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It’s Friday, and Square has released a new set of Hitman: Absolution screenshots along with a new issue of  Hope News times. Looks like the news is full of barbecue goings on and increased train traffic. Wondering what all of this has to do with Agent 47? Join the club. Game’s out sometime this year.

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IO Interactive has sent over a Hitman: Absolution tease which reveals the first edition of Hope News times, the local newspaper for Hope, South Dakota.

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Square’s released a video for Hitman: Absolution which finds Agent 47 at a Rosewood Orphanage in Chicago overrun with criminals. Having just killed his handler, Diana Burnwood, he is at the orphanage to fulfill her dying wish – she needed him to find someone for her. It just so happens that the criminals are looking for the same person too. Check it out below. The video was posted on March 15, but we must have missed it. Anyway, the ending is rather cool. Hitman: Absolution is out this year for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360.

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Gamespot has posted a behind-the-scenes video of the Hitman: Absolution press event at the Sanctum Soho Hotel in London. It’s below. In it, the developers chat about getting the event ready, what it hoped to accomplish with it, it’s aspirations for how the game would be received by those attending, and just how much hard work and love went into the game itself. The video doesn’t just cover the decorations and the prep work – it also includes glimpses of the demonstration shown. It’s worth the watch. Game’s out this year for PC, PS3, and Xbox 360.

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Square Enix has released two new videos for Hitman: Absolution which are part of the “The International Contract Agency Files” video series for the game which introduces its main cast. The first video focuses on Diana Burnwood, who is the “long-time handler” of Agent 47 and the video is also dotted with bits of art from comic artist Ben Oliver. The second video features and interview with Marsha Thomason, who plays Diana in Absolution, which was filmed on the set of the game’s capture sessions in Giant Studios. Game’s out this year for PC, PS3, and Xbox 360.

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Previews for IO Interactive’s Hitman: Absolution have started popping up online, and it looks as though players will be able to choose to be the classic, stealthy Agent 47 or a more gun-happy man in a suit.

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IO Interactive released a new Hitman: Absolution trailer during the VGAs pre-show, featuring Agent 47 going into a hospital with guns a’ blazing. You can watch all the carnage for yourself below. Hitman is due in 2012 on PC, PS3, and Xbox 360.

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Hitman: Absolution producer Hakan Abrak has said the game will feature a hardcore difficulty mode for fans of the series, and and it’s a stealth-based mode.

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IO Interactive’s Christian Elverdam, gameplay director on Hitman: Absolution, has explained to CVG why it has taken the team so long to create another entry in the Hitman series.

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Hitman: Absolution’s game director Tore Blystad and gameplay director Christian Eleverdam, have said that when it comes to an open world game, the atmosphere and non-playable characters need to “feel alive.”

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Hitman: Absolution was on display at E3, and GameFront got some hands-on time with the title, and has described Agent 47′s new Instinct ability as an “umbrella” feature, that provides the player an “idea of the way a highly trained super-assassin sees the world.”

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