Wed, Jul 21, 2010 | 15:01 BST

Square: Hitman art “does not represent any new game”

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Square’s dashed rather blatant clues today that everyone’s favourite bald murderer’s on his way back.

Design firm Great Graphics (via Kotaku and GAF), who’s previously worked with Square on Kane & Lynch 2, stuck up some poster art showing Herr 47, some flames and a great big “2011″ leading most to assume the obvious.

Not so.

“The concept art was created as part of a portfolio, intended to showcase an artist’s style or method of work and does not represent any new Hitman game,” Square told VG247 in a statement today.

Danish developer IO has put out four games in the stealth series so far: Hitman: Codename 47 (2000), Hitman 2: Silent Assassin (2002), Hitman: Contracts (2004) and Hitman: Blood Money (2006).

Variety rumoured a fifth title in 2009 for release later this year. Clearly, that’s not happening either.

IO is currently working on the imminent launch of Kane & Lynch 2.

23 comments

Blerk
21/07/10, 8:34 am

Well that’s sort of a dead giveaway, isn’t it?

Erthazus
21/07/10, 8:34 am

Good news. I liked Blood Money and i hope this game will be more amazing or massive.

LordCancer
21/07/10, 8:40 am

i hope they make knife kills more satisfying like in hitman 2. in the following games they got over the top ridiculous. knife kill=20second animation+guy screams alerting whole level. I’m a stabber ya know, I just like to run up n kill them quickly with my kitchen knife.

adame_bikar
21/07/10, 8:52 am

maybe changing camera angle from overhead perspective to sth like splinter cell camera angle can work for this one.

Yoshi
21/07/10, 9:09 am

“Unfortunately, the concept art was created as part of a portfolio,” IO Interactive PR manager Tom Stratton told us. “[It was] intended to showcase an artist’s style or method of work and does not represent any new Hitman game.”

Thats a shame

osric90
21/07/10, 9:17 am

They should bring Blood Money for PS3 already… How hard could it be? Dammit, 360 users have it and I had in on PS2 but graphics sucked ass… PLEASE IO!!!

cookiejar
21/07/10, 9:51 am

Yesssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss. Made my morning.

ReeceHeywood
21/07/10, 10:37 am

All I want is a new Hitman.

AHA-Lambda
21/07/10, 10:39 am

YYYEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!! FUCKING FINALLLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YYEEEEEEESSSSSSSSS!!!!

@5 – FFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-

i’ve never been brought up so high to be thrown back down so low again. **** you eidos and io >:(

#10

Bikki
21/07/10, 12:06 pm

fucks sake yoshi

#11

AHA-Lambda
21/07/10, 12:06 pm

this should be updated guys

#12

cookiejar
21/07/10, 12:27 pm

Balls

Well, we all know its coming anyway.

#13

Blerk
21/07/10, 12:32 pm

I’m not buying that explanation. If it was from a concept portfolio to show off an artist’s style, why would have have scrawled a huge ’2011′ across the middle of it? And included the company logos?

I see they’ve also removed it from the page. That in itself speaks volumes.