IO splitting focus, tackling new IP after Hitman: Absolution
by Alexander Sliwinski 
on Dec 1st 2011 10:25AM
IO Interactive, the studio that's steered the
Hitman franchise since the beginning, will take one hand off the wheel and gulp a new IP Slurpee after
Hitman: Absolution ships. Speaking to
Gamasutra, studio honcho Niels Jorgensen says that the IO team will split focus, collaborating on a new
Hitman with the
Square Enix studio in Montreal while working on a new IP.
Jorgensen has very little to share about the new IP, but does say that it'll be somewhat in line with IO's DNA of dark humor and antiheroes. Hopefully, IO can find a happy medium between the stylish seriousness of
Hitman and the
sub-par vulgarity of Kane and Lynch.
Three of IO's employees will move from Copenhagen to Montreal to direct the team and assist in communications between the two studios, developing a game that's "faithful to the
Hitman experience."
