Category Archives: Eidos

IO Interactive has announced the launch of the Hitman: Sniper Challenge for PC users, which is a sniper experience available to play the moment Hitman: Absolution is pre-ordered. PS3 and Xbox 360 users have already had their chance in the spotlight, now it’s time for PC users to start scoring. The PC version of Hitman: Absolution will be shown for the gamescom later this month.

Hitman: Absolution director Tore Blystad has said killing Agent 47′s handler Diana Burnwood was a “really big,” and “tough” decision for the team to make and it required a lot of going back and forth.

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Crystal Dynamics’ global brand director, Karl Stewart, has said the revamp of Tomb Raider is one of the most “challenging projects,” the studio has ever taken on.

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Crystal Dynamics global brand director Karl Stewart has said the Tomb Raider comments made by executive producer Ron Rosenberg during E3 contain a word which is not in the firm’s “vocabulary,” or “communication.”

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Oh no: another citizen of Hope North Dakota has met his maker. Or has he? Whatever the case, Tyler Colvin has gone missing and the police need your help finding him. I bet if they looked under the brackish water of a certain swimming pool they may just find him. See if you can solve his strange disappearance yourself through the screens below. Hitman: Absolution is out on PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 in November.

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The first Hitman: Absolution TV ad will air during the European Championship final on Sunday July 1. Set your DVR.

Miles Jacobson, studio director for Sports Interactive, has broken his silence on why his studio left Eidos in 2003. Turns out, the studio though Eidos was looking to replace it with Beautiful Game Studios, while life president Ian Livingstone said the firm brought the later into the fold because it has heard rumors Sports Interactive were planning to split.

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Ian Livingstone is of the opinion the recent brouhaha over Tomb Raider’s E3 trailer was “quite extreme” and “blown out of proportion.”

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IO Interactive’s Tore Blystad has said metrics compiled by the firm have revealed many Hitman: Absolution players won’t see the last level of the game.

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On GTTV last night, host Geoff Keighley stopped by Crystal Dynamics to speak with studio head Darrell Gallagher regarding Tomb Raider. During the duo’s conversation regarding character development, motivation, and similarities to Uncharted, some new gameplay footage was show. Watch the video through here or embedded below.

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The latest edition of Hope News Times tells the shocking tale of a shoot out at the local watering hole, which has left “14 innocent men” dead. Their bodies were riddled with bullets, and no witnesses reported hearing gunshots. It seems as though the local law enforcement is catching on to the strange goings on about town, as he references a “silent assassin” in the news post. Look out Agent 47. He’s coming for you. Hitman: Absolution is out on PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 in November.

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Eidos president Ian Livingstone doesn’t expect single-player triple-A experiences to go away even as other kinds of gaming become major business ventures.

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Crystal Dynamics studio head Darrell Gallagher has said there isn’t an attempted rape scene in Tomb Raider, despite earlier reports to the contrary.

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Eidos life president, Ian Livingstone, feels that mid-tier console studios could soon be a thing of the past as triple-A games grow larger, and consumers become more interested in mobile and broswer-based games.

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Square Enix has just released a new behind-the-scenes video of Hitman: Sniper Challenge chatting to some of the folks at developer IO Interactive about the philosophy of the design of the free pre-order bonus. See the video after the break.

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A “major Canadian company” has various vacancies available for a “semi open-world action adventure title that responds to player choice and interaction.” Superannuation, which posted the link on Twitter, believes the company to be Eidos and suggests the title could be Deus Ex 4.

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Making good on its promise to release a new Hitman: Absolution screenshot each Friday, IO Interactive and Square have obliged us today with a look at Agent 47 dressed as a law enforcement officer. The disguise he’s wearing should help him blend in a bit in Hope, South Dakota, the location in a game chapter which was teased yesterday. Have a look below. Still no date.

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Eidos Montreal GM Stephane D’Astous has said Thief 4 will be about more than “just stealth,” as the game is being developed much the same way as Deus Ex in that it contains classic gameplay elements mixed with new features.

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New IP isn’t as important to the industry as it was a few years ago, according to Eidos Montreal general manager Stéphane D’Astous.

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Avalanche has told Eurogamer that the Just Cause franchise is “perfect” for Microsoft and Sony’s next console outing.

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