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NeoGAF has dug up another Square Enix trademark, this one for something called Sleeping Dogs, leading some to speculate it’s a subtitle for Kane & Lynch 3 due to the subtitle of the last outing, Dog Days. A job posting from IO Interactive back in September 2011 suggested that a third Kane & Lynch was in the works, and Ian Livingstone himself said in December 2010 the duo weren’t going away any time soon. You can view the trademark filing here, which lists a January 13 date.

Crystal Dynamics wants to know via Twitter which DLC character pack Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light players want first.

You have two choices.

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Square has released three Kane & Lynch 2 multiplayer packs, allowing you to increase your wealth, unlock new Achievement points, grab three new maps, some new weapons and some stolen masks. Bonanza.

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Did anyone think Lynch would ever be sane? Of course not.

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Well, the fella with his face painted looks to be in pain anyway.

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IO Interactive has released the amount of Trophies and the Achievements score you can earn in Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days.

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IO Interactive has released some statistics for the Kane & Lynch 2 demo on Xbox 360.

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Sony has announced the Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days demo will be made available as a PlayStation Plus demo starting on Monday, July 19 through auto-update.

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Square has sent over some new Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days screens.

Get ‘em below the drop.

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Update: Square has just told us that there will be news on a PS3 and PC demo at for K&L2 a later date.

Original: Square Enix Europe has announced Xbox 360′s getting an exclusive demo for Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days.

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IO Interactive’s Karsten Lund has told D’toid that rough textures were e all part of the plan when making Kane & Lynch 2 a more gritty experience.

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Square Enix has confirmed a August 27 EU release date for Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days.

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IO Interactive has tweeted that not only will Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days get a new gameplay video tomorrow, but a release date as well.

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Kane & Lynch 2 director Karsten Lund has told VG247 that the first Kane & Lynch game sold rather well.

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Karsten Lund, director for Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days, explained the title’s new down-and-dead mechanic to VG247 in an interview published today. You’ll be going down but not out, from the sound of it.

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Some more details were revealed for Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days through a fact sheet from Square Enix.

According to Kotaku, this time around you’re playing as Lynch who, after finding peace in Shanghai, finds that it’s the “perfect playground for expat criminals such as [himself]“.

Lynch also has a plan to “make a fat deal where the pay is beyond his wildest dreams and nothing is going to get in his way”. Good to hear.

The game supports online co-op, and like the original, online multiplayer.

It’s out during the second part of 2010.

More through the link.

Adrian Askarieh has told Game Daily that Bruce Willis will play Kane in the upcoming Kane & Lynch movie. The role of Lynch is yet to be cast.

“The script has been incredibly well-received around town,” said Askarieh. “After Bruce Willis read it, he called it one of the best action scripts he’s ever read, and Bruce is an expert in terms of action scripts because he’s read everything over the last 20 years.”

Sounds awesome. Shooting’s set to start in March. There’s more on EG.

More from Square’s “let’s take over Eidos” presentation has been posted up on GameFront, showing lifetime sales for all of Eidos’s “big” franchises.

Ever wonder why you get endless Hitman games? Want to see just how big Lara was back in the day?

Hit the link. Thanks, GoNintendo.

Speaking to GamesRadar, Kane & Lynch director Jens Peter Kurup has spoken out about the effect of the now infamous Gamespot review of his game, saying that the team took it hard.

“GameSpot reviewed the game,” he said, “and [the team] didn’t like it one bit.

“I’m not quite sure why, but I remember that review hit the team like a hammer. You can just ‘absorb’ a bad score but there was something in the tone of that review that was tough on people, and on me.”

The 6/10 Gamespot review was written by Jeff Gerstmann, after which the writer was fired from the site, a move that created one of the unholiest internet shitstorms in gaming history.

“It’s a review that I would like to forget, but unfortunately the GameSpot review had its own wicked little life and Eidos, Gamespot and of course the game got entangled in what I guess is best described as a conspiracy theory. And if there’s anything the ‘net loves, it’s a good conspiracy,” Kurup added.

“It was surreal to sit in Copenhagen and watch the game get shredded in forums for reasons and feelings that didn’t all seem entirely based on the game itself.

“I know this might sound like a sissy song of “Boo-hoo! This isn’t fair” and other unproductive thoughts, but you asked me how I felt and I did feel like that for a couple of weeks after the GameSpot review. Pathetic I know, but in glimpses I still feel it, because when I meet somebody who hasn’t played the game, I can be fairly sure that his or her opinion is based on the GameSpot review. It just won’t go away.”

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According to this Variety report, Bruce Willis is currently negotiating to star in the upcoming Kane & Lynch movie.

Willis is set to play Kane, apparently. That’s the one that isn’t fat and doesn’t have a ponytail. No date’s been given for the release of the movie.