's another stealthy murder game that can do it even better: Hitman

Opinion | I love Hitman, but its upcoming co-op mode is just a stepping stone towards what it really needs: direct competitive assassination

GamesRadar

After 9 years of deadly new Hitman updates, the hardest part about designing new Elusive Targets like James Bond villain Le Chiffre is "actually keeping the target alive"

"Le Chiffre took like five months to make, and some guy will surely do it in like a second"

GamesRadar

Summer Game Fest 2025 LIVE: Everything announced during the gaming showcase

Summer Game Fest is the ultimate celebration of video games and the creators behind them and this year's event gets underway today.

Tom’s Guide

Hitman dev teases new James Bond 007 game, likely set for Summer Game Fest reveal

The name's Bond, but he's got a codename too, and here's how he got it.

Destructoid

Jean-Claude Van Damme is coming to Hitman, and you better believe he's doing splits all over the place

Hitman's next Elusive Target is... The Splitter.

PC Gamer

Video game ends ‘collaboration’ with Conor McGregor

Conor McGregor featured in the Hitman video game.

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From Hitman to 007 and everything between – Edge magazine goes behind the scenes with IO Interactive

Holiday Long Read | Ups, downs and all-arounds, IO Interactive's story is one of turbulence and triumph

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Hitman studio suffered so many setbacks before its new James Bond game that "some companies would offer $1 to take over"

The failure of Hitman: Absolution put IO Interactive and Square Enix in a tentative situation

PC Gamer

Companies were offering a single dollar for Hitman dev IO Interactive when Square Enix was looking to offload it

There's a parallel universe out there where things went much, much worse for our favourite chrome-dome assassin.

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