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Hitman: Absolution on 'Purist' difficulty leaves you with just a crosshair. Good luck with thatApr 21, 2021 - PCGamesNI count myself as a hard wearing individual: I can drink black tea without grimacing, my Moomin hot water bottle only stays warm for half the night, and I take my rice pudding without jam, but even I'm balking at the hardest difficulty setting conceived by IO Interactive for Hitman: Absolution: no guides, no help, no interface, just a crosshair. We've got details on the other four settings too; we're certainly being given a lot of choice. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: While you wait for Hitman 3, Absolution's free in a GOG giveaway Take a hit out on cancer and get Hitman: Absolution for a dollar Square Enix's second Humble Bundle is a silent celebration of stealth Hitman Absolution Facebook app pulled after just a few hours online: allowed you order hits on friends for their "small tits"Apr 21, 2021 - PCGamesNSquare Enix pulled a controversial Facebook app for Hitman Absolution within hours of it going live after it was pointed out to them that it was a barely veiled tool for cyber bullying. You could use the app to send a private video to a Facebook friend showing Agent 47 killing them - using their profile picture and imposing it over a video template. Along with the video, you would select a reason for sending the hit and pick a physical attribute of your friend that 47 could use to identify them: one example would be having your friend killed because they were cheating on their partner and could be identified by their "small tits". Square Enix swiftly issued an apology and pulled the app from their site and Facebook. More on this below. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: While you wait for Hitman 3, Absolution's free in a GOG giveaway Take a hit out on cancer and get Hitman: Absolution for a dollar Square Enix's second Humble Bundle is a silent celebration of stealth Hitman: Absolution to include full Steamworks integration and Steam Cloud saves. Io on the PC: "games should look as awesome as possible."Apr 21, 2021 - PCGamesNIo, the developers of Hitman: Absolution, have revealed the extra effort that is going into the the PC version of their assassination sim. The game is receiving extra graphical features, but will also include a special focus on user interface, a specialised keyboard and mouse controls and an optimised PC interface. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: While you wait for Hitman 3, Absolution's free in a GOG giveaway Take a hit out on cancer and get Hitman: Absolution for a dollar Square Enix's second Humble Bundle is a silent celebration of stealth It's Hitman's 20th anniversary, so here are 20 facts about the silly stealth simNov 19, 2020 - Rock, Paper, Shotgun Hitman: Codename 47 was released 20 years ago today. In all that time, IO Interactive have crafted an entertaining seven-game series (not including spin-offs), with the eighth aiming for the heart in January 2021. The subject matter might be grim, but from the very first game, IO Interactive were always happy to fold information and easter eggs into their immersive sim (don’t @ me) to a ridiculous degree. The games all have murderdeathkills, but they also have hauntings, mythical creatures, and real-world actors as targets. I’ve had a blast digging up some forgotten facts and 47’s more bizarre moments (this does mean this list contains some spoilers, so beware). There are so many that this could have been 200 facts for 20 years, but I stuck with 20. It seemed right. Enjoy! (more…) You can grab Hitman Absolution free to keep before GOG's summer sale endsJun 12, 2020 - Rock, Paper, ShotgunLookit that. We’re in mid-June already, which means that the first big game sale of the summer is about to get a sendoff. GOG’s summer sale will wind up after the weekend so you’ve got just a few days left to score those deals. As part of the last hurrah, GOG are offering Hitman: Absolution free to keep. Snag it before Monday, June 15th. (more…) HITMAN in the Steam Winter SaleDec 21, 2018 - Community Announcementshttps://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/33519178/b5ae21cfcfd7ed79b8afa20e543e7ff9cf02d191.jpg The Steam Winter Sale has arrived and brings some fantastic savings on HITMAN games - plus HITMAN 2 has been nominated for Game of the Year in the Steam Awards! Vote for HITMAN 2 now! https://store.steampowered.com/SteamAwards/2018/ Save up to 30% on HITMAN 2 https://store.steampowered.com/app/863550/HITMAN_2/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/203140/Hitman_Absolution/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/6860/Hitman_Blood_Money/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/247430/Hitman_Contracts/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/6850/Hitman_2_Silent_Assassin/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/6900/Hitman_Codename_47/ Hitman s humour evolved because of 47 s penchant for disguisesNov 23, 2018 - Rock, Paper, Shotgun In the best possible way, the Hitman series is ridiculous. Its protagonist, Agent 47, is the single most conspicuous person in any crowd. He s big and bald and white with a bar code prominently tattooed to the back of his head, and not once does this fact deter him from his preferred method of infiltration: wearing a disguise. These aren t disguises in the elaborate, Mission: Impossible, we ll give you an entire fake head sense. No, 47 simply throws on the clothes of whatever guard or unfortunate bystander he s subdued. And this actually works. In the franchise s fiction, he s considered one of the most dangerous people in the entire world, the best of the best. This imposing figure who scarcely bothers to alter his body language, let alone his voice, is a master of disguise. Like its 2016 predecessor, Hitman 2 is quite aware that this concept is absolute nonsense. (more…) IO Interactive Publisher SaleOct 19, 2018 - Community Announcementshttps://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/33519178/e98a9c78a9e08e5df56084f67362202b75ad99de.png Welcome to our first ever Publisher Sale! This year marks IO Interactive's 20th year of making games, and we're incredibly grateful for all the love and support we've been receiving from our community over all these years. This weekend, you can save up to 75% on all previous Hitman titles, so please have a look around to see if there's one you'd like to revisit or add to your collection. The offer ends Monday 22 October 2018, at 10am Pacific Time. Franchise Page Publisher Page HITMAN - Season Finale arrives on October 31stOct 12, 2016 - Community AnnouncementsHello Absolution Players! If you've been waiting to jump into the latest Hitman game, now would be a great time to do it. http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/4246066/bcb98b462511db0bc09547544037e46b4030bc6b.jpg We've just announced the release date of the last episode: October 31st 2016. At that point, you'll be able to play the Prologue plus Episodes 1-6, where you'll travel to Paris, Sapienza, Marrakesh, Bangkok, Colorado and Hokkaido. On top of that, you'll get immediate access to all Escalation Contracts, Featured Contracts and Contracts Mode - plus you'll be able to play all Elusive Targets yet to come. The Season Finale takes place in Hokkaido, Japan where Agent 47 will travel to Japan and must locate two targets. The Hokkaido location is set within the grounds of the hyper-exclusive GAMA private hospital and resort. This secluded facility is a fusion of Japanese beauty and cutting-edge technology, featuring its own Zen gardens, organic sushi restaurant and traditional Japanese hot spring. Get your first look at the location right here in our Season Finale Teaser Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwQyWRskalA If you like the sound of all that, take a look at the store page for HITMAN: http://store.steampowered.com/app/236870/HITMAN - Season Finale arrives on October 31stOct 12, 2016 - Community AnnouncementsHello Absolution Players! If you've been waiting to jump into the latest Hitman game, now would be a great time to do it. http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/4246066/bcb98b462511db0bc09547544037e46b4030bc6b.jpg We've just announced the release date of the last episode: October 31st 2016. At that point, you'll be able to play the Prologue plus Episodes 1-6, where you'll travel to Paris, Sapienza, Marrakesh, Bangkok, Colorado and Hokkaido. On top of that, you'll get immediate access to all Escalation Contracts, Featured Contracts and Contracts Mode - plus you'll be able to play all Elusive Targets yet to come. The Season Finale takes place in Hokkaido, Japan where Agent 47 will travel to Japan and must locate two targets. The Hokkaido location is set within the grounds of the hyper-exclusive GAMA private hospital and resort. This secluded facility is a fusion of Japanese beauty and cutting-edge technology, featuring its own Zen gardens, organic sushi restaurant and traditional Japanese hot spring. Get your first look at the location right here in our Season Finale Teaser Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwQyWRskalA If you like the sound of all that, take a look at the store page for HITMAN: http://store.steampowered.com/app/236870/Hitman: The Joy Of Cocking UpMar 10, 2016 - Rock, Paper, ShotgunAny time a new Hitman game rolls around, I need to know the answer to one question: can I royally screw basically everything up and get away with it? Not for me the Silent Assassin, but more a series of pratfalls, murders performed inadvertently in plain sight, panicked costume changes and awkward scuffles, inevitably culminating in a desperate sprint to the exit with a chain of armed and extremely angry guards pursuing me. So I am delighted to discover that the new Hitman game supports this kind of rolling disaster. I even managed to complete a mission which began with me choking a man unconscious in front of roughly 200 people who I somehow hadn’t realised were watching me. … Hitman Aims For Freedom But Misses The MarkFeb 10, 2016 - Rock, Paper, ShotgunAfter Hitman: Absolution, Agent 47 is in need of another subtitle. Redemption, perhaps, or Contrition. His upcoming adventure has already made headlines thanks to its now-confirmed episodic release schedule but it also seemed to be a game made with the awareness that the previous hadn’t given fans of the series quite what they wanted. I was eager to get my hands on it after seeing a promising demo at Gamescom last year and now that I have, I’m in two minds. Hitman contains just about everything I want from the series but all of the ingredients have become a little muddled. … Improvisation, Experimentation And Dark Comedy: Hitman Is Coming HomeAug 10, 2015 - Rock, Paper, ShotgunAbsolution might be a fitting tag for what looks like a return to form and a casting off of the sins of the past, but since that subtitle’s already taken, I’m hoping I’ll be able to justify referring to this one as Hitman: Redemption . So far, the signs are good. I spent some time in the company of IO Interactive’s studio head, Hannes Seifert, as he played through a mission set at a Paris fashion show. As he manipulated NPCs behaviour and demonstrated some emergent possibilities, Seifert said all the right things about recovering the best of the series’ past. The game – this portion of it at least – backs him up convincingly. It’s looking good.Agent $4.99: Mobile Spin-Off Hitman GO Now On PC, KindaApr 29, 2015 - Rock, Paper, ShotgunWe have Opinions about Absolution, the most recent Hitman game, ’round these parts. Opinions which not everybody shares, but everybody should because famously we’re always 100% Objectively Correct in all things. Despite some grasping at greatness, it seemed a disservice to Hitman as we knew it. Meanwhile, in Mobileland, whispers spread that there was, in fact, a pretty great latter-day Hitman. Its name was Hitman GO, it looked lovely, and it was a sort of stealth-themed sliding block puzzle which looked like a miniatures wargame. Though mechanically very different to any Hitman game, as I understand it Go nonethless conjures up a lot of their spirit – perhaps more so than 2012’s Absolution was. It was also acclaimed as something of an original. Sadly, it was banished to portables. Until now: suddenly, it’s on PC. 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Make sure you re close to the recommended spec, but this is absolutely one of the highest-fidelity, open-end...Grand Designs: Big Level Blueprints For Next HitmanMay 29, 2014 - Rock, Paper, ShotgunAfter the disappointment of Hitman: Absolution, developers IO Interactive came to the Internet with their collective hat in their collective hands. Without quite admitting that Absolution’s small levels, linear missions, wonky AI, more personal story, and bottomless pockets didn’t pan out, they did write an open letter mentioning that they plan to do away with all those things for the next Hitman game. Reminding people that it’s still being made and they really did mean all that, IO have shown off a little concept art including a building which, they say, “on its own is larger than any location in Hitman: Absolution.” … 4K Screenshot Showcase: Hitman AbsolutionMar 17, 2014 - PC Gamer Every Monday, keen screen-grabber Ben Griffin brings you a sumptuous 4K resolution gallery to celebrate PC gaming's prettiest places. We were disappointed by several aspects of Hitman Absolution, but the visuals weren't one of them. The Glacier engine could render dank apartments with obsessive detail and handle crowds of hundreds in outdoor environments. The colour palette and environments shifted dramatically as the globe-trotting adventure progressed, all of which makes it a great candidate for a 4K screenshot showcase. Absolution is a fine looking game, and Agent 47's bald head looks even shinie in super high-res, as you'll discover in the 20 massive shots that follow. 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Betrayed by the Agency and hunted by the police, Agent 47 finds himself pursuing redemption in a corrupt and twisted world. *Offer ends Friday at 10AM Pacific Time Next Hitman game detailed in open letter to fansJan 16, 2014 - PC Gamer The next Hitman game was cancelled. Then it was uncancelled. Now it's being talked about in an open letter on the Hitman website. "Dear Miley," it reads. No, wait, that was the other one. "Dear Hitman fans," it begins, before outlining, in some detail, what Io's next sharply dressed bald assassin simulator will entail. If Hitman: Absolution converted you from a Hitman fan into a lapsed Hitman fan, there's good news: you can read the letter anyway. Also: I have a feeling the missive is meant for you most of all. I'll quote the highlights, but the highlights are talk of "open, non-linear level design" and "huge, checkpoint-free, sandbox levels". Those were some of things we moaned about it in our review. I don't see any mention of "non-excruciating nun-based trailers", however, so Io may still have a way to go yet. Io say that "the game concentrates on the core Hitman fantasy of using a wide range of tools to take out a diverse group of targets across expansive, exotic locations around the world. We are building this game on the backbone of the Glacier 2 engine, using the best parts and what we have learnt through Hitman: Absolution and drawing inspiration from past titles like Contracts and Blood Money to fulfil the core Hitman fantasy. That means we re packing in an extreme level of detail on the largest levels we have ever built for a Hitman game. We ve adopted an open, non-linear level design approach to the game, ensuring the game will play out across huge, checkpoint-free, sandbox levels. Our aim is to create living, breathing and believable levels which will allow gamers to play around with the AI to create those unique moments every fan of the Hitman franchise loves." Promising words. Io have also "removed 47 s magic pockets" and brought Contracts mode back - which is nice. As letters go, it's certainly a lot better than the Council Tax bills and pizza coupons I generally get in the post. Now, Hitman fans - what are you going to write in reply? Thanks to Blue's News.