Wed, Feb 08, 2012 | 08:51 GMT
Report: Square’s Sleeping Dogs coming out in August
According to a tweet from US retailer Future Shop, Square Enix’s shown Sleeping Dogs for the first time, confirming it for an August release.
The game’s unveil came at Destination PlayStation overnight. The retailer tweeted a bit of art from the game, showing an officer with dragon tattoos and a police badge.
As Siliconera notes, this looks like the reboot of True Crime: Hong Kong, the rights of which were bought by Square last year after Activision canned development after fears it wouldn’t hit the top of its genre.
It had previously been rumoured that Sleeping Dogs was Kane and Lynch 3. Original developer United Front Games is still working on the game.
Square Enix has only bought the rights to the game itself and not the IP, so there won’t be a True Crime name on the box. A 2012 launch was confirmed last August.
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Tags: sleeping dogs, True Crime: Hong Kong, united front games
6 comments
#1
Maximum Payne
08/02/12, 9:10 am
Kane and Lynch 2 was also in August
#2
YoungZer0
08/02/12, 12:51 pm
Looking mighty fine. I’m glad the game comes out eventually, so few games have an asian main character. And the gameplay and visual style actually looks nice.
#3
Edo
08/02/12, 1:21 pm
A game that EVEN Activision was too ashamed of to release…yup that sounds really promising.
#4
YoungZer0
08/02/12, 1:24 pm
@3: Ashamed? Activision is just in it for the money. If it’s not Call of Duty, its not getting released.
#5
Edo
08/02/12, 1:27 pm
#4 Spider-Man:Shattered Dimensions earned a lot of money I guess…oh wait.
#6
YoungZer0
08/02/12, 1:42 pm
@5: Spider-Man is a well known franchise. True Crime isn’t and so far every True Crime was basically unplayable due to the huge amount of bugs the games came with.
Releasing the game would’ve been a huge risk. And risks are something Activision never takes.