Previously, we wrote about the next Hitman game being cancelled by Square Enix, and being handed to IO Interactive, the developers of the previous Hitman game. Nobody knew if the next Hitman would be made or would be stuck in limbo, since the developer was already doing other projects. But rejoice fans: the next Hitman is already getting on its feet and is getting back in action very soon.
Yuji Naka was fined $1.2 million and given a suspended jail sentence for the crime.
I find his comments around how Balan turned out to be very insightful as to why the game is trash. He basically apologises for its existence
can you please give some of us who don't know anything about this, a summary of what happened?
Balan was knowingly rushed out by S-E, it had an extremely short dev cycle and was fairly low budget.
Naka was the game's director until near the end when he was fired or perhaps he quit, I forgot.
@Chocoburger Yeah they did fire and replace him which caused him to unload a bunch of rants about the company. The project only existed because of Naka in the first place, he convinced Square to give him one shot at making a platformer. They gave him an opportunity but pulled the rug out before he was done for reasons not explained.
The top producer of Square Enix flagship Dragon Quest franchise is stepping down from the role, following delays in developing the next installment of the popular series.
Please o please don't turn dragon quest into final fantasy square enix we dont wont that. Dragon quest works well just as it I. Plus you'll piss off Japanese fans to.
Hopefully they don’t. From this it doesn’t sound like that is the case and development is just taking too long.
Square Enix will be releasing three new manga titles later this year, all of which are available for pre-order now.
Wrong, the one that was cancelled was a spin off by Edios Montreal. This was never cancelled
I never found it in me to beat Absolution. It was far from a bad game, but I thought it was a rather standard experience, personally.
Absolution was linear with a dash of the old hitman style here and there. hope they dont screw this one up too.